Music

MusicBrainz Picard - Awesome id3 tagger for all your music!

Totally blown away by MusicBrainz Picard! This id3 tagger is just awesome! The explanation will take some time .. but here is a demo that shows how awesome it is! (shower some patience on

Hacks

Decrypting Gaana's undocumented API

This weekend has been fun! I do a lot of hacks around Gaana.com! But, now I needed to get Metadata of the tracks I listen to. Here is a quick explanation on

Fitness

Dumbbell exercise - 27-Feb-2016

Dumbbell exercise - 27-Feb-2016 Endgame Plus Workout * Lunges * 10 kg * How To: Dumbbell Stepping Lunge - YouTube * 3 sets (10 reps) * Overhead punches * 10 kg * 3 sets (10 reps) * Alt bicep curls * 10

Fitness

Dumbell Exercise - 04-Mar-2016

Today's exercise was Power 20 Workout! Loved this one!

Movies

Movies this weekend

* Batman vs. Superman * On the job - at the gym! * Kapoor and Sons * Airlift

Hacks

The (Raspberry) pi has landed

this weekend was quite exciting I recently got hold of a raspberry pi. Honestly, installing raspberry pi is not as straightforward as I had imagined. There were couple of challenges which had tried

Fitness

Getting some entertainment into my workout schedule

Today, I felt a little lazy to go to the gym for a traditional workout. So, I decided to get some entertainment into my workout. I've been downloading quite a few

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

Fitness

Back Exercise - 22-Mar-2016

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

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