Jayesh Bhoot's Ghost Town – All Posts

Note: This is my rudimentary, superficial, not-yet-verified understanding of SBI Max Gain account.

The concept of car insurance Suppose a mishap occurs that involves your car and someone else.

There is a neat trick to make fonts on Linux look thicker and smoother and sharper.

I've come to prefer git stage to git add.

So I finished Stephen Baxter's World Engines duology yesterday.

Tip for my future self: If Emacs throws an arcane error — project--read-file-name: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil — while trying to find a file in a git project (C-x p f), then one likely reason is that the git project is empty.

Here is the Elisp snippet: (let ((font-value (cond ((eq system-type 'gnu/linux) "Source Code Pro-12:weight=medium") ((eq system-type 'darwin) "Source Code Pro-17:weight=medium")…

TypeScript provides a construct called a call signature to annotate a callable object with properties in JavaScript.

The underlying principles I was able to boil it all down to the following: Either individually annotate the function parameters and its return value with their respective types; or annotate the variable that holds a function with the function's type.

I often like to develop and test small JavaScript code directly in a browser console.

Someone close to you is brimming with optimism – that something they are anticipating is going to transpire in their favour.

There are two directories - a non-empty src and an empty dest.

A thread on Hacker news got me thinking today.

Original hoarding I found this hoarding while passing by my university - VNSGU.

This post adds another Stylus fix to the list written by wezm.

I've started using a relatively less known value of the <form> element's method attribute, called dialog, for the following scenarios: when a form is submitted via AJAX. when a form is a multi-step wizard, where each step is a form in itself, and I have to

I learnt the hard way, while trying to amend the structure of a database instantiated at more than one place, that its best to explicitly name the SQL constraints like a foreign key.

The big picture This setup aims to allow connections to a MySQL database hosted on my NixOS workstation, only on local network.

Flossing - do orthodon't.

One guiding principle to be a chill person is pretty clear to most people: Let go of what you can't control.

What makes a file in Linux?

I was always skeptical about how the Joker takes over the Mob in The Dark Knight.

This post is syndicated from my response to a Lobste.rs story titled How 1 Software Engineer Outperforms 138 - Lichess Case Study.

Copy-pasting my comment in a converstion on lobste.rs titled Wonderful vi: I will put another one in the ring: Ki Ki is similar to vim in that it uses modal editing.

Copy-pasting my comment in a converstion on lobste.rs titled The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has: My most recent favourite use of :has was to target insertion of a table of contents (TOC) on pages of my website.

Forgotten lesson remembered after staring 5 minutes at the screen: innerHTML cannot contain a <script> tag.

OK, may be not cool enough for Linux veterans, but cool enough for me!

Be curious, not judgmental.

Scala 3.5's CLI now makes scripting with scala seamless!

I did something to GNU pinfo.

They always felt different from each other, but I could never quite put a finger on the difference.

Table of contents Table of contents The problem The solution Tip for Mutual Fund Utilities (MFU) users: While transacting for a new folio, if you are stuck at "Nominee Verify" pop-up even after verifying the nominee(s), then check that: Whether there are…

Flip the perspective on tools like interfaces and traits.

This is a series of articles I wrote while going through the Coursera Course Effective Programming in Scala.

While a scala worksheet are evaluated from top to bottom, a scala project needs an entry point.

Table of contents Table of contents Configurations in build.sbt Scoping a Setting src/project dir contains configuration about SBT - build.properties to specify sbt version, plugins.sbt to specify sbt plugins, and so on. src/build.sbt contains the configu…

Table of contents Table of contents Infix construct operators Immutable operators Mutable operators List Option Operations on collections can be classified into: construct ops (::, +:, :+, +, ++); query ops (size, empty, head, tail, find, filter); and tra…

A function is a value in Scala, while a method is not.

Table of contents Table of contents Problem Attempt 1 Attempt 2 TL;DR Conclusion I am going through the course Effective Programming in Scala on Coursera, and ran into build import errors in the very first assignment (fireworks).

Finding the right level of abstraction is more important than the best level of abstraction.

Table of contents Table of contents Value (or Data in this context) Literal (Data) Type Expression Program Another perspective on Type Value (or Data in this context) A value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program.

Table of contents Table of contents Relevant background Package and build tooling Editor service - Merlin Editor service - LSP How everything comes together merlin v/s ocaml-lsp Feature parity Dependency on dune Speed Editing setups Official, popular setu…

In a git rebase x command, is x being rebased on the current branch, or vice versa?

Table of contents Table of contents Update: 5 May 2024 Original article Update: 5 May 2024 I have come crawling back to bash.

Table of contents Table of contents Local switch in opam dune init project The problem Attempt 1 Attempt 2 Solution What next?

Table of contents Table of contents Problem Hacky solution Update (23 Feb 2024) : Better solution Problem OCaml compiler failed to build on my M1 Macbook with Apple's Silicon architecture. $ opam switch create . 4.14.1 -y --deps-only <><> Installing new…

This list will likely (hopefully) remain short.

I use the following set of fonts.

Suppose, we want to mark up the following multi-line snippet of JavaScript code: function hello(name) { return "Hello, " + name; } A JavaScript function that greets a user Joe with "Hello, Joe!"

I prefer to keep user configuration inside the standard XDG_CONFIG_HOME, which typically points to ~/.config/.