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.
WhatsApp is huge in India. It reaches common man much more than Facebook or Twitter in India. It’s so big that government authorities in India use WhatsApp for information dispersal or get information. For a lot of people in India WhatsApp is their window to Internet. For good or bad a lot of...
I learnt about FSF in 2002. It’s a guess. I don’t remember actually. I started programming professionally in the last quarter of 2002. It was then I learnt about and appreciated the concept of Free Software. Since then I have talked about it to every one. Over the years parts of Free Software...
I don’t know anyone who can authoritatively say I know how internet works. Internet is made up millions of loosely coupled software, hardware, protocols and physical objects. It’s almost impossible to know every part of it in detail. But most of us can logically explain how it works with some black boxes. This...
In 2015 I had put together a simple script to check the status of various websites that were blocked (Censored) by ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in India for various reasons. It was a very simple script based on simple rules. Idea was to get a sense of censorship in India. After a while...
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...
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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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