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.
I often try to use Docker with my Digdag workflows. That way, we can keep the dependencies clean and separate for each DAG. I have blogged about it in detail before. Now instead of Docker, I can use Podman, by just making one small change.
I like to use the same stack again and again. It makes me productive, makes code less buggy, and builds knowledge over time. Unless there is a real need like unmaintained software or a different kind of application or unless I am going to build a Facebook or Google, I rarely change things in this stack. Even if I am going to build Facebook, I would start here and then adjust as it grows, just like Facebook did with it’s stack.
All credit to my curiosity in radio should go to RadioCity. As far as I know, it was the first private FM and started its first station in Bangalore. It used to broadcast 91.0 MHz (now 91.1). There was nothing like that in 2001. I went to national market and got myself a cheap pocket radio. It still works. I have been curious about radios since then.
To test SMTP integration, you can either send emails using the production SMTP or you can run a test SMTP server just for testing. But its not easy for every developer in your team to do that or make it part of your CI/CD. This is where Fake or Mock SMTP servers play a role. They can run on a developers machine and expose an SMTP endpoint to connect and send test emails. They usually have web access to view the test emails to check formatting etc, manually. Some of them also expose a web API to retrieve the content for CI/CD integration. Here are some of my favorite mock SMTP servers.
I wanted to write a simple web component to display the Blogring. Currently, I have embed.html, I use it in an iframe, inside which we get the data to create the content and set it as the innerHTML of a div. I just wanted a fancy tag that would embed the Blogring.
f you are in the Python world (or not), you probably are using dbcli/pgcli for accessing the Postgres database. pgcli is Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. Similarly, there are CLIs for MySQL, SQLite, Redis, etc. If you are in the mood to explore other CLI tools, you can trey SQLLine. It’s one CLI for many RDBMS.
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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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