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.
beaconDB is a public-domain wireless geolocation database. It replaces Mozilla Location Service, which, of course, was shut down in 2024. I used to contribute to MLS very regularly. I think I was on their contribution leader-board, too. Anyway, recently, I started contributing to it. Like I have written in WN 11/2025, I promised...
I was using Masto.host hosted Mastodon instance at social.thej.in for a year (Week 07/2024). I am shutting it down for now and returning to social.lol/@thej account. There are a couple of reasons for doing this. So what changes Sorry about all the confusion. It’s part of a hosting experiment, I guess. Thank you.
Table of Contents1 Requirements2 Solution3 Features I like4 Needs Improvement5 Conclusion When I restarted riding, I wanted to be part of the group of friends who had been riding for a while. It meant modernizing certain things related to riding. One of them is a rider intercom to talk to fellow riders. So...
Table of Contents1 Requirements2 Solution3 Features I like4 Conclusion My father turned seventy recently. He used his scooter to get around the neighborhood—at most, about 40 km in a day and not more than 10 km one way. Scooter allowed him to visit his regular shops, friends, etc. After he turned 70, he...
I generated this podcast a week back using Google’s NotebookLM based on my Twenty Years of Engineering Practice blog post. Before I publish it here, I wanted to check what my friends and colleagues thought about it. Most thought it was an actual podcast discussing my article. They also thought it had a...
Table of Contents1 Requirements2 Solution3 Audio Content Technically, it’s not a radio. No radio waves are involved as such. It’s a Micro SD Card Player like the cassette tape players we used to have. The name Baby Radio is apt only because it only plays what a baby needs to hear, is controlled...
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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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