Yearly Archive: 2024

Uma at Park 0

Weekly Notes 27/2024

Welcome to the second half of 2024. This year is flying by. Days feel slow, but months and weeks are speeding.

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Grouptabs – Export as CSV

One advantage of using the same software again and again is that the process and toolsets are already established and proven. Grouptabs uses CouchDB as its backend, a database that I have been using for various purposes for a long time. I have toolset and process for CouchDB. In this case, I wanted...

Linked List: FOSS Apps for Bill Splitting with Friends 3

Linked List: FOSS Apps for Bill Splitting with Friends

I am a BillMonk refugee. I used it until it went down. Even though it was not FOSS, it was the first app I had seen and used for bill splitting. Today, there are lots of FOSS alternatives. Some of my favorite ones are listed below in this Linked List edition.

I am not sure what we were talking. 0

Weekly Notes 26/2024

Our trip AngkorWithAppa is complete. We are back in Bengaluru. There is very little to update in this weekly as most of the time was spent traveling, and I have captured them in the daily updates: Sat – AWA 3, Sun – AWA 4, Mon – AWA 5,  Tue – AWA 6, Wed/Thu –...

Pub street in the night - Siem Reap 2

AWA 7: Back in Bangalore

We had no particular plans for the last day. It was reserved for shopping, rest and, packing, etc. Appa and I walked quite a bit of downtown Siem Reap the previous night. It was lit up, and all the pubs were open for patrons. Siem Reap is yet to get as many tourists...

Valerie - A Landmine Rat at APOPO, Cambodia. 1

AWA 6: Wat Ek Phnom and Landmine Rats

We spent half a day in Battambang and then returned to Siem Reap today. We have a flight to catch tomorrow.   We started early, around 7 AM, with a bamboo train ride. It was okay, nothing special. It’s not as attractive as it is made to be. You can avoid it unless you...