Fitness Weekend Cycling I managed to wake up early and go for an awesome cycling ride. Here are some cool memorablia from the gadgets I've collected. First ... from Moov The best part was some
Automation Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua This is pretty cool! HN featured a post on the front page today about Hammerspoon. I skimmed through the page and looked pretty neat. I liked two examples ... run spotify and find your
Terminal m-cli - Add some more power to your OSX command line I love working on the Mac terminal. I just came across the rgcr/m-cli: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X. It is basically a set of cool administrative commands made accessible through
Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Zero has landed I just got my hands on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The size of it is just amazing. I'll experiment with it the next couple of days and try to write some
Tools Creating .gitignore files the easy way automatically! Its high time that I found an easier way to make .gitignore files for my git repos. My Github feed came to the rescue today and introduced me to gitignore.io. It works
SQLite Portable SQLite Database Browser for exploring sqlite3 databases I currently use a lot of SQLite databases for quick development. I still can't get over my age old habit of manually checking the database updates arising out of queries fired
Ubuntu Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 Update 19-Dec-2018 I just retried and this seems to work perfectly on a new ubuntu instance: bash curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - sudo add-apt-repository "
Collections My favorite newsletters Here is a collection of my favorite newsletters (regularly updated) most of which I (unfortunately) do not read! Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Growth, Sales * Founder Weekly [http://www.founderweekly.com] Analytics, Visualization, Data * D3 Tutorials,
Sikuli Desktop Automation for Mac OSX using Sikuli I'm tired this evening ... seriously need some coffee! Just got done with writing a script for updating my iPad apps from the ever painful iTunes. Sikuli is amazing the more I
R-Project Accessing AWS S3 from R I've been toying with a WebApp integration with R using OpenCPU. The WebApp needs access to output files generated from R. I wanted to keep the R app and WebApp a
Tools Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts I've been using Google Hangouts quite a bit of late. Using the browser and navigating to hangout seems to always be a pain! I was looking for an alternative and came
R-Project Giving your R code a boost with NodeJS modules. Power up your OpenCPU! I've am a happy node user and would like to use the power of node modules in R! Sounds crazy? V8 to the rescue! I'll expand on this soon
python Fix for ImportError: No module named cv2 error on OSX Now, this is basic but was driving me up the wall! I got a simple piece of code from one of my friends (sort of a facial morphing thing). But, hell I was
Wagtail Installing Wagtail Demo Site on Ubuntu > 15.x Installation of the Wagtail demo as follows: sudo apt-get install python-pip git python-dev python-setuptools sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev sudo apt-get install liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk sudo apt-get
Hacks Making your external harddrive from Mac readable on ubuntu I recently replaced my old harddisk in the Mabbook with an SSD. I decided to put the old hard disk into a USB casing and start using an external drive. I formatted the
Hacks A completely customizable browser - Electron Browser It sometimes happens that I do not need the complete functionality available in a typical browser and would like to hack on top of it to suit and customize it to fit my
Facebook Facebook Live - Love it! Facebook launched Live today and it is awesome! Checkout Zuck's video introducing it Live! Cool stuff! > [https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/10102764535989511/]Live from Facebook HQ for the Live
Google APIs New APIs from Google I am testing out a speech recognition using Dragon Dictate :-) Google has released some wonderful Apis this month. The two Apis that Google is released are the Vision API [https://cloud.google.
Movies Room (2015) - Movie Saw Room (2015) during the week albeit in parts on the iPad. Deeply touching movie and left me with an eerie feeling. Particularly, because of a real life Fritzl case incident that had
Movies The Intern (2015) - Movie Saw The Intern (2015) today. Loved it! Never would have guessed that I would enjoy this one so much! Starting a new job can be a difficult challenge, especially if you're
Hacks Creating a bootable USB stick from an iso file on Mac OSX I wanted to load ReactOS [https://www.reactos.org/] on an old laptop of mine. Steps followed to create the bootable USB stick hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /Users/santoshsrinivas/Downloads/ReactOS-0.4.
Movies Equilibrium (2002) - Movie Watched Equilibrium (2002) on Friday. Action movie that I enjoyed. Actually, the plot was just ok but then I suffer from a Christian Bale bias! So go watch! :-) In a Fascist future
Music More fun with Music - Introducing Kodi! I spent a lot of time this Saturday getting my music collection ready. It was quite an experience! I'll first layout the notable highlights of the experience that I somehow seemed
Charts Visualizing rural and underserved counties in the US The CFPB recently published their list of rural and underserved counties in the US for 2016. Unfortunately, the data is in a PDF (terrible open data format), and we need to extract the