Prayagraj Ardh Kumbh Mela, 2019
I am not religious. But rivers, mountains, roads and regular people are my favourite. Kumbh is one such event that makes some of these things possible for me.
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Monitoring Internet connection at Home using Healthchecks.io, Termux and CouchDB
For last few days we have been running a dog cam to watch Max. whenever we are away. Max is getting older, faster than I think. So even though he is very comfortable staying alone at home 1, we like to keep an eye on him for our sanity. The camera is nothing...
Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2019 Open for Applications
Nagarathna Memorial Grant is a no strings attached grant of one lakh rupees (~$1400). It’s a micro grant targeted at everyone. The reason for grant could be anything as long its meaningful to you and people around. Though I prefer free and open source or creative commons projects. It’s not a must. It’s...
Educating Millions – Story of Indan EdTech NPTEL
I started with NPTEL in Jan 2015. It was still very early. They were gearing up towards the launching many courses. I was introduced to NPTEL by my manager as the platform that to educate engineering1 students across India by the professors from the best institutes for free. By then they had done...
Project – Nammooral techu
Nammooral techu (ನಮ್ಮೂರಲ್ ಟೆಕ್ಕು) is the new project I am involved with. Idea is to translate technology jargons to Kannada, build vocabulary etc. In a way start discussions around it in Kannada. From the about page ಇದು ಟೆಕ್ (ಐಸಿಟಿ, ಡೇಟ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)ಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಟೆಕ್ ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದದೊಂದಿಗೆ...
The Year that was 2018
This entry is part of 12 in the series The Year That Was
2018 got over really fast. Much faster than any other year I can remember. Quite a few things happened. I didn’t get much time to enjoy while I was in it. It could be, because we didn’t take our regular travel break. But all in all a great year. We are all healthy....
Building an Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk and CouchDB
Smart Speakers are becoming popular these days. I see Alexa or Google home everywhere, Voice is an interesting technology and I think it’s going to become very popular amongst younger and elderly community. Here in this tutorial we will create a simple Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk as our serverless platform and CouchDB as our database.
