Category: Technology

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David MacMillan and James Robinson at IISc

You don’t often get the chance to hear Nobel Laureates live. When the opportunity arose in the form of the Nobel Prize Dialogue, The Future We Want, I applied. I wasn’t expecting to receive an invitation. I had assumed that this would for young people and they would prefer folks under 30. The...

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Send Dramatiq Tasks directly by Pushing JSON to Redis

Dramatiq uses JSON as the messaging format, and the sender or caller of the Job doesn’t need to have access to the Actor or know a lot about it. This has a considerable advantage. Once you set up the workers to execute the Job, all that is needed is to call the Job...

Dramatiq: background tasks 0

Simple and Easy Background Tasks with Dramatiq

For a long time, I have been using Celery to do background tasks. It does work, but has limitations. Limitations become apparent when you teach it to someone or when someone new tries to use it. So I am always looking for simple (not trivial) and easier ways to achieve this. I have...

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Homecooked UPI Shopping Cart for Slow Commerce

If you are a tiny business wo/man, there are literally no easy payment products to sell online. They all need registration, KYC, complex setups, etc. This is even when you have a valid bank account. There are also platform and transaction fees. In such scenarios, I see most people receive money on UPI...

MinusX with Metabase Charting 0

From Prompt to Report

I have been exploring LLMs to see if they can be used to do data analysis. LLMs are not good with data by default. But they are good at analyzing a small table and trying to make sense of it. LLMs are also decent at writing code. So my wish was, can I...

My Power on the Go Kit. 0

Power on the Go

Table of Contents1 Requirements2 Standard3 GAN Charger4 Power Bank5 Cables6 USB-C Barrel Jacks7 Other Devices8 Future I have written about batteries and power banks before, which I use when traveling, primarily in the car or when staying somewhere for an extended period. However, this post is specifically about my power management during trips...