Tools SVG Based Illustrations from UnDraw Felt this is kinda cool ... given my rekindled love for SVGs! Credit: https://undraw.co/illustrations
FFMPEG Creating an audiobook from a list of mp3 files I recently got my hands on an audiobook with a collection of mp3 files. I like to listen on an iPhone and creating a playlist wasn't working the way I intended. So, I
Trading Empirical analysis of put-call parity I was wondering this morning on the viability of making money from arbitrage using put-call parity. Put Call Parity as explained well here defines the relationship between calls, puts and the underlying futures
Hacks Solved! Display setting of Dell ST2420L monitor going black after few seconds! This is weird. I dug up my closet and pulled out my old Dell ST2420L and plugged it in. It was turning off after a few seconds! Sucks! After an hour of changing
Fitness Cool diet chart! Came across this cool diet chart today! Awesome! :) Credit: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2275871102475512&set=pcb.1852975161428454&type=3&theater
Notes Collection of ImageMagick Scripts There is so much of utility to these scripts and I unfortunately always seem to be losing them. So here is a record of this great collection and a pretty good discussion. Fred's
hat-tip Installing HP Drivers for Win 8.1 Installing HP Drivers Using HP ProBook 450 G3 Notebook PC (To use Win 8.1) https://support.hp.com/in-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-probook-450-g3-notebook-pc/7834555 Download from above link https://h30434.www3.hp.com/
hat-tip Create a bootable Win 8.1 USB from Mac OSX Create a bootable USB using UNetbootin First format the USB to FAT using the Disks utility Next, just download and install by following the instructions.
python Upgrading pip packages Here is an easy way to upgrade pip packages that are already installed. Use simion/pip-upgrader: An interactive pip requirements upgrader. It also updates the version in your requirements.txt file. Pretty easy
Tools s4cmd on Ubuntu I had trouble installing on Ubuntu. This worked for me as mentioned here sudo pip install s4cmd --ignore-installed six chmod +x /usr/local/bin/s4cmd On OSX, I was running into a ton
Chirp Fixing NodeJS ENOSPC error on Ubuntu while watching many file I ran into the a ENOSPC error while watching many files using chokidar. I assumed the issue related to disk space which was not the case. The below fix worked like magic once
Mac Show task switcher on CMD+TAB on Laptop Display I was running into an irritating issue where my Task Switcher on pressing CMD+TAB was showing up on my external display. I prefer to choose using the laptop display that I use
MongoDB Installing MongoDB on Ubuntu 16.04 Following steps worked for installing MongoDB on Ubuntu 16.04 sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6 echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu
Visualization Creating Waffle Charts in R for infographics Came across this pretty cool post to create waffle charts using R. I had to install fontawesome font on my mac from Font Awesome. First download, then double click fontawesome-webfont.ttf and FontAwesome.
Shiny Shiny Server on Ubuntu Install Shiny Server on ubuntu following the instructions here. Install rbase sudo apt-get install r-base Install shiny R package sudo su - \ -c "R -e \"install.packages('shiny', repos='https://cran.
Tools ripgrep - Command line based text manipulation I love the command line and love command line tools! They are just so minimalistic and efficient! Just discovered ripgrep that seems to be a great alternative to ack and ag!! ripgrep is
Visualization Drawing Capitan America Logo! This post is motivated by this post on KANDINSKY (http://giorasimchoni.com/2017/07/30/2017-07-30-data-paintings-the-kandinsky-package/) library(grid) grid.newpage() grid.circle(x = 0.5, y = 0.5, r = 0.4, gp = gpar(
Scraping Puppeteer - API to control headless Chrome I've used various options available for scraping in a headless mode including PhantomJS, Nightmare, ScraperJS, etc. Unfortunately, most of these options required xvfb which makes things slower, less reliable and utilizes a lot
Visualization Enable WebGL on Chrome on a Macbook Pro 2011 This took me a while to figure out. I was trying to play with Mapbox-GL maps shown at Play map locations as a slideshow | Mapbox. I was getting an error that WebGL is
rstats Understanding Paul Grahams Thoughts using R Paul Graham posted this tweet on A hypothesis about how you might discover the next Twitter. Unfortunately, the tweet was an image which makes quoting it in this post very difficult! :( Fortunately, Jeroen
Tools Cleanup over sized files on Mac and Ubuntu My Macbook SSD is running out of space and I am trying to figure out which directories are the biggest in my attempt to clean them up. The best utility I could find
Ghost Upgrading Ghost to v1.0.0 In this post, I will cover the steps I followed to run Ghost v1.0.0 with **Sqllite**
Getting Started Welcome to Ghost Hey! Welcome to Ghost, it's great to have you :) We know that first impressions are important, so we've populated your new site with some initial Getting Started posts that will help you get
Getting Started Using the Ghost editor Ghost uses a language called Markdown to format text. When you go to edit a post and see special characters and colours intertwined between the words, those are Markdown shortcuts which tell Ghost
Getting Started Organising your content with tags Ghost has a single, powerful organisational taxonomy, called tags. It doesn't matter whether you want to call them categories, tags, boxes, or anything else. You can think of Ghost tags a lot like
