Meteor

Access Meteor Templates Instances Easily

Here is an easy way to access Meteor Templates easily: Template._renderedInstances.forEach( (t) => { if(t.view.name === 'Template.DynamicTable') { console.log(t); } } ) Access the parent template using: t.parent(

Terminal

Unzipping all files in a directory using Bash

I have a ton of audiobook downloads in a folder, that I wanted to unzip and delete the old files. Doing this manually is boring and repetitive. To solve this, the following script

go

Installing go on Ubuntu 16.04

Install go curl -O https://dl.google.com/go/go1.12.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar -xvf go1.12.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz sudo chown -R root:root ./go sudo mv go /usr/

hat-tip

Restored 50GB on my SSD on Mac by deleting /cores

Ridiculous! My SSD has been running out of space and I blamed myself for being on a download binge! Today was getting darn desperate! I've actually been pretty disciplined of late!

hat-tip

Creating a user and allowing ssh on Mac

To create a user called ghost and allow ghost to ssh locally on my Macbook, I had to do the following. Create a standard user by going to "Users & Groups"

Weekend Fun

Thanos on Google!

Thanos on Google! Totally loving it!

From-The-News

From the news - 04-22-2019

* Zomato - Annual Report FY19 [https://www.zomato.com/blog/annual-report-19] * Counter Kinda - Zomato's Gold Millions - The Ken [https://the-ken.com/story/zomato-gold-loyalty/] * Tesla Slaps Restraining Order On Randeep

From-The-News

From the news - 2019-04-19

* Pinterest began its first day of trading Thursday at $23.75, up 25%. * Zoom - Videoconferencing software company Zoom made its debut Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM,” surging 80%

From-The-News

From the news - 2019-04-18

* Jet Airways out of cash. No derivative play unfortunately! Shorting in the spot market has one restriction – it strictly has to be done on an intraday basis. Meaning you can initiate the short

From-The-News

From the papers - 16/04/2019

* Polycab listing on NSE and BSE today * Issue price at 538 * Bid-Ask Spread at Market Open * First trade @ 633 (17.38% premium)! Election campaign running strong! Fun task for you, Bangalore Voters! Do

Terminal

Concatentating or Combining Multiple Videos into a single file

I wanted to stream an eCourse to Plex to watch while spinning! Unfortunately, the eCourse was split up (as usually the case) into multiple video files. This is kinda painful to work with

Options

Losing money with In-The-Money options on the NSE

I burnt my fingers on a winning trade this month. I was holding a position that looked pretty secure at expiration but still lost money! I didn't pay much attention to

Movies

Impressed with Investigative Journalism

Watched two documenatries on my Plex while spinning. The first one was The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley starring American and my Sweetheart Elizabeth Holmes. This is perhaps not strictly investigative

Creating a .m4b audiobook from .mp3 files

The m4b files that audiobooks are distributed as have their own advantages. They are easy to browse through and have chapters seperate. And thats a cool thing to have! This tool called Audiobook

Trading

Second algo trade

Trading

My First Algo Trade!

Issued my first real algo trade after a very very long time!

Meteor

Working with REST APIs on Meteor

I have an IP address that changes everyday. One of my electron app has the IP hardcoded, and I need to manually update the IP everyday to get this working. Doing this over

data.table

Installing data.table on Mac OSX

As mentioned here [https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/wiki/Installation] bash xcode-select --install brew update && brew install llvm Update ~/.R/Makevars # if you downloaded llvm manually above, replace with your

Nginx

Setting up NGINX on Mac OSX

Heavily borrowed from: Nginx configuration for Mac OS X with Homebrew, using sites-enabled directory. [https://gist.github.com/jimothyGator/5436538] Install nginx brew install nginx cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/ git clone git@

Terminal

Switching between windows on a remote nested tmux session

Figured this out a while. I tmux first to server 1 and then ssh into server 2. I often need to switch between windows in the remote session. Finally, figure out that the

Terminal

Text manipulation on the command line

Ok! This is ridiculous but fun! I woke this morning with the goal of clearing up my s3 buckets. Storing waste is expensive! My AWS expenses are eating into my beer budget! It&

Trading Strategy Research - Fixed Amount SIP using Options vs. Underyling

The strategy definition is as follows: * Portfolio 1: Invest a fixed amount at Beginning of Month in the Underlying NIFTY * Portfolio 2: Invest a fixed amount into Calls and Puts at BOM. Reinvest

Troubleshooting

SOLVED: Building Blotter on Mac OSX

It can be quite frustrating while installing packages on R don't work! I faced an issue while building blotter for Mac. Was getting an error on the following lines: Warning messages:

bash

Shortcuts for your bash shell

Here is a thread [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18898523] with some read ways to reduce typing on your bash shell. I'll add these right away :-) alias s="

Plex

Adding a mount folder to Plex in Ubuntu

Lets make this quick! I was having trouble accessing a mount folder in Plex. The following worked for me on my Ubuntu Distro. mkdir -p /home/ghost/peloton sudo mount -B /media/ghost/

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