A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
We landed this morning around 6am. Hostel was in the middle of the city so we took the metro to Seoul Station (center) and then caught another one to reach the station near hostel. We found the hostel very easily. But then I was dead tired and get-lagged. Only after good food at...
I turn 36 today. I didn’t think what I wrote last year would come into effect so fast. Life is really short. Amma isn’t here anymore. It felt like someone pressed a button somewhere and everything was over. I miss her but I am also very proud and happy when I look at...
For a project of mine I was looking for an embedded scripting language. Lua was my first choice. But not many outside gaming know Lua much. Even though I thought about JavaScript, I ignored it for a long time considering it isn’t great for an embedding. Recently I while exploring embeded systems I...
A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) is the most popular protocol used for talking to a computer device over serial port. What I am talking here is not exactly UART in traditional sense. It’s an emulation of serial port over BLE. It’s not part of profiles defined by Bluetooth SIG. It’s a custom defined...
It’s my hobby to ask Uber drivers which apps they use on a daily basis and what issues they generally face. It’s my opening into the way the world uses technology, which otherwise works perfectly fine for me and for People Like Us. For most drivers, besides network and connectivity issues, the main...
We have all seen beautiful Kannada maps by Yogesh using Mapbox APIs. Another startup which works in the same area is Mapzen. Tangram is a flexible mapping engine by Mapzen. Tangram is designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps from vector tiles inside your browser or app. Most importantly Tangram allows...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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