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.
Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful to me. Simple examples are Firefox with its addons or VLC with its plugins. Ideally, any significant or valuable application should have such a feature. But as a developer or...
#30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Radio, SDR, etc. I am currently using ShortwaveSchedule, Short-Wave Info, ShorWave DB, QSL.net, etc. as my sources. Look at the project page for more details. I am a radio enthusiast and also an E&C...
I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing, easy to make mistakes, and hard to debug, but on the other hand, it’s available on almost all systems. It...
As a kid, I always wanted a set of Walkie Talkies to chat with friends. We got cell phones as adults, but that desire remained. A few years back, I took the HAM exam, but then COVID hit us, and I didn’t apply for a call sign. Now I have to retake the...
I have a bunch of screen-casts that I want to release. I have not found a good PeerTube instance to host my videos. I am happy to pay a monthly fee, and I hope one day there will be a platform that provides this. For now, I will add them to my site,...
I wanted a distributed system where the client submitting the job has the code and logic, but the workers don’t. They just execute the workload they get. I had used Dask in the LocalCluster mode, where everything runs on the same computer but in different processes/threads. It works well, and I have used...
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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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