Movies Weekend Movies - The Big Short Finally done with The Big Short. Great movie! Got to read the book now!
Movies More Weekend Movies Got some more time to watch movies on new year's eve :-) Watched Sicario! Enjoyed this one!
Movies Weekend - Movies With family away, got time to catch up over some cool movies. * Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Recommended! * Criminal Activities (2015) - Recommended! * Steve Jobs (2015) - Average! * Focus - Average!
Fun Resize videos to a mobile friendly size and save bandwidth! My daughter recorded a birthday wishes video for my sister. Actually recorded two videos .. that I stitched together using this procedure. The video ended up being 65MB given the high resolution and size!
Visualization Population Distribution of Hispanics by Age in the US I was recently reading on the increasing role being played by Hispanics in the US Real Estate market. The report titled Housing Demand: Demographics And The Numbers Behind The Coming Multi-million Increase In
Design Beautiful Signs, Facades and Boards Mockups from MBV Got some amazing signs, facades and boards from MBV. Discover a lot more on Creative Market. The quality of his work just amazes me!
Dropbox Good bye Mailbox! So Mailbox is finally shutting down! Dropbox bought it for 100Mn! [http://www.wired.com/2015/12/dropbox-kills-carousel-and-mailbox-as-it-turns-toward-businesses/] just 2 years back in 2013! This sucks! So here is my final adieu to
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