Tools Glances - A new open source system monitoring tool Just came across a neat new system monitoring tool called Glances. Installation on my mac was extremely straight forward and issue free! A standard pip install worked out of the box using: pip
Movies Movie - The Walk Finally done watching the movie The Walk. Cool movie! Didn't manage to catch it on the cinemas but the TV watch was great too! From IMDB ... As a boy, Philippe Petit
Nginx Successfully setting up SSL from LetsEncrypt on my Ghost blog hosted on Ubuntu 15.04 served via NGINX LetsEncrypt entered Public Beta [https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html] yesterday and is issuing HTTPS certificates for free. This is a huge thing for the internet for all reasons you could
Visualization Creating a surface plot using Plotly Just stumbled on this beautiful Surface plot that can be made using plotly The code is fairly straight forward. library(plotly) # volcano is a numeric matrix that ships with R plot_ly(z
Awesome Zuck does some thing incredible On the birth of his daughter, Zuck does something incredible. From this SEC filing from Facebook [http://investor.fb.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1326801-15-35&CIK=1326801] > On December 1, 2015, our
HHVM Installing HHVM on Ubuntu I tried install HHVM for fun on my Ubuntu machine using the following steps: * Check ubuntu version lsb_release -a * Add the offical repo sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:
Hacks Running portable Photoshop without admin rights on Win 7 I had a quick job to do using Photoshop on a Win 7 machine without admin rights. I got a copy of the portable photoshop installer and installed it without any issues. So
Markdown Converting HTML to Markdown I often need to convert my legacy HTML files to markdown. There are couple of ways of accomplishing this using: * domchristie/to-markdown - Using node.js * xijo/reverse_markdown - Using a ruby
Movies The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Done with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. Went for the morning show. Ok movie .. one of those things ... you've got to watch because you've go to watch!
Music Get Saved Songs Of User From Spotify Ever wondered how to get the list of your saved songs from Spotify? Here is how .. see video below ... and yeah! Selena Gomez is NOT one of my favorites! She is just trending
Mac Remove all icons from the Mac OSX Desktop One of my idiosyncrasies, is to have a neat clutter free desktop. I can look for files on my desktop using PathFinder but I hate the icons showing up all the time! :-)
Tips Mount remote folder onto your local disk on the Macbook I like working on my Mac but like to keep my development repositories on a headless terminal on the cloud (like a Digital Ocean droplet or a AWS EC2 instance). Usually, I simply
Tools Run wp-calypso on a different port Wordpress launched a new platform based on javascript leveraging libraries like Node and React. Matt Mullenweg spelled out more details in his post Dance to Calypso [http://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/]. I
Shell Recursively find and copy a particular file to a different directory I recently wanted to sync my .gitignore files across two directories. I think rsync should be able to handle this, but I wanted to have more control on the process and decided to
Boonex Boonex Dolphin 7.2.1 Installation steps on Ubuntu 14.X Boonex Dolphin 7.2.1 Installation steps on Ubuntu 14.X I wanted to try out a toy project today and had install the latest copy of Boonex Dolphin. The below steps worked
Hacks Stitching a set of video files together Similar to the previous two posts (Cut a video from desired time intervals and Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video), I have now a requirement to stich
Hacks Cut a video from desired time intervals Similar to my earlier post on Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video, I now want the custom video itself! The video I had taken at the International
Hacks Creating a custom animated gif from a selected duration of a video I took a nice cute video of my daughter when we landed in Cochin recently. I've been try to convert a portion of the video that I particularly liked to an
Hacks Open Source & Free Password Manager I have about 200 user accounts to keep track off and they have 200 passwords out of caution! You simply never know which service will get hacked at some point. Till now, I
Electron Desktop client for WhatsApp Here is a great desktop client for WhatsApp built using the all mighty Electron! Go ahead and download from bcalik/Whatsapp-Desktop And yeah! It works great and on all platforms!
Music Searching for Torrents from the command line and streaming them Here is a quick demonstration to search and stream torrents using the command line straight to VLC! All credit to ItzBlitz98/torrentflix! Install peerflix and torrentflix using the below code and you are
Shell Setting the title bar in an iTerm using a fish shell I recently wanted to set my title bar in iTerm to something custom. Here is a step-by-step video to show how to set the title bar in an iTerm using a fish shell.
Movies Movies - Meru & Amy Done with two movies this weekend finally! Great ones! Meru (2015) - IMDb Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one
Notes Read - How to launch your digital platform A good read from Harvard Business Review on "How to launch your digital platform". Contains links to other good reads.