Generated by All in One SEO v4.8.8, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Thejesh GN 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. ## Posts - [Changu Lake](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/01/02/changu-lake/) - We visited changu lake on the way to pass. This was a paid jeep drive to Changu, Babamandir and pass.The changu lake was almost frozen. It was in the state of semi solid. We spent some time there taking the pictures. Here is one picturetaken using my mobile. This story is a part of my - [SQLLine - One CLI for connecting to Relational Databases](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/01/03/sqlline-one-cli-for-connecting-to-relational-databases/) - If 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 - [Geek's way of Setting up EV Charger at Home](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/14/geeks-way-of-setting-up-ev-charger-at-home/) - Most electric vehicles come with a charger that you can use at home. You will usually have single-phase, three-pin plugs rated at 6A/230V or 16A/230 V at home in India. They deliver roughly 1.2kW (kilo watts) and 3.3k, assuming 0.9 as the power factor, but it might be better than that. Introduction Most homes that - [Web-Powered Workflows: Fetching and Running Digdag Workflows with Callbacks](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/20/web-powered-workflows-fetching-and-running-digdag-workflows-with-callbacks/) - In Digdag, the workflows are defined in a YAML file with an extension ".dig". Usually, as a developer, you write these workflow YAMLs. Workflows typically have a bunch of tasks defined, which get executed. Developers also write these. But there are other ways of adding tasks to workflows dynamically if that makes sense for your - [Weekly Notes 24/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/16/weekly-notes-24-2023/) - We are in Thrissur; it was unplanned. Usually, our travels are well-planned. But since most of our work is remote, it's not a bother. But it does disrupt other things. For example, I was supposed to spend the weekend on NMG/2023 but couldn't. I have done the top ten, but deciding the top three is taking more - [My office](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/19/my-office/) - Posting using MMS. Picture was taken by bala. - [Meeting Kris](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/19/meeting-kris/) - Yes, it needs a post. This was my first ever meet with CXO level official at Infosys. Today some of us who took Community Empathy Sabbatical last year met Kris to share our experiences. He was patient, friendly and generally very nice. Some pictures from that meet. Number of Infoscions taking community Empathy Sabbatical has - [All the best Nandan](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/07/09/all-the-best-nandan/) - Well, what should I say? Farewell function was long and very senti. It looked like whole of @infy had gathered to catch a glimpse of Nandan. I am cursing myself for not carrying a camera on such a big occasion. Here are some pics from my mobile. Nandan has been with Infy for almost thirty - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2023 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/16/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2023-open-for-applications/) - 2023 is going to be sixth edition of NMG. Yes, we have already completed five years, and some of the grantees have done some fantastic work. I have taken up the task of collating stories of those outstanding grantees and their work. Maybe we all get to read it sometime this year, but I digress. - [Weekly Notes 23/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/09/weekly-notes-23-2023/) - June is a much, much busier month than I expected. I see many personal, professional, and government work on my list. Before 2020, a friend used to complain about a coworker's child at the office on those rare occasions when they would get the kid to the workplace. Now continues to work at home amongst - [Weekly Notes 42/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/17/weekly-notes-42-2025/) - Spend the birthday weekend at Kumarakom. It was a slow and lazy weekend. It reminded me of a similar slow and lazy birthday weekend thirteen years back. Time does fly fast. Back to daily programming starting Thursday, though I tried to catch up on the essential things by spending about 60 minutes a day. A - [Weekly Notes 42/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/21/weekly-notes-42-2022/) - My friend's are moving to the US for a while. I miss them already. At this point, I have more friends outside India than in India. This is probably true for others too. I think this is the second wave. The first wave was around 2010, almost ten years back. The Living Museum - A Book created by - [Weekly Notes 42/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/21/weekly-notes-42-2023/) - I have been having some neck pain for the last two weeks. I have been wearing a collar upon the doctor's advice. It's kind of under control now. But I might have to do something more to fix it. It has been a tough week in general. But we went to another beach in Thrissur - [Weekly Notes 42/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/18/weekly-notes-42-2024/) - It was meet people for coffee week. I met Peppo colleagues at a wedding. We all work remotely, so we rarely meet unless there is a reason. I also met Mridu, Prabhudh, and Vaishnavi for coffee at Kara. Both times, Uma was with me. She does seem to enjoy meeting people and is very comfortable - [Grand Parents](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/09/22/grandparents/) - I didn't get to spend time with my grandparents. I really don't know how kids interact with their grand parents. Its fun too watch how my parents communicate with their grand kids (my sisters kids). Kind of very new experience for me. - [Kumarakom Backwaters](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/14/kumarakom-backwaters/) - Vembanad Lake is one of the longest lakes in India and the largest in Kerala. It touches three districts in Kerala. So when we thought of exploring Kerala, we wanted to start with nature, and backwaters were the first thing that came to mind, besides beaches. We chose Kumarakom as it seemed to have nicer - [45](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/12/45/) - This year, I wanted to celebrate for no real reason at all. At first, I wanted to get friends together and celebrate with a meal, but then it seemed like a lot of organizing, and so many of them are away. So I choose to spend time with Uma and Anju. I chose Taj, Kumarakom, - [Weekly Notes 41/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/10/weekly-notes-41-2025/) - The first half of the week was hectic. I am taking a week off from work (Wed to Wed), so the work week was busy as I tried to close as many loops as possible. The idea is to spend time with family in Thrissur; otherwise, Uma has holidays and gets to enjoy them, leaving - [Weekly Notes 41/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/14/weekly-notes-41-2022/) - It's my birthday week. If you have been reading this blog, you know I turned 42, and I don't see much difference. But it was a better year than the last two. Anju made this amazing chocolate cake for me. The kids were really into it.We have a whole generation who can give great answers but can't - [Weekly Notes 41/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/13/weekly-notes-41-2023/) - I turned 43 this week, in fact, yesterday. We went to Vadanapally Beach in the evening and then went Roastown for dinner. We enjoyed our time at the beach. We plan to go there often. In fact, we spend a lot of time at home in Thrissur. I plan to change that in the coming days. I wrote about - [Weekly Notes 41/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/11/weekly-notes-41-2024/) - I returned from Valparai on Saturday. It was a fun and memorable ride. I also did a bit of OSM mapping while I was there. 💻 Since I was virtually away from work last week, this week was a catchup week at work. As expected, it was a busy week. 🎥 I watched Saripodhaa Sanivaaram. - [Skepticism and Wonder Begins at Home](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/09/skepticism-and-wonder-begins-at-home/) - I started reading Demon-Haunted World : Sagan, Carl, Druyan, Ann. It's about cultivating a scientific temper, promoting critical thinking, and fostering skepticism. One paragraph in the preface made me think about my parents and thousands of others as well. You don't have to be a scientist to have a scientific temper or to instill it - [Remembering Shankar Nag](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/10/01/remembering-shankar-nag/) - Knowingly or unknowingly I was talking about Shankar Nag's (Shankar Nagarakatte) talent and films yesterday. 18 years have passed since we lost a great director/actor of Kannada film industry. We Kannadigas are still trying to find a Shankar Nag in every debutant. Shankar who gave us movies like Minchina Oota, Accident, Noodi Swamy navirode heege. - [ನಾನು ಹಿಂದೂ ಅಲ್ಲ. ವಿಶ್ವ ಮಾನವ](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/05/naa-hindu-alla-vishwa-manava/) - ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರು ಮನುಜ ಮತ ಮತ್ತು ವಿಶ್ವಪಥದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಶನವನ್ನು ನಾನು ಈಗಷ್ಟೇ ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿಗೆ ಕೇಳಿದ್ದು. ಇದುವರೆಗೆ ಇವುಗಳ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನಾನು ಅವರ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಓದಿದ್ದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ, ನಾನು ಲಿಪ್ಯಂತರ(? transcribe) ಮಾಡಿ ಅದನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಜನರಿಗೆ ಲಭ್ಯವಾಗಿಸಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ[1. ನಿಮಗೆ ಯಾವುದೇ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳು ಕಂಡು ಬಂದರೆ, ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ತಿದ್ದುಪಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳುಹಿಸಿ.]. ಸಂದರ್ಶಕ: ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮ ವಿಶ್ವ ಧರ್ಮ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯಬಹುದೇ? ಇಲ್ಲ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹಿಂದೂ ಧರ್ಮ ವಿಶ್ವ ಧರ್ಮ - [Weekly Notes 40/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/07/weekly-notes-40-2022/) - This week we celebrate the birthdays of Gandhi and Shastri. Two honest men Indian politics has ever seen. What I appreciated most in Gandhi was his sense of self-criticism and his ability to speak/write about his weakness in public. I don't think normals can do it then or even today. In Shastri, his simplicity and - [Weekly Notes 40/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/06/weekly-notes-40-2023/) - We are in Thrissur today. We are here for 3 to 4 weeks as we do almost every quarter. This time, it's special as it's the baby's first long drive. I thought it would be challenging, but it was much easier than I thought. We took additional baby breaks; otherwise, all five of us reached - [Weekly Notes 40/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/04/weekly-notes-40-2024-2/) - I reached Valparai yesterday with Manju. This ride is probably going to be the last ride for the year. Not bad for the year I restarted, isn't it? I will write about the ride in detail once I reach Bangalore. For now, I can only say Valparai is as beautiful as it was 15 years - [Weekly Notes 40/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/10/03/weekly-notes-40-2025/) - We are in Thrissur and will be here for some time. The drive from Bengaluru was comfortable and good. We left at 2:10 AM and reached our destination at 10:25 AM, covering approximately 500 km in 8 hours, including brief stops. I think that's a very good average on Indian roads. I was a bit - [Weekly Notes 10/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/10/weekly-notes-10-2023/) - This is my 1000th blog post. 2023 is also going to be the 20th year of my blogging. I will write a 20th-year blog post later, but I am surprised the average number of posts per year is 50. Except for 2007 (strange year of imports), other years have been relatively consistent. And in the - [Weekly Notes 10/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/08/weekly-notes-10-2024/) - It's interesting to see how Uma interacts with the iRobot vacuum. During the day, when it's charging, she wants to poke it to get a reaction. Sometimes it does; if the poke is strong, it comes alive with beeps and lights and rearranges itself on the charging port, and she seems to like that reaction. - [Weekly Notes 10/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/07/weekly-notes-10-2025/) - Appa was down with a fever and an upset stomach for a couple of days. He recovered pretty fast. Now that Uma can make sentences of two or three words from different languages, their conversation is fun to hear. She probably has a combined vocabulary of 100 words in Malayalam, Kannada, and English. She combines - [Weekly Notes 09/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/03/weekly-notes-09-2023/) - So slowly, I am going out and meeting friends. Thanks to them for inviting me. Given how much time I used to spend meeting friends and acquaintances before COVID-19, the current amount surprises me. But I will try. This week I met a couple and had long conversations. I also went to open science day - [Weekly Notes 09/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/01/weekly-notes-09-2024/) - We are in March/2024 already. I have not read a book this year, but I plan to. So I started reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Hope to continue. 🗺️ I was able to attend the OSM mapping party at Vasanth Nagar this month. I met a few OSM contributors. I knew some of them online, others - [Weekly Notes 09/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/28/weekly-notes-09-2025/) - My neck is doing okay. Resting, i.e., not looking at the phone but sleeping, has greatly helped. I'm still wearing the cervical collar, as the doctor advised. I've also slowed down on the work front this week because of it. Hopefully, I will be able to catch up next week. We went out for lunch - [Weekly Notes 08/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/24/weekly-notes-08-2023/) - I have been a professional engineer for 20 years now. I started in Jan/2003 as a Software Engineer for Infosys and Mysore. It was my first paid job. Ideally, I should have written about it in Weekly Notes 02/2023; I somehow missed it. Anyway, It's been an exciting 20 years, and I hope I have - [Weekly Notes 08/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/23/weekly-notes-08-2024/) - Uma, Pathu, Anju, and I have started going on proper evening walks. We walk around 30 minutes in the neighborhood. Echo gets a special longer walk. For now, it's difficult for Anju and I to take all three of them for a walk simultaneously, hence this arrangement. Also, Echo can stay alone at home, but - [Weekly Notes 08/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/21/weekly-notes-08-2025/) - Work went well I am on top of it. I have closed the things I wanted to close this week and the pending tasks from last week. It feels good to have a completed task list on a Friday evening. My neck has been giving me pain for the last two four weeks. This probably - [Weekly Notes 07/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/17/weekly-notes-07-2023/) - News this week was very disturbing and heart-wrenching. One is from IIT Bombay, where a Dalit student committed suicide, and another is about Bangalore's Jain university students' very casteist mad ads play. All in the same week. How is it our educational institutions are failing so badly? Experimenting with Minetest continues; I wrote a blog post about Communicating - [Weekly Notes 07/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/16/weekly-notes-07-2024/) - The weekend (Fri/Sat) at Dubare was great. The trip turned out to be better than I expected. I miss my team already. I did a picture post about the visit. Uma has started walking, not independently but with the help of furniture or a wall. She is also in exploring mode. Currently, the project of child-proofing the - [Weekly Notes 07/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/14/weekly-notes-07-2025/) - It's been a busy week. I was catching up on pending work along with work travel. And then, both Anju and I caught a cold, which we received from Uma. No fever, just a very bad cold and cough. It was tiring. All of us are recovering well; hopefully, next week will be better. I've - [Weekly Notes 06/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/10/weekly-notes-06-2023/) - We sold the blue. It was my first car. We got it in Mar/2006, almost 17 years. I loved this blue WagonR, not just me, but my entire family and friends loved blue. We have very fond memories of it. Family trips, drives with Anju, drives with friends for their weddings, shifting inside the town and outside, first few all-night - [Weekly Notes 06/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/09/weekly-notes-06-2024/) - This week was working with Team Peppo week. They were all in Bengaluru this week. We are a fully distributed team and meet once a year. I am meeting so many of them for the first time, and some after a gap of two years. We are at Dubare today for the weekend to spend - [Weekly Notes 06/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/07/weekly-notes-06-2025/) - I am back in Bengaluru. It's been a busy couple of days catching up with all the pending work. I am yet to read quite a few emails. I think the weekend is also going to be busy as well. I spent about five days at Varanasi and Prayagraj watching people attend the Maha Kumbh - [Weekly Notes 05/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/03/weekly-notes-05-2023/) - I finally upgraded my main laptop to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I had to disable some Debian repositories before I started the dist upgrade. But in the end, all went well. I would say I don't like the fact that it installs snaps by default. Most of my installations are based on Flathub, pipx, jbang or binary files these - [Weekly Notes 05/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/02/weekly-notes-05-2024/) - I reached Gokarna/Kumta this evening along with friends. The ride was long but smooth and fun. The BluArmour communication setup among us makes riding together fun. I will write about the ride and gadget later this week. Last Friday, I did my first ride after ~14 years. We went to Lepakshi and Penugonda Fort. It was - [Weekly Notes 05/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/31/weekly-notes-05-2025/) - I am back in Bengaluru. I took Saturday early morning Shatabdi. All of us went to pick up Pathu from Stay. She did do a bit of drama once she was back at home. Who wouldn't? :) I met friends on Sunday and also had our regular coffee at Kara. I tried one of their - [Weekly Notes 04/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/27/weekly-notes-04-2023/) - I was invited to BuzzWomen's all-hands meetup. One of their long-term employees used the word "ಕಾಳಜಿ" (Kāḷaji) as a reason for being loyal to BuzzWomen. The direct translation is "concern," but it's more like care + kindness + concern. I love the usage of the word. One will work for a long time for an - [Weekly Notes 04/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/26/weekly-notes-04-2024/) - I was on a single-day motorcycling trip today. The last time I went on a motorcycle ride was a decade back . I was nervous and also excited. We went to Lepakshi and Penukonda. The whole ride was around 300 KMs. The ride was good. This ride was in preparation for a three-day ride I plan - [Weekly Notes 04/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/24/weekly-notes-04-2025/) - I have been in IITM/Chennai since Wednesday. It was a work-as-usual week, along with meeting folks related to the course I teach at IITM. I worked during the day and met folks during breaks. Evenings we went out for dinners. On the first day, we had incredible non-vegetarian food at Sorgam. On the second day, - [Weekly Notes 03/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/20/weekly-notes-03-2023/) - We are back in Bangalore. It's cold coming from Thrissur. Thrissur was, in fact, pleasant this time of the year. I also noticed the filter in my air purifier had changed color, so I had to replace it. Not only that, I got another air purifier from Ikea for A's office. Air pollution in Bangalore is - [Weekly Notes 03/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/19/weekly-notes-03-2024/) - We are back in Bangalore. This drive took a bit longer. We took two 45-minute breaks each for baby and pet-related work. Otherwise, it was a comfortable drive. We left at 3:20 AM and reached by about 1:30 PM. It makes a lot of difference if you start early. It's primarily long-distance truck traffic early - [Weekly Notes 03/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/17/weekly-notes-03-2025/) - Time flies faster than we can think of. Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2025 is open for applications; this is our eighth edition. When I started it, I didn't think much about how it would turn out in a couple of years. So, there were no expectations. But it has grown into its own thing in - [Weekly Notes 02/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/13/weekly-notes-02-2023/) - One big rule we follow at Peppo team is - Be Nice to each other and everyone with whom you work. It makes a lot of difference. If you look at DataMeet's code of conduct. It's the first rule. I sincerely believe in it and take it wherever I go. We can't build organizations or teams - [Weekly Notes 02/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/12/weekly-notes-02-2024/) - Uma is nine months old; she has teeth now. And she has also become more aware of things. She wakes by 06:30 AM; I usually spend an hour feeding, cleaning, and playing with her. Echo and Pathu eat much earlier in the day and go back to sleep. Sometimes, they join for the play part. - [Weekly Notes 02/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/10/weekly-notes-02-2025/) - Echo is finally doing well, though winter is not great for him. He is active, eating and sleeping well. Though his urinary problems continue, they do not threaten his day-to-day activities. I started using a standing table during COVID-19, and it's still a habit. I plan to mix it up a bit this year, alternating - [Weekly Notes 01/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/06/weekly-notes-01-2023/) - Welcome to the new year. We are still in Thrissur, though I am in Mumbai today for a short visit. I am back in Thrissur tomorrow night. We should be back in Bangalore next week. I don't like or trust god-men. But this death will of Siddeshwara Swami is worth reading because it's unlike any other Swami. I - [Weekly Notes 01/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/05/weekly-notes-01-2024/) - Hi, Hello, Namasakaara; welcome to yet another year. I wrote my usual year-end blog post called - The Year that was 2023 on the last of the year. I have been doing that every year since 2007.[1. WordPress Tip: You can add ?order=asc to the URL in the WordPress category or tag the listing page to get the - [Weekly Notes 01/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/03/weekly-notes-01-2025/) - Uma met her another set of cousins this week/end. We visited the local temple to see the elephant with her on Saturday. Uma wanted to pet the elephant :) On Monday, we went to the beach to see the sunset. Uma loves water but has yet to figure out the ocean and waves to enjoy - [Weekly Notes 37/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/16/weekly-notes-37-2022/) - Echo and Pathu like long walks. I do like long walks with them. Usually, it isn't easy in Bangalore with lots of traffic. But here in Thrissur, they go for long walks on pretty roads. My current laptop, an Asus Zenbook, is six years old this month. It was an average-spec laptop then and is - [Weekly Notes 37/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/15/weekly-notes-37-2023/) - It's been a good week. We have figured out a good working schedule for me. We watched a couple of movies at home, of course. One of them is Maamannan; Vadivelu is brilliant in this movie. Hopefully, he gets to do more good movies. Most of the adoption legal work is complete. I am pleased with - [Weekly Notes 37/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/14/weekly-notes-37-2024/) - It was a busy week, and Friday was a busy and long day. But we took a break in the evening and went to the beach. I was so tired by the time we came back that I forgot to publish this post which was in draft. This is the second time I have delayed. - [Weekly Notes 37/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/12/weekly-notes-37-2025/) - What a hectic week it has been. It was filled with a lot of pending work from last week and new work from this week. I am doing okay work-wise and otherwise, too. All of us have recovered. The business of life should return to normalcy in a couple of weeks. We changed my workout - [Weekly Notes 38/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/23/weekly-notes-38-2022/) - We are back in Bangalore. The air feels different, for sure. Bangalore has excellent weather but the air? I don't know anymore. I have VINDRIKTNING, which is an air quality sensor from IKEA. It's not connected to their TRÅDFRI smart systems. I will hack it to insert an ESP32 and make it report to the - [Weekly Notes 38/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/22/weekly-notes-38-2023/) - It's been a week of meeting friends and family. We kept it close for the first couple of weeks so we could get to know each other. Now that we are comfortable as a unit, we slowly have friends and family over I recorded a small mobile screencast to demonstrate adding Surveillance cameras using the - [Weekly Notes 38/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/20/weekly-notes-38-2024/) - The weekend was spent at home celebrating pre-onam and onam. The Onam sadhya was great. I published the whole set of Pooklam arranged by Anju this year. So Uma, Anju, and everyone at home have a viral fever. They have been out of service since Wednesday :) I took a couple of days off to - [Weekly Notes 38/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/19/weekly-notes-38-2025/) - It was a good week. A bit hectic, but a lot got done. The weekend and the following week will be busy due to IndiaFOSS and work travels. I will be in Jaipur most of next week for work. Let me know if you are around, and we can get coffee (or your favorite drink). - [Weekly Notes 39/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/30/weekly-notes-39-2022/) - Sometimes I am surprised that I am the first generation graduate in my family. And so much change has happened in one generation. Imagine the folks who have had the generational advantage. Cubbon park is a beauty and oasis in the middle of crazy Bengaluru. I always live in the fear that it will vanish - [Weekly Notes 39/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/30/weekly-notes-39-2023/) - I lost track of days this week. I thought today was Friday, but today is Saturday :) So, it's delayed by a day for the first time since I started posting Weekly notes. I added a bunch of CCTV cameras this week; I also started tagging operators when it's clearly visible. This long weekend has been spent - [Weekly Notes 39/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/27/weekly-notes-40-2024/) - Everyone has recovered. It seemed like a common viral fever that was going around, but it was nothing serious. Luckily, I didn't get sick. Hence, we could handle the situation easily. However, this left a lot of work tasks pending to be picked up this week. 💻 I had to stay focused and get things - [Weekly Notes 39/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/26/weekly-notes-39-2025/) - I spent most of the week in Jaipur. It was a bit hectic and hot, but it was a good week. I also had the opportunity to observe and learn a lot. Uma was warm on Sunday, but it developed into a proper fever and cough over the course of the week. It's tough to - [Jaipur Palace and Coffee](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/25/jaipur-palace-and-coffee/) - I think this is my fourth visit to Jaipur. I have been here on a train, car, and motorcycle. However, this is my first time here for work. Since we spent most of our time at work, I didn't get to do much other than take an external view of the city palace. I think - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2021 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/01/14/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2021-open-for-applications/) - Nagarathna Memorial Grant is a no strings attached grant of one lakh rupees (~$1400). It's a micro-grant targeted at everyone. 2021 grant application is open. - [Create a Vachana GNOME Extension Using Argos](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/11/12/create-a-vachana-gnome-extension-using-argos/) - I like to read a stanza of Vachana every day, and I generally visit Vachana Sanchaya to do that. They have a widget ಇಂದಿನ ವಚನ aka Today's Vachana. Which picks a random(?) Vachana and shows it to you on their home page. Today's, for example, is a Vachana by ಜಗಳಗಂಟ ಕಾಮಣ್ಣ. ಅಯ್ಯಾ, ತನ್ನ ತಾನರಿದಡೆ ತನ್ನರುಹೆ - [Get Daily Vachana Push Notifications](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/18/get-daily-vachana-push-notifications/) - One of the things that I would like to do every day is to read a Vachana. It does appear to me on my desktop daily, but even then, I miss it when I don't access that specific computer or am busy. So a push message would be great. I usually pay attention to push - [ಭಾನು ಮುಶ್ತಾಕ್ ಹಾಗು ದಸರಾ ಹಬ್ಬ](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/20/banu-mushtaq-and-dasara-habba/) - ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ದಸರಾ ಹಬ್ಬವನ್ನು, ಭಾರತದ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯವಾದ ನಂತರ ನಾಡ ಹಬ್ಬ ಎಂದು ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರ (GoK) ಜನರ ತೆರಿಗೆ ಹಣದಿಂದ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದು ಮೈಸೂರಿನ ಹಳೆಯ ಅರಸರ [1. ಭಾರತೀಯ ಸಂವಿಧಾನದ 26ನೇ ತಿದ್ದುಪಡಿ ನೋಡಿ] ಅಥವ ಬೇರೆ ಯಾವುದೆ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯ ಖಾಸಗಿ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವಲ್ಲ. ವಾಸ್ತವದಲ್ಲಿ, ಹಳೆಯ ಅರಸರ ಕುಟುಂಬಕ್ಕೆ ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಖಾಸಗಿ ದರ್ಬಾರನ್ನು ನಡೆಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಅವಕಾಶವಿದೆ. ದಸರಾ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ, ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ಕೊಡುಗೆ ನೀಡಿರುವ ಆಧಾರದ - [Banu Mushtaq and Dasara](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/20/banu-mushtaq-and-dasara/) - Dasara Festival is celebrated as ನಾಡ ಹಬ್ಬ (Nāḍa habba), which translates to state festival, following India's transition to a republic. It's sponsored and run by the GoK using tax money. It's not the private affair of the ex-royal[1. Read the 26th Amendment of the Indian Constitution] family of Mysore, or any other individual. In fact, - [WAP enable your blog in 5 minutes](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/02/19/wap-enable-your-blog-in-5-minutes/) - Blogs can be read using RSS readers. But most of the RSS readers on mobile phones (Java based) are bad and slow. Most of RSS feeds are for desktop clients and are not suitable (they are big) for mobile phones.The best way to provide your content to mobile reader is through winksite To make your - [What my friends are doing?](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/05/02/what-my-friends-are-doing/) - They all are doing some interesting things. Their creative juices are flowing in all directions. Prithvi has launched his new cartoon series site called Making Masti. The first cartoon is online. And it is really funny. The theme of the page is too good (powered by Bangada Masala Fry). Go have fun. Then Swaroop and - [Gadgets that I carry while traveling](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/04/08/gadgets-that-i-carry-while-traveling/) - I am usually a backpacker hence i don't carry many things while traveling. But there are few of those that I cant miss. 1. Digital Camera : is number one on my list. I don't have to give reasons right? 2. Mobile with camera and browser: I usually carry my k750i which can act us - [Nokia e61i - As a Blogger's Phone](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/09/02/nokia-e61i-bloggers-phone/) - I was thinking about e61i from long time but was still not ready to let go my k750i. Prices at Dubai forced me to buy one. After using for almost four months I am writing this review. Screen, General Look n feel: It looks like any other business phone. But it is lighter and slimmer - [Mobile Apps that I run on Nokia e61i (also includes top 10)](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/01/15/mobile-apps-that-i-run-on-nokia-e61i/) - I have been using Nokia e61i (Symbian S60 3rd edition) for quite some time now. I am happy with it mostly because of the following applications. They are free and they enhance the functionality of my mobile. Opera Mini is my browser on my mobile. Its open 24X7 on my mobile. It supports book marks - [How to read Kannada (Indic) on Android](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/10/14/how-to-read-kannada-indic-on-android/) - Like I had written earlier you can't read/write Kannada on an Android phone. I have given this feedback to Google and its also on the bug list. But I am not sure when will Google implement it. The biggest thing I missed is reading Kannada blogs. But then this tip helped me to get Kannada - [Blogging on mobile using Opera Mini and K750i](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/11/07/blogging-on-mobile-using-opera-mini-and-k750i/) - I have Sony Ericsson's K750i which I bought very recently. I like the camera in that. Its very good during the day time and acts like any other mobile camera during the night.Panorama shooting mode is too good if you want to capture scenic place.Below is the example of one such taken during one of - [Blogging from Opera Mini](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/11/blogging-from-opera-mini/) - Test posting from Opera Mini on K750i. It looks like there is 450 character limit on textbox in K750i. which is actually good to keep me to the point. Its pretty difficult to type on this phone. without QWERTY keyboard. But this is great when i am travelling. I dont have to search for cyber - [Data from Bengaluru – Where Do You Work From?](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/06/data-from-bengaluru-where-do-you-work-from/) - It was a simple survey of one question. Where do people in Bengaluru choose to or prefer or allowed to work from? Here are the answers as of now. I also know that it has limitations. One question doesn't cover all scenarios. For example, some people work from home for a week and then from - [Weekly Notes 36/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/09/05/weekly-notes-36-2025/) - Everyone was down with viral this week. It started with Appa catching a virus in the Namma Metro, and then it spread to Uma. Then it was Anju and me. It was severe for a couple of days, and now I am recovering. I think generally virals take three to four days regardless of what - [Weekly Notes 35/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/29/weekly-notes-35-2025/) - My physiotherapy has shifted to strength training, and it's going good. I'm also monitoring my diet and making a few changes. I've restarted breakfast with just eggs and coffee. Otherwise, I still have two meals a day, with a smaller dinner. I am also trying to use Origin Nutrition once a day. I will have - [Weekly Notes 33/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/18/weekly-notes-33-2023/) - We are parents to a beautiful and healthy baby girl. Most of the legal work is complete. We still have some, but it will get done. Echo is doing much better this week. He is yet to recover fully and might need another week or so. We watched Jailer just for Rajni. It's an average - [Weekly Notes 20/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/17/weekly-notes-20-2024/) - Uma's sleeping cycle has changed a bit. She now sleeps from 7 PM to 6:30 AM, with a short nap in the morning and a longer nap after lunch. Her diet includes most of what we eat, but less spicy. She doesn't like eggs as of now :(, which are important in our diet, so - [Weekly Notes 33/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/16/weekly-notes-33-2024/) - It's been a year, and time flies. It is so much fun to see Uma growing up. I am enjoying parenting a lot, more than I thought I would. I have not written much about it. I will write at some point before she grows up :) I had a micro dental surgery on Saturday, - [Weekly Notes 34/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/23/weekly-notes-34-2024/) - I have almost recovered. There is a bit of a dry cough, but manageable. Anju and Uma are still on their way. Both still have a bad cold. I have not been attending yoga classes for the last two weeks, primarily because of a cough and cold. I should be regular again. I added a - [Weekly Notes 34/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/22/weekly-notes-34-2025/) - Today, I took time to attend Anveshana Showcase 2025 at Prayoga. The plan was initially to attend the presentations by students who were part of NMG/2025 grantees group. But then I also got to know my niece was also presenting at the same event as part of another group. Unrelated, but what a good surprise. - [Weekly Notes 31/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/01/weekly-notes-31-2025/) - This is the fourth week (WN28/2025) of school for Uma. She enjoys going. Since midweek, I've been asked to wait outside as she's very comfortable with her directress, or guide. Even during playschool, she was always happy to attend. So in that sense, it's always been easy. But compared to playschool, The Earth School follows - [Copy to Learn, Try Till You Master](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/20/copy-to-learn-try-till-you-master/) - I'm often surprised at how almost every action of Uma can be traced back to someone around her. She copies so easily, sometimes adding small twists of her own. But it's not always a perfect copy. For example, she often mispronounces words or struggles with the action, but she never stops copying. And it rarely - [Weekly Notes 33/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/15/weekly-notes-33-2025/) - India celebrates Independence Day today. As much as we gained freedom from the British in 1947, we have yet to gain full freedom from other evils like religion, caste, class, and gender based biases. We are still a country with a large, uneducated, and hungry population. There is much to do before we can truly - [Stress](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/12/stress/) - It's a lie to say that there is no stress; stress is always present, whether at work, at home, or in any situation involving human interaction or expectations. Forget external expectations; your self-expectations; the image you have of yourself (good or bad) that you want to maintain leads to stress. I am not a stranger - [Weekly Notes 32/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/08/weekly-notes-32-2025/) - I spent most of the week (Monday through Thursday) in Mumbai. It was a busy but fruitful week. I got lots of things done. I usually carry everything in a backpack if it's for a couple of days. But this time I had more, so I checked it in the luggage. I forgot about my - [From Prompt to Report](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/08/06/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 make LLMs - [Intentional Observation](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/17/intentional-observation/) - Uma started school last week. As part of her schooling, I attend school every day to observe her and provide support if needed. Currently, it's for an hour every weekday. During this period, I sit there observing her and her surroundings for an hour, and nothing else. I don't interact with her or anyone else, - [Power on the Go](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/30/power-on-the-go/) - 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 on flights and trains, which can also be applied to other situations. Flights seem to be the most - [Conquering Kudhuremukh Part1](https://thejeshgn.com/2003/12/13/conquering-kudhuremukh-part1/) - I didn’t have any plans for the weekend as I had lots of work on Friday… and for the weekend too.Then on Friday, I came out of office around 9:00 PM to go home. Venki (my roommate) called me and asked me to wait as he had something to carry home and needed the bike - [Conquering Kudhuremukh Part 2](https://thejeshgn.com/2003/12/13/conquering-kudhuremukh-part-2/) - Already PP, Chetan, and Manja were ready to take the next challenge… but we three were still in sleep mode… Eventually, we got up, finished our morning chores, and had breakfast — noodles and concrete… Later, we packed our bags. Now our bags were not so heavy… just a thought came to my mind — - [Weekly Notes 30/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/25/weekly-notes-30-2025/) - This week was another good but hectic week. I went to school almost every day with Uma, I completed most of my planned tasks, and didn't miss physiotherapy. So not bad. For the last couple of days, it has been cloudy and drizzled a bit; otherwise, the monsoon has vanished. Uma loves playing with water. - [Weekly Notes 29/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/18/weekly-notes-29-2025/) - This week has been hectic but excellent. Many good and interesting things are happening at work in parallel, which keep me busy during the workday. Since Uma started school, we've also adjusted our daily schedule. We're busy from 6:30 in the morning to 8:00 in the evening. That has reduced my time for watching and - [Jotheyali - Web Playlist Player](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/24/jotheyali-web-playlist-player/) - I prefer a vendor-neutral playlist of songs and media. The standard I like is JSPF (JSON XSPF). It's also a standard feature that ListenBrainz supports, but unfortunately, it is limited to what's available on MusicBrainz. If you want to maintain playlists outside Listenbrainz, then try mbzlists. It's a FOSS playlist creator, editor, and player. It - [Fort of Devanahalli](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/11/17/fort-of-devanahalli/) - Most of you would have read about how far the new Bangalore International Airport is and how boring the journey is. But have you noticed Fort of Devanahalli on the way to Airport? Its visible from the high way if you are watchful enough. I always wanted explore it but never did. But this time - [Naganatheshwara temple at Begur Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/11/28/naganatheshwara-temple-at-begur-bangalore/) - Its very common for myself and my friend Manju to explore something new on Sunday evenings. I had heard about Naganatheshwara temple at Begur but had not seen it. Since it is very near to my home we though it would be a good place laze around on a sunday evening. Manju's mom had told - [There won't be another Emergency](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/14/there-wont-be-another-emergency/) - In 1975, India under Indira Gandhi declared an Emergency to enable arbitrary actions by the state, suspending all fundamental rights of citizens. Today, those same powers exist under regular law. Over time, every ruling government has passed laws—like IPC 124A, AFSPA, the now-defunct POTA, NSA, UAPA, Sec 144/IT Act, PMLA, Sec 132/Income Tax, and FCRA—that - [Weekly Notes 28/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/11/weekly-notes-28-2025/) - Uma started school this week at Earth School. We walk to school every day. It's about 500 meters, but it takes us at least half an hour to cover that distance. Everything on the way has to be observed by her every day. For those of us born in 1980, this is a significant year, - [Local LanguageTool With Eloquent and LibreOffice](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/08/local-languagetool-with-eloquent-and-libreoffice/) - English wasn't my first/primary language. I attended a Kannada-medium school during my primary school years and switched to an English-medium school in high school. I caught up with it as I grew up speaking it with friends and then colleagues, as English is the primary language at work [1. For the IT sector, It's the - [Weekly Notes 27/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/04/weekly-notes-27-2025/) - Welcome to the second half of 2025. How was the year so far for you? For me, it's been mostly good, except for the radiculopathy and the rapid pace of the year. If the first half has gone by so quickly, I can't imagine how fast the second will go. It usually feels even faster - [India - UDISE Educational Districts and Blocks](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/26/india-udise-educational-districts-and-blocks/) - UDISE+ has the most detailed datasets about all aspects of the elementary education system in India. It collects data from 15 Lakh+ schools from across India. It also has aggregated data at Educational Blocks and Educational districts. This post is about these educational blocks and districts. Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) initiated in - [Mapping Local Government Directory to WikiData](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/20/mapping-local-government-directory-to-wikidata/) - The Indian government maintains the directory and hierarchy of local governments and administrative areas in India called the Local Government Directory (LGD). Recently I wanted to map them to WikiData items. This means I wanted to map the administrative areas in the local government to items on WikiData. Update them if necessary. As a first - [Cinema Sundays with My Parents](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/07/03/cinema-sundays-with-my-parents/) - I watched so many (probably hundreds?) movies with my parents as a child and a teenager. We mostly saw them in theaters; in fact, there was no other option. The first set I remember is Premaloka and Ranadheera, directed by Ravichandran. Both were remakes, but it didn't matter. Premaloka was released in 1987 and was - [Weekly Notes 26/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/27/weekly-notes-26-2025/) - The only thing I miss about working remotely is being around people. I enjoy meeting people outside of work, such as over coffee or during lunch breaks. Even working remotely, I have tried to go out and meet and work with people at least once a week. However, for some reason, I didn't return to - [SET Religion = NULL](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/28/set-religion-null/) - People who know me already know this in some form or other. But this makes it official. The religion I was born into never made sense. Actually, as of now, none of them make any sense to me. So it's NULL now. This doesn't mean I will stop others. It also doesn't mean I will - [Godless but not joyless](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/22/godless-but-not-joyless/) - So, when you don't believe in God or follow a specific religion, what do you celebrate with others? Just because I'm not religious doesn't mean I'm anti-social—I still want to spend time with family and friends, which often happens around religious festivals. Lately, I've been thinking about turning religious festivals into social events. For example: - [Weekly Notes 25/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/20/weekly-notes-25-2025/) - I continue to do Physiotherapy. It has helped a lot. Thanks to all the friends who recommended, encouraged, and gave me leads for Physiotherapy. One of the things that I believe helped me in my recovery is the Memory Foam Contour Cervical Pillow with Coolgel from My Armor. I know it's a mouthful, but it's - [Embedding models for Kannada](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/18/embedding-models-for-kannada/) - Embedding models transform words, sentences, documents, or digital items into vectors of numbers (usually floats) so that machines can understand and compare them semantically[1. In a more meaningful way than just text compare]. A good embedding model has enough information to capture the meaning and relationships in dense vector form. I have been using them - [First Impressions of Sarvam Indic Translate Model](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/10/first-impressions-of-sarvam-indic-translate-model/) - I have been searching for models that perform translations between Kannada and English and vice versa. I learned about the Sarvam Translate model, which seemed very promising. I tried it on their site before downloading the model directly to run locally. Model weights are available under GPL. Sarvam-Translate is an advanced translation model from Sarvam - [Weekly Notes 24/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/14/weekly-notes-24-2025/) - My visit to IITM/Chennai was enjoyable; I met many students and spent time with some of them. In general, it was great to catch up with all of them. This is the fifth year of the program. Many graduated this year with three-year and four-year degrees. It's amazing to see this happening at this scale. - [Walking, Talking, Writing: A Blog Post Experiment](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/12/walking-talking-writing-a-blog-post-experiment/) - So, I'm going to attempt to write a blog post, actually by dictating it using IdeaShell. It's my dream to write a whole blog post using voice. It's not done using any Text-generating LLMs, but this is done using Speech to Text (STT). Just to try it out. I'm doing this while I'm taking a - [Weekly Notes 23/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/06/weekly-notes-23-2025/) - It's that time of the year again. I am IITM/Chennai for Paradox 2025. I reached today. I will be there till Monday. If you're around, we can grab a coffee. You already know how to reach me. We, along with our siblings and niblings, went to Mysore for a Zoo visit. Uma loves animals, and - [Weekly Notes 23/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/07/weekly-notes-23-2024/) - I paid the advance for the restoration and rework of Red (Yamaha). The total repair expense will be more than how much I spent to buy it. I think it's worth it. I love that motorcycle. It's with Salman of Delhi Garage. He has promised to deliver it in 25 days. Let's see. Late Friday - [Weekly Notes 22/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/31/weekly-notes-22-2024/) - It's that time of the year (Weekly Notes 21/2023) again. I am in Chennai for Paradox. I like these yearly visits. The year 2023/24 has been exceptional. Some of the students who had completed the course have been placed. I got first-hand feedback about one of the students who has been put in an organization - [Weekly Notes 21/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/26/weekly-notes-21-2023/) - I am at IITM, Chennai, for Paradox. It's my second Paradox festival. I love meeting students, faculty, and other members (at least once a year. I am going back tomorrow night, to Bangalore. I did a small session for students at Paradox about ChatGPT and other tools they can use at work. Mostly my continuation - [Chennai / IITM Paradox'22 Fest](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/27/chennai-iitm-paradox22-fest/) - Last weekend (May 20,21,22) I was in Chennai for Paradox2022, the first offline student festival for IITM BSc Students. I have been teaching MAD01 and MAD02 since 2020 for BSc students personally; it's been a great experience. But I never got to meet any of them in person, so I thought it would be an - [Simple IMD Alerts](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/11/simple-imd-alerts/) - IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) has a district-level alert system. They give rain alerts for today and the next four days. They also have something called NowCast that shows the same alert level for now. Alerts are basically four levels No Warning - Green Watch - Yellow Alert - Orange Warning - Red Since it is - [Local Music, Global Discovery](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/06/03/local-music-global-discovery/) - I listen to Music from my homelab server using Navindrome and several client apps. It works both when I am online and offline. But one of the things that you miss when you listen to local Music is discoverability. It's not easy to find new, interesting Music unless you're on one of those streaming providers. - [Weekly Notes 22/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/30/weekly-notes-22-2025/) - I met WeeklyNotes/Blogring friends in real life (IRL) this week. On Thursday, I had coffee with Mihir and Nidhi at KAARA. They were passing through Bengaluru on their way to a workshop in Coonoor and had some time before catching their bus. It's fun to meet online folks in real life when you know so - [Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) in the Indian Context](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/28/common-alerting-protocol-cap-in-the-indian-context/) - If you are interested in tracking weather alerts like I am, you should know about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP). CAP is a standard XML formatted message that shares disaster/emergency alerts between creators, distributors, and receivers. For example, extreme rain alerts from IMD/Mausam (creator) to phones (receivers) through telecom service providers (distributors). It is an - [Speech Note: App for Offline Speech to Text, TTS, and Translation](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/26/speech-note-app-for-offline-speech-to-text-tts-and-translation/) - I've always dreamed of talking to computers. Cloud tools made it possible, but nothing beats doing it right on your machine. The first one I encountered that ran well locally was Dragon Speak. It worked pretty well but was very expensive and closed. In recent years, few models can run locally and do well. OpenAI - [Weekly Notes 21/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/23/weekly-notes-21-2025/) - It was mostly kids and me at home this week. Managing full-time work, kids, and housework by myself was tough. Four kids (okay, one human toddler, a parent, and two pets) are a handful, even when you have regular support. But thanks to a friend and sibling who live close by, I could manage easily. - [What is My Political View in 2025?](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/22/what-is-my-political-view-in-2025/) - I am quite politically engaged and follow it with genuine interest. So I need to understand where I stand using a consistent set of parameters. Sometime in 2009, I came across The Political Compass, which felt like a good fit for this purpose. Since then, I've been taking the survey from time to time and - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2025 – Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/07/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2025-results/) - Let me start by saying I am sorry for the delay. I have been suffering from Cervical Radiculopathy from the beginning of this year. Thankfully, pain has reduced, and I am working on getting back to physiotherapy. Thank you for understanding. There were 100+ high-quality applications this year, making going through and selecting hard and - [Weekly Notes 20/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/16/weekly-notes-20-2025/) - It's been a good week. The pain did flare up midweek, but regular exercise has helped bring it down. I can correlate the reduction to neck exercises. I'm starting physiotherapy at Stairs Physiotherapy again. Interestingly, I've received a few messages and emails about this. It turns out that I'm not alone; others in my industry - [Cool...I got the news just now](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/08/25/oki-got-the-news-just-now/) - I did not expect myself to be on the front page(expected an inside story). I am yet to see the paper. Thanks for all those who sent messages and mails. I will write about the trip in detail later this week. Thanks a lot to all my readers, WOMWorld and BangaloreMirror. BTW article is online. - [Linked List: FOSS Apps for Sharing Files between Devices](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/12/linked-list-foss-apps-for-sharing-files-between-devices/) - It's a common requirement to share the files between multiple devices we own, sometimes even with strangers. Even though it's a widespread requirement, there is no universal standard. iOS folks use AirDrop and Android folks use QuickShare, etc. They work only within their walled gardens, even though the data transfer happens in a p2p way. - [Weekly Notes 19/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/09/weekly-notes-19-2025/) - NMG/2025 results are out. It took me a while to go through the applications this time. But finally I sat down and closed. There are some emails and follow-ups left; otherwise, it's done. I'm pleased with how this year's grant turned out and the number of people who participated. It's starting to feel like a - [MySwar is out](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/01/10/myswar-is-out/) - Ever since I joined Mavrix, friends have asked me about the project that I am working on. I have given different versions. But now that MySwar is open to public, here is the almost definitive description "MySwar is the complete guide to Hindi film music. It lets you browse your favorite Hindi film albums and - [Tools for Effective Documentation](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/10/16/tools-for-effective-documentation/) - Over the years I have gathered a set of tools for effective documentation and communication. I use these tools to communicate on this blog, with my coworkers or anyone else that I want to share things with. Now that all of us are working remotely, they have become very important. I am listing my favorite - [Weekly Notes 18/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/05/03/weekly-notes-18-2025/) - We follow a zero-screen policy for Uma. That means we don't watch anything when she's awake. It's reduced my phone and TV time, which is good. Thankfully, she's not too interested in work computers. But keeping toddlers away from phones is hard. Everyone has one, and you can't control others. The moment she gets a - [ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (AMD)](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/28/thinkpad-t14s-gen-6-amd/) - I wanted a replacement for the computer that broke last year (WN 29/2024). LC230 has been fulfilling that place, but it's not made for that. Finally, I did some research and got a custom-built ThinkPad from Lenovo. For a long time, I considered the budget before buying a laptop (except for my first laptop - - [Weekly Notes 17/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/25/weekly-notes-17-2025/) - The pain is still there; during the weekend, it kind of varied in intensity, so I had to stop doing exercises and physiotherapy. I met the doctor again, just in case, but there is no change in his RX. During the week, it's been okay. I might restart the exercises and physiotherapy this coming week. - [Weekly Notes 16/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/18/weekly-notes-16-2025/) - Adulting is the phase of life where you must do what needs to be done, regardless of your mental or physical state. This week was the week of adulting; even then, I am falling behind a bit. Adulting is hard :) Uma's Nursery celebrated its annual day on Saturday with a dance drama performance at - [Mostly Harmless vckyb6 Keyboard - Making Online Meetings Better](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/08/16/mostly-harmless-vckyb6-keyboard-making-online-meetings-better/) - Unlike many, I like online meetings. It gives me an option to attend an appointment from the comfort of my home office and listen to virtually anyone. Also, I have a very efficient way of taking notes. My home office - Tokyo, has good light and air. Any physical meeting in any other place won't - [Remote Desktop on Linux Using XRDP and Remmina](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/20/remote-desktop-on-linux-using-xrdp-and-remmina/) - I use my tpx as a travel machine[1. LC230 or Liberated Computer x230 from Mostly Harmless. Detailed review pending.]; at home, it's mainly used remotely. As in, I connect to it either through ssh or through a remote desktop and work on it. I wanted RDP and not VNC, mostly because I want to have - [Weekly Notes 49/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/09/weekly-notes-49-2022/) - This post is my 67th blog this year—the highest number of blogs in a year since 2009. I can only see it growing as I move away from social media. Currently, I use Twitter and Instagram, but my usage has reduced drastically due to blogging here and @thej@social.thej.in. I don't remember when I logged into Facebook. So, all - [Weekly Notes 50/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/16/weekly-notes-50-2022/) - Since I write weekly notes and there is a week number in the title, I pay attention to how fast the time moves. It's been an excellent way to keep track of time. We are just two weeks away from 2023. Happy holidays ( its starts at least no?) folks. Following two weeks, I will - [Weekly Notes 29/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/19/weekly-notes-29-2024/) - I was at Fifth Elephant and met many people after a long time. I had great conversations with Kiran from Swetcha, Chaitanya, Yeswanth, Haripriya, Srinivas Kodali, Venkat of Scribble Data, Rasagy, Prashant, etc. I missed OpenDataCamp, which was my place for such things. Maybe in the summer of 2025, we will get to hang out - [Review: TripMachine’s Rambler Backpack Pannier](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/30/review-tripmachines-rambler-backpack-pannier/) - It started as a search for a good weekend backpack to replace my broken, decade-old Wildcraft backpack. Since I had also started riding, I thought a combo backpack and bike pannier would be great. Requirements A comfortable backpack A decent bike pannier It should be versatile to work as a baby bag At least 20Ltrs, - [Weekly Notes 15/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/11/weekly-notes-15-2025/) - We went to Cubbon Park on Saturday with Echo. Now that we have three beings who need attention at home, Echo gets the least. So we made plans to go for a walk only with him like last year - WN 13/2024. He had lots of fun. We need to do this often. Uma met - [Installing Enhet Wall Cabinet](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/06/installing-enhet-wall-cabinet/) - Installation is easy with just two screws, but I didn't believe just two screws would be enough, so I did more. I got two L-shaped clamps and screwed them to the wall at the bottom so that the sides wall and back corner of the cabinet would sit on them for the additional support, along - [Building Baby Gym](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/24/building-baby-gym/) - The idea was to build a baby gym, which is adjustable in height and gives us the flexibility to disassemble and carry easily. There are many products available in the market. But I wanted to build one. Hence, the build. Idea and Materials I looked at Pinterest for design ideas. I took some inspiration from - [Linked List : My Corded Power Tools for Home Lab](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/30/linked-list-my-corded-power-tools-for-home-lab/) - I wanted a complete toolset when I moved out of my parent's home. Until then, I used my father's set. He had them collected for a long time. I borrowed some from him, but I also built my toolbox. I will probably write a post on other tools. But here is the first one, and - [Linked List: My Set of Personal Protective Equipment](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/05/linked-list-my-set-of-personal-protective-equipment/) - This list is not a recommendation, just a starting point for your research. The set contains just three items, a Respirator with filter, gloves, and safety goggles. I use them, so I thought it might be helpful for you as a starting point. Do your research based on your use cases. My use cases are - [Weekly Notes 14/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/04/04/weekly-notes-14-2025/) - This week was a beautiful mix of celebrations. Yugadhi and Ramzan came together, and right in the middle of it all, Uma turned two! So, we ended up celebrating three festivals with lots of food, fun, chatter, and love. ⛅ We got the AC last summer (15/2024) but didn't use it. This year, we just - [Weekly Notes 13/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/28/weekly-notes-13-2025/) - It's iftar time on Mosque Road in Bangalore. I went out for dinner with friends on Sunday evening. This time, we chose a restaurant instead of street food. Sharief Bhai had a special iftar meal for four. Even though it was for four people, it was a lot. We ate a lot and packed some - [Contributing to beaconDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/27/contributing-to-beacondb/) - 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 to contribute - [Weekly Notes 12/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/21/weekly-notes-12-2025/) - We returned from Langkawi on Wednesday after a week-long vacation. It was a good trip. I had nearly a thousand unread emails, both work and personal when we returned. Around 80% of them are non-critical - newsletters, alerts from GitHub, issue trackers, etc. But I believe in inbox zero, so I had to read the - [Langkawi](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/18/langkawi/) - We wanted a birthday trip like last year. I also wanted it to be less buzzy and toddler-friendly. So I started searching for a holiday place within 8 hours of travel time and a single hop. Langkawi turned up in the search results. I didn't know about it, but the more I read, the more - [Shutting down my Mastodon instance](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/20/shutting-down-my-mastodon-instance/) - 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. Cost: It started at $6/pm, and now I pay $19/pm + taxes. Running a federated social media platform just for - [Weekly Notes 11/2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/03/14/weekly-notes-11-2025/) - The first half of the week was busy, with most of the time, including some weekend hours, spent closing work TODOs. But now that we're in Langkawi, it's all good :) I got to speak to another open data community in India, the India Open LandCover Initiative. It was a quick talk about my view - [IKEA Fornuftig Air Purifier Review](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/24/ikea-fornuftig-air-purifier-review/) - We use an air purifier from Eureka Forbes in the bedroom. But I was looking for one for Anju's office. This time my requirements were simple, easy to maintain, affordable, and decent purifier. I choose IKEA Fornuftig Air Purifier. Here is my review It's available in Bangalore; it's affordable at INR6,000. A decent ceiling fans - [Weekly Notes 13/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/29/weekly-notes-13-2024/) - We wanted to celebrate Echo's birthday. We couldn't celebrate on the 20th, so we decided to make it extra special. We took advantage of Uma's grandparents being at home and spent the first half of Sunday with Echo celebrating and walking around in Cubbon Park. It was just the three of us: Anju, Echo, and - [Sanur Beach Walk](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/30/sanur-beach-walk/) - Sanur has nice beach walking path.I had heard and read about it. I wanted to walk the whole path of around 5 to 7 Kms. We initially thought of going in the morning for sunrise, but all of us were so tired we woke up late, so we went for an evening walk. When we - [Campuhan Ridge Walk - Ubud](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/31/campuhan-ridge-walk-ubud/) - Campuhan Ridge and Ubud Rice Fields Walk combined walk is another one we wanted to do while we were in Bali. We started post-noon around 3 PM after Uma finished her snacks. I had seen pictures; the trail was marked well and had tiles, so I assumed we could walk with Uma on the stroller. - [Weekly Notes 14/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/05/weekly-notes-14-2024/) - We are back in Bangalore. We spent almost a week in Bali celebrating Uma's first birthday. We walked quite a bit. I wrote about two of them (Ubud and Sanur). I was doubtful if we could walk with Uma in Bali's heat, but we could, and she did well. They were tiring (good tiring kind) but delightful - [A challenge of blog questions](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/27/a-challenge-of-blog-questions/) - I got tagged by Sathya to take up the challenge of blog questions. I don't even remember the last time something like this happened. But I am thrilled to see blogging is popular again and, in most cases, becoming an alternative to social media. A selfish reason for participating in this challenge is to discover - [Environment Sensor Workshop for Children at ODCBLR2016](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/16/environment-sensor-workshop-for-children-at-odcblr2016/) - Its been a long time dream to involve children with DataMeet activities. We just conducted a Data journalism workshop with children. In this Open Data Camp which is basically our yearly get together we wanted to get them started with environment sensors. Planning started a bit back, but we did change the plan quite a - [Scraping National Air Quality Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/02/14/scraping-national-air-quality-data/) - we live in Bengaluru/Bangalore. We as family suffer due to air quality. Given this concern, I wanted a data-set to analyze what has happened over the years and what to expect. I also wanted to compare the same with other cities. National Air Quality Index has this data. But it's available only for major cities - [Visualizing Air pollution in Bangalore using Brunel](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/11/07/visualizing-air-pollution-in-bangalore-using-brunel/) - Brunel defines a highly succinct and novel language that defines interactive data visualizations based on tabular data. Brunel is Visualization language. It's a domain specific language. It has its own grammar. It feels familiar to anyone who thinks in data and want to visualize it. Brunel is also open source and works well with jupyter - [Climate Change and Coders](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/07/14/climate-change-and-coders/) - I was checking the air quality reports of Bangalore for the period of 3 months when we were under strict lock-downs due to COVID-19. Bengaluru's air has been doing much better under the lock-down. I am sure this is not a unique case. According to the analysis by CREA, for the Health and Environment Alliance - [AirVisual Pro indoor Air Quality Monitor](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/29/airvisual-pro-indoor-air-quality-monitor/) - I have had a couple of air quality sensors. But none of them have a variety of sensors, AQI calculation, and local open data access. Finally, I found IQAir AirVisualPro, which suits my requirement like a glove. Setup I used the APP to setup. It was quick and had no hassle. Connect the device to - [Maha KumbhMela 2025](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/07/maha-kumbhmela-2025/) - In this Kumbha Mela, I walked a lot with both my phone and camera all the time. I saw many people of different kinds, but I didn't take as many pictures as I had expected. I don't know why. I do not believe in any specific god or religion; this was the biggest gathering of - [Dogs of Varanasi Ghats](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/02/01/dogs-of-varanasi-ghats/) - I have been to Varanasi before, and I have walked on ghats. What I had not noticed during those walks was the number of dogs and how social they were. Once you start noticing, they are everywhere. If you know me already, you know that I am not a great photographer. Photography is an act - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2025 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/15/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2025-open-for-applications/) - Welcome to the eighth edition of the NMG grant. It seems like it started yesterday, and it's already been eight years. I am grateful to friends (Nemo, Gangadhar, Shweta, Divya) and other anonymous folks who have joined me on this journey with additional grant support. We do have some of them supporting us this year, - [Small Update to NMG](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/08/small-update-to-nmg/) - There are a few changes to NMG this year onward. It's not a big deal, but I wanted to note them here for future reference. TLDR: NMG Core will be ₹ 1 lakh + friends as usual, and NMG Edu will be a separate ₹ 1 lakh. As part of NMG, we have granted a - [The Year that was 2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/31/the-year-that-was-2024/) - After 2020’s upheaval, I hoped we’d recovered, but 2024 brought new challenges, especially late in the year. Personally, it was decent—I restarted motorcycling, traveled, and enjoyed time with loved ones. Work was steady. As we navigate forward, may 2025 bring peace, meaningful adventures, and cherished moments with loved ones. Stay kind, and embrace the journey ahead! - [Weekly Notes 51/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/20/weekly-notes-51-2024/) - We reached Thrissur on Sunday. It took us about 9.5 hours with two 40-minute breaks. The roads between Attibele and Salem are under construction at various points. So you will need to be careful about diversions. I listened to a couple of episodes of HAM Radio Workbench. Since Android phones can't stream sound to a - [Year 2024 in Weekly Pictures](https://thejeshgn.com/2025/01/02/year-2024-in-weekly-pictures/) - Even though I post only one picture as part of the Weekly Notes, pictures have a way of capturing the status more than one could write. So, like in 2023, here is a gallery of images associated with Weekly Notes from 2024. - [echo "I am echo and I am here"](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/03/20/echo-i-am-echo-and-i-am-here/) - He is here. He was supposed to come home next month. Thanks to Corona Virus our travel got cancelled. We are mostly working from home. So why wait? He is five six or seven. Super friendly. We adopted him from CUPA, Second Chance. That's all for now. TTYL - [MMS](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/29/mms/) - India may never see another Prime Minister as gentlemanly and academically accomplished as Dr. Manmohan Singh. I owe my career and wealth to India's market liberalization, which enabled me to sustain my earnings while staying in India. No other government policy has had such a profound impact on my life. RIP MMS. - [Weekly Notes 52/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/27/weekly-notes-52-2024/) - Welcome to the last week of 2024. It's been a good week. I got most of the planned work done and got some rest. It's strange, but when I get the job done, my rest feels more real. It could be because my mind rests well when things are done. Anyway, as a preparation for - [Prayagraj Ardh Kumbh Mela, 2019](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/03/17/prayagraj-ardh-kumbh-mela-2019/) - I am not religious. But rivers, mountains, roads and regular people are my favourite. Kumbh is one such event that makes some of these things possible for me. My last Kumbhamela was in 2013. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Meeting people, eating food on the road side and just watching people following[1. Most of the times - [Weekly Notes 50/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/13/weekly-notes-50-2024/) - In general, this week has been a better week than last. I spent half the week working in Mumbai. I am back in Bangalore. The weather here is sweater weather, and I don't think it will change till this year ends. I am doing okay work-wise; I have a few tasks that I would like - [Weekly Notes 49/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/12/06/weekly-notes-49-2024/) - Yet another slow week. It started well, but we all fell sick, so much so that I had to postpone my Mumbai trip. It began with Uma and ended with me. I will be in Mumbai this coming Monday. Uma will start school again on Monday. We met Padma, my first super boss, at Infosys - [My DNA is out..so what?](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/09/15/my-dna-is-out/) - Well, At last I took that step a few days back. My raw genome data is out on internet. You can use it for educational, research and related stuff. Of course you can't use it for insurance, commercial and cloning purposes. On a second thought go ahead and clone me if you can. But you - [Weekly Notes 48/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/29/weekly-notes-48-2024/) - This week has been better than last week. I made good progress on the work front. I will be in Mumbai next week for work. Do ping me if you are around. We can probably get some coffee. I was late to the Bengaluru OSM mapping party on Saturday. I reached at 11 AM when - [Review: TripMachine's Derby Rusty Wrangler Riding Boots](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/27/review-tripmachines-derby-rusty-wrangler-riding-boots/) - For most of my life, I rode with Woodland boots. I love them; they are versatile, durable, and comfortable. However, I wanted more protection than they could provide. I wasn't looking for professional track riding boots but something in between. Requirements A decent riding protection It should fit well, be comfortable, and should grip the - [Weekly Notes 47/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/22/weekly-notes-47-2024/) - I struggled with work early this week and mainly couldn't focus well. But by the end of the week, I was okay. I must catch up on my TODO list and ensure I can start well on Monday. On the bright side, Echo is doing much better than last week. Appa was here for the - [RIP Tejas AP](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/18/rip-tejas-ap/) - I probably met Tejas at one of the DataMeets, likely introduced by Nisha. I’d heard about him before, as some DataMeeters had mistaken me for him. We joked about it when we finally met. That’s all I remember about our first meeting. I have met him many times for various reasons. But there are some - [Weekly Notes 46/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/15/weekly-notes-46-2024/) - Uma started play-school to spend time with other toddlers. She loves it. It was supposed to begin with one hour and gradually increase to three, but she's already spending over two hours. Even on day one, She didn't cry or make a face. She was happy to walk in and spend time with her fellow - [When you jump](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/12/07/when-you-jump/) - Picture: Taken by taken by Andy at Jaisalmer. From left its Boda, me and MK. "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with would jump first, I would be at the bottom to catch them."- Anon - [Weekly Notes 45/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/08/weekly-notes-45-2024/) - Most of us think democracy is fair. I think it is only as fair as people around us are. It won’t remain fair if we don’t work hard to keep it that way. The most horrible leaders are chosen by us (the people), from orange men in India and the US to Hitler in 1930s - [Minding My Business](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/03/minding-my-business/) - Today was my first encounter with moral police, though I wasn't his target—a teenage[1. They looked like 19 or 20; folks can elect a PM at 18 in India.] couple in the park[2. Not a children's park or children's part of the park] was. As I entered, I noticed a young couple hugging, maybe even - [Weekly Notes 44/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/11/01/weekly-notes-44-2024/) - This week was yet another week of meeting many friends. We met one set of friends on Saturday for a lovely breakfast. I met Peppo folks on Wednesday for lunch. I also met another set of friends to celebrate Deepavali on Thursday. We also caught up with cousins for coffee at Maverick & Farmer Coffee - [Review: BluArmor C30 Mesh Intercom For Bikers](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/30/review-bluarmor-c30-mesh-intercom-for-bikers/) - 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 I went to shopping. Requirements Intercom functionality Calls and Music handling Easily available - [Weekly Notes 43/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/25/weekly-notes-43-2024/) - The weekend was busy but good. We got quite a few house-related work done. We are in the last ten weeks of the year; It seems like it's going to be a more hectic year-end than I had imagined. We got our first EV. It's a moped for Appa. He wanted something simple and practical. - [Kumbh Mela 2013](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/02/15/kumbh-mela-2013/) - Been running on high fever since I returned from Allahabad. So as of now I am just uploading the pictures. May be sometime later I will write a post about my experience. There are one or two pictures which are not safe for work. You have been warned. Enjoy. - [Amphere EV - Reo Li Plus](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/21/amphere-ev-reo-li-plus/) - 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 didn't want to ride a heavier scooter or be bothered about - [AI Generated Podcast](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/01/ai-generated-podcast/) - 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 standard flow; - [44](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/12/44/) - I turned 44 today. It's been a great year all round. It's been a year of focus on trifold - family, work, and self. I am pretty happy about turning 44; it is just another number this time. Here is my graph for the current year. It's a bit different than last year. - [2020](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/10/12/2020/) - Either this will be lost year of my life or it will be the year I figured what is important. Only time will tell. - [Baby Radio](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/26/baby-radio/) - 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 by RJ, aka me, and has the surprise factor - [Riding again to Valparai](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/10/07/riding-again-to-valparai/) - I wanted to ride again to Valparai to note how different it feels from 2008. I remembered riding in the rain through clouds and green tea estates and how beautiful it was. I had forgotten its details. I also remember it as one of the longest ones we did until then. So I thought it - [Tracking Babies using Baby Buddy](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/29/tracking-babies-using-baby-buddy/) - It is tough to keep track of newborns' daily routines, mainly because you are generally busy performing those tasks rather than making a note of them. Even then, I have seen people keeping diaries. That can happen only because of lots of dedication and hard work. I wanted to make it easy for us. There - [Pookalam – Onam, 2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/15/pookalam-onam-2024/) - Anju has been arranging flowers for the past eleven days (she started a day early). It took her 2-3 hours each morning to gather and organize them. I helped a little each day, mostly with collecting the flowers. They look beautiful. Here's the set. Happy Onam. - [Weekly Notes 36/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/09/06/weekly-notes-36-2024/) - We are in Thrissur, and Onam is here. It marks the harvest season and the return of the mythical King Mahabali. It's a ten-day celebration for the whole of Kerala. So, lots of food and family time. The last time we were in Thrissur for Onam was in 35/2022. Time runs so fast when you - [Yamaha Restoration Project](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/31/yamaha-restoration-project/) - We started the restoration project in June. It was supposed to be a one-month project, but it took three months. However, I am pleased with the result and the professionalism shown by Salman of Delhi Garage (OSM, Google Maps). It was worth the time and money. There is some legal work pending, but the garage - [Weekly Notes 35/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/30/weekly-notes-35-2024/) - It was a busy week at work; a significant feature we have been working on for the last six weeks went live mid-week. I am happy about my team's work and the result. Lots of personal things got done during the weekend, including HSR-related work. On Sunday, we went out for lunch with friends. It - [Creating Maps using uMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/14/creating-maps-using-umap/) - uMap is an open-source project that allows you to overlay your map data on top of the OpenStreetMaps and create custom maps. I have used it to create interactive maps; one example can be found embedded on the Surveillance in Bengaluru project page. It has features for both starters and advanced users. You can also - [Weekly Notes 32/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/09/weekly-notes-32-2024/) - I was supposed to meet friends for lunch during the weekend, but I got the day wrong. So they were all at the restaurant waiting for me, and I was home. They sent me WhatsApp messages promptly, and I ignored them as I checked messages only once every 3 or 4 hours. My WhatsApp usage - [Weekly Notes 31/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/08/02/weekly-notes-31-2024/) - My niece and nephew were home during the weekend. We watched some good movies and some bad ones. Two of them, BLINK and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare were better than the others. BLINK is a Kannada movie about a time traveler. It's well-written and keeps you engaged. Over the week, I saw Shakahaari, which - [Ruizu X52](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/30/ruizu-x52/) - Anju wanted a replacement for her iPod clip. Even though she said a replacement for the clip, she meant she wanted a minimal, hassle-free, distraction-free music player. There are not many devices in the market that do the same. Finally, I found the Ruizu X52, which is close enough and, in some ways, a bit - [Weekly Notes 30/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/26/weekly-notes-30-2024/) - I completed my tax returns this week. Even the simplified process is not simple enough, especially if you have income from various sources. I also wonder why Dhoni or Akshay are the highest taxpayers in India and not the richest, like Ambani or other billionaires. We need to change the definition of 'rich people.' 📺 - [How to Capture the Screen Using VLC for ScreenCasting](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/06/24/how-to-capture-the-screen-using-vlc-for-screencasting/) - VLC is a player but also can be used to record a screen cast ( capture the screen as video).Here is the small how to do that. This works with portable VLC too. Start the VLC By going to the installation folder and running the command >> vlc screen:// It will open the VLC and - [Pictures from Lasvegas Trip](https://thejeshgn.com/2004/07/04/pictures-from-lasvegas-trip/) - [Weekly Notes 28/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/12/weekly-notes-28-2024/) - This is post number 104 of Weekly Notes, marking two years since Weekly Notes 29/2022. I've received more messages about these posts than any others from friends, family, and strangers. It all started in 1999 when I was in engineering college. I regularly wrote physical letters to friends studying outside Bengaluru, sharing life updates, college - [The Year that was 2019](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/12/31/the-year-that-was-2019/) - I have a mixed feelings about 2019. This is the year that had made me rethink about many things so many times. Thankfully I had to change nothing much. But here are the highs and lows my life in 2019. Max is no more. I will write a better eulogy once I fully understand the - [The Year that was 2018](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/12/31/the-year-that-was-2018/) - 2018 got over really fast. Much faster than any other year I can remember. Quite a few things happened. I didn't get much time to enjoy while I was in it. It could be, because we didn't take our regular travel break. But all in all a great year. We are all healthy. Though max - [Weekly Notes 27/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/05/weekly-notes-27-2024/) - Welcome to the second half of 2024. This year is flying by. Days feel slow, but months and weeks are speeding. It's been a hectic week at work with lots to do. The start of a new quarter is always busy. Ideally, I should avoid taking a vacation at the beginning or end of a - [Grouptabs - Export as CSV](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/07/01/grouptabs-export-as-csv/) - One advantage of using the same software again and again is that the process and toolsets are already established and proven. Grouptabs uses CouchDB as its backend, a database that I have been using for various purposes for a long time. I have toolset and process for CouchDB. In this case, I wanted a way - [Linked List: FOSS Apps for Bill Splitting with Friends](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/29/linked-list-foss-apps-for-bill-splitting-with-friends/) - I am a BillMonk refugee. I used it until it went down. Even though it was not FOSS, it was the first app I had seen and used for bill splitting. Today, there are lots of FOSS alternatives. Some of my favorite ones are listed below in this Linked List edition. I use GroupTabs to - [Weekly Notes 26/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/28/weekly-notes-26-2024/) - Our trip AngkorWithAppa is complete. We are back in Bengaluru. There is very little to update in this weekly as most of the time was spent traveling, and I have captured them in the daily updates: Sat - AWA 3, Sun - AWA 4, Mon - AWA 5, Tue - AWA 6, Wed/Thu - AWA 6. - [AWA 7: Back in Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/27/awa-7-back-in-bangalore/) - We had no particular plans for the last day. It was reserved for shopping, rest and, packing, etc. Appa and I walked quite a bit of downtown Siem Reap the previous night. It was lit up, and all the pubs were open for patrons. Siem Reap is yet to get as many tourists as it - [AWA 3: Phnom Kulen National Park](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/22/awa-3-phnom-kulen-national-park/) - The original idea was to visit floating village but we changed the plan and went to Phnom Kulen National Park, around an hour's drive from Siem Reap city. The road to the mountain inside the park is one way, and you can go up only till 11 AM. So we left early. The ride was - [AWA 6: Wat Ek Phnom and Landmine Rats](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/25/awa-6-wat-ek-phnom-and-landmine-rats/) - We spent half a day in Battambang and then returned to Siem Reap today. We have a flight to catch tomorrow. We started early, around 7 AM, with a bamboo train ride. It was okay, nothing special. It's not as attractive as it is made to be. You can avoid it unless you have time - [AWA 5: Battambang - Killing caves of Phnom Sampeau](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/24/awa-5-battambang-killing-caves-of-phnom-sampeau/) - We reached Battambang today. We took a vehicle for hire for two days. My initial plan was to take a boat ride, which is currently unavailable. So we settled for the next best, which is a car that we can also use locally. After a light breakfast, we left Siem Reap around 9 AM and - [AWA 4: Siem Reap City](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/23/awa-4-siem-reap-city/) - Since the last few days have been busy, we thought we would take today easy and slow. We started late and mostly used local transport ( Auto/tuk-tuk) to get around. We started with a visit to the local market called Phsar Leu Thom Thmey. It's probably one of the biggest markets I have seen. We - [Weekly Notes 25/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/21/weekly-notes-25-2024/) - I am in Cambodia with Appa and Rema Aunty. Since the last few trips, I have liked doing quick daily logs. So, I have been doing the same with our trip here under the tag AngkorWithAppa. It's been just three days, but I miss my people in Bengaluru a lot. I think it's because I - [AWA 2: Angkor Wat and other temples](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/21/awa-2-angkor-wat-and-other-temples/) - We spent most of the day today walking and watching temples. We didn't plan to cover everything since I have two folks in their seventies. We must have still walked at least seven to eight kilometers. We explored the Angkor Wat, Bayon, and Ta Prohm Temple complexes. We started at 5 AM, thinking we would - [AWA 1: AngkorWithAppa begins and we are in Siem Reap](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/20/awa-1-angkorwithappa-begins-and-we-are-in-siem-reap/) - Earlier this year, Appa wanted to go on a trip like the one we did in 2017. But this time outside the country. Since he likes history, architecture, and so on, I thought of Cambodia. He had already seen some documentaries on Angkor Wat, so it didn't take much time to decide. Rema Aunty (Anju's - [FilmCamp what's the outcome and what's the future?](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/10/09/filmcamp-what-is-the-outcome-and-what-is-the-future/) - The first ever FilmCamp comes to an end with a decent satisfaction. FilmCamp produced more success than what I imagined. I can not express my thanks to the effort put by Hrish, Hari and Raghu in simple words; great job guys. They spent days to plan the event. Big thanks also goes to the conventional - [Pictures of EventsBangalore & BRTFF schwag Ts](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/09/22/pictures-of-eventsbangalore-brtff-schwag-ts/) - Here are some pictures of EventsBangalore & BRTFF schwag Ts. Send your picture and I will publish them here. - [FilmCamp - first of its kind](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/08/29/filmcamp-first-of-its-kind/) - You have heard of Barcamp right? There were wikicamp, blogcamp, wordcamp too. Introducing you to FilmCamp first of its kind for filmmakers and filmbuffs.Visit filmcamp.in to register your film or your participation.UPDATE: FilmCamp is now happening on 6th and 7th Oct Announcing "FilmCamp", a platform to encourage and promote independent film makers. Also to share, - [BRTFF Rocked and We Want More](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/09/brtff-rocked-and-we-want-more/) - 30 plus crowd at 8pm waiting for the projector is what I saw as I entered a marvelous house. It took a while to me and Vinay to setup the projector and we were ready by 8:30 to watch movies. It took a while for me to start the conversation but as some of them - [Lucia makes it](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/07/29/lucia-makes-it/) - I know Pawan from BRTFF organizing days. After the first BRTFF, he wrote a mail to the list explaining about firing the producer. I can't find it online but its in my Inbox (Sun, Jul 8, 2007 at 8:06 PM). I am quoting from it The idea I am trying to play with is – - [Watch Lucia Now](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/10/26/watch-lucia-now/) - At Last I watched Lucia. I give it 7/10 internationally. I didn't suggest before watching even though I was part of the crowd which invested in it very early. But I watched it at last. Its good and a must watch Kannada movie. Go ahead and watch it. Go to the theater if possible if - [Weekly Notes 24/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/14/weekly-notes-24-2024/) - Appa turned seventy this week. Appa is reasonably fit for his age. Hopefully, I will be as active and physically healthy as he is when I turn seventy. He is pretty excited about his upcoming trip. Amma would have also turned seventy this week. They are a few days apart. I miss her. 🫂 Jayanth - [RTWA 6: Sarnath](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/03/01/rtwa-6-sarnath/) - Sarnath is one of the four holy places for Buddhists. This is where Gautama Buddha gave his first public lecture including Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. Otherwise Sarnath also has one of pillars of Ashoka. Its broken and the Lion Capital of Ashoka is for display inside museum. Lion Capital is also the state emblem of India. I - [For Less Jargon - Play Bullshit Bingo](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/04/07/less-jargon-play-bullshit-bingo/) - Keeping it simple is the most difficult thing. Specially for us who work in technology. We like to throw jargon at every possible chance. This is a huge issue for me personally. Specially when I am training non-tech people. I try my best to avoid but still end up using it. To make it easy - [Why restore my old Motorcycle?](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/06/11/why-restore-my-old-motorcycle/) - I bought this motorcycle (Yami/Red) in 2004/5. It was my first motorcycle. It was just under INR 50K. It was my first big buy and reason for my first loan. I have purchased many things since then, but nothing has come close to this buy. Nothing has given me the sense of freedom I could - [Linked List:  FOSS Apps for Tracking Baby Progress](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/05/linked-list-foss-apps-for-tracking-baby-progress/) - I have been using apps to track my baby's progress. I mostly use self-hostable web apps that I can host on my home server or Android apps that work offline. All of which are FOSS. Except for the Milestone tracking apps :( They are not FOSS, but they are taxpayer-funded and are freely available. Milestone - [Linked List: Three Offline Capable Apps for Emergency Situations](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/04/linked-list-three-offline-capable-apps-for-emergency-situations/) - I love traveling and trekking [1. Well, now we are in COVID19 times. I have not gotten out unless required]. At least when riding or driving across India, you would reach a place where you don't have an internet connection, but you want to figure something out. For example, one time, I thought a spider - [Why 3kfor30?](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/10/28/why-3kfor30/) - I have been talking about this travel with everybody. This is the question I get asked all the time. It may not be the exact question but in essence yes. The most generic question "why train why not flight?" Well I love trains and I want to travel in Himsagar Express. Its the longest train - [Awesome weekend](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/10/15/awesome-weekend/) - I had an awesome weekend at Pondicherry. I don't want to write anything about it other than saying it was my best birthday. Here are some pictures from instagram. - [Syncing Bookmarks using Floccus and Git](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/28/syncing-bookmarks-using-floccus-and-git/) - I wanted a self-hosted version of the browser's bookmarks sync system. There are quite a few options. The most appropriate one seems to be xBrowserSync. But even that needs a server-side API setup. It seemed a bit too complex for a simple service and for self-hosting. Then I came across Floccus. Floccus had just enough features to convince me. - [Weekly Notes 21/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/24/weekly-notes-21-2024/) - I have had a busy week at work. Lots of non-technical work got done this week. Running an organization means lots of meta work. I took Tuesday off. I wasn't feeling great. I was exhausted for some reason. Over time, I have realized that when I am tired, it's better to take the days off than - [Echo, Pathu and Uma](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/16/echo-pathu-and-uma/) - We introduced Uma to Pathu and Echo on day one, and she has grown up with them since then. Echo and Pathu have been friendly to people and toddlers even before Uma. So it wasn't difficult to introduce Uma to them, even though she was the youngest baby they had met. It's also the first - [Weekly Notes 19/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/10/weekly-notes-19-2024/) - The weekend was good. It was slow; I mostly spent time at Home. Since it was also the beginning of the month, I spent time paying bills. Echo wasn't feeling well this week. He is a baby when he is sick. Thankfully, he is recovering. Hopefully, he will do better next week. 👶 Uma uttered - [Exploring STAC Datasets with Browser](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/08/exploring-stac-datasets-with-browser/) - I recently contributed some imagery to the panoramax project. It's like Street View but is open and free. Then I saw that the panoramax exposes STAC APIs. I wanted to know more about STAC, which led me down a rabbit hole. STAC, aka SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog specification, is a simple JSON-based specification that makes geospatial information openly searchable and - [Weekly Notes 18/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/05/03/weekly-notes-18-2024/) - We have AC now. I don't know how big of an event that is for anyone. For me, it's huge. I never thought I would get one. But here we are. The summer of 2024 has changed everything. Strangely enough, it rained today and yesterday, bringing down the temperature a bit. Hopefully, it will continue - [NMG – 2024 – Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/12/nmg-2024-results/) - Finally, I am on time this year, and the results are here. There were 350+ applications this year. I spent a lot of time in the last two weeks reading and filtering them. There were many eligible and exciting applications, but I am limited by our total funds. Thanks to friends for pitching in. This - [Day 4: Watching Sunrise at Gangneung](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/19/day-4-watching-sunrise-at-gangneung/) - As planned we took the train from Cheongnyangni Station (Seoul) at 23:30 and reached Jeondongjin Station at 4:30. Sunrise was at 6:30 so we had to wait for couple of hours. The station doesn't have a locker room. We really didn't want to carry our luggage everywhere. So we freshened up in the station bathroom - [Day 5: Hiking in Seoraksan National Park](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/20/day-5-hiking-in-seoraksan-national-park/) - We planned to get up early and start the hiking by 7 at least, mostly to avoid crowd. But we were very tired, woke up only by 930 and by the time we left Honeymoon Rooms it was 1030. We had a quick ramen for breakfast and left the luggage at the hotel counter to - [Day 11: Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/11/10/day-11-seogwipo-maeil-olle-market/) - This was supposed to be our hiking day but we were tired of all the travel, so we converted it into a rest day. We were in an orange orchard and the owners also lived there. They couldn't speak any English but were a very friendly couple. I love oranges. I pointed at the oranges - [Day 12: Hyeopjaegul and Ssangyonggul Lava Tube Caves](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/01/27/day-12-hyeopjaegul-and-ssangyonggul-lava-tube-caves/) - We got up late and hence we postponned trekking again. So we thought of visiting Hallim Park which hosts Lava Tube Caves. Natural wonders, two dimensional caves formed due to the lava from mount Hallasan. Hallim park is about 80 acres of park which also contains Hyeopjaegul and Ssangyonggul Caves. The park is west of - [Trek in Dalhousie - From first to third of 2006](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/01/03/trek-in-dalhousie-from-first-to-third-of-2006/) - Here are the pictures from my first trek in Himalayan foot hills. width="100" /> src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/85110668_5c4ac37fa8_t.jpg" alt="DSC03504" border="0" height="75" width="100" /> width="100" /> - [Ride to Kumta/Gokarna](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/05/ride-to-kumta-gokarna/) - I rode to Kumta (Gokarna) on Friday and spent the weekend there. This was a much longer ride, 1000 kms door to door. The ride was fun, and I enjoy riding with friends. Like last week, I was a bit nervous again, but it vanished within fifteen minutes. Once you start, you forget things. We - [Walking in Cubbon Park](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/09/17/walking-in-cubbon-park/) - A public map at the Cubbon Park shows the Official (?) 5K Trail(GPX) that can be used to run or cycle. Its a good track to use on sundays as there is no traffic (allowed) inside Cubbon park on Sundays. But one can't follow that track on weekdays as traffic inside Cubbon Park is high - [Weekly Notes 17/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/26/weekly-notes-17-2024/) - Today was election day here in Bengaluru. I voted against Fascism. After voting, Appa and I went to see Kammsandra Kere (lake). It was redone and inaugurated last year. The lake work seemed okay, but there was not even a single drop of water. I wonder if baragala (drought) has been declared in Bengaluru. I - [Friends of NMG](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/23/friends-of-nmg/) - We have a public discussion email list for Friends of NMG. You can join the group if you are remotely interested in NMG, Micro Grants, or just looking to talk to interesting people. Folks have been asking me for a while, And email is the time-tested way to manage communities. Here are some things to consider before - [Be Nice](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/22/be-nice/) - Be Nice to everyone is the first thing I say to every team member I have worked with, professionally or personally, so much so that it is part of the code of conduct at DataMeet and other places. But as I meet more folks, I see that people think being nice is a weakness and never gets - [Weekly Notes 16/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/19/weekly-notes-16-2024/) - In the past three years, NMG results were delayed for various reasons. This year, I aimed to stay on schedule and managed to do so. I announced them on April 14th, just like I said I would. I am pleased about it. This year (2024) is NMG's seventh year. It's been eight years since Amma passed away. - [Checkin - Richards Park](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/05/27/richards-park/) - Trying out the new checkin plugin from WordPress Android client. The code is on the GitHub. It needs Leaflet Maps maker to display the maps. Also you can see the aggregated checkins. I will write a separate post on the setup. - [Daily Report 26 and 27 – Udaipur](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/01/daily-report-26-and-27-udaipur/) - We reached Udaipur yesterday by lunch time. The roads are good except for last 50 kms due to construction. In the evening we went around and also met @kv. It seems like a tradition now. Today we did our sightseeing. We spent a lot of time at palace and the boat ride in the lake. - [Daily Report 28 - Ahmedabad and Sabramati](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/02/daily-report-28-ahmedabad-and-sabramati/) - We reached Ahmedabad today. Initial plan was to reach Bhuj but we decied to make it simple. The roads to Ahmedabad from Udaipur is really good. We reached with out any effort. The biggest attraction for me in Ahmedabad was Sabramati Ashram. I am happy that we got to spend the whole evening there. Also - [Daily Report 29 and 30 – Bhuj](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/04/daily-report-29-and-30-bhuj/) - We reached Bhuj last evening. We left Ahemadabad after a good breakfast at House of MG and posting a batch of postcards from Sabramati Ashram. So all of them should get a special cancellation. Drive to Bhuj was easy. The roads are good. We reached by evening.In the we walked around Bhuj Town. This morning - [Daily Report 31 - DataMeet at Ahmedabad](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/05/daily-report-31-datameet-at-ahmedabad/) - We just got back to Ahmedabad today. Drive was easy and fun. We knew the road very well so it was faster too. Then we went to Lucky tea stall to see M. F. Hussain's painting thanks to Sharavan. Then I we went to IIM for Data{Meet}. We had a great discussion about contributing to - [Daily Report 32 – Pune](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/06/daily-report-32-pune/) - It was our longest drive in terms of kilometers I think. The roads were good and hence there was no issues. Also last bit of Pune to Mumbai was fun. The drive to Pune was green unlike what we had seen until now. We stayed at Ginger hotels. Its simple and clean. In the night - [Daily Report 33 – Hubballi](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/07/daily-report-33-hubballi/) - Hubballi was nice pit stop for us. NH4 on this part has some constructions otherwise is pretty good. The drive was easy. After a long time I got to eat my favorite breakfast idly and vada. - [RTWA 4: Allahabad and Visit to Sangam](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/27/rtwa-4-allahabad-and-visit-to-sangam/) - Drive to Allahabad was not easy, specially the last 60 KMS. It was a double lane road without divider and almost every one was driving in high beams. City is even worse, I couldn't see anyone stopping at traffic signal, care about walkers or side no which they drive. Our hotel which I booked yesterday - [RTWA 7: Lucknow Residency and Bara Imambara](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/03/02/rtwa-7-lucknow-residency-bara-imambara/) - Varanasi to Lucknow is not very far. Its about 300KMs. But road isn't great. It took us more than 7 hours to cover. But its all worth it. Lucknow is a beauty or at least the area we saw. Traffic is so much better than Allahabad or Varanasi. We reached around 2pm, so we had - [RTWA 3: A short visit to Fatehpur Sikri](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/26/rtwa-3-a-short-visit-to-fatehpur-sikri/) - Today was supposed to be a just long drive day. I wanted to cover maximum distance today and reach Allahabad. Since App wanted to do something before and as ready to get up early enough, we planned to do Fatehpur Sikri before we start to Allahabad. So we wokeup early and reached Fatehpur Sikri by - [RTWA 2: Mathura And Agra](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/25/rtwa-2-mathura-and-agra/) - We left early around 530AM this morning. Except navigating the area around new Delhi railway station. The drive was actually good. In 2005 I didn't get to drive on Yamuna Expressway. This time I did. My around 8 am we were at Mathura. We got to see the jail in which Krishna was born, also - [RTWA 1: RoadTripWithAppa begins and we are in Delhi](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/24/rtwa-1-roadtripwithappa-begins-delhi/) - RTWA - #RoadTripWithAppa was supposed to be his group travel with bunch of his people, but it got cancelled. But he is just like me (or may be I am like him?)he wanted to do it at any cost once planned. So he asked me if I can join him. I said yes and to - [RTWA 5: Varanasi](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/28/rtwa-5-varanasi/) - We left Allahabad after breakfast at Coffee House today. We covered the distance of around 130 KMs in about three hours. The road is two lane but without divider. There was quite a bit of traffic and people dive quite rash here. We took a single break to have great tea. We reached our hotel - [A Cup of Joy](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/05/05/a-cup-of-joy/) - Last week I was in Jakarta for a short visit. Indonesia feels so much like India. Its multi cultural, loves coffee and food. I didn't get much time to travel but got enough time to interact with Indonesians in Jakarta, their traffic, Internet startups, malls and food. I have some pictures from the streets of - [Daily Report 25 – Jaipur](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/29/daily-report-25-jaipur/) - So we reached Jaipur today. Delhi - Jaipur road has gone bad since my last visit. Also people of this road drive like crazy. We stayed at Hotel Pearl Palace. Its a small hotel but nicely done. Walking Tour In the evening we went for a walk. The map for walking is below. We couldn't - [Daily Report 23 and 24 – Delhi](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/28/daily-report-23-and-24-delhi/) - Yesterday was one of the busy days. We got the ford washed and cleaned so that it can be returned the way it was given to us. It took us couple of hours to do that. We left Amritsar only by 11:30 AM. Google told us we would at the least take eight hours to - [Daily Report 22 – Amritsar](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/26/daily-report-22-amritsar/) - This morning we left early thinking it might take time. But it was easy and fun drive today. We reached Amritsar around 11 am and took a hotel very near to Golden Temple. Our first visit was Jallianwala Bagh. I must say it's maintained quite well for the footprint it gets. I wanted to specifically - [Daily Report 20 – McLeod Ganj](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/24/daily-report-20-mcleod-ganj/) - McLeod Ganj is about 10 kilometers from Dharamsala. It is also known as Little Lhasa. This is where the Government of Tibet in exile operates from. This is where Dalai Lama lives. St. John in the Wilderness at Forsyth Ganj, just below McLeod Ganj is a beautiful church. Lord Elgin, the British Viceroy of India - [Daily Report 19 - Srinagar to Dharamsala](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/23/daily-report-19-srinagar-to-dharamsala/) - We were supposed to drive only till Pathankot today. But then we decided to drive all the way till Dharamsala, as it would give us an extra morning to spend at Dharamsala. Also its summer so days are very long and there is sun light at least until 7:30. Though at one point I thought - [Daily Report 17 and 18 – Beautiful City of Srinagar](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/22/daily-report-17-and-18-beautiful-city-of-srinagar/) - Day 17:Rest day. Didn't do much. We woke up late and then went to Nishat Bagh. It's a terraced Mughal garden built on the eastern side of the Dal Lak It's beautiful in itself and gives you a chance to enjoy Dal Lake from a high point. Then we did a bit of saffron shopping - [Daily Report 16 – Srinagar](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/20/daily-report-16-srinagar/) - Today was probably the toughest day. We left Kargil at 4:15AM and crossed Drass by 5:30AM. Then the drive became slow due to bad roads. The car also got stuck once. We had push it to the side to get rid of a rock which was blocking the back wheel. I have tons of pictures - [Daily Report 15 – LoC - Kargil](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/19/daily-report-15-loc-kargil/) - We are back in Kargil. Very uneventful and fast. We reached Kargil early noon and took a a tour organized by Roots Ladakh. The tour included visits to couple of seais, visit to LoC near Hunderman village. - [Daily Report 14 – Day Trip to Pangong Lake](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/18/daily-report-14-day-trip-to-pangong-lake/) - Well it seems you can't do sightseeing in Leh using taxies from outside J&K. I had an yellow board self drive from Delhi. We werent in mood to fight with the mob and hence we took a taxi to Pangong Lake (Hence these kilometers are not counted). Pangong Lake is beautiful. Pictures here should prove - [Daily Report 13 – Wandering around Leh](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/17/daily-report-13-wandering-around-leh/) - It was supposed to be a lazy day. In fact it started as a lazy day but then we walked a lot, including climbing to the Leh palace to get some spectacular views. Its not surprising that we walked around sixteen kilometers in total today. A day well spent. - [Daily Report 12 – We are in Leh](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/16/daily-report-12-we-are-in-leh/) - This was one of the most pleasant drives. The road conditions were great. I could enjoy the surroundings even though I was driving. The weather, the landscape changes for every 20kms drastically. Its probably one of the most beautiful drives. I have at least two thousand pictures from this stretch and lots of videos. I - [Daily Report 11 – Kargil](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/15/daily-report-11-kargil/) - Sonamarg to Leh is not that far. It's about 300KMS. If one leaves early one should be able to cover it in a day. Since we were kind of late by a day, I was wondering about covering as much as possible in a day. But it turned out that the check-post gates were closed - [Daily Report 10 – Sonamarg](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/14/daily-report-10-sonamarg/) - We left Patnitop quite early. The drive was beautiful. It took us couple of hours to enter Srinagar due to traffic jam. Also taxi drivers were horrible. We reached Srinagar around 2pm. We still had lot of light hence we though of camping at Sonamarg which is roughly 90kms from Srinagar. Roads to Sonamarg is - [Daily Report 9 – Patnitop](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/13/daily-report-9-patnitop/) - Some of our friends joined us today at Pathankot. We started from Pathankot late but roads were equally bad. That said scenary on the way was awesome. Since we got late and headrd that traffic to Srinagar was bad, we decided to stay at Patnitop and leave early morning to Srinagar. We are at the - [Weekly Notes 43/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/28/weekly-notes-43-2022/) - It's Deepavali week. May the light shine enough to get rid of the darkness in our hearts and minds. Happy Deepavali to everyone. I donated my 6th unit of blood ( 6 in total, 2nd this year). Now, I am pretty sure I can do 25 units as long as I keep myself healthy. Donating Twenty-five units - [Weekly Notes 15/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/12/weekly-notes-15-2024/) - The heat wave continues in Bangalore, and there is no summer rain yet. We have been considering buying an AC for a long time. This week, we purchased it. It is here but is yet to be set up. On the other hand, plants love the sun. All of our balcony and neighborhood plants are - [Surveillance in Bengaluru - Updates](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/10/07/surveillance-in-bengaluru-updates/) - I have been mapping Surveillance in Bengaluru for couple of months now. We have made some good progress. I thought it's good time to share those updates and ask for help. Mapping We have mapped 340 Public and Outdoors CCTV cameras. I think we have made good progress. But to cover the entire city we - [Who is mapping Surveillance in Bengaluru](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/10/who-is-mapping-surveillance-in-bengaluru/) - Mapping CCTV cameras ( Surveillance ) is a community effort on OSM. You can credit OSM contributors as defined on this page when you use the data. But personally I wanted to see who are the folks who are contributing to this data. So I went to Overpass Turbo and ran this query to get data, including - [Building Surveillance in Bangalore leaderboard using Budibase and CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/07/building-surveillance-in-bangalore-leaderboard-using-budibase-and-couchdb/) - I wanted to convert the script from the blog post Who is mapping Surveillance in Bengaluru into a simple web app. I could have written a simple JavaScript and HTML code to call the overpass-turbo API for data and charted using JavaScript. All in the browser. But there was a much better option with less code. Please - [Building Surveillance in Bangalore leaderboard using Node-Red and CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/04/11/building-surveillance-in-bangalore-leaderboard-using-node-red-and-couchdb/) - I wrote the Surveillance in Bangalore leaderboard using Budibase a while ago. However, I was not impressed with Budibase's latest changes, so I replaced it with the good old Node-Red flow. Node-Red is already running at my home, so installing it was not required. Since the data was always stored on my instance of CouchDB, - [Weekly Notes 12/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/22/weekly-notes-12-2024/) - It's union election time in India. The results are going to be in June. Given we have a fascist right-wing party in power now, the next two and half months will be unbearable. Social media will be at its worst; WhatsApp has been and will be the source of all kinds of fake news. I must - [Routine](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/20/routine/) - I am not a routine person; I have never been. But the arrival of Uma into my life has changed that a bit. It isn't like my life was unorganized or off schedule before Uma. But I could do many random tasks on any given day, sleep anytime, etc. Along with very planned work and - [Embedding 360 Degree Panorama Images with Pannellum](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/07/embedding-360-degree-panorama-images-with-pannellum/) - Recently, I wanted to embed a 360-degree panoramic image inside an HTML page. Many third-party viewers are available, but I wanted a simple, self-hosted version. This quest led me down a research rabbit hole, where I spent more time than necessary. This is what I learned, in simple words. I figured there are multiple types - [Weekly Notes 11/2024](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/03/15/weekly-notes-11-2024/) - The reason why I like blogging could be a strange thing. I am not a writer; I am not even good at expressing myself or my thoughts in words. But what I am is a compulsive and obsessive documenter. I like to document things, and I have done so since I was a kid; my - [Weekly Notes 28/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/14/weekly-notes-28-2023/) - I am disappointed by my generation (or maybe just by myself) of Indian engineers. We got the best opportunities, with the world opening to us in the 90s, and we made the most of it. Yet we watched riots, communalization, discriminating laws, and inequality; grow daily, as though it's a fictional series running on TV. - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2024 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/15/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2024-open-for-applications/) - This year, 2024, will be the seventh year of the grant. I am pleased that I was able to sustain it. I am grateful to friends (Nemo, Gangadhar, Shweta) and other anonymous folks who have joined me on this journey with additional grant support. I am also thankful to all the applicants and grantees who - [My Boring Yet Modern Data Stack](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/22/my-boring-yet-modern-data-stack/) - We have a data stack that we have been using for years now. We have used it with medium to large customers, and they have worked very well. The goal has always been simple, stable, composable tools that can be used on the developer's machine and scaled to work with massive data on production. You - [GPS Logging using GPSLogger and CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/14/gps-logging-using-gpslogger-and-couchdb/) - One of the valuable features of Google maps app is GPS logging. It keeps track of where you have been so you can take action if required later. I wanted an open-source, self-hosted version of that. There are a few options. Options μlogger by Avatar Bartek Fabiszewski . It includes an Android app and server component for location logging - [Bathtime with My Little One](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/28/bathtime-with-my-little-one/) - When Uma came home, one of the most frequently asked questions was, who would bathe her? I wasn't sure what the answer folk were expecting. But in the general answer was Thej. Then, I realized that people fear handling babies, especially while bathing them, and they are extra doubtful if it's a man, probably for - [Honda H'ness CB350](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/15/honda-hness-cb350/) - The only bike I owned was a Yamaha Fazer 125. After my long ride across India in 2010, I stopped using it, and it still sits unused in my parking. In fact, since 2010, I have not ridden anything at all. I wanted to ride again this year, so the search for the appropriate bike - [Mapping Pet Friendly Places in Bengaluru on OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/19/mapping-pet-friendly-places-in-bengaluru-on-openstreetmap/) - I have started mapping pet-friendly places in and around Bengaluru. I am considering the newer areas like Devanahalli, Hosakote, Nelamangala, Anekal, etc. Hence, the area I am mapping is bigger than the city of Bengaluru. For mapping pet-friendly places, there are two competing tags. pets and pets_allowed. Given that Pets is used a lot, I am going with - [Dubare Elephant Camp with Jungle Lodges](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/02/13/dubare-elephant-camp-with-jungle-lodges/) - We went out with my team to Dubare this last weekend. Dubare is near Kushalanagar in Coorg, about five hours from Bengaluru. Dubare is known for Elephant Camp. It's a rescue and training camp for elephants. There isn't anyone who doesn't like elephants, hence the choice. We also decided to stay at the Jungle Lodges - [Streaming a Gallery of Images as Video](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/30/streaming-a-gallery-of-images-as-video/) - I have many family, friends, and pet pictures on my home server that I wanted to present as a gallery on various devices. All these display devices are connected to the network. However, some devices have a browser, and some have video players. So, I had to figure out how to stream images to browsers - [Back in the Saddle after 14 Years : Exploring Lepakshi and Penukonda Fort](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/29/back-in-the-saddle-after-14-years-exploring-lepakshi-and-penukonda-fort/) - My last ride was a long one. Almost 14 years back. In 2010, I rode my Yamaha across the country with friends. Post that motorcycle trip, I stopped riding for some reason and did a lot of driving, including a similarly long epic drive with Anju in 2015. I don't remember any specific reason not to ride. May it - [Damn I am 30!](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/10/12/damn-i-am-30/) - Well I am surprised, shocked and in disbelief. How could I turn 30 so fast? What I have done in last 30 best years? What will I do in next 30 years? Which probably is the life I am left with. In last 30 days, I haven't slept properly. I am the guy who tried - [Beautiful Rohtang Pass](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/11/10/beautiful-rohtang-pass/) - I am on my way to Mumbai. It looks like weather God is not happy with us. Its raining. We have taken a break. I am posting this video in this break. Thanks to @kv for uploading this video. This video was shot on November 4th 2010. I will try to expand this blog once - [Reaching Kaniyakmari](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/11/20/reaching-kaniyakmari/) - Three days back after riding 4000+ kilometers from Rohtang pass I reached Kaniyakumari. The initial plan was to end the ride in Bangalore along with my friends, but then in the middle of the ride I decided to go till the end. Friends couldn't accompany me as they had previous commitment. This is my first - [Gadgets of a Motorcyclist](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/12/13/gadgets-of-a-motorcyclist/) - Nokia N8 - Phone, Camera, HD Videocam I have been a user of Nokia phone for longest of times. I still have couple of Nokia phones. Nokia sent me N8 to try out during the ride. Its an amazing piece of hardware, survived couple of drops. Camera is superb, it shoots really well. It was - [Stage-1: From comfort of home to Kullu](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/01/25/stage-1-from-home-to-kullu/) - I don't now how we came up with this plan. But I guess its one of those *30year* beer celebration sessions, I pitched a plan to travel by Himsagar Express, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Nothing but just train travel and then return back. For a friend of mine Sandeep that sounded weird. He pitched why - [Stage-2: Unplanned day trip to Manikaran and the decision](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/01/31/stage-2-unplanned-day-trip-to-manikaran-and-the-decision/) - We were already a day behind the schedule and were really slow against our expected average speed. Both my friends had limited number of leaves. They had planned everything. But then the story of Manikaran amazed both of my co-riders. I dint have a fixed plan, I had whole month at my disposal. I agreed - [Stage-3: Riding to Rohtang pass](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/02/13/stage-3-riding-to-rohtang-pass/) - This is one of our toughest rides not just physically but psychologically too. But I should also say it was the best and most beautiful track to ride on. This post is going to be long with lots of pictures. Fill your coffee mug. When we reached Manali it was already very cold. Upon that - [Stage 4: From mountains to hot Ambala](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/17/stage-4-from-mountains-to-hot-ambala/) - This wasn't the most beautiful but this was the most tiring one :) I (we) never expected riding on regular highways would be so tiring, Well our assumptions were wrong. The roads weren't exactly like highways we had assumed. It was two way and there was heavy truck traffic. We were also riding in ghat - [Ride to Pondicherry](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/08/15/drive-to-pondicherry/) - This particular ride is out of my personal experience. I have driven my Yamaha from Bangalore to Pondicherry. It was really a memorable ride of my life. Day 1:we were supposed to leave by 5:30 am. Myself and D waited for Vinay and MK. It became six then six thirty. They arrived at last. We - [Pictures from ride to Kanyakumari](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/08/15/pictures-from-ride-to-kanyakumari/) - Three bikes and three men set to reach kanyakumari from Bangalore. On the way to Madhurai. I saw this beautiful hill. Captured this with my K750i before my co-riders reached me. Tower of Madhurai Meenakshi Temple. Myself and MK. Madhurai Meenakshi Temple Thats me and Boda ( Sandeep GL) on the way to Madhurai. At - [Ride to Sravanabelagola](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/10/29/ride-to-sravanabelagola/) - I have been to Sravanabelagola multiple times. But this time it was with Yami. I left home around 6 and caught Anand at Madiwala. From there on we went to ISKON to join other riding friends. From ISKON to Nelamagala was uneventful. At Nelamangala we were supposed to take a left turn to Hassan. But - [Ride through clouds and curves to Valaparai](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/08/04/ride-through-clouds-curves-to-valaparai/) - It started with the plan to ride to Gokarna through Shivamogga. After our ride to Kanyakumari almost an year back we wanted to go for a long ride desperately. Heavy rains in Western Ghats of Karnataka forced us to change the destination. Anand suggested that we will ride to Valparai and it would be good. - [Hosting Books at Home using Calibre Web ](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/23/hosting-books-at-home-using-calibre-web/) - I don't buy DRMed books anymore. I stopped buying books on Kindle and also stopped using Audible. I have been buying only DRM-free eBooks or physical books. I use the FBReader App to read the books. It integrates well with FBReader Book Network to provide sync and backup features using OPDS. FBReader Book Network indirectly uses Google Drive to - [Two Poems of Kuvempu to mark Today](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/22/two-poems-of-kuvempu-to-mark-today/) - Kuvempu, who is known for Sri Ramayana Darshanam, is a much more revolutionary poet and writer than known for creating a liberal Rama. When he was alive, his Ramayana Darshanam and other writings came under heavy fire from the right wing. Now I understand how. Today, Kuvempu would have been criticized more than then, as - [Year 2023 in Weekly Pictures](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/20/year-2023-in-weekly-pictures/) - Below is the gallery of featured images from my 2023 weekly notes. It represents the year pictorially. It's an exciting way to look at the year. At some point, I want to make a yearly flip book using these pictures, with locations and characters involved. It will be a good yearbook. Also, I should stick - [BuzzWomen is Ten](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/04/26/buzzwomen-is-ten/) - I met Uthara during my sabbatical break in 2010. We instantly became friends, and today we are more of siblings than friends. I have been working with her in one form since then. In 2012, she started BuzzWomen. An idea in 2012, it's a decade old and is a movement. Buzz Women is the global - [My List of Static, Unhosted FOSS Web Apps](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/16/my-list-of-static-unhosted-foss-web-apps/) - I have a set of static web apps that I like. They have no backend or server-side components. Some of them have a piece of storage; for example, they can store the data back to the user's CouchDB, browser's localStorage, URL, or remoteStorage. They all run in the browser. They are also called Unhosted apps. Also known - [Wireless Monitor Setups](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/11/wireless-monitor-setups/) - One of the pain points of using multiple monitors on the go is wires. I want to go fully wireless at some point, but for now, I use wireless occasionally, especially when traveling. Hardware Currently, the wireless display setup needs an HDMI port on your main device, power, and a local network. I use my - [Portable Monitors for productivity on the go](https://thejeshgn.com/2024/01/04/portable-monitors-for-productivity-on-the-go/) - I missed my multi-monitor setup while traveling or working from a third-party office. I missed my second monitor, which I mainly use for reading, as reading is more than 50% of my job. Traditionally, monitors have been bulky and difficult to travel with, but not anymore. Currently, I have two portable monitors. I travel with - [The Year that was 2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/31/the-year-that-was-2023/) - The year 2023 was life-changing in a good way. We have Uma in our life, and though we were expecting it to happen, it was much more sudden and was a pleasant surprise. As of now, the year 2024 seems like a continuation of 2023. But before we enter 2024, here are the highlights of - [Weekly Notes 52/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/29/weekly-notes-52-2023/) - Now that I live in two cities. I am trying to explore Thrissur. I know very little about this town. I plan to explore more in 2024, especially all the FOSS-related activities. I could attend the Kerala Wiki Conference and birthday celebrations at Thrissur on Saturday. It was fun, and I was able to grasp most things. - [Weekly Notes 51/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/22/weekly-notes-51-2023/) - We pushed all the year-end deployments before we hit the holiday season. I am very proud of the Peppo team and their work. It's been a good year. I wrote a blog post about why I need to smile more. Visibly. I have been following BuzzWomen for a decade now. I am helping them here and there. - [Smile](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/20/smile/) - On most days, Uma wakes up before me at around 6:15 AM. Her usual thing is to play by herself, making loud baby sounds. When I wake up, the first thing I see is her, smiling directly at me with wide eyes. That smile is infectious and makes me happy regardless of what in life - [Birds of Ranganatittu](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/03/17/birds-of-ranganatittu/) - Ranganatittu is an outstanding bird sanctuary near Mysore . The water out of KRS forms tiny islands around 12 kms outside Mysore and these islands are the main breeding spot for birds.This Sunday morning we drove to Ranganatittu to shoot some birds. Here are some pictures from that photo shoot I used regular Sony camera - [Weekly Notes 50/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/15/weekly-notes-50-2023/) - We met a bunch of friends this week. We spent unreasonable amount of time with them, talking, eating, and making coffee. I am so happy to have such beautiful and caring friends. When I turn 70 and look back, I will be very proud of the friends that I have earned, especially the ones I made - [Anker PowerConf S3 - Speaker Phone Review](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/14/anker-powerconf-s3-speaker-phone-review/) - A significant part of working from Home/Remote is calls or meetings with your team. Whether through good old telephone, hangouts, or any million available services, the quality of the call depends on how good your microphones are. I have been making significant investments to improve that part of the meetings. I usually use a Sennheiser - [Last Note of Year 2007](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/12/28/end-of-year-2007-note/) - Year 2007 is coming to an end. Yet another new year celebration is on the corner. This reminds me to write that special note to wrap up the year. 2007 was full of travel tales and masti for me. There were hundreds of special moments this year.Here are some of them 2007 started with my - [The great escape](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/06/the-great-escape/) - Subash has been one of my heroes since school time. How can I miss visiting his home when I have been to Kolkatta all the way from Bangalore? After visiting to Kali Mandir we caught the metro to reach Netaji House. Unfortunately it was 4:15pm by the time we reached. And they close Netaji house - [More Pictures From Sikkim Trip](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/11/more-pictures-from-sikkim-trip/) - This story is a part of my travel stories from North East India called storiesfromnortheastindia. The places covered are Kolkatta, Darjeeling, Gangtok and many other in Sikkim. - [Babaji bless all our soldiers](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/09/babaji-bless-all-our-soldiers/) - What saves a soldier in this cold? Is it the Old Monk, photos, magazines or GOD? Its the faith that they have in super power. Baba mandir is one such place where both civilians and service personnel arrive for faith. Baba Mandir is at 13000 ft on the way to Nathula pass. The road constructed - [Street photography in Kolkata using mobile](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/07/street-photography-in-kolkatta-using-mobile/) - The flight to Kolkatta was late. We were suppose to reach by 10am but we reached Kolkatta only by noon. Matty wanted to stay some where in Chowrangee . After some search we got a hotel for descent price. Matty wanted to taste at Peter Cat. But it was crowded and had a very long - [Morning with Queen of Mountains](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/15/morning-with-queen-of-mountains/) - When we reached Darjeeling it was already evening. The jeep drive was tiring. But the whole drive was amazing as I had the window seat. The beautiful curvy road, river along the side and the whole drive as such was great. The best seat would be of that of driver. But he did not seem - [Train through ghats, bridges, tunnels and waterfalls](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/09/21/train-through-ghats-bridges-tunnels-and-waterfalls/) - I had heard about it as the train through ghats, bridges, tunnels and waterfalls. It was stopped due to gauge modification for several years. Recently they opened the track again but only for night train. When I got to know they have a day train *now* , it was on my list. But I didn't - [Colours from the market](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/19/colours-from-the-market/) - Captured few pictures at Ooty market using my mobile (k750I). I was amazed by their colours . This time I used macro mode feature of the camera. It works. - [Pictures from our recent Ooty drive](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/24/pictures-from-our-recent-ooty-drive/) - [Destiny Farmstay at Ooty](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/08/21/destiny-farmstay-at-ooty/) - When Matty floated this idea of Ooty I was in two minds. My image of Ooty had lots of newly married couples or families with lots of kids. I don't have problem with families or couples. But they don't fit into my idea of vacation at hill station. Matty did an excellent job in finding - [Time Greenwich Mean Time](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/25/time-greenwich-mean-time/) - Time has always been of great interest to me. Once I started working with developers around the world, time-zones became much more important. GMT is naturally the reference to any time zone. Like IST is +5.5GMT. So Greenwich as soon as my friend told me about it. I was all in. Greenwich has the Royal - [Visiting London and connecting to the world](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/05/visiting-london-connecting-world/) - It wasn't well planned. I got my visa through fast track process and four days from then I was in London. Only thing that I researched well was mobile data connection. During my research I settled on Huchison 3 data only plan. I paid £20 for SIM and 1GB. But my Nexus One refused to - [An evening in Paris](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/05/15/an-evening-in-paris/) - I reached Paris by afternoon. Once I checked into the hostel my first visit would be Eiffel tower. So I caught the metro to reach eiffel tower. I could see it from the metro The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower - [Streets and Canals of Venice](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/10/06/streets-and-canals-of-venice/) - Venice is a small city in northern Italy. Venezia (in Italian) is also know as city of bridges and city of water. I just got a day to spend at Venice. I know its not enough but something is better than nothing.The city's main transport system as you would have guessed is boats. The city - [Leaning Tower of Pisa](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/06/03/leaning-tower-of-pisa/) - On 5th of July May evening I arrived at small town of Pisa. Like any other small town this too is less crowded and there is nothing much to do other than tower of Pisa. Of course as soon as you see it you know why its called a wonder. The Leaning Tower of Pisa - [Pictures from Barcelona and Madrid](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/12/30/pictures-from-barcelona-and-madrid/) - I spent a week in Barcelona and Madrid. Most of my day was spent in walking and walking. I didn't visit any museums. Barcelona is known for museums but artsy types. So instead I spend my time wandering, eating, watching people, taking pictures and drinking. Spaniards are very friendly. You can talk to them even - [Valencia, Spain](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/03/18/valencia-spain/) - I was in Valencia early this month for Localization Lab Sprint. It was part of much bigger event called Internet Freedom Festival. I thoroughly enjoyed the sprint and festival. Along with that I got enough time to enjoy the city itself. I liked Valencia more than Madrid and Barcelona. I think these days I love - [Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail at Dundee](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/07/05/oor-wullies-big-bucket-trail-dundee/) - My favourite way of exploring a city is by walking. I would have walked to explore Dundee anyway. But Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail gave me an option to follow an interesting path. So I did and also captured as many Wullies as possible. Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail is the first ever nationwide public - [Computer History Museum](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/05/25/computer-history-museum/) - I was in Mountain View for Google I/O. I used this opportunity to visit Computer History Museum. I must say it's one of the best museums that I have been to. It's a must. If you ever go to Mountain View, please visit. I spent almost a day, even that was not enough. Here are some pictures from the museum. - [Twittering missionKK](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/08/14/twittering-missionkk/) - I was fully connected through out my bike ride to Kanyakumari from Bangalore. I used GPRS to twitter my travel and communicate with my friends. These tweets give the details about where/what/when. A proper blog post with pics is coming. Until then enjoy the tweets. i hope it will stop raining tomorrow. is it raining - [This is going to be long](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/08/06/this-is-going-to-be-long/) - I am not sure how tough this one is going to be; but I am sure its going to be long. Approximately 1700 KMs. I am so charged up that I am not getting sleep. Probably I wont until we complete this journey.My last long ride was to Pondicherry two years back. That was unplanned - [Geek's Test Drive to Sravanabelagola](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/05/18/geeks-test-drive-to-sravanabelagola/) - For a part of the Epic Drive we are hiring self drive EcoSport which is a Mini-SUV. I have never driven an American car. Most importantly I wanted to know how it handles. The only way to know that was to do a one day trip around Bangalore. Hence we went on a drive to - [Its time for an EPIC Drive](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/05/05/its-time-for-epic-drive/) - Its been a while. In fact I have not touched my motor cycle since 2010, i.e #3kfor30. So there was itch which was growing. I have been traveling quite a bit which included couple of road trips. But nothing big or enough. This like any other started as a small trip to Leh with A. - [Daily Report 8 – Pathankot](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/12/daily-report-8-pathankot/) - Today's drive was a little tiring. First of all I slept due to work. Then we left a little late due to which we had to face Delhi traffic. The route was Delhi - Ambala - Ludhiana - Jalandar - Pathankot. Roads were really good but the traffic was bad between Delhi and Ambala. More - [Daily Report 7 – Preparation](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/11/daily-report-7-preoparation/) - From tomorrow we are going up. The plan has changed a lot. We are going to Leh via Kashmir. Anyways besides that the plan was endangered by Zoomcar. I really liked the Zoomcar, so much so i contributed to one of their Indigogo campaign too. So I booked this car a month back. There was - [Daily Report 6 – Agra to Delhi](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/10/daily-report-6-agra-delhi/) - I took rest, woke up late and then we did go around Dayal Bhag a bit. Post lunch we left Agra to reach Delhi by evening. Yamuna Express is nice but sleep inducing. We also didnt face much traffic inside Delhi. We rested rest of the day. Ended the day by having dinner at Karim's. - [Daily Report 5 – Jhansi and Agra](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/09/daily-report-4-jhansi-agra/) - Jhansi is something I always wondered about. If you have read about 1857. It appears to be the center of the struggle. I always wanted to visit it. It seemed like a right choice to spend couple of hours while passing through it. We went around the fort and visited Rani Mahal. I don't think - [Daily Report 3 – Nagpur to Khajuraho](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/07/daily-report-3-nagpur-to-khajuraho/) - I didn't know much about the road between Nagpur and Khajuraho. Initial plan was Nagpur - Jabalpur - Panna - Khajuraho. Later on the way when we took a break at one of Madhya Pradesh's tourism restaurant we happened to meet a police officer who suggested us to go through Sagar. He said its a - [Daily Report 0 - So its tomorrow](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/04/daily-report-0-so-its-tomorrow/) - So we are leaving tomorrow morning. Bags are packed. Things have already been moved to car. Most things have fallen in place. Except my weather station on the go. I had lots of work last two weeks to spend time on it to figure out. Everything else is on track. You should be able to - [Daily Report 2 – Nagpur - Center of India](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/06/daily-report-2-nagpur-center-of-india/) - Today's drive was better than yesterdays. We had better energy thanks to good sleep. We left Hyderabad around 6:30AM. After a couple of pictures at Hussein Sagar we drove constantly for couple of hours. We took a break in between for a quick self-made breakfast along with Sushila's tea. For a long time I wanted - [Daily Report 1 - Hyderabad](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/05/daily-report-1-hyderabad/) - We were late by an hour to start with. We woke up on time but we had too many things in the morning to do before taking off for a month. Those things took more than we expected. The drive was easy, in fact it was quite boring. There was not much traffic and NH7 - [Checkin @ Taj](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/09/checkin-taj/) - So we are here. Taj looks great from other side too. Not much crowd, so it was fun. - [Daily Report 4 - Temples of Khajuraho](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/08/daily-report-4-temples-of-khajuraho/) - Note: These are real pictures from Khajuraho temples. Don't watch it if you think you will be offended. But in real life humans of all ages are allowed visit and see them in real if they pay for the ticket by ASI. It was a great day. I really had fun watching the temple sculptures - [Checkin at Zero Mile India](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/06/checkin-at-zero-mile-india/) - This is where distance to India is measured from Zero mile of India. - [Checkin at Charminar](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/05/checkin-at-charminar/) - We were so tired and it was so hot that we slept most of the evening. Now the weather is pleasant. We got out for birayaani dinner at Café Bahaar and photo at Charminar. - [Checkin - I am at Beautiful NIAS](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/04/checkin-i-am-at-beautiful-nias/) - I am at Beautiful NIAS campus. Its green and peaceful. We did a bit of open street map and open data experiments today. Showed a set of interested Govt officials open maps and ways to explore data. Will probably write in detail later. - [Checkin: Coffee](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/02/checkin-coffee/) - Trying to checkin from Costa. A good coffee to end the day is the best thing that can happen to you. Wondering how much coffee should I carry for the trip. Two espresso's per day may need two kgs. So let's pack it. - [Walking around Fort Galle](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/10/23/walking-around-fort-galle/) - If you are following me on instagram you would by now know that we are in Sri Lanka. Both of us love walking, thats our preferred way of exploring new place. Yesterday we walked around beautiful fort Galle. It took us about two and half hours to go around. This is just around the fort. - [Day 1: Seoul](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/15/day-1-seoul/) - We landed this morning around 6am. Hostel was in the middle of the city so we took the metro to Seoul Station (center) and then caught another one to reach the station near hostel. We found the hostel very easily. But then I was dead tired and get-lagged. Only after good food at Sinseon Seolleongtang - [Day 2 and 3: Wandering around Seoul](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/17/day-2-and-3-wandering-around-seoul/) - Day 2 and 3 in Seoul was mostly wandering around the city and eating whatever we could. Started the day with brunch at Migabon Korean Porridge. The musroom and beef porridge was yummy and filling. From there we went to Gyeongbokgung Palace. I think we got to watch royal ceremony (not sure what it's called). - [Day 8 and 9: Gyeongju and Gwangju](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/25/day-8-and-9-gyeongju-gwangju/) - After we checked into Hanokstay at Gyeongju, we were ready to explore the city, The plan was to walk around the city and eat some good food. It was already dark so we went to see Gyeongju Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond. It looks great as the palace, trees are lighted in a way to - [Day 6 and 7: Golgulsa Temple Stay](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/22/day-6-and-7-golgulsa-temple-stay/) - We caught an early bus from Sokcho to Gyeongju. The bus started at 06:40 and it took more than seven hours to reach Sokcho. I think we took a local bus which stopped everywhere. We probably could have taken express bus. But it was nice to see the rural side of Korea. We reached Gyeongju - [Day 10: Cruise to Jeju](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/27/day-10-cruise-to-jeju/) - We woke up early. Even though our ferry was at 0900, we wanted to reach the terminal by 0730. So we left the hotel by 0700. Our hotel was very near to the terminal and we took taxi. Ferry terminal looks like a bus station otherwise. We had booked the tickets through telephone by giving - [Day 10: NSFW, PG16 - Love Land in Jeju](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/11/03/day-10-nsfw-pg16-love-land-in-jeju/) - After reaching Jeju before going to our hotel we wanted to checkout the art museum and loveland. Art museum was closed and hence we went to love which is next door and the next item on our checklist. Loveland is modern version of Jeju's own khajuraho. Its not a temple complex but a theme park - [From the streets of Jaisalmer](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/05/10/from-the-streets-of-jaisalmer/) - Jaisalmer is a beautiful city. I took sometime to go around in the city to feel the city. These are some pictures I took using my k750i mobile, mostly. This is a big post with lots of pictures. So get your big cup of coffee, Let us go for a walk. We reached Jaisalmer early - [GaaDi bula rahi hai...](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/15/gaadi-bula-rahi-hai/) - I am all set. My iPod has been refreshed with latest music, batteries are fully charged, my new big back pack is fully loaded. I am leaving to Rajastan on 16th. I will be on ten day vacation to Rajastan visiting Jaisalmer , Pushkar ( Yup Pushkar Fair), Ajmir and Jaipur. I am sure going - [Live from Rail: Life on Gareeb Nawaz](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/18/live-from-rail-life-on-gareeb-nawaj/) - Thanks to Anand; I am able to blog from Rail. Indian Railways is a world on its own. It has everything and every kind of people.This time I am traveling in general 3rd class which is mini India. Gareeb Navaz Express S2 is my world since last 30 hours. Some are sleeping, some are reading - [Pictures of Jaisalmer](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/21/pictures-of-jaisalmer/) - We had Airtel connection in the desert yesterday. I was able to send some twitter messages. Sadly I could not hook Andy's laptop onto internet as we were using Tata Indicom and there was no Indicom network. View of the city from palace. City of Jaisalmer is beautiful; especially city inside the fort is very - [Panoramic Photographs from Rajastan](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/30/panoramic-photographs-from-rajastan/) - Best way to capture scenic beauty of Rajastan is Panoramic photography. My regular digital camera did not have that feature. But you could take the pictures in series and then stitch them together to make them panoramic. But I wanted an instant panoramic picture. My k750i did a very good job. Click on the image - [Pushkar Fair - Mother of All Fairs](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/12/03/pushkar-fair-mother-of-all-fairs/) - Note: Take a big cup of your favorite coffee. This post is long and full of pictures. It will take a while to load completely depending on you net speed. For that one week pushkar is full of color. Its a dream land for photographer who wants to capture people and their mood. I had - [Weekly Notes 49/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/08/weekly-notes-49-2023/) - Since it's the last few weeks of the year, I have started working on the reflection on the year to write my year-end coverage post series called The Year That Was. This year, I am also thinking about what my focus should be in 2024. I have not done that before, at least consciously, except for - [Gokarna Beach Walk](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/01/03/gokarna-beach-walk/) - Gokarna has five known beaches. Gokarna, Kudle, Om, Half Moon and Paradise. First three are well-known and have all kinds of facilities and the last two as of now doesn't offer much. In a recent trip we stayed at Linger Gokarna which is on the other side (to north) and all the other beaches were - [Bicycling in Milan](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/06/09/bicycling-in-milan/) - This was my third visit to Milan. In the last two visits I mostly went around using Metro or Buses. This time I wanted to either walk or cycle around. I decided to cycle around as hiring the BikeMi bicycle is cheap and can be done in minutes if you have a credit card. It - [TCS World 10k Bangalore - 2014](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/05/19/tcs-world-10k-bangalore-2014/) - This is my second TCS 10K. All I wanted to is better my previous performances. I think I did well. 2013 TCS 10k - 1:39:40 2014 - Ramanagara 10K - 1:26:43 TCS 10K 2014 - 1:23:33 - [Ramanagara Mini Marathon - 2014](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/02/02/ramanagara-mini-marathon-2014/) - Today I was at the inaugural Ramanagara Mini Marathon which is 10k (my gps shows it as a little less than 10K, don't know why) Good start for my running in 2014. I enjoyed the second part of the run as the location was beautiful and with out traffic. My performance has improved quite a - [Entry into Parenthood](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/05/entry-into-parenthood/) - For me, having kids has been a dream for a long time. It was only in my late twenties and early thirties that I thought about adoption and chose it to be the primary option. I was super lucky to meet someone with similar thoughts and dreams. It just became super easy once we got married. It - [Weekly Notes 43/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/27/weekly-notes-43-2023/) - We are back in Bangalore. This was a short visit to Thrissur, but I might be there again in December. Now that I spend at least a month every quarter in Thrissur, I need to work on activities and people to do with. Given how many open data and software enthusiasts live and work in - [Weekly Notes 48/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/12/01/weekly-notes-48-2023/) - I was in Mumbai for the first three days of the week. It was a work trip, so I only went out a little. My Elephanta Caves visit is still pending. Mumbai weather and air quality were alright, thanks to the rain. Now, back in Bangalore, and winter is here. Some of my school and college friends - [Weekly Notes 47/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/24/weekly-notes-47-2023/) - We are five weeks away from the year-end. I already feel the year is over, maybe because I can see everyone's holiday plans. I pushed some data points to the IDVC project. I want to collect some more data before the year ends. I use a simple architecture pattern to build real-time survey results or dashboards - [Connecting KoboToolbox to CouchDB for Real Time Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/22/connecting-kobotoolbox-to-couchdb-for-real-time-data/) - I have recommended KoboToolbox (and KoboCollect) for nonprofits, and we also use it at DataMeet to collect all kinds of data, including IDVC. For IDVC, I pull the data from KoboToolbox, do some massaging, and then upload it to CouchDB. It works very well. But what if I want to make this whole process real-time? - [Weekly Notes 46/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/17/weekly-notes-46-2023/) - These two pictures of Echo and Pathu by a friend in their natural habitat :) Both of them look so lovely, so I'm posting them here. It was a Deepavali weekend. Both of us are not religious or believe in rituals. So we do whatever we like in all Indian festivals—like light lamps on Deepavali, - [Weekly Notes 45/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/10/weekly-notes-45-2023/) - We spent an extended weekend at Bekkina Kaadu (Linger) near Magadi. We did nothing other than sleep, eat, and watch. On Sunday, we had to rush back as Echo wasn't feeling well. Bekkina Kaadu is very close to the city and yet very far. It can be an ideal place to do focused work as - [Weekly Notes 44/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/03/weekly-notes-44-2023/) - We have spent ten years together as a married couple. It's been amazing. We went out for dinner at Edo, a Japanese restaurant. I loved the starters, but the main course was meh. We are yet to restart our monthly date nights properly; maybe this is that restart. We are staying at Linger this weekend. This is - [70-Hour Work Week](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/11/01/70-hour-work-week/) - I heard NRN's message on the need for 70+ hours of work week. Unfortunately, this is not the first time NRN has said something like this. He has said many times; I have heard similar comments from him a decade back, too. There are issues with it, in my opinion. Hard work is different from 70 hours - [Can you explain "War Crime" like I am 5](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/31/can-you-explain-war-crime-like-i-am-5/) - I asked ChatGPT this question. So I can explain a kid. Since the adult world is so confused(??) and debating, I thought the focus should be on children. - [A-WAY Roof Top Cargo Box for Carens](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/26/a-way-roof-top-cargo-box-for-carens/) - On most long drives, the car has to accommodate two pets, one baby seat, and two adults. The last row and boot of the car goes to Echo and Pathu. One side seat in the middle row goes to the baby seat. Two adults are primarily in the front row. That leaves no space for - [Road Trips With Dogs](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/19/road-trips-with-dogs/) - I have been driving around with my pets for some time—short and long. I have driven them around for eight to ten thousand cumulative. Most drives have been to Thrissur. They have been doing well. It took us time to develop a standard process to drive with them. Of course, all dogs are not the - [API Tool - Moving to Bruno](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/19/api-tool-moving-to-bruno/) - I have been moving to Bruno from Insomnia App in the last few weeks. I loved Insomnia. I have introduced it to so many folks. In recent times, though, it has become very cloud-oriented. In my last update, I thought I lost all the data. I had to downgrade to get it. That was it. - [43](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/12/43/) - I turned 43 today; this year significantly changed my life. I am a parent now. It's not that my worldview suddenly changed since I became a father. Nothing like that has happened. What has happened is I love my new role and enjoy doing the things that come with this role. Hence my life has - [EcoFlow River 2 - My Portable Power Station](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/10/09/ecoflow-river-2-my-portable-power-station/) - I wanted a portable but big enough power bank for my car trips and camps. The one that can charge laptops, can run some small power tools and have UPS like functionality. I have 1 KWatt Li-850 SW Omega Digital UPS at 17Kgs. It is not exactly portable but still can be carried around in a car - [Quickemu - Quick VM using QEMU](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/26/quickemu-quick-vm-using-qemu/) - I have used VirtualBox for creating Virtual Machines, especially when trying something new or needing isolation. Over time, parts of the needs were satisfied by Docker (Podman). But there are still instances where I would like a proper virtual machine. These days, I have moved to QEMU, that too, Quickemu. Recently, I suggested a colleague - [Mapping Surveillance in Bangalore using OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/06/10/mapping-surveillance-in-bangalore-using-openstreetmap/) - For last couple of months I have been driving quite a bit inside the city[1. About 20KMs a day, last time I did that was in 2011/12, 54KMs a day.]. The biggest thing I noticed was the amount of public CCTV cameras across the city. I find them in every corner. We don't know clearly - [Linked List: Three Android Apps to Efficiently Contribute to OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/10/linked-list-three-android-apps-to-efficiently-contribute-to-openstreetmap/) - I am actively contributing to OSM again (Post COVID era). Looking at the change list, I wondered what contributed to my recent productivity. Hence this post. Initially, I used to edit using the browser; It used to be tedious, especially for my flow of adding PoIs. Initially, I used to edit using the browser; It - [Zoom H1n as a USB Microphone](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/14/zoom-h1n-as-a-usb-microphone/) - I have a Zoom H1n, which I have used for recording things on the go. But one of the features is to use it as a USB microphone, which I knew about but had not tried. This week, I tried. It was easy and worked really well. I am making a note here for future - [Rains](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/11/11/rains/) - I love listening to sound of nature or white noise while working. I have tried to record some before. They were of average quality. Mostly because they were recorded on a smart phone. Recently I acquired a Zoom H1n. I have been trying to record on it. I am yet to get a hang of - [Weekly Notes 36/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/08/weekly-notes-36-2023/) - We have not been out for the last couple of weeks. Now that we have some confidence, we should be able to visit Cubbon Park soon. I miss visiting Cubbon Park. We got a Roomba J7 Combo a while back. It works with Home Assistant. This week, I wrote a blog post about configuring it with - [Roomba Combo j7 with Home Assistant](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/07/roomba-combo-j7-with-home-assistant/) - We got a Roomba Combo j7 sometime back. It's a combo vacuum and mopping robot. We primarily use it for Vacuuming, but mopping is decent too. We used to once a week vacuuming using Dyson. But I needed to vacuum our bedroom daily, which is difficult if you do it manually. I researched before getting - [Weekly Notes 35/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/09/01/weekly-notes-35-2023/) - I am slowly getting back to work. Work folks have been very nice and accommodating. Slowly, we are getting used to the new human being in our lives. It's been a joy. One of my mother's friends visited us today. She babysat my sister and me when we were babies. I got lots of tips - [Using UPS with Synology and Home Assistant using NUT](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/31/using-ups-with-synology-and-home-assistant-using-nut/) - I have an old APC UPS. It's Back-UPS Pro 1000. It's a decent UPS with all the functionalities that I want, except for the fact that it still takes lead-acid batteries. I recently connected it to my Home Assistant using Synology and NUT. This setup enables me to monitor the power, send alerts, and take action. - [Review: Easyfone - Mobile Phone for Senior Citizen](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/22/review-easyfone-mobile-phone-for-senior-citizen/) - For a long time my father has been a Nokia customer. He used a Nokia-X2. Things he liked were features like legit font, sharp screen, backlit hardware keyboard and call quality. He didn't really use any other feature. Recently after about five years of usage; that phone conked out and with that we were in - [Weekly Notes 34/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/25/weekly-notes-34-2023/) - It's been a busy week as parents for us. I didn't do much work other than attending a couple of meetings. I took some time to build a baby gym for Uma. The build itself took a couple of hours. It would have been much easier and faster if I had a proper woodworking table. Regardless, I - [Portable PoIs across Apps](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/17/portable-pois-across-apps/) - Today, many apps across platforms (web, android, ios, car) use location (lat,lng) or address as the starting point. But there is no single source of truth for my PoIs shared across various apps. For example, I need to store "HOME" on Google Maps, Uber, Ola, and other apps. If you shift, then you will have to - [Drive to Danushkodi](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/02/12/drive-to-danushkodi/) - Trip to Danushkodi was waiting to happen from long time. It was supposed to be bike ride (but in that ride we went to Kanyakumari) never the less car drive was awesome. I will post about Rameshwaram and temple bath later. Now take a cappuccino grande and enjoy this post. Danushkodi is about 20+ kms - [My Coorg wedding trip](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/05/16/my-coorg-wedding-trip/) - I am supposed to attend the marriage.Its my best friends wedding (U is marrying S). But looks like I can't.The project schedule shows that December 8 is the production deployment day. Well anybody in IS would know how crucial is that. Chuck it. But then the marriage is both on 8th and 9th. Though for - [Tips for Long Night Drive](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/02/21/tips-for-long-night-drive/) - I love to drive in the night. But night drives are not for everybody. If you like driving and if you enjoy conversation/music then its the best you can have. Its mostly peaceful and there will be more professionals on the road so you just have to follow the rules. Night driving in India is - [Amazing Cave Temples of Badami](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/03/06/amazing-cave-temples-of-badami/) - Badami Cave temples are man made rock cut temples built in North Indian Nagara Style and South Indian Dravidian style. Badami was the capital of early Chalukyas until eight century is in between mountains and lakes. The cave temples are cut out of the mountains. Even though there are many temples, Badami is known for - [Weekly Notes 32/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/11/weekly-notes-32-2023/) - What an exciting week. I am not at liberty to write a lot at this time. I will write about it in detail later. But for now, I can only say it's been a life-changing year for us. We met the candidate, and we are thrilled. The legal process has started. I spent most of - [Creating Dynamic PDF reports using Jinja and Gotenberg](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/10/creating-dynamic-pdf-reports-using-jinja-and-gotenberg/) - I use Jinja2 in a variety of ways. Sometimes to create SVGs and other times to create reports. Recently there was a requirement to create PDF reports as part of a service. Since the app already uses Python and Jinja2, we used that to generate PDF reports. Using data and Jinja2, we created the HTML - [Weekly Notes 31/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/08/04/weekly-notes-31-2023/) - The Weekly Notes are published on Friday evenings but are written throughout the week. I create a new post as soon as I publish one on Friday. Throughout the week, I keep adding to it. That way, it's more organic and natural. It's like my work notes but generic. Added a bunch of CCTV camera's - [Download Official External boundaries of India by Survey of India](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/11/15/download-official-external-boundaries-of-india-by-survey-of-india/) - For a long time the Indian OpenStreetMap community and DataMeet Community was looking for official external boundaries. Even-though the commercial counter parts had it, the community didn’t have access to it. That status has changed now. Now we have the official external boundaries of India by Survey of India out in public for anyone to use. It’s a great news. - [Go out and enjoy the best weather and air of Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/30/go-out-and-enjoy-the-best-weather-and-air-of-bangalore/) - I have a ntfy notification that sends me a message between 6 pm and 9 pm if the air is bad in our bedroom. That way, I can switch on the air purifier at least 60 mins before we sleep. For the last few weeks, I wasn't getting alerts. Like any self-hoster, I wondered if - [Weekly Notes 30/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/28/weekly-notes-30-2023/) - It's been a year. Weekly Notes 29/2022 was my first weekly notes post. So officially, I have been doing this for an year now. I am having fun writing and reading weekly notes by fellow bloggers. I have added fellow weekly noters to my blogring. Here is the JSON list of them. Thank you for reading and - [Local Network USB Cam Video Streaming](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/27/local-network-usb-cam-video-streaming/) - I have a need to run some cameras that need to be accessible only on LAN. One is just looking outside my window and taking a picture of the sky every hour; the other is just watching my pets. I wanted cameras that could stream RTSP locally and be watched anywhere on the network using - [Reverse Engineering A Bluetooth Low Energy Oximeter](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/05/reverse-engineering-a-bluetooth-low-energy-oximeter/) - Just as COVID-19 is spreading in Bangalore. I got an Oximeter which can measure SpO2. SpO2 is also called as oxygen saturation, According to Wikipedia Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin relative to total hemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood. The human body requires and regulates a very precise and specific balance - [ಕಿಚ್ಚು - Set heaven on fire](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/11/01/i-will-set-heaven-on-fire/) - ಬೆಚ್ಚನೆ ಮನೆ ಇರಲುವೆಚ್ಚಕೆ ಹೊನ್ನಿರಲುಇಚ್ಚೆಯನರಿವ ಸತಿಯಿರಲುಸ್ವರ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ ಕಿಚ್ಚು ಹಚ್ಚೆಂದ- ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞ [Literal translation]Warm house to live inEnough money to spendWife who understands your wishesIf you have the above, then you have all the things required to set heaven on fire- The guy who knows everything I am trying to set heaven on fire, wish me luck :) - [ನಿನ್ನ ತಪ್ಪಿಗೆ ನೀನೆ ಹೊಣೆ](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/18/ninna-tappige-neene-hone/) - ಮುತ್ತಾನಲ್ಲೂರು ಬಿಟ್ಟರೂ, ಅಮ್ಮ ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಗಾಗ ಹೋಗುವುದು ಇದ್ದೇ ಇತ್ತು. ಅಮ್ಮ ಆ ಊರಿಗೆ ಬಂದಾಗ ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೆರಡೋ ಇಪ್ಪತ್ಮೂರೋ ವಯಸ್ಸು. ಅಮ್ಮನಿಗೆ ಸ್ವಂತಿಕೆ, ಸಂಬಳ, ಗೌರವ, ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರು, ಪ್ರೀತಿ, ಮುಂದೆ ಕುಟುಂಬ ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಊರದು. ಅದು ಅಮ್ಮನಿಗೆ ಮರು ಹುಟ್ಟು ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಊರು ಅಂತಲೆ ಅವಳ ಭಾವನೆ. ಈಗ ೨೦೧೭ರ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂಟಿ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಮನೆ ಬಾಡಿಗೆ ಕೊಡಲು ಯೋಚನೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಇರುವಾಗ, ಆಗ ಚಿಕ್ಕರಾಮರೆಡ್ಡಿ ಹಾಗು ಚೆನ್ನಕ್ಕ ಧಾರಾಳ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಿಂದ - [Amma](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/04/15/amma/) - (14 Apr 12:30 PM) I am trying to write something, because I need to talk to someone now. I should have asked A to join me, the thought came to my mind but I thought it's not going to be a big deal. Its going to be just another hospital visit. News came after I - [ಸುಟ್ಟ ಜೋಳ ಮತ್ತು ಕಾರ ಹಾಕಿದ ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/24/sutta-jola-mattu-kaara-hakida-mavinakaayi/) - ಅಮ್ಮ ಬರುವಾಗ‌ ನಮಗೆ ಅಂತ ಸುಟ್ಟ ಜೋಳ ಅಥವ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿ ಕಾರ ಹಾಕಿದ ಗಿಳಿ ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ ಮುಂತಾದ ತಿಂಡಿ ತರುತಿದ್ದಳು.ನಮಗೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಸವಿಯತ್ತಾ, ಮಾತನಾಡುತ್ತಾ ಮನೆ ತಲುಪುವುದರಲ್ಲೆ ಸ್ವರ್ಗ. - [ನಾಗರತ್ನಮ್ಮನ ಬಾಲಗಳು](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/14/nagarathnammana-balagalu/) - ನನಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ನೆನಪಿಗೆ ಬರುವ ಬಾಲ್ಯದ, ಅಮ್ಮನ ಸಂಗತಿಗಳು ಅಂದರೆ ಶಾಲೆ. ನನ್ನ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲ ನನ್ನಮ್ಮನ ಶಾಲೆ. ನಾವಾಗ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ಆನೇಕಲ್ ತಾಲೂಕಿನ ಮುತ್ತಾನಲ್ಲೂರು ಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ. ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಮ್ಮ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕಿ. ಅದೇ ಊರಿನ ಸರಕಾರಿ ಪಶುವೈದ್ಯ ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಪ್ಪ ಕಾಂಪೌಂಡರ್. ಆ ಊರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವ ಬೇಬಿ ಸಿಟ್ಟಿಂಗ್ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ನಮಗ್ಯಾವ ನೆಂಟರು ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಸಹಾಯಕಿಯನ್ನು ಇಟ್ಟುಕೊಳ್ಳುವಷ್ಟು ಸ್ಥಿತಿವಂತರೇನಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಅದರೆ ಅಂಗನವಾಡಿ ಇತ್ತು. ಅದನ್ನ ನೋಡಿಕೋಳ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದವರು ರತ್ನಮ್ಮನವರು. ನಂತರ ಅವರು ಅಮ್ಮನ ಬಹುದೊಡ್ಡ ಗೆಳತಿ. - [ಅಮ್ಮ ಹಾಗು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/04/19/amma-mattu-manushya-prayatna/) - ಅಮ್ಮನಿಗೆ ತುಂಬ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿದ್ದದ್ದು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದ ಮೇಲೆ. ಹಾಗಂತ ಆಕೆಯೇನು ನಾಸ್ತಿಕಳಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆಯ ದೇವರ ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ವಚನಕಾರರನ್ನು ಹೋಲುತಿದ್ದದ್ದು ಕಾಕತಾಳಿಯವೇನಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಲಸ, ಶಿಸ್ತು, ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕತೆ, ದುಡಿಮೆ, ಸಮಾನತೆ ಹಾಗು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಆಕೆಗೆ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ. ಅಮ್ಮ ಕೆಲವು ಹಬ್ಬ, ಹರಿದಿನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಭ್ರಮದಿಂದ ಆಚರಿಸುತಿದ್ದರು (ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ ಹಾಗು ಯುಗಾದಿ ಆಕೆಯ ನೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಹಬ್ಬಗಳು), ಆಕೆಯ ದೇವರ ಮೇಲಿನ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮೂಢನಂಬಿಕೆಗಳಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆ ಒಂದು ದಿನವೂ ವಿಗ್ರಹದ ಮುಂದೆ ಕುಳಿತು ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು ನಾ - [ನನಗಿಬ್ಬರೂ ಒಂದೇ](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/03/nanagibbaru-onde/) - ನನಗೆ ಸುಮಾರು ೧೦ ವರ್ಷವಾದಾಗ ಅಮ್ಮ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚಿದಳು. ಬೇರೆಯವರ ಮನೆ ಅಲ್ಲ ನಮ್ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗು ಅಮ್ಮ ತನ್ನ ಕೆಲಸದ ಜೊತೆ ಮನೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರು. ಅಪ್ಪ ಕೆಲಸದ ಜೊತೆ ಮನೆಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಹೊರಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುತಿದ್ದರು. ನಮಗೆ ೧೦ ವರ್ಷವಾದ ತಕ್ಷಣ ಅವರ ಕೆಲಸಗಳನ್ನು ನಮ್ಮೊಡನೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದರು. ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ ಅಂದರೆ ಅಮ್ಮ ನಮಗೆ ಹೊರಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ, ಮನೆಯೊಳಗಿನ ಕೆಲಸ ಅಂತ ಭೇದ ಭಾವ ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಪಾತ್ರೆ ಒರೆಸುವುದು, ಕಸ - [Running TCS World 10k Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/05/22/running-tcs-world-10k-bangalore/) - This was my first proper long distance running. I finished Open 10k in not so respectable 1:39:00. Its not that bad, considering I haven't been running at all. I am planning to run a half marathon this year, hopefully with decent timing. Official timing certificate. - [RTWA 8/9: Delhi and Back](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/03/04/rtwa-89-delhi-and-back/) - Day 8th was probably the longest drive in this trip. Roughly around 600 Kms. But the roads were great so we didn't feel much. We left Lucknow quite late by 9am. We had half tank fuel, so I didn't think much. Ecosport gives at least around 350 Kms for that much fuel. Only after joining - [Weekly Notes 29/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/21/weekly-notes-29-2023/) - After a long time, I spent a day with friends and their children at a resort. I am meeting some after three years due to covid19 break. It was a busy week at work and home. A lot of things got done. I wrote a big long post about driving with pets. If you have any - [Max](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/19/max/) - Its 5:30 AM. I am up because our maid is here and Max is up. Yes. We adopted Max yesterday. This was his first night at our home. He wasn't totally comfortable because ours is his third new home is last five months and he is ten+ years old. We are hoping he will settle - [Maximum Change](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/21/maximum-change/) - It's been two months that Max has been with us. It seems like he has been with us forever. I must say he has changed us more than anything else. No matter what; we need to wake up early to take him out for walk and cook for him. In a way I have followed - [Thank you](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/11/30/thank-you/) - You were awesome and you taught me so many things. Good bye my friend. - [A Daytrip to Meet Some Senior Pooches](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/07/06/a-daytrip-to-meet-some-senior-pooches/) - For those who don't know me, I adopted Max nearly two years back when he was 11.5 years old. He has since grown to become the very center of my life and love. - [Weekly Notes 12/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/24/weekly-notes-12-2023/) - Well, I am yet to publish top-read posts on my blog. But I did post the process where I took the help of AI and how it went. I also wrote about how good generative AI is in creating alt-history. We celebrated Echo's 3rd year with us. He joined the family on 20th March 2022. We can't imagine - [Weekly Notes 35/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/02/weekly-notes-35-2022/) - We reached Thrissur on Sunday. For the next few weeks, we plan to work from here. It's also Onam time of the year. The weather has been great until now. Let's hope it remains the same. It's Onam season, so Anju has been arranging Pookalam every morning. I will post the entire gallery at the - [Pathu alias Pathumma](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/06/29/pathu-alias-pathumma/) - Last Sunday(2020-06-21), we were having our evening tea on balcony. That's when I saw her. I do see many dogs on the street. But she looked very scared and lost. It was clear that she did belong there. I went down with some treats to meet her. And that's how she is at home now. - [Echo and Pathu](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/07/echo-and-pathu/) - Well it's been more than a month since Paathu entered the scene. Echo has been here since the beginning of COVID-19 lock-down. Lock-down without them would have been worse. She shows her love a lot. Unlike Echo she is in your face. But she is also a lot younger and this is the first time - [The Dog We Stole](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/11/01/the-dog-we-stole/) - Anju wrote this 25 episode definitive biography of Her Majesty Begum Pathumma. She wrote it as a series on her blog. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. And I thought you would too. I am posting the links here in sequential order for your ease. BTW she is also writing a novel as part NaNoWriMo. Subscribe - [Chapters from Thrissur](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/30/chapters-from-thrissur/) - Last time when we were in Thrissur. Pathu was young, and Echo was new. They were not used to having folks around. But this year, they have spent a lot of time with kids (my sisters' kids, my friends' kids); They love being with kids because they get all the attention. Now that we have - [Weekly Notes 17/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/28/weekly-notes-17-2023/) - I usually go by my calendar, especially on working days. Even personal stuff, like my dentist visit, is on my calendar and shared with family. One wrong entry blocked at least half my day this week and created havoc. We underestimate the impact of four hours a lot of times. WP has written an article - [Weekly Notes 25/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/23/weekly-notes-25-2023/) - I have read at least two messages this week about folks who want to start their microgrant. It's an incredible thing to read about first thing in the morning. NMG began in 2018 and is in its sixth year. I am more than happy to share any details you want. Do email me. That's the best way to contact - [Weekly Notes 26/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/30/weekly-notes-26-2023/) - It's been a busy week with lots of stuff getting done. It's not a hectic week. Just busy enough to keep me active in my personal and professional life. We are in the last week of the first half of 2023; I am still waiting to realize half the year is over. Sunday, I paid - [Live blogging Chandrayaan 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/10/22/live-blogging-chandrayaan-1/) - I was waiting for this day since they announced Chandrayaan. Its one of the biggest moment for every Indian's life. How can I let it go out of my hand. I blogged it live from my home. There were other friends online along with me to watch the launch together virtually. It feels good when - [Weekly Notes 27/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/07/07/weekly-notes-27-2023/) - Echo has been shedding a lot these days. So manual sweeping and mopping once a day has not been enough. So we got an iRobot/Roomba j7 combo this week, mainly to clean up after him. We think vacuuming some parts of the house once a day will do good. Currently, it's still mapping the place. Once stabilized, - [NMG – 2023 – Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/21/nmg-2023-results/) - It took some time, but finally, the results are here. It was much more challenging than last year. There were many eligible and exciting applications. But I have limited funds. Thanks to friends Shweta and Nemo for pitching in 50K each. This year's total grant amount is 2,95,000 2,70,000. A bit more than last year. - [Twenty Years of Blogging](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/26/twenty-years-of-blogging/) - I started writing online after joining Infosys (my first job) in 2003. This year, I also completed 20 years of working. It's not a surprise that my blogging origins coincide with my starting work at Infosys. I couldn't afford a good internet connection or a decent computer before getting a job. That is only half - [Weekly Notes 22/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/06/02/weekly-notes-22-2023/) - I was at the IITM campus the weekend. I met a bunch of students and witnessed some of them graduating. Overall it was a happy experience. I should plan for a more extended visit next time. I have recovered. Work has been good. We have a couple of exciting things ready to go live this - [Daily Report 21 – Rest Day](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/25/daily-report-21-rest-day/) - Today was a rest day. We washed clothes, slept well. In the evening I went for a walk and for coffee. I also got to catch up with internet and emails. Sometimes its good to be far away when things are happening. [mapsmarker marker="226"] - [Not sure where I am going!](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/22/not-sure-where-i-am-going/) - Mostly Udaipur...only if I get bus or I will head to Jaipur. I am leaving my friends and will be on my own for next three days. I could not get ticket to Udaipur here in the city today. I am going to Govt bus stop and then will decide which bus to catch. Wish - [Its meeting people which gives me kick](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/03/07/its-meeting-people-which-gives-me-kick/) - Yes, Its meeting the people during the travel which gives me kick. They are the best part of my travel life. Traveling alone gives you that rare chance of meeting strangers. Low cost student/youth hostels are the best place to catch other travelers. Its the best place to hear good stories at the cost of - [Puppets' performance (Kathputli) at Udaipur](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/27/puppets-performance-kathputli-at-udaipur/) - Rajastan is known for puppets' performance (Kathputli) accompanied by folk music. I was able to catch a glimpse of such a performance at Udaipur. Its usually performed on a small stage illuminated by incandescent bulbs. The performers are behind the screen (you can see their hand in the video). Puppets' performance is usually accompanied by - [Setting up alerts in Digdag for slow or delayed workflow](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/23/setting-up-alerts-in-digdag-for-slow-or-delayed-workflow/) - You can set up a failure alert task _error in Digdag to alert you when a workflow fails. But sometimes you want to get an alert even if the task runs successfully but takes more time than expected. For this, you can use sla feature. You can set up alerts based on time or duration. - [Weekly Notes 20/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/19/weekly-notes-20-2023/) - I have been down with fever and cold since last week. Thankfully it's not covid19 or anything of that sort. It's a regular viral fever. But its been sticky and painful. Surveillance in the Bengaluru was showcased as part "Data: Public, Private and Beyond" in Panjim, Goa. I watched Dare Devil Mustafa - a movie - [Data: Public, Private and Beyond](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/18/data-publicprivate-and-beyond/) - The Bachchao Project hosted the "Data: Public, Private and Beyond" from 12th to 15th May 2023 at Panjim, Goa. It's an Art on Tech exhibition inspired by The Glass Room. I wanted to go but couldn't due to personal and work reasons. I showcased Surveillance in the Bengaluru project to attract more contributors to mapping - [Weekly Notes 19/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/12/weekly-notes-19-2023/) - This Wednesday was the state assembly elections in Karnataka. Hopefully, Karnataka would have voted for a party that is not communal and which will work towards keeping Karnataka ಸರ್ವಜನಾಂಗದ ಶಾಂತಿಯ ತೋಟ (shanthiya thota - Garden of Peace) . Without peace, there is no prosperity. I added a bunch of CCTVs to the OSM this week. If - [Weekly Notes 18/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/05/05/weekly-notes-18-2023/) - It has been a tough week. I had lots of pending house-related work. I got done most of it; there are, as usual, some more pending tasks. College admissions are hard, whether it's an 11th or UG Degree. One needs someone's help to get this done. It becomes much worse if one's parents are not - [Weekly Notes 16/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/21/weekly-notes-16-2023/) - Good food, friends, peace, and happiness are the focus of any good festival. This week is the last week of Ramzaan; I went out with friends to eat good food (meat) locally. We walked around my neighborhood and ate quite a bit. I wrote about how ChatGPT is performing as my intern/junior engineer this week. - [ChatGPT Intern](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/17/chatgpt-intern/) - I have been using ChatGPT as my intern/assistant for the last few weeks. This is my early report as to how it's doing as my intern or assistant. What is the role of assistant/intern, you might ask Learn by observing me or asking me questions Do research for a given task and come up with - [Weekly Notes 15/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/14/weekly-notes-15-2023/) - It's been a busy week. I have not been able to write much this week, but I got some house repair work done. We celebrate the birthday of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as Equality Day in India. All of Ambedkar's works are available on archive.org in PDF and EPUB format—so Happy happy equality day reading. Since the - [ChatGPT's Fictional Story of Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/20/chatgpts-fictional-story-of-uri-gowda-and-nanje-gowda/) - No one knows the whole story of the fictional characters Uri and Nanje Gowda. These fictional characters are the highlights of this election season in Karnataka. So I asked ChatGPT to generate a fictional story for me. As a technologist, It's incredible to see how ChatGPT generates a fictional story. It is also scary as - [Weekly Notes 47/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/25/weekly-notes-47-2022/) - After 15+ years of using Twitter, I am moving to a self-hosted, federated ActivityPub-based microblog. Too many buzzwords? They all mean something and something concrete. From now on, Twitter will be secondary, and the primary post will be on @thej@social.thej.in. If you are on Mastadon or any other ActivityPub compatible server, search for @thej@social.thej.in and follow - [Weekly Notes 29/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/07/22/weekly-notes-29-2022/) - Weekly Notes are meant to be weekly updates which I wouldn't cover in a regular blog post. I will probably post them on Fridays. The title has the week number in that year. Added graphs to Project IDVC last week. Now you can see the charts live. I updated the documents to use the browser's native PDF embedding instead of a - [Weekly Notes 30/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/07/29/weekly-notes-30-2022/) - Did attend India FOSS 2022, it's been on my radar, but I was not able to participate before. But this time not only made it but was also able to introduce DataMeet and its work to folks. I also met many FOSS friends whom I had not met in a long time. It had the vibes of - [Weekly Notes 31/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/05/weekly-notes-31-2022/) - NMG+GSUS – 2022 – Results are out. I am happy about the outcome even though we are very late this year. This year was our fifth edition year. I have many things to write about. I will, once I get time to gather my thoughts. Added my initial notes about Unified User Status and Availability. In the next - [Weekly Notes 32/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/12/weekly-notes-32-2022/) - I love writing these weekly updates. I know it's only been two weeks. But I love the process of creating a new post as soon as I publish this week's post. Then I update it with points as and when I feel like it throughout the week. On Friday, I click publish. These weekly posts - [Weekly Notes 33/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/19/weekly-notes-33-2022/) - Weekly notes are my way of going back to original blogging, where I would write small posts about the day once in a while. But now, I plan to do it once a week as a routine. It's a tag as of now. Should it be a category? Currently, I have Life, Technology, ಕನ್ನಡ, Podcast, - [Weekly Notes 34/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/26/weekly-notes-34-2022/) - It's been a good week until now. I got most things done in general. Echo has been down a bit; otherwise, we are doing okay. There are new districts in India. Now, we have 757 districts in India. I updated my list and the mapping to WikidataId.I am trying FreeBSD inside QEMU on my Ubuntu tpx. - [Weekly Notes 36/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/09/weekly-notes-36-2022/) - We celebrate September 5th as teachers' day in India. It used to be significant when Amma was alive and working. She used to get a lot of gifts from her students, flowers (especially roses), Cadburys five star, peacock feathers, Coffee Byte toffee, etc. She used to say government primary school kids are the best. Personally, - [Weekly Notes 44/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/04/weekly-notes-44-2022/) - It's Kannada Rajyotsava week. I have been unable to work on Nithya Kannada for a long time. I hope to contribute in other ways; how about a bot that sends a Kannada word daily? It could be helpful to even Kannada native speakers. Let me know. We are in the tenth year now—time flies. We went - [Weekly Notes 45/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/11/weekly-notes-45-2022/) - It looks like I have injured myself. It seems like an RSI. Nothing to worry about; I met the doctor, who advised me of the remedies. The good thing is we found out early; it's minor and complete recovery is possible. I watched Gandhada Gudi by Amoghavarsha, a docudrama with Puneeth Rajkumar. It's a good watch, especially - [Weekly Notes 46/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/18/weekly-notes-46-2022/) - Sanchaya had organized an event around the release of Karnata F Kittel Font. I got to attend it. Some of his grand-grand kids were at the event. The amount of love I saw for Kittel amazed me. Kittel has a special place in every Kannadigas heart. My neck is doing well. The doctor says all - [Weekly Notes 48/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/02/weekly-notes-48-2022/) - I did go out to visit the tech n art show at BIS. I met some DataMeet friends there. I bought some zines that I am yet to read. We have added a bunch of new CCTV cameras. I am planning to create a hardware identification page listing all the publicly visible hardware models. Send your - [Weekly Notes 51/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/23/weekly-notes-51-2022/) - We are in Thrissur. It took us eight hours to reach Thrissur from Bangalore, which is a bit faster than last year or so. Primarily due to the Kuthiran tunnel. The tolls have also increased quite a bit. I will have a page to track it. Echo likes sun, dust and just being outside. So he - [Weekly Notes 52/2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/30/weekly-notes-52-2022/) - We were supposed to be in Bangalore tomorrow, just in time for the new year. But Anju's grandmother passed away this morning. She was 90+ years. She had a wonderful life filled with grand-kids, great grand-kids. Death was peaceful. Her image in my head is always of the person reading the newspaper in the morning. - [Weekly Notes 11/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/17/weekly-notes-11-2023/) - I love driving. I love company, but I also love driving alone. I have not driven alone in a long time. Last week I did. I drove around 500 KMs all by myself, and I loved it. It reminded me of my first solo drive to and back from Coorg, which included a night drive. Maybe because it was - [Weekly Notes 13/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/31/weekly-notes-13-2023/) - I took a couple of days of leave last week. I did some housework, went out a bit, and got some rest—time well spent. So start to this week was slow and interesting at the same time. The construction of homes at TVC will start; we had a small get-together to kick start on Friday. Hopefully, it - [Weekly Notes 14/2023](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/04/07/weekly-notes-14-2023/) - I have registered for Tata 10k this year. This will be my first attempt to run after a big covid break. I am yet to start the practice. I hope to begin this week. I have applied for a driving license renewal. It took a while because I had a license book and not a - [ChatGPT Hallucinates](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/18/chapgpt-hallucinates/) - Like the rest of the tech world, I have been experimenting with ChatGPT. Since this is my twentieth year of blogging, so I asked ChatGPT to pick up the most popular posts on my blog. My blog has been public since the beginning, and at least parts of it would have been available for ChatGPT - [Night drive back from Coorg](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/05/21/night-drive-back-from-coorg/) - This is continuation of My Coorg Wedding DriveI had never driven in the night for such a long distance. Initially I wanted to leave Coorg by 10pm; but then Ds father suggested early morning.According to me I needed at least 6 hours to reach Bangalore ( bus takes more than 8 hours). Hence to reach - [Daily Report 34 – Home](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/07/08/daily-report-34-home/) - We are back after 34 days of drive. I am happy that it was incident free and we didn't fall sick. I need to calculate exact kilometers but I think we have done excess to 8000 KMs. This includes driving our brio, ford, walk, auto rides etc. I will write blog posts in coming weeks - [St. Thomas Church, Palayur](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/03/11/st-thomas-church-palayur/) - I had three hours of free time today. And Palyur has been on my list for a long time. So today I visited. It was established in 52 AD by St Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. Its also called the birthplace of Christianity in India. It has been modified many times - [Running Bangalore Skyscraper Dash](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/06/15/running-bangalore-skyscraper-dash/) - I ran the first ever Bangalore SkyScraperDash today, thanks to Intuit. It was more tiring than I thought. I wish I had bigger lungs and more climbing practice. But it was fun. Some pictures from the run And the map. Map time includes the climb time but not the distance. The fastest was 11 minutes - [Open 10K at Bangalore Mid Night Marathon](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/21/open-10k-at-bangalore-mid-night-marathon/) - This one is my fourth run and third 10K this year. I am quite happy with the results. I think its my fastest 10K. Next year I want to do it within 60 minutes. - [SDR on Android Phone](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/28/sdr-on-android-phone/) - I have been thinking about running SDR on Android for some time. So I did this week. The setup is useful for "showing" radio waves to kids and adults. It also makes sense to see it when you want to debug wifi channel or other radio issues at home. SDR and OTG I am using - [The Tamarind Valley Collective](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/06/29/the-tamarind-valley-collective/) - One of my dreams since I was a kid was to have a big fruit garden. We didn't own much land for that to come true. So my dream remained a dream until now. Now I am part of The Tamarind Valley Collective. The idea of farming collective is to create a self-sustaining organic farm - [Twenty Years of Engineering Practice](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/23/twenty-years-of-engineering-practice/) - This year marks my twentieth year of engineering practice. I got my first actual salary in Jan of 2003 from Infosys. So it has been 20 years. It will take several posts to explain this twenty years. For now, I will list some things about which I might write in detail later. I love engineering; - [Going down the hill](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/06/16/going-down-the-hill/) - Going down the hill is easy and fun. But how ever high speeds on the bike is dangerous if you are not careful. This time when I was coming down from Nandi, I was less conservative. My average speed was 25.93. Its nothing great but I reached 50kmph at a point and it was I - [Communicating with Minetest Server Using APIs](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/02/14/communicating-with-minetest-server-using-apis/) - I have been playing Minetest for a while now, mostly in creative mode. Recently I wanted to control it programmatically. So I started looking for ways to do it. I found mineysocket mod, which gives remote access to Minetest server over a network/socket API. There are wrappers available for various languages, including Python. mineysocket (fork) - A - [Review: Wagon R after 40 thousand kms](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/04/review-wagon-r-after-40-thousand-kms/) - It's such a strange thing that I havent written about my car. I am into fifth year (yeah last year of EMI) and done forty thousand kilometers in last four years. I think now the time is ripe to write about it. Even though the initial plan was to use it only inside the city, - [Bengaluru Airport (KIA) Estimated Wait Time Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/28/bengaluru-airport-kia-estimated-wait-time-data/) - KIA (Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru) has interesting and valuable data about wait times at various places. They show it on overhead displays in the airport and on their website. Over time, this data can help make decisions. Hence I started saving it. Here is how you can get it. Website and Data KIA's website has - [IDVC 2022 - Final Stats](https://thejeshgn.com/2023/01/19/idvc-2022-final-stats/) - As you would know, I run IDVC survey project, which collects the prices of Idli, Vade (vada), Dose(dosa), and Coffee across Bangalore. It's an ongoing project. The idea is to map the price over time and across geographies in Bangalore. Part of that larger plan is also to publish the rates of Idli, Vade (vada), Dose(dosa), - [The Year that was 2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/31/the-year-that-was-2022/) - I must say 2022 was a better year than 2020 or 2021, both personally and professionally. Many things which we started earlier; started showing results this year. Hopefully, the world has begun recovering from COVID as well. I was down with COVID early in the year. It took some time to recover from it. I couldn't - [Programmatically Creating Embulk Configuration Files](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/28/programmatically-creating-embulk-configuration-files/) - Embulk needs a YAML file configuration for each data load. It's a simple format, very human-readable. But there are cases where I want the YAML files to generate dynamically. Embulk does support an experimental feature that involves liquid templates. But my team is well versed in Python and Jinja2. Hence that is what we use. - [Embulk for extracting and loading data](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/15/embulk-for-extracting-and-loading-data/) - I recently had a use case where I had to extract data from one source and load it into another. I was looking for a simple but robust tool that could do this. Since I have been using Digdag for years without any issues, I looked at Embulk from the same team. Embulk is a - [microblog.pub : Where do my Followers and Following come from?](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/10/microblog-pub-where-do-my-followers-and-following-come-from/) - I run the microblog.pub as my federated ActivityPub server. It's written in Python and uses SQLite as the database to store the data. I am very comfortable with both of these and also like them a lot as they are very approachable technologies. I recently took a backup of the database, just downloading a copy - [Listen to Panchavadyam - Temple Orchestra](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/01/04/panchavadyam-temple-orchestra/) - I did some recordings of Panchavadyam (Temple Orchestra) at Sri Sankarankulangara Temple festival (chuttu valakku) in Thrissur. Panchavadyam (Malayalam: പഞ്ചവാദ്യം), literally meaning an orchestra of five instruments, is basically a temple art form that has evolved in Kerala. Of the five instruments, four — timila, maddalam, ilathalam and idakka — belong to the percussion category, - [Thrissur Pooram](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/05/12/thrissur-pooram/) - I like huge human gatherings and festivities. I like watching people and activities. This year I got chance to be in Thrissur during the Pooram. Wikipedia has a decent article about the pooram. Thrissur Pooram (Malayalam: തൃശ്ശൂര്‍ പൂരം) is one of the most popular temple festivals of the South Indian state Kerala. It is held - [Get Poem-a-Day as Push Notification](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/12/06/get-poem-a-day-as-push-notification/) - Since I get Vachanas as a push notification, the probability of me reading it has increased. This encouraged me to add Poem-a-Day to this list. Poets.org publishes Poem-a-Day every day on its website. My initial idea was to scrape the HTML page and send myself a notification. But Poets.org has a simple API that exposes that day's Poem. - [I am @thej@social.thej.in](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/21/i-am-thejsocial-thej-in/) - This time I was sure my move to Fediverse would be much more permanent. So instead of using site instances owned by someone else, I wanted to host it myself. So I started looking for appropriate software. Finally, I chose microblog.pub. I will write a detailed blog post on microblog.pub and the installation process on - [Puneeth Rajkumar](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/10/29/puneeth-rajkumar/) - I didn't think I liked him so much. I am 💔. I was at Vikram Hospital when this happened, and I was there for a blood test. What a weird and sad day. I don't think I have felt this sad for any actor's death since Shankarnag died. I am going to miss his face - [Hectic Week](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/28/hectic-week/) - This year has been hectic; this is the second operation Appa has gone through. Considering the previous one, this one was much simple and quick. He is doing very well and waiting to start his regular life. His doctor is in south Bangalore, so it gave me a chance to map that area. I added - [42](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/12/42/) - I am 42 today. It doesn't feel very different, nor do I know the answer to everything. All I know is I feel better than in 2020 and 2022, which were personally the worst years due to COVID-19. Thank you for all your wishes. Here is my graph for the current year. It does look - [Pookalam - Onam, 2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/08/pookalam-onam-2022/) - Anju has been arranging flowers for the last ten days. They are gorgeous. It took lots of time and effort to collect the flowers every morning and arrange them as Pookalam. Today is Onam and the last day. Here is the virtual gallery of all of them. And Happy Onam. - [Mumbai](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/03/29/mumbai/) - I was in Mumbai for work. Since Anju was with me, we spent a couple of evenings eating, walking around, and buying books. On day one, we went to Americano, Bombay, by Chef Alex Sanchez and Mallyeka Watsa. What amazing food. My favorites were Duck Ravioli, Rigatoni Arrabiata (Pasta), and Americano (Vermouth and Campari-based cocktail). - [Mumbai Again](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/09/mumbai-again/) - This is my second visit to Mumbai this year. I spent a week with a fantastic team who are always game to go out and do nothing or everything. I love pictures from the street. That's how I mostly love to explore a city. That's what I did this time too. I wanted to visit - [Embedding Web Examples](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/11/03/embedding-web-examples/) - I have been looking for embeddable, playable HTML/CSS/JS snippets for some time. Services like JSBin, CodePen, CodeSandbox, etc., do allow that. But I was looking for a self-hosted version as my requirement was just the ability to use HTML/CSS/JS, which are native to the browser and can run offline without any backend services. This week I found Jotted. - [Sun-setting datameet/COVID19 Project](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/26/sun-setting-datameet-covid19-project/) - COVID19 data project has ended as of October 21, 2022. I am not going to update the data anymore. It started on March 15, 2020, with a commit that included data from MOHFW. After 1115 commits and more than two and half years of data collection, it ends. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the - [Zigbee at Home](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/24/zigbee-at-home/) - I want to use and run many small battery sensors across the home. Wifi would have worked, but battery-powered sensors make them portable and usable. Also, I would like to keep small sensors out of my wifi network for security reasons. Zigbee is made for small devices in a local network and is an open - [Android App : Incoming SMS Forwarder to Web](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/10/18/android-app-incoming-sms-forwarder-to-web/) - I always wanted a simple App that would read the SMS and push it to a web endpoint (also called webhook) sometimes. I wanted such an app to easily back up and process the SMSes in real-time and on the web. For example, I could forward it to ntfy topic to share the messages with - [Webhooks from Android Apps](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/18/webhooks-from-android-apps/) - I have a setup where I receive various events from online services as webhooks and process them, primarily for live analytics but some for actions too. But I use quite a few Android apps that don't have server components. They are simple apps that store data and events locally. I have to sync manually by - [I am Liking My Pebble Watch](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/01/08/liking-pebble-watch/) - I got to know about Pebble when it became a super hit on Kickstarter. I don't think I was on kickstarter then. It looked great on the paper but then investing $99 without knowing the outcome seemed like an expensive affair for me. But then I have followed them ever since. They have got really - [Bangle.js 2](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/26/bangle-js-2/) - I love simple smartwatches that are hackable. I got my first and second Pebble as part of their Kickstarter campaign. I was a pleased user until then shut shop. I continued my search for a smartwatch. I had two options in front of me Bangel.js 2 and PineTime. I got both of them. But my - [Blogring - JSON to OPML export](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/22/blogring-json-to-opml-export/) - If you have been reading this blog you would know that I have blogring now. It's stored as JSON documents in CouchDB and then used in widgets in the sidebar. It also happens that I read the same blogs in a feed reader. So I wanted a way to import these into my blog reader - [Sharing links between devices using ntfy and Greasemonkey](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/09/02/sharing-links-between-devices-using-ntfy-and-greasemonkey/) - There are many use cases where I want to share the links with other devices from a Desktop. One specific use case is solved by read-later setup I have. It's the case where I want to read something later, preferably in offline mode. The content also gets archived. The other important usecase is that I - [Self hosted Mobile Push Notifications using NTFY](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/23/self-hosted-mobile-push-notifications-using-ntfy/) - I am slowly moving to LineageOS on my personal phone. The most important features I use on that phone are Email, Messaging, Mapping, and Alerts. I have found decent alternatives for Email, Messaging, and Mapping. Alerts or Notifications are something I depend on a lot; currently, they are Google or Apple features. I could settle - [Almost Everything You Need to Know About Kannada Transliteration](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/08/26/almost-everything-you-need-know-kannada-transliteration/) - This is an article about everything (almost) that you need to know about Kannada Transliteration. Most things apply for other Indic languages too. - [Wikimedia Kannada Maps in KDE Marble Desktop Application](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/09/12/wikimedia-kannada-maps-kde-marble-desktop/) - I use KDE Marble as my desktop map client. Today I learnt about Wikimedia Kannada Maps. In this how-to you will learn how to add this Kannada maps to Marble and use it. - [Bengaluru Karaga - 2019](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/04/20/bengaluru-karaga-2019/) - Bengaluru City Karaga is probably one of the oldest festivals celebrated in the heart of the Bengaluru. It's celebrated in the Bengaluru Kote and Market area by a community called 'Vahnikula Kshatriyas Thigala'. Similar Karaga and Pallakki (Oora Habba) happen in villages and towns in and around Bengaluru. I have seen Karaga in Anekal, Hebbagodi - [Using Rich Text in AutoKey](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/11/using-rich-text-in-autokey/) - AutoKey is a desktop automation tool that I use a lot. I use quite a few shortcuts daily, making me productive and consistent. Email template insertion is one of them. It can be done easily using phrases in AutoKey. But phrases support only simple text. But I do like HTML emails sometimes. So this is - [NMG+GSUS – 2022 – Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/08/01/nmggsus-2022-results/) - It took a while for us to decide the grantees from the top ten. We also ended up dividing some of it too. But anyway, we have the list of grantees now. Congratulations, and sorry for being late. As we announced, this year's grant amount is 2.5 Lakhs. Additional contributions are from Gangadhar Sulkunte and Nemo. A huge thank you - [How to Create and Issue Open Badges](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/07/21/how-to-create-and-issue-open-badges/) - Badges are ubiquitous on the web. Any website that has some social component has badges. Audible gives you badges based on your listening. StackOverFlow gives you badges based on your participation etc. The problem with these badges is that they are not portable and not verifiable. For example, if you are on a site where - [Live chart showing IDVC Prices](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/07/15/live-chart-showing-idvc-prices/) - I have added live charts to the IDVC ( Idly Dose Vada Coffee Price) project page. It's the current year's stats. As we add more data, we might have charts showing the increase in prices year on year. Since this is the first year, it offers the current (2022) year's prices. The graph displays each - [Introducing IDVC Survey](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/30/introducing-idvc-survey/) - Bangalore Darshinis are a class apart. They provide very affordable, clean, accessible food throughout the day. I have not seen this in many other cities. Most of the darshinis have the same or somewhat similar menu. They all have idli, vada (vada), dose(dosa), and coffee. So I figured to see if the city is affordable, - [Updates : NMG + GSUS Grant 2022](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/07/08/updates-nmg-gsus-grant-2022/) - We had to delay the results announcement of NMG/GSUS - 2022 grant. Mainly because of personal reasons. A lot of time this year went into taking care of family and family-related work. It seemed like every task we froze due to covid19 had to be reworked and closed in 2022. That way, it looks like - [Milwaukee Art Museum](https://thejeshgn.com/2004/07/10/milwaukee-art-mueseum/) - I used my new Nokia 6600 to capture these pictures. Milwaukee Art Museum is an architectural wonder. Its so photogenic and beautiful. The MAM recently gained international recognition with the construction of the new white concrete Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava (his first American commission), which opened on May 4, 2001. The structure contains - [Tracking API Performance over time](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/24/tracking-api-performance-over-time/) - Testing and Tracking the performance of APIs is not a one-time activity. As the APIs are built and improved over time, we need to track them. It's important to correlate what changes in business logic changed the performance. Of course, you can get the real data from the production and tag it to the version - [CLI for Readlist](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/03/cli-for-readlist/) - I maintain the readlist in a CouchDB database. Each feed (channel) is a document in that database. I use the file's name as the primary key i.e "_id". For example, "sri-lankas-economic-crisis.json" is the key to the Sri Lankan Economic Crisis reading list. It's a single document. It has many feed items like any JSONFeed. The - [Simple Readlist viewer](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/06/01/simple-readlist-viewer/) - Until now, I have been using readlist on JSONFeed readers. But one of the reasons to have a readlist is to share it with friends. So I thought of a page that lists the links with some description. So now I have a simple page that does just that. It fetches the JSONFeed of a readlist and - [How to Download Surveillance in Bengaluru Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/30/how-to-download-surveillance-in-bengaluru-data/) - Even though I have blogged about it in the original post about this, I keep getting asked this question, hence a dedicated blog post. Everything we map goes directly to OpenStreetMap. The data on OpenStreetMap is available for free under ODBL. The easiest way to download Surveillance in Bengaluru data is from Overpass Turbo. I - [Readlists](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/16/readlists/) - I love readlists. After it closed down, I used the pinboard's tag as a way to share it. For a long time, I wanted to own the process and data. Now I do. My readlists are primarily around a subject that I want to share or use for my reading. It's different from my ReadItLater, - [GeoJSON and WordPress](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/12/geojson-and-wordpress/) - I have been using maps inside WordPress using Maps Maker Pro. You can see all my major road trips were mapped using that. I like it so much that I paid for it. But recently, I have been thinking about moving map content outside WordPress and maybe using WordPress only to display. Then came the - [USB Foot Pedal or Switch as a Keyboard in Linux](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/05/03/usb-foot-pedal-or-switch-as-a-keyboard-in-linux/) - I have been full-time at a standing desk for almost two years now. Except in long meetings (which happens rarely), I don't sit. I wondered if I could do more with my feet than just standing. What if I could use a foot pedal? Some use cases could be scrolling up/down, muting/unmuting in a meeting, - [Counting My RSS Feed Subscribers](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/04/29/counting-my-rss-feed-subscribers/) - How many subscribers does my blog have? It's difficult to answer the question. A while back, I moved from Feedburner to my feed hosting. So I can do some estimation. It's based on the following assumptions. Some of the hosted multi-user feedreaders report the subscribers. We can extract that and use it.Self-hosted cloud-based ones usually - [Civics that Your Kid should Learn](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/07/19/civics-your-kid-should-learn/) - According to me kids should be taught about their city and civics of their city very early. Unfortunately most of the school syllabus ignores that part of scial science. That is where BalaJanaagraha is trying to bring change. A very close friend of mine Sanjana has co-authored "Me and My City" for school children. This - [Open Data in India](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/02/24/open-data-in-india/) - These days my work mainly involves around government data (or the data that I assume govt should provide). You must have already seen the open data initiatives by both USA (Data.Gov) and UK(data.gov.uk) governments. I am not sure how good or the bad the data is but the initiative as such is a great move. - [Sabbatical : Time for unofficial official announcement](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/23/sabbatical-time-for-unofficial-official-announcement/) - There are so many things, that I want to do in my life. Life these days is so fast paced (or slow paced) that you rarely get a chance to do what you want. Along with personal inabilities that we fight, other close constraints like society, money, fear, family responsibilities, friends and competition will try - [Simple CGI programming](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/04/21/simple-cgi-programming/) - A simple HTTP server serves static HTML, Javascript, CSS, Images, etc. Sometimes you need a bit of dynamic content from the server-side. There are simple microframeworks to mega frameworks to achieve this. You could use any of these available web frameworks on the server side. But let's say you don't have access to any of - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2022 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/01/14/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2022-open-for-applications/) - It's that time of the year again. It seems like the 2021 announcement was like yesterday. That's mostly because it took a long time for us to decide 2021 grantees. Hopefully, 2022 will be better, and we will stick to the timelines. 2022 will be our fifth year. I can't believe it's already been that - [How to Use Podman to run Workflows in Digdag](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/04/07/how-to-use-podman-to-run-workflows-in-digdag/) - Podman as an alternative to Docker. It can be used for managing and running containers on Linux. Podman is daemonless and can be run as non-root. The best part of Podman is that the command-line front end matches exactly that of Docker; hence in almost all cases, you can just set an alias and use - [My Boring Yet Modern Web Starter Stack](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/03/31/my-boring-yet-modern-web-starter-stack/) - 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 - [SWL - ShortWave Listening using Eton Elite Traveler](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/03/14/swl-shortwave-listening-using-eton-elite-traveler/) - 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 - [Visualizing Constitution of India - 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/08/31/visualizing-constitution-of-india-1/) - I am trying to visualize the constitution of India to make it easy for myself. The first one would be of-course a word cloud. Might take a while to load. Click on the image if you want bigger one. More readable one I downloaded the PDF files from Govt site. I have uploaded the same - [Linked List: Fake or Mock SMTP Servers for Email Testing](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/02/11/linked-list-fake-or-mock-smtp-servers-for-email-testing/) - Today there are many ways to reach your customers or friends. But email still seems to be a significant channel. Open format, standards, and federated networks make it very popular. So most all applications have to integrate with email infrastructure to send emails. If you are an indie developer or a small startup, you will - [COVID +VE](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/01/19/covid-ve/) - Anju and I are COVID +ve. Today is our fourth day. There is fever, tiredness, cold, sore throat, and cough. We are doing okay. We have not been able to trace the source. We have rarely left home or visited anyone or had any visitors. That is a source of worry. I am guessing we - [The Year that was 2021](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/31/the-year-that-was-2021/) - It was not better or worse than 2020. Well, it was worse than 2020. In 2020 we saw a mismanaged lock-down. In 2021 we saw thousands of deaths due to a mismanaged pandemic. It was disconcerting. Even the discussions around it were disturbing. At this point, even 2022 doesn't look that great. Hopefully, it won't - [Blogring - Web Component using Vanilla JavaScript](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/01/12/web-component-using-vanilla-javascript/) - 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. I could - [Blogring, aka my Webring](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/20/blogring-aka-my-webring/) - Blogring, aka my Webring, is live now. I have been planning to do this for years. The idea was to recommend the blogs I regularly read to my readers. Only personal blogs or blogs that individuals write are included. It's done now, and it's live. It's my custom webring with a link to my favorite - [ಕರುಣಾಳು ಬಾ ಬೆಳಕೆ](https://thejeshgn.com/2022/01/06/karunaalu-baa-belake/) - I got a Christmas gift from a friend. I loved it. They wanted me to sing a Christmas song. That's something I can't do. Instead, I chose to recite the poem ಕರುಣಾಳು ಬಾ ಬೆಳಕೆ by BM Shree. Originally called Lead, Kindly Light titled "the Pillar of the Cloud" was written by John Henry Newman, an English priest. - [The Year that was 2020](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/12/31/the-year-that-was-2020/) - What a crazy year! I guess everyone was hoping this year will end soon. It has now. But for some reason, I think 2021 won't be that different. Yes, there is a vaccine, and we all might get one. But there is so much that needs to be rebuilt. 2020 more than anything, showed how - [Blood Donation](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/28/blood-donation/) - Quite a few classmates from BTL used to donate blood at Narayana Hrudayalaya. Our college seemed like the emergency blood bank for the hospital. I did try, but I couldn't. I was underweight. Once I left the college, I didn't think much about it except onetime when I donated for a friend's relative in 2011, - [Linked List: Tools for SQL Developers](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/17/linked-list-tools-for-sql-developers/) - I love SQL. There is nothing like playing with the data once you know it. I give it all the respect a programming language deserves. I store it in files as .sql files, add them git, use configuration to set schema name, etc. I use quite a few tools to deal with SQL (and databases). - [How to Download Them All](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/09/how-to-download-them-all/) - One of the primary jobs as a Data Archivist at DataMeet is to download and archive the data from the internet. Mostly from government websites. I usually use python scripts to download, scrape and clean the data. But sometimes, I just need to download many files and store them. I could still use python, but - [Jinja2 as a Command Line Application](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/07/jinja2-command-line-application/) - The most common use of Jinja2 is in web applications, where it is used to create HTML files from template files. But I have used it outside web applications too. I have used it to create images using SVG. I have an SVG template. I add or remove segments or text in that using Jinja2 - [Sending Email to Self with Swaks](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/07/sending-email-to-self-with-swaks/) - Email is one of those protocols that still works. It reaches me where I am. It also has various clients and libraries that work reasonably well. And it can carry almost any kind of content (Of course, there are limitations attachment size and type, etc). I use it every day, including emailing to myself. I - [How to bypass IE warning messages when accessing an html file from local file system](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/09/14/how-to-bypass-ie-warning-messages-when-accessing-an-html-file-from-local-file-system/) - I usually code my HTML/JavaScript in a simple text editor like notepad++. I usually open it in IE ( Internet Explorer) or FF to test it. Firefox doesn't have any problems in opening the local files. But IE doesn't believe my local files. Every time I open a local html file using IE I will - [Counting Blog Posts using xidel](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/12/02/counting-blog-posts-using-xidel/) - I wanted to write 100 posts in 2021, and I am nowhere close to that. I tried to look at the posts by year and see how I have performed over the years. Of course, I could have done that manually by looking at the year archive count or running a query on the database. - [Building a Web API around CLI Tool](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/11/20/building-a-web-api-around-cli/) - So It's in my nature to convert everything to a web-service. The biggest reason is that you can call a web service from anywhere, and it's easy to share the processing power and logic with anyone who has access to a web browser or curl and nothing else. I scrape a lot, and but sometimes - [Extract Data from HTML/XML/JSON using Xidel](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/11/15/extract-data-from-html-xml-json-using-xidel/) - As you would know, I scrape a lot of web pages as a Data Archivist at DataMeet. I usually use BS4 for this, and it's beautiful, simple, and works. But often don't want to write a python script to do that, and I need a simple tool to get data out of HTML. I want - [Tools for Screencasting](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/09/30/tools-for-screencasting/) - I have been doing longer screencasts these days. Some of them are for private consumption, and some are public. I am yet to master it fully. But I have come a long way. These are the tools that have helped me. OBS - Open Broadcaster Software I have been using Open Broadcaster Software for recording - [NMG+GSUS - 2021 - Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/11/01/nmggsus-2021-results/) - I am sorry for being late. 2021 has not been an easy year, personally. With so many things going around me, I couldn't give mind-space or time to work on it. Since this is close to my heart, I couldn't decide without spending time on it. That said, we have the results now. Also, as - [Shankar Nag - All India Radio Program](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/09/11/shanakr-nag-all-india-radio-program/) - Found them on Youtube, Tried my best to remove the noise. Its much much better now. Have fun listening - [DataMeet COVID19 Updates - Vaccination Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/10/26/datameet-covid19-updates-vaccination-data/) - If you are following DataMeet's COVID19 git repository, you would have observed some changes in how Vaccination data is scaped and added. Until now, we were adding only total at the national level, and now it has first_dose and second_dose details at the national level. { "_id": "2021-10-20T09:00:00.00+05:30|vaccinations", "_rev": "3-367ecd616d5b8af41da5d799fa1c34ad", "report_time": "2021-10-20T09:00:00.00+05:30", "total": 991282283, "source": - [41](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/10/12/41/) - What a crazy year this has been. I don't know how to keep track of time. I am 41 today, and it seems like a year passed in second. Anyway, I am blessed that my life and life of people around me have been okay. We survived. I will probably write a longer post later. - [JBang and My Own Custom Catalog](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/09/03/jbang-and-my-own-custom-catalog/) - Java has been coming back to my life slowly. The developer tools have improved a lot in the last decade and have become friends. Most of my blog readers would know that I use Karate almost daily to test. During the same time, I discovered JBang. JBang, once installed, allows you to run any java - [Rediff do you know how important buying a domain name is?](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/11/06/rediff-do-you-know-how-important-buying-a-domain-name-is/) - I have a dozen of domain names which I bought from godaddy. All of them have been easy and clean transactions. But this time I wanted a .in domain for filmcamp which is not sold by godaddy. I thought either sify or rediff will be good. I settled for rediff as it was much cheaper. - [Running httpbin on CloudRun](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/08/12/running-httpbin-on-cloudrun/) - httpbin is a developer utility web application that receives a request and spits out the request data as a response. httpbin is for testing your API requests, webhook requests, etc. I usually use it when developing client-side applications to watch what I am sending and what the server is receiving. For example, if I am - [Learning SPARQL with Wikidata](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/08/07/learning-sparql-with-wikidata/) - SPARQL has a lot of similarities to SQL and also is very different. Here I am going to get the English works of Rabindranath Tagore from Wikidata. I will use this as an exercise to learn SPARQL. As you will see, I have not tried to explain the terms here as I expect some knowledge - [Getting started with RDF using Blazegraph](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/12/11/getting-started-with-rdf-using-blazegraph/) - This started as a simple exercise of querying WikiData database using their SPQRQL query service. That lead me to studying about RDF and Triplets. I found it very interesting. I spent hours on it. So I thought I might as well write about it here, so I can refer it later. So everything here is - [Trying WikiData](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/11/24/trying-wikidata/) - I just finished a small personal data project. Once it was done. I wanted to modify it to use data from WikiData, and I wanted the labels in Kannada. So I tried to get a list of districts and wards from WikiData. That lead me to learn SPARQL. I can't say I am an expert, - [Linked List: FOSS Tools to Debug and Test Webhooks](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/07/30/linked-list-foss-tools-to-debug-and-test-webhooks/) - Webhooks are part and parcel of today's web applications. It's the primary way to get informed about the events happening on an external system, whether it's payment or communication. So any developer needs to know and use webhooks today. Here are some of the tools that I use daily to test and integrate webhooks (Also - [Gwene - Reading RSS feed as Newsgroup](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/07/16/gwene-reading-rss-feed-as-newsgroup/) - If you are a big fan of Newsgroups, now this blog is available on it. It's made possible by Gwene, which is a FOSS RSS-to-NNTP gateway. It's by Lars Ingebrigtsen and seems to be online since 2011. It's written as a simple set of Perl scripts. So if you are interested in Newsgroups or want - [Music is back at home with Navidrome and DSub/Ultrasonic](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/07/05/music-is-back-at-home-with-navidrome-and-dsub-ultrasonic/) - I listen to a minimal set of music. I don't try to find new music, but I usually have my ears open. If I listen to something new and I like it, then I add it to my list. For a long time I have bought my music; in the form of cassettes, CDs, MP3s. - [How to create Sparklines in LibreOffice Calc](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/06/03/how-to-create-sparklines-in-libreoffice-calc/) - I love sparklines. I use them everywhere from Google Sheets to web pages. But I am LibreOffice Calc user. Calc doesn't have SPARKLINE function. Hence this How-to! - [Drawings as Code - DOT and Graphviz](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/06/28/drawings-as-code-dot-and-graphviz/) - I like drawings to explain stuff. It's probably the most straightforward way to document things. But the pain of traditional drawings is the inability to track changes to them. It's easy to track changes to text or code by tracking them in a git. It's not easy when it's a binary blob which is what - [My Mobile Data Usage](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/07/13/my-mobile-data-usage/) - For last six months I have been collecting the data about my internet usage on phone. I was doing this to decide on data plan. This is related to only the data usage on cellular networks and not on WIFI. Its 2G only and was captured using 3G watch Dog. What does data say?Daily average - [Linked List: Three Firefox Add-ons for Power Users](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/06/18/linked-list-three-firefox-add-ons-for-power-users/) - A browser is a sandboxed area where you can access, view, and manipulate the data. Somehow the ability to manipulate the data (website) locally; to suit users' needs doesn't get noticed much. This feature is a potent tool in the hands of capable users. The following add-ons will add to that users' power. Redirector Redirector - [Of Denial and Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/06/12/of-denial-and-data/) - As you would know, Aman , Kanika Sharma , Krushna and I, maintained a public database of reported deaths resulting from the lock-down. Our take on it is published on PEW now. A national lockdown was announced on 23 March 2020. This saw a humanitarian crisis unfold, that included deaths directly caused by the lockdown. The Indian government has been in - [Self-hosted, Always Connect IRC client on Synology](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/06/04/self-hosted-always-connect-irc-client-on-synology/) - I use IRC. Yes, a lot of the communities that I follow are still on IRC. I like them more than Slack. Mainly because it's an open protocol and the channels are also open. One big problem is that the communities that I follow are primarily async, are in different timezones, And if you are - [Protomaps - Self Hosted Maps and Map Tiles](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/25/protomaps-self-hosted-maps-and-map-tiles/) - It's tough to self-host the maps for Indie users. We usually host the wrapper and styles but end up using third-party tile providers. Even though there are good FOSS options for that, it's still cumbersome if you are Indie. But Protomaps makes it easy. Protomaps is a tiled vector basemap system for the web: a renderer, a cloud-optimized - [Open Data : India Oxygen Shortage Deaths](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/18/open-data-india-oxygen-shortage-deaths/) - You don't need an introduction. The whole world knows that our hospitals have a shortage of Oxygen. In some cases, unfortunately, this has lead to deaths in Hospitals. We want to record these deaths so we don't forget them. We (Volunteers from DataMeet and Road Scholarz) are recording‌ ‌deaths‌ ‌due‌ ‌to‌ ‌the‌ ‌lack‌ ‌of Oxygen, shortage - [Updates 2 : NMG/2021 - Delayed again](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/14/updates-2-nmg-2021-delayed-again/) - My family has recovered. They are doing well now. But It took a lot of time, mind-space, and energy. My productivity went down drastically. Also, my close friends are positive now. It takes quite a bit of energy to focus on when something of this sort is going around, which I have not been able - [Linked List: Three FOSS Apps for Continuous Learning](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/05/12/linked-list-three-foss-apps-for-continuous-learning/) - I believe in continuous learning, even if it's in small steps. I used quite a few tools for that. Here are three of the most often used tools by me. They help me to remember things, explore and learn by building things. I hope you find them helpful too. What are your favorite learning tools? - [Learn Kannada using Flash Cards](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/07/31/learn-kannada-using-flash-cards/) - started Nithya Kannada – ನಿತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡ a month back along with a friend. Nithya Kannada – ನಿತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡ is simple and quick learning material to learn Kannada. Now we have flash card version so you can revise. - [Node-RED on Synology](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/26/node-red-on-synology/) - I was running Node-RED on an android phone for a while, and then I moved it to dedicated Pi. Now that I have Synology capable of running Docker containers, I thought it would be a great idea to move it there. Mainly because it has unlimited space, and I have a good power backup for it. But unlike other things, I moved to Synology. This wasn't straightforward. - [How to setup and run Node-Red](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/11/23/how-to-setup-and-run-node-red/) - Node-Red is IBM open source project for wiring things on internet. It was started by IBM’s Emerging Technology Services team and now is part of JS Foundation, For anyone who has been a fan of Yahoo Pipes the interface and functioning seem similar. Node-Red connects different parts of the web together regardless of whether they - [Updates : NMG/2021](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/17/updates-nmg-2021/) - Dearest, I sent an email to the announcement list on April 14th but didn't blog about it here. I should have, especially because many are not on the announcement list. Sorry about that. You can join the NMG announcement list by sending an email to nmg-announce+subscribe@thejeshgn.com; say hello. Members of my family are COVID +ve. They - [Linked List: FOSS Android Apps for Ebook Reading](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/10/linked-list-foss-android-apps-for-ebook-reading/) - I have been reading quite a few books again. When I read EBooks, I prefer DRM free books and a FOSS reader. I use the following apps to read EBooks on my phone. I hope they will be useful to you too. - [Linked List : Three FOSS Tools to work with CSVs](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/14/linked-list-three-foss-tools-to-work-with-csvs/) - If you work with Data, you can't escape working with CSVs. It's a universally accepted data format for sharing the data. I use the following tools to wrangle with it. - [Linked List : FOSS Tools to Query DNS](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/07/linked-list-foss-tools-to-query-dns/) - If you are a web developer, or if your work involves anything involving the Internet, you can't escape DNS. DNS is Internet's addressing system. When you change domain settings or when you want to debug connections. You often end up querying DNS. Here are my go-to tools that I use to query DNS. DIG DIG - [Exploring DICOM Images With 3D Slicer](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/06/exploring-dicom-images-with-3d-slicer/) - So my father had to go through the MRI process due to an emergency. Thankfully he is safe and back at home now. He is doing well. We got a copy of his MRI images on a CD when he got discharged; These are my experiments with those images. ⚠️ Note: I am not a - [Testing Async systems with Karate Testing Framework](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/09/07/testing-async-systems-with-karate-testing-framework/) - I have love and hate relationship with asynchronous systems. I love them because the flow is natural and doesn't waste time and resources. I hate them because it's difficult to test and debug. The most common asynchronous system that you would have used is Webhook type. Where you get a callback from an external system - [Karate Mocks on Google CloudRun](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/04/01/karate-mocks-on-google-cloudrun/) - I have written mock features in Karate for integration testing. Recently I wanted to run them centrally somewhere so all my testing infra can use the same set of Mocks. I wanted an easy way to launch it and maintenance-free. So I tried it with CloudRun, which can run any stateless web service. One needs to provide a container to it. That's all. - [Linked List : Three FOSS tools to work with JSON](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/25/linked-list-three-foss-tools-to-work-with-json/) - If you are a web developer or an API developer, you would have used JSON daily unless you are deeply buried in the XML world. There are some tools that I use to work with them daily. These tools are useful if you are a developer or a tester or just a curious mind who likes to explore the web or config files. - [Linked List: Simple Ways to Contribute to OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/17/linked-list-simple-ways-to-contribute-to-openstreetmap/) - Recently I completed 1000 edits on OpenStreetMap. It's a big deal for me :) It happened because I started making small but useful contributions from my phone. I usually map on the phone and then sometimes update them on the desktop, if required. On the phone, I use the following apps, which makes it super - [Exploring Astronomy with Internet connected telescopes](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/09/25/exploring-astronomy-with-internet-connected-telescopes/) - As a teenager I was very curious about stars and galaxies. Only time we could get to see something related was an yearly school trip to Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore. As I grew up my interest moved to technology from science. Mostly because technology gave me an opportunity to tinker with. When I saw iTelescope - [Feb 2021 - Reading Status](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/05/feb-2021-reading-status/) - The last year 2020, was terrible in terms of reading. I heard a lot of podcasts but didn't read much. This year's goal is to read 25 Kannada books minimum; any books I read in English are special. You can track them under the tag #25KA2021 on my social blog. In Jan and Feb, I - [Linked List: FOSS Android Apps for GIT Users](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/03/03/linked-list-foss-android-apps-for-git-users/) - My Android phone is a workhorse. I do quite a bit of work on the go; most of it happens on the phone. It's not easy to software development on the phone. That is mostly due to the small screen size and lack of a hardware keyboard. Nevertheless, I have made numerous small changes to - [Linked List: FOSS Download Managers for Everyday Use](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/24/linked-list-foss-download-managers-for-everyday-use/) - I use ACT as my internet service at home. It's very decent. When I am traveling, I avoid connecting to public wifi or guest wifi. So I am left with mobile Internet. I have 4G connections from all three providers (Airtel 4G, BSNL 4G, and Reliance Jio 4G). Even then, I don't get enough bandwidth - [Indie ReadLater using Mercury Web Scraper, CouchdDB and JSONFeed](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/22/indie-readlater-using-mercury-web-scraper-couchddb-and-jsonfeed/) - I have my own pipeline for managing my ReadLater article river. It's a simple setup using Mecury Feed Parser, CouchDB, and JSONFeed. Of course, it's all brought together using serverless hot glue. - [Linked List: Three FOSS Apps for best Podcast Listening Experience](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/17/linked-list-three-foss-apps-for-best-podcast-listening-experience/) - I listen to a lot of podcasts. It's only possible due to some great FOSS tools that I use. Here are the tools that I use to listen, bookmark and refer to them later. - [Decoding Google Datastore's URL Safe Key](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/15/decoding-google-datastores-url-safe-key/) - Google Cloud Datastore is a highly scalable, managed NoSQL database service. I have used it for years to store millions of records. One of the things that I like about it; is the "Key". Because it has all kinds of meta information, not just the ID. a Key (like a primary key) A unique identifier - [Kevin Warwick Again](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/11/23/kevin-warwick-again/) - Robot with a rat brain I wanted to know what he had done in last decade. Now imagine if we could build a decent brain to drive my car in Bangalore :) - [Moving away from Feedburner](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/12/moving-away-from-feedburner/) - I know FeedBurner has been dead in-terms of new features for a long time. But they were proxying the blog feeds with no issues. I have been trying to shift the feeds to any new host. I had used my domain so moving wouldn't lose any existing subscribers. But I had not done that, mostly - [Linked List : Three FOSS Apps for Reading RSS Feeds](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/10/linked-list-three-foss-apps-for-reading-rss-feeds/) - An RSS feed is a standardized format to get an update from a website or web service. There are a few feed formats (RSS, Atom, JSONFeed) of which RSS is the most popular one. I use RSS feed on daily basis to read blogs and as well to get updates from my own services. Here - [My Top Five Bangalore Blogs](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/09/22/my-top-five-bangalore-blogs/) - Here are my most Favorite Top Five Bangalore Blogs. The blogs listed below are in no particular order. They all are my favorite. I am giving the same weightage to all of them. 1. Metblogs Bangalore Metblogs has been one of the biggest city based community blogs network in the world. Bangalore metblogs is driven - [COVID-19 India Vaccination Progress Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/01/25/covid-19-india-vaccination-progress-data/) - We have started collecting the available data around the COVID-19 vaccination in India. We are currently only scraping and parsing the cumulative (India) vaccination count published on the MoHFW website. We want to do the same as soon as states start publishing the data. Some states like Karnataka have already started publishing the data. We - [Converting JSON to CSV on the fly](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/04/converting-json-to-csv-on-the-fly/) - I wanted to create a real-time graph of COVID-19 India Vaccination Progress. The data for which will come from the datameet/covid19 project. My initial idea was to build one using frappe similar to the COVID-19 cases chart. But many on the DataMeet community use Datawrapper. I like Datawrapper too. Datawrapper has a feature where it can pull the data from - [CLI Tools to Enhance Git Experience](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/02/02/cli-tools-to-enhance-git-experience/) - I use git all the time. I use quite a few GUI tools to work with git. But I also have some more CLI tools to help me work with git. Here are a few. bat A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. I used to use cat a lot, to explore. Now - [Nooelec NESDR SMArt + Diamond RH 795 Combo for SDR experiments](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/01/29/nooelec-nesdr-smart-diamond-rh-795-combo-for-sdr-experiments/) - Getting started Nooelec NESDR SMArt and Diamond RH 795, using the Gqrx. It's been a decent combo to get started with listening to bands. - [Synology DiskStation DS420+](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/01/19/synology-diskstation-ds420/) - For a long time I wanted to setup a NAS as part of my home lab. I got synology DiskStation DS420+. And it has everything I want. - [Scraping Karnataka Reservoir Water Flow Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2021/01/17/scraping-karnataka-reservoir-water-flow-data/) - Scraper and Data - Karanataka reservoir water inflow and outflow data on weekly basis for all the dams in Karnataka. Published by Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) . - [Creating an eBook like The Dog We Stole](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/12/21/creating-an-ebook-like-the-dog-we-stole/) - Anju published The Dog We Stole as a series of blog posts on her blog. And we planned to convert it into an eBook if it did well. The blog posts were quite popular, and the overall feedback was very positive. Hence I started creating the eBook. - [Coding in 2020 and COVID-19](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/11/29/coding-in-2020-and-covid-19/) - Like many, this year has been crazy for me too. When there is a crisis that I don't have control over, I surround myself with good people and work. So I can concentrate on things that I like. COVID-19 was no different, except I couldn't meet people So it was mostly just work. Since March, - [Vaio and Zenbook](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/11/27/vaio-and-zenbook/) - My first personal laptop was a Sony Vaio (PCG-6C2L) ), which I bought for cash at Best Buy in Milwaukee. I used the advance cash Infosys had given me. It was 13.3 inch, very portable laptop. It had two hard disks. Once small 30GB SSD for OS and a bigger regular one for the rest of - [Downtown Milwaukee when it snows](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/01/22/downtown-milwaukee-when-it-snows/) - [Taste Map of My Life](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/10/12/taste-map-of-my-life/) - How do you know what matters to you in life and how do you measure it over time? For a while I have been thinking about this. I thought about various ways of representing it. But something about the taste maps on coffee packs, inspired me to come up with this. This is the taste - [JSONFeed River with CouchDB as Backend](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/09/22/jsonfeed-river-with-couchdb-as-backend/) - I use Pushover to get custom notifications on my phone. I do get all kinds of notifications. I get notifications from my server about their status, Notifications from scrapers like the state of HOPCOMS scraping, Notifications from my weather sensor and AQI etc. Well some of them could have been emails or dashboard[1. I am - [Simple BLE Oximeter App using PHONK](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/17/simple-ble-oximeter-app-using-phonk/) - In the past I would have used MIT AppInventor or Expo.io. Both have amazing ecosystems. It's easy to build apps using them. But this time I wanted to use PHONK. I had used Protocoder before and had liked it. Also I have this idea of building small utility apps called applets (yes!), that I can - [Online BSc Course by IIT Madras](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/08/03/online-bsc-course-by-iit-madras/) - The application for the foundation level is open. If you have interest in perusing career in programming or data science. I think this is a good start. Given the amount of effort staff have put for NPTEL courses and videos. I think this course will be wonderful. I also have some good news related to - [Outlining Your Notes with Zim Wiki](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/06/10/outlining-your-notes-with-zim-wiki/) - I have been using Zim Wiki for a long time now. Its my knowledge base. Very frequently I also use it as an outliner to take notes. This is an outline about that; written in Zim Wiki and exported as HTML. I have also attached a screenshot below. Outline is hierarchical text. Its basically a - [Zim - The Best Note Taking and Idea collecting software](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/03/21/zim-the-best-note-taking-and-idea-collecting-software/) - For a long time I was using simple text files to keep my notes and ideas. It was nice and easy but I always wanted some features that were provided by software like OneNote or Evernote. In the last few years I have tried couple of them. While evaluating any new note taking app, I - [Open Data in India: In a Restrictive Copyright Regime, Voluntary Organisations Pitch in to Make Data Accessible](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/06/09/open-data-in-india-in-a-restrictive-copyright-regime-voluntary-organisations-pitch-in-to-make-data-accessible/) - Globally, while there has been a shift towards open data policies, some Government of India’s departments have gone the opposite way. They have decided to stop putting out data in the public domain. Data enthusiasts and voluntary organisations have been pitching in with their efforts to build open data resources in India. My essay ➡️ - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 – Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/06/05/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2020-results/) - It wasn't easy to decide this year. There were more applications than usual. And I was confused quite a bit due to COVID-19. But at last, here we are with the results of Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020. This year, again, we have three grantees. We also have an anonymous[1. I know who it is. - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 - Updates](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/04/02/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2020-updates/) - Note: I have not figured out yet. I will update with a new blog once I am sure. - May 20, 2020 Usually I announce the results on April 14. This year it won't happen. When I announced it in Jan 2020 world was a different place. Today world is a different place. I have - [COVID-19 Lockdown: The Humanitarian Crisis](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/05/02/covid-19-lockdown-the-humanitarian-crisis/) - The case of 12-year old Jamalo, who was walking from Andhra Pradesh to her village in Bastar (Chhattisgarh) collapsing 11 km short of her village was widely reported. However, there are many such heartbreaking cases. News reports tracked during the ongoing lockdown suggest that more than 300 people died because of the lockdown: as a - [Building in the times of COVID-19](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/05/01/building-in-the-times-of-covid-19/) - As an engineer, maker, builder, you want to build something during the crisis to help the community. But what can you build as a software engineer that can help the society during this period of crisis? The answer to the question is not easy, As we have not seen something this devastating in our lifetimes. - [Backing up my geocities home page](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/04/28/backing-up-my-geocities-home-page/) - I had a small home page on geocities way back in 2002/3. Just like any other home page it had a page about me, my friends, contact details and one page about my personal project. Since geocities is closing down, I thought of saving(rather downloading) my web history. Back then (2003) I used to run - [How to be a Good Software Developer](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/04/16/how-to-be-a-good-software-engineer/) - Yesterday I spoke to students of NPTEL. The topic was "How to be a Good Software Developer". It's more like my advice to my younger self. The talk went on quite well except for few internet glitches. It was also special we because I was part of NPTEL's engineering team at Google. I touched upon - [Game of Life with Processing.js](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/05/06/game-of-life-with-processing-js/) - I was bored. So I thought of playing Game of Life. I got to know about it through hacker logo which is the glider pattern from the Game of Life. While playing I thought let me code it processing.js. Game of life is a simple game with no interaction involved once you start with the - [DataMeet's COVID-19 India Datasets](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/04/05/datameets-covid-19-india-datasets/) - DataMeet community has been doing some amazing work in collecting, cleaning and organizing COVID-19 datasets. The focus in on Indian datasets. The data is mainly sourced from different government websites which are freely available to all the Indians. I recorded a video introducing these datasets. In the video we will go through each dataset, we - [Novel Corona Virus (COVID19) : Archive and API of India Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/03/16/novel-corona-virus-covid19-archive-api-india-data/) - I have been archiving Novel Corona Virus #Covid19 data published by Ministry of Health and Family Affairs (mohfw) for last few days. This archival will give us access to historical data which mohfw doesn't publish. All data is on Github. You can access raw html or parsed JSON. Each record in parsed JSON (mohfw.json) will - [Android Kunjappan, Alexa and Loneliness](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/03/09/android-kunjappan-alexa-and-loneliness/) - Note: Spoilers Subramanian (Soubin Shahir) lives with his father Bhaskaran in a small village in Kerala. Subramanian is a smart mechanical engineer. He wants to get out of his village to work like most educated Malayalees. His father Bhaskaran is a stubborn man, He won’t let his son go out (village) to work. Once or - [1by2coffee: Coffee and Conversations with a Geek](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/08/01/1by2coffee-coffee-and-conversations-with-geek/) - I have been wanting to do podcast for a long time. As you know we started YAPodcast, but we couldn't continue for many reasons. We are still trying to get it back. In the mean time I wanted to do a shorter form of podcast (max 30 mins and 30mb) in which we can talk - [ನಾನು, ರವಿ ಬೆಳೆಗೆರೆ ಹಾಗು ಮಾರ್ಕ್ವೆಜ್](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/04/20/naanu-ravi-belegere-marquez/) - ನನ್ನ ಮೊದಲನೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪೊಡ್ ಕಾಸ್ಟ್. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ತಿಳಿಸಿ. ರವಿ ಬೆಳೆಗೆರೆ Marquez touched Kannada sensibility ಮಾಂಡೋವಿ - [Test Podcast Post](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/10/08/test-podcast-post/) - This is just a test podcast post. Don't listen if you dont like test messages :) But if you try then let me know if it plays well with out any issues. - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/01/14/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2020-open-for-applications/) - We are in the third year of Nagarathna Memorial Grant. This year we are opening a month early so we will have more time to figure things out. Nagarathna Memorial Grant is a no strings attached grant of one lakh rupees (~$1400). It’s a micro grant targeted at everyone. The reason for grant could be - [How to Kill Innovation in India using Customs](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/01/27/hwo-to-kill-innovation-in-india-using-customs/) - I did my engineering from 1998 to 2002. It used to be very difficult to get the latest and greatest in the electronics world from the local market. My go-to way to get something interesting was to apply for freebies from companies in the USA, whether it was PICs from Microchip or the latest Linux - [Techಮಾತು -1 | ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮೊಬೈಲ್‌ ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ 8 ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳು](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/01/07/tech-maatu-1/) - ಮೊಬೈಲ್‌ನ ಎಲ್ಲ ರೀತಿಯ ಸಂವಹನದ ಸಾಧನವಾಗಿದೆ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕಿಂಗ್‌, ಶಾಪಿಂಗ್‌ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ವಿವಿಧ ವ್ಯವಹಾರಗಳಿಗೂ ಬಳಕೆಯಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಹ್ಯಾಕಿಂಗ್‌, ಫಿಶಿಂಗ್‌ಗೆ ದಾಳಿಗೆ ತುತ್ತಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಯೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು. ಈ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊಬೈಲ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಮಾಹಿತಿಯನ್ನು ಸುರಕ್ಷಿತವಾಗಿರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು ಮೊದಲ ಆದ್ಯತೆ. ಅದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಎಂಟು ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳನ್ನು ತೇಜೇಶ್‌ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂಚಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಈ ಪಾಡ್ಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟ್ ಮೊದಲು ಟೆಕ್-ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿತು. ನಂತರ ಅದನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಲಾಯಿತು. - [ಭಾರತೀಯತೆ, ಹಕ್ಕು ಅದು, ಭಿಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲ](https://thejeshgn.com/2020/01/03/bhaaratiyate-hakku-biksheyalla/) - ಭಾರತೀಯತೆ ನಿಮ್ಮಪ್ಪನ ಮನೆ ಆಸ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲ ಕಾಗದ ಪತ್ರ ನೋಡಿ ಕೋಡೋಕೆ ಹಕ್ಕು ಅದು, ಭಿಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲ ಕಾಗದ ಪತ್ರ ತೋರಿಸಿ ಪಡೆಯೋಕೆ ನಾವು ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಕಾಗದದಿಂದಲ್ಲ, ಹೃದಯದಿಂದ, ರಕ್ತದಿಂದ ಗುಂಡಿಗೆ ಎದೆಗೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟೇವು ತಲೆಯ ನಾವು ಬಾಗೊಲ್ಲ ಭಾರತೀಯತೆ, ಹಕ್ಕು ಅದು, ಭಿಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲ ಅದೇನೆ ಆಗಲಿ ಹೋಗೋಲೆ ಕಾಗದ ಪತ್ರ ನಾವು ತೋರ್ಸಲ್ಲ [hr] Anti CAA/NRC/NPR ಚಳುವಳಿಯ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದದ್ದು. ಲಕ್ಷಾಂತರ ಚಳುವಳಿಗಾರರ ಹಾಗು ವರುಣ್ ಗ್ರೋವರ್ ಪ್ರಭಾವ ‌ಇದರ ಮೇಲಿದೆ. ತೇಜೇಶ್. ಜಿ ಎನ್ #SayNoToNRC - [It was like a river...](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/12/20/it-was-like-a-river/) - Yesterday, at town hall it was like a river. Police kept shipping people away but people kept coming. At some point it was too much for police to ship them away. I was happy to see so many peaceful people on the road marching to asset their right. There is some hope. I didn't take - [The year that was 2008](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/12/31/the-year-that-was-2008/) - Year 2008 was more eventful than 2007. I am happy that I met more interesting people and visited more interesting places than 2007. 2008 was an amazing year for me in terms of traveling. I am yet to blog about places like Milan, Rome, Hampi etc. There were hundreds of interesting moments this year. Here - [The year that was 2010](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/12/31/the-year-that-was-2010/) - Now that you are used to "The year that was (2007, 2008, 2009)" posts, I will get into the post with out introduction. 1. Sabbatical - spent most of my time at Janaagraha thanks to Infosys. My sabbatical will end on Jan 15. Wait for a detailed post. 2. My sister got married. 3. Did - [How to Use Docker to run Workflows in Digdag](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/12/03/how-to-user-docker-to-run-workflows-in-digdag/) - In this how-to we will learn to use Docker to run tasks inside Digdag server. This will help us in isolating jobs from Digdag server. This will also increase the security and makes it easy to maintain. - [Managing Secrets in Digdag](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/11/15/managing-secrets-in-digdag/) - Its obvious that we need to use secrets or passwords in Digdag whether to connect to a database or to an external API. It's not a good idea to embed secrets in code or in .dig file. They usually get checked into repositories which is not a good security practice. It's also difficult to deploy - [Seven Useful DigDag Tips and Tricks](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/10/30/seven-useful-digdag-tips-and-tricks/) - DigDag is a pretty simple tool to install and run. There are quite a few tips and tricks that you can use to make your interaction productive. Here are my favourite ones. Setup DigDag Config DigDag command takes quite a few parameters. Instead of remembering to enter them every time, one can create a properties - [How to use DigDag Restful APIs to Trigger a Job](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/10/15/how-to-use-digdag-restful-apis-to-trigger-a-job/) - You can trigger a workflow/job on DigDag remotely using Restful APIs. In this How-to, you see how to do that. - [Judgements are not about Delivering Justice](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/11/09/not-all-judgements-deliver-justice/) - I just realised this is the ultimate truth. Not all judgements are about justice. They are not even close or pretend to delivering justice in some cases. It's kind of late to realise in my life. That said, this is the truth. - [Chai Chai](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/01/chai-chai/) - Picture of this little girl selling tea in Dalhousie made itself to my company's intra net. It showcased under 'I was here' section. Taken during my Dalhousie trek. The trek route passes through a remote village where kids sell chai (tea). - [Updates to HOPCOMS API](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/09/24/updates-to-hopcoms-api/) - HOPCOMS Daily rate page moved to a new location last month. It's not visible on Google search and hence I couldn't find. But a good soul at HOPCOMS whom I got in touch with sent me this new link. It's not just change of url. They have changed the structure of the data published and - [Why Buddhism?](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/09/19/why-buddhism/) - I just finished reading Buddha or Karl Marx By Dr. Ambedkar. It's just a long essay or Booklet. The thing that caught my attention is the summary of Buddhist Tripiṭaka. I think this summary is the best I have read about Buddhism and why its required. The below points are quoted from Buddha or Karl - [Now Rusting](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/08/31/now-rusting/) - To be frank I wanted to learn something new. Something different but still part of my ecosystem. I looked at Go and Rust. I settled with Rust. Rust is very different from what I have learnt ( C, Java, JS, Python ) until now. It also looked like a language that would take time to - [ProjectOnHerOwn Story booths in Cubbon Park](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/08/28/projectonherown-story-booths-in-cubbon-park/) - When we started ProjectOnHerOwn, our intention was to reach as many people as possible. We knew we couldn't just do online events. We needed offline (IRL) events. We had multiple options but we choose Cubbon Park because it was convenient, easy to get permission[1. Just give a written letter stateting the purpose of the event - [Personal Liberty is Dead](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/08/14/personal-liberty-is-dead/) - I was sick today but the taxman won't care about that. He doesn't even care that I have been paying tax from the day I took my first job, very honestly [1. He himself has sent me certificates]. This taxman wants to know its me who is paying tax. I still don't know who he - [Emergency - 2](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/08/06/emergency-2/) - 1. No state government 2. A state converted to UT under president rule 3. Army deployed in civilian areas 4. Politicians arrested 5. All communications are blocked 6. State rules modified without the people of the state participating 7. No opposition to support people If we are not in emergency then what are we in? - [ProjectOnHerOwn and Tech Behind it](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/07/29/projectonherown-and-tech-behind-it/) - I have been working on ProjectOnHerOwn since we got selected for Gender Bender 2019. Gender Bender is India's first arts festival that focuses on fresh perspectives of Gender. Our work #ProjectOnHerOwn will be part of it. #ProjectOnHerOwn is a multimedia exploration through the landscape of women’s experiences of self-discovery, self-reliance and self-assertion. It travels through - [Call for Code - 2019](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/06/29/call-for-code-2019/) - In the last five years I have seen how the technology has gotten used during the Mumbai Rains, Chennai Rains and Kerala Floods[1. These are the one’s I have observed closely]. It’s been great to see that technology played a role in bringing some ease and swiftness to relief work. But it can do more - [Python in LibreOffice Macros](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/05/27/python-in-libreoffice-macros/) - Are macros still useful? I think yes. Macros give the users ability to programmatically script the content. This can be really useful in many situations to automate the stuff. Of course there are many reasons not use them. Historically they have been proven very dangerous. Specifically the documents that you receive through email or download - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2019 - Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/05/05/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2019-results/) - Finally its here. It took me a lot of time to decide this year. I received more applications than I expected and of very varied kind. That made it difficult. Like last year, this year too, I divided the grant between three of them. But from next year, I think I will limit it to - [BLE Sending more than 20 Bytes of Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/04/17/ble-sending-more-than-20-bytes-of-data/) - Last year when I was designing the BLE App, one of the hurdle we faced was the packet size. I couldn't send more than 20 bytes of data at once. So I had to created packets of 20 bytes and send them one by one, with some headers for packet information. On the receiver side - [Using Habitica to Build Habits and GTD](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/04/09/using-habitica-to-build-habits-and-gtd/) - I have been using Habitica for last two months very religiously. Habitica is an open source project meant to promote good habits by introducing the concepts of role playing game. I started using Habitica in 2015, on and off. But since this February I have been using it regularly. It has also become my main - [Monitoring Internet connection at Home using Healthchecks.io, Termux and CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/02/25/monitoring-internet-connection-at-home-using-healthchecks-termux-and-couchdb/) - For last few days we have been running a dog cam to watch Max. whenever we are away. Max is getting older, faster than I think. So even though he is very comfortable staying alone at home [4. He mostly sleeps], we like to keep an eye on him for our sanity. The camera is - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant - 2019 Open for Applications](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/02/14/nagarathna-memorial-grant-2019-open-for-applications/) - Nagarathna Memorial Grant is a no strings attached grant of one lakh rupees (~$1400). It's a micro grant targeted at everyone. This is our second year and applications for the year 2019 is open today. - [Educating Millions - Story of Indan EdTech NPTEL](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/01/24/educating-millions-story-of-nptel/) - I started with NPTEL in Jan 2015. It was still very early. They were gearing up towards the launching many courses. I was introduced to NPTEL by my manager as the platform that to educate engineering[1. It was mostly engineering then. Now its gone beyond engineering.] students across India by the professors from the best - [Project - Nammooral techu](https://thejeshgn.com/2019/01/11/project-nammooral-techu/) - Nammooral techu (ನಮ್ಮೂರಲ್ ಟೆಕ್ಕು) is the new project I am involved with. Idea is to translate technology jargons to Kannada, build vocabulary etc. In a way start discussions around it in Kannada. From the about page ಇದು ಟೆಕ್ (ಐಸಿಟಿ, ಡೇಟ ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ)ಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪದಗಳನ್ನು ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ. ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ, ಟೆಕ್ ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅನುವಾದದೊಂದಿಗೆ ವಾರಕ್ಕೊಮ್ಮೆ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ - [Building an Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk and CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/12/17/building-an-alexa-skill-using-openwhisk-and-couchdb/) - Smart Speakers are becoming popular these days. I see Alexa or Google home everywhere, Voice is an interesting technology and I think it’s going to become very popular amongst younger and elderly community. This excites me about this technology. Here in this tutorial we will create a simple Alexa Skill using OpenWhisk as our serverless - [Custom Notebooks](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/12/05/custom-notebooks/) - I love notebooks. Since school days I have been fan of pocket-able notebooks. The one's that reporters use. When I was in school I used carry empty prescription pads of my dad [1. They were plain ones without his name]. I loved them because they used to fit well in my pocket. When I started - [Configuring HC-05 using NodeMCU and Performing Transparent Serial Communication](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/07/12/configuring-hc-05-using-nodemcu-esp8266-transparent-serial-communication/) - My experimentation with Bluetooth Classic mode, specially Serial Port lead me to HC-05 module. Here I use NodeMCU to configure HC-05 and perform transparent serial communication - [Google Walkouts](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/11/22/google-walkouts/) - One of the early cases of sexual harassment that I remember reading about is that of Phaneesh Murthy in 2002. When I joined Infosys in 2003 it was hot topic. There were discussions about how Infosys fired him; unhappiness about the compensation Infosys had to pay etc. I was mostly disgusted by the fact that - [How many hits does EventsBangalore get](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/31/how-many-hits-does-eventsbangalore-get/) - Many were interested in the taraffic flow to EventsBangalore at BCB4. Here is the screeshot from Analytics for this month. This count is only for blog and doesnot include my hits to community and wiki. You can add around 2k to that. This month I have 8375 visitors and around 15k page views. ( click - [BBMP Elections are here](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/03/17/bbmp-elections-are-here/) - At last the goverment has decided to conduct the elections. Its going to happen mar 28, 2010l. Local elections are very important for the city. There are many events scheduled to help citizens make an informed choice. Here are some Suvarna Bengaluru Pranalike: On Friday, 19 March @ Town Hall, JC Road (near corporation). The - [Creating web maps from Python](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/12/26/creating-web-maps-from-python/) - In my work flow I generally use JavaScript to do graphs and maps. That's because most of my work lives online. But before I get to map or graph I will have to do quite a bit of work in python. Which means a lot of work in python and then a bit of work - [Getting started with Software Defined Radio using RTL-SDR](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/10/22/getting-started-with-software-defined-radio-using-rtl-sdr/) - This is an introduction to world of Software Defined Radios the way I experienced it. You will know what it is and how to tune to a FM radio station. - [IT is not the place for women especially young mothers](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/11/17/it-is-not-the-place-for-women-especially-young-mothers/) - Okay, now before you question my intentions, let me make it clear. It's not about women, I think they are very capable (much more than men most of the time), it's about where we work and about our so called work culture. Also this is not based my experiences inside Infy alone (a disclosure is - [The Year that was 2017](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/12/31/the-year-that-was-2017/) - Year 2017 has been a mixed bag. I really enjoyed parts of it, I struggled through other parts, I fell sick, Got things done etc. But now at the end of the year, if I look back I am very happy about the way 2017 turned out. Appa and I went on a great road - [The Year that was 2016](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/31/the-year-that-was-2016/) - 2016 in one word was challenging. It was huge mix of sadness and happiness. I must say this is one of those years that changed some things in me forever and for good. In that way it was a good year. I wish you all the very best for 2017. Some things that happened in - [The Year that was 2015](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/12/31/the-year-that-was-2015/) - Its been a roller-coaster year. We did a great trip earlier this year then like a plan all of us fell sick one after another. All of us got some kind of viral fever. I think it was weather. I watched so many movies during those days. At the end of the year I tried - [The Year that was 2014](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/31/the-year-that-was-2014/) - This year was the fastest year in my opinion. It got over even before I realized that it was 2014. I must say it was one of the busiest year. - [The Year that was 2013](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/12/31/the-year-that-was-2013/) - This is the seventh year of "The Year that was" series. This was the most successful year until now according to me. Here are some of the highlights Life was great. I am married now. Its much better now :) Working with Mavrix has been very fruitful, We released mobile apps this year and also - [The year that was 2012](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/12/31/the-year-that-was-2012/) - So world didn't end and hence I am back to give you the status update: Life has been great. I have been blessed with lots of love and care Work at Mavrix has been great and expect some new announcements very soon Work at NextDrop and India Water Portal is exciting to say the least. - [The Year that was 2011](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/12/31/the-year-that-was-2011/) - Tradition continues. Here are the significant things that happened in 2010. 1. Left Infosys. Enjoyed my stay at Infosys and it was time. 2. Joined Mavrix. Our first product MySwar is in private beta now. We will go public beta next week. Wait for a detailed post. 3. Janaagraha - Part 2. Continued working with - [The year that was 2009](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/31/the-year-that-was-2009/) - Even though I am in no mood of writing, I want to keep the tradition of yearly (2007,2008) posts going. Hence this small post 1. We lost many icons this year. Started with MJ and then concluded with C. Ashwath and Vishnu. 2. For me this had been the year of marriages. Most of my - [How to Write your First Minetest Mod](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/10/01/howto-write-your-first-minetest-mod/) - Minetest is a free and open source Mindcraft alternative. In this simple how to I learn to build my first Minetest mod to add a new block type. It's very simple and straight forward. Do you want to try? - [Organised way to Translate Administrative Names on OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/09/19/organised-way-translate-administrative-names-openstreetmap/) - This morning I was trying to print some maps in Kannada using Marble. Then to my surprise, I found Philippines in English, which means there is no Kannada translation available. Then ran a simple query on Overpass to see the missing Kannada country names. And then fixed it! - [I am an IBM Champion - 2018](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/02/02/i-am-an-ibm-champion-2018/) - So I am IBM Champion for cloud - 2018. It happened earlier this year, but I was waiting for the official announcement before blogging about it. IBM Champion is a non IBMer who demonstrate both expertise in and extraordinary support and advocacy for IBM technology, communities, and solutions. I am interested in Free and Open - [Kickstarting your ML projects using pre-trained models from IBM’s MAX](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/09/05/kickstarting-your-ml-projects-using-pre-trained-models-from-ibms-max/) - One of the biggest challenge when you want to use ML in your project is training models using right data. It’ not super tough if you have enough data to build a model but most of the time when I want to quickly experiment, i don’t necessarily have the data for it, forget about good - [Kannada Web Maps using Tangram by Mapzen](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/09/24/kannada-web-maps-using-tangram-by-mapzen/) - We have all seen beautiful Kannada maps by Yogesh using Mapbox APIs. Another startup which works in the same area is Mapzen. Tangram is a flexible mapping engine by Mapzen. Tangram is designed for real-time rendering of 2D and 3D maps from vector tiles inside your browser or app. Most importantly Tangram allows you to - [Kannada wikipedia meet](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/04/03/kannada-wikipedia-meet/) - Yesterday we had Kannada wikipedia meet at Bangalore. This was to celebrate the number of articles on kn.wikipedia.org exceeding thousand in number and also to get more people involved. We had guest speakers like UR Anantha Murthy and Venkatasubbaiah to give the main speeches. Then the present volunteers took over to explain how to work - [Localization Lab @ IFF](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/03/04/localization-lab-iff/) - I love spreading a word about good tools. There are at least a dozen of tools that I use that I want everyone I know to use. That said most of these tools are not easy to use and/or not in a language which is accessible to all. One way to cut that friction is - [Using SQLite with Libreoffice Base on Linux](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/08/23/using-sqlite-with-libreoffice-base-on-linux/) - In this how-to tutorial we will learn to connect to SQLite Database from LibreOffice Base for creating reports and general database management. - [Freedom Struggle is a Continuous Process](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/08/15/freedom-struggle-is-a-continuous-process/) - August 15th is one of those days for which we would wait. It's a happy day when we get to hear the stories of revolutionaries. Sing and dance to celebrate it. It's also the day that would make me think, what would I do if I was there, then. i.e amongst the rest of the - [Getting Started with Zeroplus LAP Educator 8 Ch Logic Analyzer](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/08/06/getting-started-with-zeroplus-lap-educator-8-ch-logic-analyzer/) - Logic Analyzer is a good tool to have on your work bench. You read about my experiments with cheap knockoff last time. Now I have a Zeroplus LAP Educator[0. Disclosure: They sent me one.]. It's a 8 channel Logic Analyzer targeted at DIY community. In fact its a part of a kit which includes an - [Using Cheap Logic Analyzer with PulseView](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/07/07/using-cheap-logic-analyzer-with-pulseview/) - In my fourth semester of engineering I built a logic analyser mostly using analog components and parallel port. After that I had not thought about one. But for last few weeks I have been dabbling with reverse engineering some signals. A logic analyser comes in handy for that. I really wanted to buy a 8 - [2018 - Nagarathna Memorial Grant Results](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/06/14/2018-nagarathna-memorial-grant-results/) - My mother passed away on 14 April, 2016. She was a teacher. She came from a poor family, struggled throughout her youth to reach where she reached. She was very successful in her personal and professional life. So I thought it would be a good idea to setup a micro grant in her memory. I - [ESP32 - BLE : Building an Echo Service GATT Server](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/06/11/esp32-ble-building-an-echo-service-gatt-server/) - Hello World and Echo BLE GATT server built using ESP32 and Arduino Platform. I use custom service and characteristics in this experiment. Test using NRFConnect App. Follow the steps and build your own. - [Reading books on a phone – How I make the most of it](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/06/09/reading-books-on-a-phone-how-i-make-the-most-of-it/) - I have a kindle with keyboard. I love the hardware. Its easy on eyes, easy to carry and stays "on" forever. That said I have stopped reading on my kindle. I mostly read on my mobile. There are a couple of reasons. I always have my mobile. I can read a chapter when I am - [Privacy Policy](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/05/19/privacy-policy/) - Privacy Policy is updated and you can see it here. I will update it as and when required[1. Based on the services we use]. This site is not big enough to have GDPR, but I think GDPR is a good thing to happen to web. I am trying to follow it as much as possible. - [Making Friends at 35](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/04/08/making-friends-at-35/) - I just finished watching Young Sheldon. The episode that stayed with me the most is the one in which he tries to make friends by reading a book - How to Win Friends and Influence People. I have not read that book[1. One day I will]. But I have tried to make new friends since - [Subscribing to A list of feeds using Feedbase.io and Liferea](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/04/01/subscribing-to-list-feeds-using-feedbase-io-and-liferea/) - Feedbase.io is a database of feeds. You can use it for your subscription manager. It generates your subscription OPML. Magic happens when you use a RSS feed reader client like Liferea to subscribe to a OPML list instead of individual feeds. - [Rechargeable Batteries](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/03/28/rechargeable-batteries/) - My experiments with finding the best rechargeable batteries that can be used with torches, radios or lights etc. It needs to have long life and give me enough power so I can use it with power hungry devices. - [Building HOPCOMS Fruit/Veg Rate API using CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/03/12/building-hopcoms-fruit-veg-rate-api-couchdb/) - I love HOPCOMS stores. There are quite a few stores across Bangalore. They are popular for fresh vegetables and fruits. The Horticultural Producers’ Co-operative Marketing and Processing Society Ltd. or HOPCOMS was established with the principal objective of establishing a proper system for the marketing of fruits and vegetables; one that benefits both the farming - [Notes from IBM Code Day - Bangalore - 2018](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/03/06/notes-ibm-code-day-bangalore-2018/) - This was my first IBM Code Day. I had never been to one and the idea of meeting other IBM Champions excited me. Just wanted to know who they were and what they were up to. Code Day also promised some demos and talks that were interesting. I am going to talk about the technologies - [Mathematics on Web](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/06/27/mathematics-on-web/) - At some point of time course material of Processing will go online. I believe in true web and hence the presentations are in HTML. Last two days I was struggling to put some mathematical formulas with out breaking the web. The best I could find was MathJax. Its an open source JavaScript display engine for - [NoteSelf - TiddlyWiki with CouchDB backend](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/02/08/noteself-tiddywiki-couchdb-backend/) - I have been using TiddyWiki for a long time now. It's a simple HTML application that you can open in a browser and start adding your notes. Once you save, the HTML will contain both code and data. You can send that HTML page to your friends by email to share the notes or put - [Tracking my Podcast Listening](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/01/27/tracking-my-podcast-listening/) - I have listened podcasts for a long time now and I listen to a lot of them. It was about 600hours in 2017. It would have been great to have a history, rates and notes I made while listening somewhere in an open format. But I don't have. Over the years I have tried multiple - [I am working on it again](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/01/25/i-am-working-on-it-again/) - I am working on to cleanup some issues that I have been ignoring for a long time. So things might break. Have patience. - [Answering the Aadhaar Questions Raised by YourStory Article](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/09/answering-aadhaar-questions-raised-yourstory-article/) - I am answering questions raised by Ritesh Dwivedy on YourStory in a blog post titled 5 questions for the anti-Aadhaar brigade. It's also available on UIDAI website. Readers may want to read that post first. Also everyone is welcome to share or republish my answers under CCBYSA. Same or similar questions have been asked and - [How I built A Quick Dashboard for #SpeakForMe Campaign](https://thejeshgn.com/2018/01/04/how-built-a-quick-dashboard-for-speakforme-campaign/) - #SpeakForMe is a campaign to petition Indian MPs, Banks, Mobile operators and other service providers to speak for you against the Aadhaar linking coercion. You can go to #SpeakForMe to send your petition. As part of campaign I built a quick and dirty dashboard for the emails sent. This is a quick note on how - [Barack Obama](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/12/08/barack-obama/) - Obama is probably the best POTUS that I have seen in my lifetime. When he ran for his for office first time in 2008, I followed him everywhere on-line. Even though I had my doubts I wished US will choose its first black president. When he got elected I couldn't believe myself but was very - [Inscription Stones of Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/11/27/inscription-stones-of-bangalore/) - #InscriptionStonesofBangalore is a civic project to raise awareness about the last 25 remaining Inscription Stones of Bangalore out of 150 stones documented by B.L Rice and others between 1894 to 1905. - [UART GATT Server (Peripheral) on Android](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/11/uart-gatt-server-peripheral-on-android/) - Android GATT server is easy to develop and can be very useful for Android to Android or Android to Desktop communication. Here we develop UART GATT Server App. - [UART Over Bluetooth Low Energy](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/01/uart-over-bluetooth-low-energy/) - 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 service. It's - [How to Lie with Graphs](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/11/17/how-to-lie-with-graphs/) - I chanced upon these visualizations on Transforming India Website by Government of India. I found quite a few charts and visualizations that are very misleading. - [Getting started with IBM Iot Platform](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/11/15/getting-started-with-ibm-iot-platform/) - I am planning to add some PM2.5 & PM10 sensors to my network for sensors which are at this point plain weather stations. With this I also wanted to explore a more scalable way of hosting data. Something that I can do easily and that I can suggest other readers. Some of my early version - [India urgently needs responsible disclosure policy guidelines for vulnerability reporting](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/11/03/india-urgently-needs-responsible-disclosure-policy-guidelines-for-vulnerability-reporting/) - This year has been an interesting one for infosecurity in India. Major infrastructure services — from identity to payment services — have gone online. This is also the reason why there is a lot of conversation happening around general and operational security. But what’s lacking is talk around missing guidelines to report security issues in - [Challenges for Open Data – India](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/11/02/challenges-for-open-data-india/) - Recently Pitroda and Malamud spoke about Right to Information and Knowledge. I was asked to talk about hallenges for Open Data in India. This post is my notes. - [Personal Analytics Dashboard using Metabase and Nomie](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/10/26/personal-analytics-dashboard-using-metabase-and-nomie/) - I am planning to create personal analytics dashboards around my life, finance, work etc. This is my first setup using Nomie & Metabase. - [Indian Railways Ticketing - IS for common man](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/11/07/indian-railways-ticketing-is-for-common-man/) - This was supposed to be my first longest travel on Indian Railways. It just took twenty minutes for me to book tickets from Bangalore to Goa online. I was waiting listed with WL120. My friends assured me I will get confirmed as there is one more week for the travel. What surprised me was I - [Dollar one Encyclopedia](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/02/06/dollar-one-encyclopedia/) - Think of wikipedia content available on CD for offline viewing. You will be able to view wikipedia on the road(laptop). You can gift them to schools which doesn't have internet connection.Wikipedia certainly can replace Encarta/Britannica for students who can not pay hefty amount.We can distribute the CD version for almost $1 (in India). How we - [Coffee Project of the Month - phpMinAdmin](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/07/18/coffee-project-of-the-month-phpminadmin/) - I use hell lot of open source projects. Most of them are written by individual developers or a small team of enthusiastic developers. They usually are not paid to do the job (some companies do pay to code for Open Source projects). They don't get anything in return other than fun of coding and *high* - [What does "Google Chrome" mean to developers](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/09/02/what-does-google-chrome-mean-developers/) - Yet another browser to code for? I guess it will obey ECMA-262 rev3 so don't worry too much about incompatibilities as of now. Lets see the positive side Its an open source, you get to participate and allows you to write plug-ins Each tab is a separate process.so the effect of one tab is not - [My code contribution during foss.in/2008 jFotoNotes](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/11/26/my-code-contribution-during-fossin2008-jfotonotes/) - I am attending FOSS.IN/2008 virtually through twitter (unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressure). Here is my contribution to the FOSS world as part of FOSS.IN/2008. Go to jFotoNotes project page jFotoNotes is java implementation of famous FotoNotes in php. A variation of FotoNotes is also used by flickr. Fotonotes is a standard, - [Civic Hacking Workshop](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/29/civic-hacking-workshop/) - A bunch of UK and Indian geeks gathered at Google office while Cameron was praising Sachin at Infosys campus. It was a kind of unconference made possible by CIS, with the UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for Digital Engagement and Google. The discussions were around open data in India ( the - [Tweet4Blood goes OpenSource](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/09/28/tweet4blood-goes-opensource/) - Thanks to people around me Tweet4Blood went Open Source a few days back. The source code is now available on GitHub for anybody to fork and continue development. Last two weeks I have been really busy with IJ.org. I could not deploy the latest version onto tweet4blood.com. I did that today. Now it supports oauth - [GitHub v/s BitBucket](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/05/31/github-vs-bitbucket/) - Both at Mavrix and Janaagraha we have projects that run in public and private collaboration modes. DVCS plays a major role in easy collaboration. Choosing a great DVCS hosting provider is very important for the success of collaboration. After a few days of comparative studies and research, we reached a point where we had decide - [First Open DataCamp is here](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/02/29/first-open-datacamp-is-here/) - Open DataCamp is a one day unconference for people working with data from various sectors to come together and share their projects and ideas. The first one is scheduled on this March 24th, in Bangalore. Google has very graciously agreed to host us in their cafeteria. We are still working on the details of the - [Personal Notes from Open DataCamp Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/04/06/notes-open-datacamp-bangalore/) - When we planned for the Open DataCamp, we never expected to attract such a big gathering of interesting people. The venue we picked could accommodate hundred participants. We didn't expect more that on a long weekend in any way. But on the last day we had around 200 participants on the list. I was hoping - [How to stay anonymous online](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/04/10/howto-stay-anonymous-online/) - I like to use my real name everywhere. But I can afford to that because I am in a reasonably safe place. But there are people who rationally fear retaliation from employers, bad police, bullies, or the rogue state. So it makes sense to stay anonymous. It is very difficult to stay anonymous online. I - [pyg2fa : Python Library for using Google Authenticator with your Web App](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/06/11/pyg2fa-python-library-google-authenticator-with-web-app/) - I have been using Google two factor authentication for a while. It’s probably the reason why I login using my Google id on every possible site I use. I can use a simple mobile app to generate time-sensitive one-time password (OTP) along with my regular password to login. Google authenticator mobile app allows multiple profiles. - [Using sshuttle to remain Safe on Insecure Wi-Fi](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/06/28/using-sshuttle-to-remain-safe-on-insecure-free-wifi/) - Working from home mostly means working from cafes. Though I mostly tether through my mobile to get onto the Internet, it’s not always fast enough. Also bigger bandwidth does attract the geek in me towards public wi-fi. But most public wi-fis are insecure (I think even the private ones are insecure). Using HTTPS connection always - [SQLite - Open Format for Open Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/08/23/sqlite-open-format-for-open-data/) - I scraped Gujarat rainfall data recently. The end result was 6 lakh rows of structured data. I released the data as an SQLite file instead of say a bunch of CSV or excel files. It kind of surprised some of my friends. But I think it’s a great file format for releasing open data. SQLite - [Securing your wordpress with self-signed SSL certificate](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/09/12/securing-your-wordpress-site-with-self-ssl/) - I have been wanting to do this for a long time now. At last thejeshgn.com is available through https. It's mostly done for my own use than my readers. I wanted to protect the admin screen (basically wp-admin). Given that I use my own VPN on public wifi, it may seem less important. But SSL - [Securing your server using DenyHosts](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/09/21/securing-your-server-using-denyhosts/) - Running an internet accessible server means you are opening yourself to crackers. Running the server in itself is a risk, so risk management is of top priority when you open up the ports for accessing the server. The standard ports are 80(http), 443(https) and mostly 22(for ssh). Port 22 is the most important one. Even - [Tiled Map Storage in SQLite](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/06/12/tiled-map-storage-in-sqlite/) - Locus App allows offline sqlite format maps. I was always curious about the self-contained maps specially because I love sqlite. So last evening I selected a small area on Locus and asked it to download in SQLite format. This GIF should show you how to download the maps on locus for offline usage. Remember to - [Watch Now - Internet's Own Boy - Free CC Download](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/01/watch-now-internets-own-boy-free-cc-downlod/) - I am very happy that I came across this project and was able to contribute to it. Given the amount of data scraping I do, you can imagine how close this story is to my heart. Watch it on vimeo on demand if possible. You can download the cc licensed version using bittorrent from Internet - [Archive any blog/website onto Web using archive-it](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/10/02/archive-any-blog-website-on-web-using-archive-it/) - They say Internet doesn't forget anything. But link decay is very common on the web. The things that are visible today on web vanish tomorrow. Links become inaccessible and hence linkrot. But there are services like internet way back machine or archive.today which backup the web pages to find the content for rotten links later. - [opendata.json - Format for making Open Data Discoverable](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/11/27/opendata-json-format-for-making-open-data-discoverable/) - It's a pain to search for Open Data on the web. I publish quite a bit of data. As you could see on the OpenBangalore. The data is in different formats and is at different urls. There is no easy way to find it other than going through the list. You can't find it by - [TextAdept is fun to use and hack - Part 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/02/28/textadept-is-fun-to-use-and-hack-part-1/) - I am a happy SublimeText customer. I am really happy with it. It's an awesome text editor with great community and plugins. But it's not a FOSS. I was always in look out for a simple but extendable, customizable, super fast text editor. Recently when I picked up Lua to learn I chanced upon TextAdept. - [How to Launch your own Online Course](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/04/08/how-to-launch-your-own-online-course/) - MOOCs (Massive open online course) is probably the best way to reach a set of learners whom you can't reach otherwise. Its also the best way to reach thousands with just you as the teacher. That said installing and running a MOOC platform usually takes engineering skill, time and money. But lets say you are - [V7: Embeddable JavaScript Engine](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/06/v7-embeddable-javascript-engine/) - 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 came across - [Detecting Web Censorship by Running OONI on Pi Zero](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/11/15/detecting-web-censorship-running-ooni-pi-zero/) - 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 I didn't - [Expo.io - Building Android and iOS Apps using React Native Made Easy](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/05/building-android-and-ios-apps-using-react-native-made-easy/) - I have used MIT's AppInventor in class rooms. All non-professional programmers appreciate how easy it is to use AppInventor to create apps. I have also seen lot of professionals using it to create one time use apps including me. It's a great tool except you can't generate an iOS app. On the side I have - [Going Serverless with OpenWhisk](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/07/24/going-serverless-with-openwhisk/) - Apache OpenWhisk is an Open Source, serverless platform. In this how to we will learn to setup, code, package and deploy a serverless application, - [Introduction to Querying JSON using JSONata](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/09/13/introduction-to-querying-json-using-jsonata/) - JSON is the defacto data format for web APIs. Usually getting the data you want out JSON means iterating through the arrays, find if the key exists and then accessing the data. It usually doesn’t stop there if you want to do some kind of aggregation. So its writing loops after loops. But what if - [Getting started with SystemML](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/10/17/getting-started-with-systemml/) - In this tutorial we will learn to setup SystemML to run on Spark using Jupyter Notebooks. This is probably the best way to run Machine Learning algorithms. - [Where are the Indian language Maps?](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/09/30/where-are-the-indian-language-maps/) - It’s my hobby to ask Uber drivers which apps they use on a daily basis and what issues they generally face. It’s my opening into the way the world uses technology, which otherwise works perfectly fine for me and for People Like Us. For most drivers, besides network and connectivity issues, the main problem is - [ಕಟ್ಟುವೆವು ನಾವು](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/09/09/kattuvevu-naavu/) - ಹೊಸನೆತ್ತರುಕ್ಕುಕ್ಕಿ ಆರಿಹೋಗುವ ಮುನ್ನ, ಹರೆಯದೀ ಮಾಂತ್ರಿಕನ ಮಾಟ ಮುಸುಳುವ ಮುನ್ನ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹಸಾಹಸದ ಉತ್ತುಂಗ ವೀಚಿಗಳ ಈ ಕ್ಷುಬ್ಧ ಸಾಗರವು ಬತ್ತಿ ಹೋಗುವ ಮುನ್ನ ಕಟ್ಟುವೆವು ನಾವು ಹೊಸ ನಾಡೊಂದನು! ನಮ್ಮೆದೆಯ ಕನಸುಗಳೇ ಕಾಮಧೇನು ಆದಾವು, ಕರೆದಾವು ವಾ೦ಛಿತವನು; ಕರೆವ ಕೈಗಿಹುದೋ ಕನಸುಗಳ ಹರಕೆ; ಗುರಿ ತಪ್ಪದೊಮ್ಮುಖದ ಬಯಕೆ ಬೆಂಬಲಕೆ! ಜಾತಿ ಮತ ಭೇದಗಳ ಕಂದಕವು ಸುತ್ತಲೂ, ದುರ್ಭೇದ್ಯವೆನೆ ಕೋಟೆಕೊತ್ತಲಗಳು; ರೂಢಿರಾಕ್ಷಸನರಸುಗೈಯುವನು, ತೊಳ್ತಟ್ಟಿ ತೊಡೆತಟ್ಟಿ, ಕರೆಯುವನು ಸಂಗ್ರಾಮಕೆ! ನಾವು ಹಿಂದೆಗೆವೆವೇ? ವೀರ ತರುಣರು ನಾವು! ಒಂದೆ ನೆಗೆತಕೆ ನೆಗೆವೆವೋ - [Demonetisation with Srinivasan Ramani](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/01/22/demonetisation-with-srinivasan-ramani/) - Srinivasan Ramani is Deputy National Editor who works with data at The Hindu. He has been a long time member of DataMeet community. This week I caught up with him to talk about Demonetisation move by Government of India. Show Notes Government Press Release -PDF PM Modi Announces Notes Ban In Anti-Corruption Move, Millions Face - [Beautiful Bellagio and Lake Como](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/08/beautiful-bellagio-lake-como/) - Earlier this year I spent a week at Bellagio Center of Rockefeller Foundation for CodeCamp. It's probably one of the best destinations for codecamp. Its meant for long walks and long coding sessions. I did code some interesting piece but I walked on some of the best paths and tried to capture some pictures. Pictures - [HappyTuesday Week 4 – TI EZ430 Chronos Watch Setup](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/26/ti-ez430-chronos-watch-unboxing-setup/) - Last week was little crazy. I actually couldn't find time to do the things that I would like to do on a Tuesday But met couple of interesting people from the internet. I must say the open data scene in India is opening up. BTW if you are interested in Open Data Scene in India. - [ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/08/25/kasagitana-moolabhoota-hakku/) - ನೆನ್ನೆ ಮಾನ್ಯ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್‌ನ ಒಂಬತ್ತು ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಂವಿಧಾನ ಪೀಠವು ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು ಎಂದು ಸರ್ವಾನುಮತದಿಂದ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿತು. ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಬೇಕೆಂದರೆ ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ತನ್ನ ಪಾಡಿಗೆ ತಾನು ಬದುಕುವ ಹಕ್ಕು. ಇದನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಡಿಯುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರತಿ ಭಾರತೀಯನ ಮೇಲೆ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುವಂತಹ ಚಾರಿತ್ರಿಕ ತೀರ್ಪುನ್ನು ಪೀಠವು ನೀಡಿದೆ. ನೆನಪಿನಲ್ಲಿಡಬೇಕಾದ ಅಂಶವೆಂದರೆ ಖಾಸಗಿತನವು ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು ಅಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಇವೆಲ್ಲದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನನ್ನೆರಡು ಮಾತುಗಳು. ಓದಲಿಕ್ಕೆ: ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್‌ನ ತೀರ್ಪಿನ ಪ್ರತಿ ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ಮೂಲಭೂತ - [Authenticating to BLE device Offline](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/08/24/authenticating-to-ble-device-offline/) - Let's say I have a Bluetooth Low Energy device which is a GATT server and is not connected to internet. I have a phone which can connect to this BLE device, authenticate itself and do some data exchange. The problem I am trying to solve authentication. The condition is both BLE device and phone are - [Upgrading in Process](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/08/11/upgrading-in-process/) - I am upgrading multiple things. So things might break. Comment below if you find any broken stuff. - [Using DataTables with CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/07/21/using-datatables-with-couchdb/) - I was wondering if server-side support of DataTable can be used to pull data from CouchDB using CouchDB HTTP APIs. With some hacking around I was able to achieve it. - [ZenFone 2 Laser is my new media phone](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/12/10/zenfone-my-new-media-phone/) - Since the epic drive I have used a separate phone for media related functions. This media phone is generally what I use for taking pictures, watching videos, listening podcasts, blogging, making maps and to contribute to numerous crowdsourced projects. So when I got an opportunity to try ZenFone 2 Laser I jumped into it and - [Gadget: Zenfone Max the Travelers Phone](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/31/gadget-zenfone-max-travelers-phone/) - The biggest pain w.r.t phone while traveling is network and battery. I got a new phone for the last year's epic drive, just for the trip. I paid about 10k and it was a bad phone. It would restart all the time, couldn't focus etc. or let me just say it was disaster. After using - [Dear Mr R S Sharma: Aadhaar Number has no place on the Open Web](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/07/07/dear-mr-r-s-sharma-aadhaar-number-has-no-place-on-the-open-web/) - The Center for Internet and Society recently published a report called Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information. After it was published it got wide media coverage. R S Sharma, currently chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, - [Offline First Apps for Indians - Part 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/06/30/offline-first-apps-for-indians-part-1/) - In 2015 I drove across India. It involved some of the most developed areas to very remote places. In some places it was difficult to get couple of hours of electricity. Connectivity was very patchy and in some places non-existent. In 2017 things have improved but not uniformly across India. Most of India is still - [Reverse Engineering iTag - A Bluetooth Low Energy Button](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/06/20/reverse-engineering-itag-bluetooth-low-energy-button/) - Couple of weeks back I bought a few iTags. These are simple BLE buttons. They have a small led, a button and a buzzer. CR2032 - a 3v coin cell battery powers it. Since they are Bluetooth Low Energy devices, a single cell can power them for years. It's easy to change batteries if they - [Bangalore weather](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/06/27/bangalore-weather/) - Bangalore is very cool last few days. We are not getting rains but its cloudy. What do I need now.Bisi bisi idli sambar and some hot kaapi ! - [Hyderabad police have Orwellian plans for you; they’re building a surveillance hub](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/06/01/hyderabad-police-orwellian-plans-building-surveillance-hub/) - Something strange and worrisome is happening in Hyderabad. The police there want to collect records of every resident, regardless of whether or not the person is a suspect of any crime. And it doesn’t end there. They want to collect very specific details including phone numbers, relationships, voter identification numbers and Aadhaar numbers. Almost like - [Only Technology Can't Solve Ethical Problems](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/21/only-technology-cant-solve-ethical-problems/) - The title of this post is from my old blog post. It was supposed to be published on internal blog of a huge IT company. I never finished it. Hence it never got published. The title perfectly matches this post as well. Hence I am reusing it. Let me tell you the story I wrote - [Against Common Sense](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/03/against-common-sense/) - Last few days [1. Before I fell sick] I was in a conversation with someone. In most cases he would end the argument with "It's common sense". I agreed to disagree with him on "common sense". "common sense" is a starting point to any debate. It's not how one ends the debate. Most people including - [Logging code commits with Nomie](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/03/logging-code-commits-with-nomie/) - I use Nomie to track almost all things in my life. For a long time I wanted to log my commits so I can do some analysis like "where do I code the most?" etc. So as soon as I got the Nomie API key, I created post-commit hooks to track code commits. GIT Once - [TV Appearance](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/17/tv-appearance/) - I appeared on TV9, Public TV and News9 recently. In all three appearances I talked about WannaCry ransomware. There are not many technologists to explain tech on Kannada TV and hence it was important. Of all three I really loved talking to Ranganath on Public TV. The invitation was sudden and so I was unprepared. - [Geeks and Embarrassments](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/04/20/geeks-and-embarrassments/) - I have been a geek all my life, mostly embarrassing friends and family around me. This time I went a step further. It was meant to be a personal letter. I sent it to an email list. I told her what happened. She was embarrassed. She likes most things about me. This time it took - [CouchDB is my personal BaaS](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/07/27/couchdb-is-my-personal-baas/) - My various small term and long-term projects need database. As of now I have used various kinds of RDBMS like Postgres, SQLite, NoSQLs like Mongo and Redis. All these four are great and have made me really productive. All four databases are open source and they cover all my requirements as of now. But recently - [Trolling Aadhaar Critics](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/26/trolling-aadhaar-critics/) - It's not a news anymore. @jackerhack has written about this in detail. To which after a denial, the man behind the accounts has apologized. I have not met Sharad nor done any business with him. I have attended a product nation conclave couple of years back. [pullquote-left] Thank you @jackerhack for alerting me and everyone - [This one small step by the government can be a giant step in boosting the cybersecurity of millions](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/05/14/this-one-small-step-by-the-government-can-be-a-giant-step-in-boosting-the-cybersecurity-of-millions/) - As part of its Digital India initiative, the central government has been readying its cyber warfare arsenal. Its latest weapon is a mobile and desktop security solution that will notify, enable cleaning and secure devices and systems of end-users. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched this solution — a botnet cleaning and - [Fort of Chitradurga](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/01/12/fort-of-chitradurga/) - It was during my travel back from Finland. I had an Indian doctor as my neighbor in flight. As usual we started talking about India, politicians and travel. Then later we realized both of us are from Bangalore and we both are Kannadigas but chatting in English. Then we continued our conversations in Kannada about - [City of Helsinki](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/10/15/city-of-helsinki/) - Helsinki or Helsingfors is the capital and largest city of Finland. Thanks to Nokia and Womworld I got a chance to visit Helsinki. After three days of very interesting OpenLab workshop, I had two days to roam around in Helsinki. Like any backpacker I looked for a Hostel to stay. The Helsinki Stadium Hostel seemed - [Privacy concerns spill over offline: 5 steps you must take to prevent identity theft](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/04/07/privacy-concerns-spill-over-offline-5-steps-you-must-take-to-prevent-identity-theft/) - How many times have you put down your name and number in a visitor’s book after making a purchase in a store? And filled in all your life’s details — from birth date to marital status — while registering on an ecommerce site or some delivery app? Next time you are asked to do that, - [Stop worrying and check out these simple steps to secure your mobile](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/03/16/stop-worrying-and-check-out-these-simple-steps-to-secure-your-mobile/) - Like every geek, I have been asked to set up computers for family and friends. These days I get asked about mobiles/web than computers. These are friends who want to be safe online and minimise loss when they misplace their phone or other devices. Over couple of years I have made a list that I - [Why India is so vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/03/07/why-india-is-so-vulnerable-to-cyber-attacks/) - In mid-August, news reports on the Scorpène leak — over 22,000 pages of sensitive data related to India’s Scorpène-class submarines was compromised — sent the Indian Navy and the government into a tizzy. The dust had barely settled on the matter when news of one of the biggest breaches of financial data — information related - [Book: The Annihilation of Caste](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/09/book-the-annihilation-of-caste/) - "The Annihilation of Caste" was supposed to be delivered at a conference organized by a Hindu reformist group Jat-Pat Todak Mandal in Lahore, 1936. At last-minute the group took back the invitation saying speech was against Hinduism and its shastras. Ambedkar self published the speech as the book. At that point the content of the - [Book: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/02/29/book-on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience/) - Written by American abolitionist Henry David Thoreau has inspired other Civil Disobedience leaders from across the world. The book generally speaks about the state, its influence on citizen and how citizen should resist it when it's against their conscience. Its something that I read in one go on a flight. It's not a huge book, - [SmartTab - Why a cheap android tab?](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/11/09/smarttab-why-a-cheap-android-tab/) - I bought a new Karbonn SmartTab2. It was roughly INR 7K ($140). Many of my friends were surprised that I bought a cheap tablet (especially because I have plans of upgrading my Nexus One by year end). I have been exploring cheap tablets for a while and I settled down for SmartTab at last for - [Book: The Science of Getting Rich](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/02/08/book-the-science-of-getting-rich/) - This one by Wallace Wattles reads like a book. Even though the title says "The Science" it mostly talks like religion. I am not a fan of self-help books. This one is considered the father of all self help books. Also its in public domain. So why not try it? Just like any other self-help - [Book: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/04/28/book-narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave/) - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass published in 1845 is probably the most popular and well written Auto Biography written by former slave and then abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The narratives are simple, plain and yet powerful. It's a story of a boy who wants to be free. Its his journey from a regular slave - [Book: Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/04/book-scenes-in-the-life-of-harriet-tubman/) - [dropcap]H[/dropcap]arriet Tubman also called [highlight]Moses[/highlight] by her people for leading people from slavery to freedom literally. She was born into slavery, she escaped it by all alone walking through the night, with just north star as reference. She crossed into Pennsylvania with the help of other Underground Railroad[1. The Underground Railroad was a network of - [Book: How to Lie with Statistics](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/18/book-how-to-lie-with-statistics/) - In an era where every fight online is fought with numbers, this 50-year-old book should be made a compulsory college reading. Stats and graphs are part every news-hour show and part of every political discourse now. But every bit of number is taken as fact instead of being questioned. This is where Darrell Huff's small - [Book: Anarchism and Other Essays](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/06/06/book-anarchism-and-other-essays/) - A web spiral on Labor day celebrations in India landed me on a Wikipedia page of a well known anarchist and feminist of her day. Though I was very uncomfortable [1.Tactical uses of violence] with some of her methods, her views on many things are very interesting and dare I say very relevant today. As - [Book: An Atheist with Gandhi](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/06/09/book-an-atheist-with-gandhi/) - It's an interesting book to read. Written by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao nicknamed Gora about his experience of living at Sevagram and his conversations around atheism with Gandhi. It's interesting because Gandhi is a super-believer and Gora is an atheist. Gora is an interesting personality. He along with his wife were the founders of Atheist Center, - [Obsessed with Einstein](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/07/04/obsessed-with-einstein/) - For a long time I was scared to read Einstein. Most of my physics reading was Richard Feynman's essays. I think its more to do with his life and character than the physics itself. If I remember properly I read A Brief History of Time when I was in college. That's the closest I have - [Curiosity is the mother of all](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/11/30/curiosity-is-the-mother-of-all/) - T was very young then to understand how the world worked. Even though his parents were Govt employees, they lived in a village outside Bangalore. T was very fond of his mama G (mama means uncle. G was actually his Chikappa, fathers cousin brother but T always called him mama). Well actually he was more - [Community Created Free and Open Maps of India](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/02/03/community-created-free-open-maps-of-india/) - Since the beginning of Data{Meet} maps have been hottest discussion subjects. Data{Meet} community has contributed to various maps over the years. But Data{Meet} is a small part of much bigger mapping community in India. This community has created a variety of free and open maps in India which institutions have failed to deliver with all - [Review of rotring Tikky 3in1 Pen](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/01/24/review-of-rotring-tikky-3in1-pen/) - If you know me then you would probably know that my biggest weakness is stationery stores. I love everything they have from notebooks to erasers. I love buying pens, notebooks and watches. Unlike watches I do use notebooks and pens on daily basis. For a long time I used Reynolds Jetter Ballpen. Its cheap, works - [Bob Dylan's interview with Time Magazine 1965](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/10/09/bob-dylan-interview-with-time-magazine-1965/) - Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, poet and, of late, disc jockey who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal chronicler and a reluctant figurehead of American - [Nomie - How I Track Everything in My Life](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/01/11/nomie-how-i-track-everything-my-life/) - Nomie is a simple and usable tracker. What makes it better is it doesn't have artificial restrictions, doesn't lock you down, its private, customizable and has great API support if you are a DIY kind of Quantified Self practitioner. But none of these matter if the app is not usable or useful. So lets look - [Book: Spam Nation](https://thejeshgn.com/2017/01/09/book-spam-nation/) - Spam Nation by Brian Krebs reads like a crime thriller. For cyber security enthusiasts Krebs is no stranger. He has been writing about cyber security and crime on his blog KrebsOnSecurity for more than seven years now and before that at WaPo. I have been reading his blog for more than half a decade now - [How can you support Open Data and Privacy at the same time?](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/09/07/how-can-you-support-open-data-and-privacy-at-the-same-time/) - I always thought the answer was obvious. This has come up so many times in last few conversations that I think its time to blog. Open Data is for Governments. Because they have always been closed and they have all the power (money, muscle power, access to resources, ability to change or manipulate law) and - [The demonetisation drive ignores India’s 15m visually impaired people](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/21/the-demonetisation-drive-ignores-indias-15m-visually-impaired-people/) - With some 15 million visually impaired citizens, India has the highest number of blind people in the world. Yet, they have been largely ignored in the demonetisation drive on in the country aimed at curbing black money in the economy. Generally, hard cash, whether its currency notes or coins, have features for the blind to - [Meeting Woz](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/12/04/meeting-woz/) - I didn't expect it to happen. It was a very happy surprise. Today is one of the most unforgettable days in my life. I am much bigger fan of him now. I knew he was in Bangalore. I knew he was here for a private secretive conference. But he was not really secretive about it - [WhatsApp - Fast Lane to Fake News in India](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/07/whatsapp-fast-lane-to-fake-news-in-india/) - 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 people in - [Dear Reliance - One of us is lying](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/07/07/dear-reliance-one-of-us-is-lying/) - From Web of Deceit on the The Caravan A more worrying development regarding ISP actions came to light at the end of May, when the activist group Anonymous India hacked into the servers of one provider, Reliance Communication, and released a list of 434 web addresses that had been blocked. Among these were 45 addresses - [Reliance netconnect - full circle](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/23/reliance-netconnect-full-circle/) - After struggling with BSNL customer service for a long time, I am out now. I have a reliance netconnect again. This time its cheaper and better. Like any early adopter I had a netconnect in 2008. It was expensive, slow and had struggle to connecting on Linux. No wonder my tutorial got page views. I - [Just to prove you a human](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/26/just-to-prove-you-a-human/) - You must have seen Hot or Not captcha. Where you have to chose 3 sexiest men/women to prove that you are human being. It was fun and easy to use that captcha. Now comes the most difficult Captcha. I am not sure if I can prove I am human. Tip: Brad - [Why I became FSF Associate Member](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/12/02/why-i-became-fsf-associate-member/) - 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 branched into - [Book: Networks of Newyork](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/11/22/book-networks-of-newyork/) - 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 book opens - [Memories](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/10/12/memories/) - I turn 36 today. I didn't think what I wrote last year would come into effect so fast. Life is really short. Amma isn't here anymore. It felt like someone pressed a button somewhere and everything was over. I miss her but I am also very proud and happy when I look at the way - [Half Life](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/10/12/half-life/) - [dropcap]I[/dropcap] turned 35 today. It didn't come as a shocker like 30. I have been expecting it for five years now. Anyway my perspective on many things in life has improved. I don't say changed because my values stay the same and I remain the same. But that said some of those beliefs have become - [Everything India’s Geospatial Regulation Bill will kill if it is passed](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/18/everything-indias-geospatial-regulation-bill-will-kill-if-it-is-passed/) - On April 26, India launched its own satellite-based navigation system called the IRNSS, short for Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. The objective: to provide accurate — better than 20 metres — location information to users in India as well as the region extending 1,500 km from its boundaries. When the IRNSS-1G — the seventh and - [Geo Mapping in Wordpress Blogs](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/01/28/geo-mapping-in-wordpress-blogs/) - I use maps (gis) for tagging blog posts, adding pictures to posts, mapping my walks or runs, for writing travelogues and general map related experimentation. For a while I have been searching for maps utility to use it on my blog. For a long time its been embedding either Google Maps or Open Street Maps. - [Bangalore - BBMP 2010 election results are out](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/04/05/bangalore-bbmp-2010-election-results-are-out/) - BJP is the clear winner of 2010 BBMP elections. I expected it as BJP is the ruling party here in Karnataka. I should have thought about presenting results in a better way. But then it struck me only in the late noon. I could only create only a small mashup of election results on Google - [Contribute to Mozilla Location Service Project](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/05/06/contribute-to-mozilla-location-service-project/) - Last few days I have been contributing to a project of Mozilla called Location Services. Its a crowdsourced project to map the wireless networks (WiFi access points, cell towers, etc.) across the world. This will help the devices which doesn't have built in GPS or can't get GPS signal to figure their location. There are - [Book: Nationalism by Tagore](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/09/08/book-nationalism-by-tagore/) - I just finished reading Nationalism by Tagore. The book has three essays which talk about Nationalism in the West, Nationalism in Japan, Nationalism in India and ends with a poem called The Sunset of the Century. First two essays are based on lectures delivered in USA and Japan. The third essay on India was written - [Data Journalism: Lie With Bad Sample Surveys](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/09/02/data-journalism-lie-with-bad-sample-surveys/) - A 1954 book “How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrel Huff should be made a compulsory reading for anyone who wants to do data based journalism. The book is very small and talks about the ways data is used to lie aka statisticulation. In 2016, 62 years later, we still see the same mistakes or - [Tracking Happiness](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/08/10/tracking-happiness/) - A friend of mine Anu has this popular question to ask when she meets us "What am I proud of and grateful for?". It's an interesting question. While answering it last time, I realized its a proxy question for asking how happy am I. I don't know what Anu thinks but I will ask her - [Book: Writing the Book](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/08/19/book-writing-the-book/) - I follow Nieman Reports and NiemanLab to know everything that's happening in digital journalism world. Very recently I found out that they publish books. So I picked Writing the Book, How to Craft Narratives, from Concept to Content as my first read. It's an anthology of essays written by journalists on how they can became - [ನನ್ನ ಕನ್ನಡ ದಿನ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/08/02/nanna-kannada-dina-patrike/) - ನಮ್ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊದಲಿಂದಲೂ ಕನ್ನಡ ದಿನ ಹಾಗು ವಾರ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹಾಗೂ ಓದುವ ಹವ್ಯಾಸ ಇತ್ತು. ಸುಧಾ, ತರಂಗ, ಲಂಕೇಶ್ ಮುಂತಾದ ವಾರಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳ ಜೋತೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ, ಶಾಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದೂ, ಟೈಮ್ಸ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ, ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿ ಇನ್ನೂ ಮುಂತಾದವು. ಸಮಯ ಬದಲಾದಂತೆ, ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಯು ಬದಲಾಯಿತು. ನಂತರ ವಿಜಯ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಬಂತು. ಈಗ ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ವಿಜಯವಾಣಿ ಓಡುತ್ತಿದೆ ನನ್ನ ತಾಯಿ ಮನೇಲಿ. ನನ್ನ ಮದುವೆ ನಂತರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ ತರಿಸುವ ಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಿತ್ತು. ನನ್ನಾಕೆ ಮಲೆಯಾಳಿ - [Book: Free Thought and Official Propaganda](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/07/22/book-free-thought-and-official-propaganda/) - Delivered as a speech as part of Conway Memorial Lectures at South Place Institute on 24 March 1922. This essay by Bertrand Russell a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic is very relevant even today. In this essay/speech Russel talks about the challenges for free-thought and free-speech in the context of raising nationalism and - [My Reply](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/06/15/my-reply/) - This was in response to LEGAL NOTICE TO THEJESH GN CEASE AND DESIST INFRINGEMENT. - [They want to take away maps they never gave us](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/31/they-want-to-take-away-maps-they-never-gave-us/) - For anyone familiar with DataMeet, a community of data enthusiasts[1. I’m a cofounder], you would be aware that the discussion can be rather stilted. Even though the list is dedicated to all types of data, geospatial data seems to be the main topic. There are over 700 topics related to geospatial data, out of 1600. - [Python on ESP8266 using MicroPython](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/05/05/python-on-esp8266-using-micropython/) - You know I love ESP8266 and Python. So when the opportunity came to be part of it, I did in a small way on Kickstarter. The project team has been truly great. They send almost monthly updates on what they are working on and since they got enough funding they went open from day 1[1. - [Introducing OpenCity.in](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/04/23/introducing-opencity-in/) - I have maintained OpenBangalore for couple of years now. Most of the data on it is either contributed by me or by community. For months there has been demand for such a site for other cities. But its kind of difficult to build a community site for each city unless we have maintainers for each - [Free and Open Source Software at Allahabad High Court](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/07/27/free-and-open-source-software-at-allahabad-high-court/) - I got a mail on BLUG list from Moinak Ghosh about Hon'ble Mr. Justice Yatindra Singh, Hon'ble Chairman, Computerization Committee, Allahabad High Court. And his talk at SUN Technology Conference. And the mail spoke about the knowledge of this extrodinary gentleman about FOSS and its implementation at Allahabad High Court. The mail also spoke about - [Thinking of 2007](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/12/19/thinking-of-2007/) - The Year that was 2006: 2007 is fast approaching. As I am on vacation from next week I am writing the year end post now. 2006 has been a great year for me offline and online. In 2006 I stared the bog EventsBangalore on blogspot with posting events happening in and around Bangalore. With in - [Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws : RMS](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/08/26/indians-should-oppose-the-changes-to-ip-laws-rms/) - Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws : RMS RMS was addressing the gathering of 4th International GPLv3 conference at Bangalore. He was in his regual mood with the software freedoms (a) the freedom to use the software, (b) the freedom to copy and share the software, (c) the freedom to modify the software - [Urge Visveswaraiah Technological University to go Open Source](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/03/03/urge-visveswaraiah-technological-university-to-go-open-source/) - Please log your comments and sign it.We will send the same to VC.Please provide your complete name and other details also. The Vice Chancellor Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum - 590 014 Karnataka State, India Respected Sir, Re: Opening wider software avenues for your students through Free Software. There are thousands of engineering and polytechnic colleges - [Update: VTU-FLOSS Campaign](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/12/05/update-vtu-floss-campaign-status/) - As you know VTU FLOSS Petition was handed over to VTU registrar since we couldn't meet the VC . Many of my friends blogged about this. The message in the blogs has reached VTU. Yesterday I got a call from VTU registrar inquiring me about this post. He was not very happy about me using - [Meaning of hack according to Indian IT Act 2000](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/01/11/meaning-of-hack-according-to-indian-it-act-2000/) - I am doing this course in IPR laws by NLSIU. Hence I was going through the India IT ACT 2000. There I found the definition for Hack and Hacking.Like any other main stream media journalists these guys (law makers) wrongly use the words hack and hacker. Instead of crack and cracker ( cracking). This is - [Yahoo! Our City for Bangalore and Delhi](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/02/02/yahoo-our-city-for-bangalore-and-delhi/) - Yahoo India opens mashup sites for Bangalore and Delhi. The sites are called Yahoo Our City Bangalore or Delhi. They are still in beta state and I should say our city team has done a great job. According to them the site Yahoo! Our City provides a very interesting, rich and dynamically updated perspective of - [Zook.in-to the mobile India](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/02/20/8294/) - Zook is a new mobile answer engine which helps you quickly get answers, and act on them, not just pages upon pages of links. It identifies the really clear answers upfront, or interactively narrows down to what you really meant to look for. On the move," I have been trying their service since the alpha - [Talk by Vint Cerf - Father of Internet](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/02/24/talk-by-vint-cerf-father-of-internet/) - Vint Cerf recently gave a talk in Bangalore as a part of Google Talk series. Here is a small video (6mins) of that talk. For people who don't know who is Vint Cerf Vint Cerf(June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the - [Working with teams across timezones](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/03/06/working-with-teams-across-timezones/) - Communication is the most important part of teams working in different time zones. It not very uncommon to see the teams working two or more time zones. This makes it very difficult to get the common time where everybody can come meet online. This factor makes mails as the most important linking tool for the - [Happy New Year - 2007](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/12/24/happy-new-year-2007/) - I am going to go on vacation from tomorrow.Hence I wont be here for the new year. All I am going to say here...you guys have a rocking 2007. May all your dreams come true. I am going to north east of India (specially sikkim) this new year. I am going to Sikkim and other - [Using ANT to fix end of line problem in scripts or text files](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/01/07/using-ant-to-fix-end-of-line-problem-in-scripts-or-text-files/) - One of the ant tasks which has been overlooked is the one related to files. ANT can do some really useful things for us. When development environment is windows and deployment environment is *nix we always face the problem of ^M characters. The text files edited and saved in windows will have special characters (*nix) - [Log Analyzer for Log4j - Chainsaw](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/11/10/log-analyzer-for-log4j-chainsaw/) - We have been using the Log4j for logging since years. Log4j is pretty matured. The log4j developers add something new every time they release a version.Now Log4j has the capability of logging into anything and everything. You can log the events in to file system ( simple or xml) or database on JDBC or socket - [Top ten ways to force your brilliant developer to quit](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/09/29/top-ten-ways-to-force-your-brilliant-developer-to-quit/) - You have very brilliant developer under you.Now he looks like over taking you.Here are some points which can be used to make him quit. You will be safe after that 1. Give unachievable theoretical targets 2. Very tight schedule where he can not meet the deadlines with out working 16hrs/day 3. Shift him to the - [Help to Map Bangalore Biodiversity](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/03/20/help-to-map-bangalore-biodiversity/) - I like walking when I am in a new place. When I am in a human habitat I map postboxes or do some OSM. If I trekking then I try to take pictures of flora and fauna so I can add to Biodiversity map on iNaturalist.org along with capturing the trail for sharing. iNaturalist.org is - [Kindle and hacking heroes](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/03/14/kindle-and-hacking-heroes/) - After a very long break I am back into reading books. I must say my attention span has reduced. I had to concentrate hard for the first twenty pages to get into the groove. No internet (actually avoiding it) helped. I was at Hyderabad airport and flight was delayed by an hour. I generally plan - [Book - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/01/14/book-flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions/) - If there is genre called Mathematical Fiction then this is my first book in that genre. Reading this 1884 book by an english school master is pure joy. It's an easy read. It explores multiple dimensions and comments on societal norms. Its set in flatland (A two-dimensional world and hence flat) and narrated by a - [BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility - Part 2](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/06/bmtc-bus-stop-accessibility-part-2/) - One of the biggest criticism of my previous post about BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility study was that the data was old. I set out to fix that. BMTC now has fairly well defined website and hence I scraped their data with ease. Now we have the recent data (Feb/2014) as per BMTC website available on - [BMTC Bus Stop Accessibility](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/11/29/bmtc-bus-stop-accessibility/) - Bus stops are very important considering every trip starts and ends at one of them. There are many qualities of bus stop that would affect the quality of commute. One of them is coverage area of the bus stop. The public transit/commute usage directly depends on how near or far the bus stop is. Of - [Lawrence Liang's Speech at JNU Alternative Classroom - Annotated](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/03/09/lawrence-liangs-speech-at-jnu-alternative-classroom-annotated/) - Lawrence Liang legal researcher, lawyer and co founder of the Alternative Law Forum based in Bangalore. He is known for his legal campaigns on issues of public concern. Picture of Lawrence is by Joi Ito is distributed under CC BY 2.0. He recently lectured at JNU Alternative Classroom. It was a brilliant lecture with various - [Book: The Einstein Theory of Relativity](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/02/28/book-the-einstein-theory-of-relativity/) - The quote that "there are only twelve people in this world who understand Einstein's Theory" surely is not true. But I am sure there are only twelve people in this world who can explain it like I am five twelve years old. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz who is credited with with sharing the development of his - [Geocaching, The Intersection and OpenPostBox](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/02/23/geocaching-the-intersection-and-openpostbox/) - I appeared(?) on the Intersection podcast to talk about Geocaching. Geocaching is a real world treasure hunt using GPS enabled devices. The podcast itself was about IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) by ISRO. Its GPS like navigation system for Indian subcontinent. Just like GPS, IRNSS is supposed to provide open to public service with - [All new OpenPostbox.org and The Karnataka Philatelic Society](https://thejeshgn.com/2016/02/09/all-new-openpostbox-org-and-the-karnataka-philatelic-society/) - Members of Karnataka Philatelic Society meet every first Sunday of the month at GPO, Bangalore. They invited me this time to come and talk about OpenPostbox. It was an awesome group to talk. It wasnt difficult to convince them to contribute. Members have already started sending me pictures of postboxes. I will have to take - [Quantified Self](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/11/30/quantified-self/) - Like many of my readers I believe in Quantified Self. I believe in measuring most aspects of my life and reviewing it. I used various web platforms to do it. But the problem is sharing. Yes. Sharing. Most platforms allow you to share the data with them but wont allow to share the same with - [Our Home is Our Utopia.](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/10/25/our-home-is-our-utopia/) - I read Anything You Want years back. It's a small book about building a company. It's so small that you can probably complete it two hours. There are a couple of quotes from that have stayed with me since then. When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design your perfect - [Why and How to run a web app on Android](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/09/30/why-and-how-to-run-a-web-app-on-android/) - Why run a web app on Android you might ask. When I am travelling my second phone is always on and is capturing data (time, gps, ODB via bluetooth etc). Along with mobile I would love to have a couple of ESP8266/Sensor combo devices to capture data on the go. I don't want them to - [Keeping in touch](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/02/keeping-in-touch/) - I was so impressed by this story of keeping in touch titled 3191 miles apart. I wanted to do something like that. Now I am happy to announce 3191 is a joint photography project.we live 3191 miles apart as the car drives, not as the crow flies. we take our photographs in the morning and - [Citizenfour](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/09/01/citizenfour/) - As I watched this movie the first thing that came into my mind was Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at - [Starting with ESP8266](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/08/09/starting-with-esp8266/) - I really loved playing with circuits while I was in college. After college I started programming. I really love programming. In last few years electronics has become as much fun as programming. I really didn't want to miss a chance where I could do both. i.e solder my circuit and programs for it. I have - [State of Political Conversations Online](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/06/20/state-of-political-conversations-online/) - I have blogged for a decade and been writing about politics for a while. But this year has been different, not just because more Indians are online and on social media. But also because there is more bullying (trolls) online this time. I have seen more of them on twitter than anywhere else. Probably because - [ನಿನಗೆ ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಲವು ಅರಿಯೆ ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಛಲವೋ](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/05/27/ninage-nannli-olavo-chalavo/) - ನಲಿವ ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವೆ ಮುಗಿಲಾ ಮೇಲೇರಿ ನಗುವೆ ನಿನಗೆ ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಒಲವು ಅರಿಯೆ ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಛಲವೋ ನಲಿವ ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವೆ ಒಲವೋ ಛಲವೋ ಒಲವೋ ಛಲವೋ ಸುಳಿದೆ ತಂಗಾಳಿಯಂತೆ ನುಡಿದೆ ಸಂಗೀತದಂತೆ ಒಲವಿನ ಬಲೆಯಲಿ ಸೆಳೆಯುತ ಕುಣಿದೆ ಸೊಗಸಾಗಿ ಹಿತವಾಗಿ ಮನವ ನೀ ಸೇರಲೆಂದೆ ಬಯಕೆ ನೂರಾರು ತಂದೆ ಬಯಸದೆ ಬಳಿಯಲಿ ಸುಳಿಯುತ ಒಲಿದೆ ಇಂದೇಕೆ ದೂರಾದೆ ಬಯಸದೆ ಬಳಿಯಲಿ ಸುಳಿಯುತ ಒಲಿದೆ ಇಂದೇಕೆ ದೂರಾದೆ ಹೀಗೇಕೆ ಮರೆಯಾದೆ ಸುಮವೇ ನೀ ಬಾಡದಂತೆ ಬಿಸಿಲಾ ನೀ ನೋಡದಂತೆ - [Speeches by Subash Chandra Bose in his own Voice](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/01/22/speeches-by-subash-chandra-bose-in-his-own-voice/) - Here are the two greatest speeches by Subash Chandra Bose in his own voice. The first one was given by Subash representing India at Great East Asia Conference at Tokoyo. Japan. Where he speaks about martyrdom and future of India and Asia. Subash at Great East Asia Conf mp3 download The second one is the - [ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭಕ್ಕೆ ಏನಾಗಿದೆ? ನೀವೇ ಹೇಳಿ](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/02/11/kannda-prahbhakke-enagide/) - ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಚ್ಚಾದ ಈ ಲೇಖನವನ್ನು ಓದುವಾಗ ಅನ್ನಿಸ್ಸಿದ್ದು "ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭಕ್ಕೆ ಏನಾಗಿದೆ?" ತಲೆ ಕೆಟ್ಟಿದೆ ಅಂತ ಅನ್ನಿಸದೇ ಇರದು ಅಲ್ವ? ಉಮೇಶ್ ರೆಡ್ಡಿಗೆ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಒಳ ಉಡುಪನ್ನು ಕದಿಯುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ, ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮಜಾ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಅದು Individual Freedom ಎಂದು ಸುಮ್ಮನಾಗಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವೆ? ನೀವೇ ಹೇಳಿ ಯಾರು ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ ಹಕ್ಕಿನ Individual Freedomನ್ನು ವಿರೋಧಿಸಲು ಉಮೇಶ್ ರೆಡ್ಡಿಯ ಉದಾಹರಣೆ ಕೊಡ್ತಾರೆ? ಎಂಥೆಂಥಾ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳಿಗೂ ಪರಿಹಾರ ಕಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಈ ಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಲಿಂಗ ಕಾಮವೆಂಬ ವ್ಯಾಧಿಗೂ ಸಲಹೆ, - [Locus the best Android Map App for Geek Travellers](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/06/19/locus-the-best-android-map-app-for-geek-travellers/) - I travel quite a bit for both business and pleasure. I enjoy driving, cycling and walking while I am traveling. I am also a data geek and blogger so its important for me to record things. In last few years I have tried multiple map applications while traveling both in cities where I had great - [Bangalore Weather Variation in Feb 2015](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/03/08/bangalore-weather-variation-in-feb-2015/) - Weather this Feb was very different. It looked like it almost changed everyday. Sometimes days were too hot and night too cold. I also fell sick (mostly cold & fever) couple of times in Feb. Today I took sometime out to explore the data. Indeed temperatures varied heavily in Feb. Check the chart below which - [Review of Mobile One Service by GoK - 2 - Security and Privacy](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/17/review-of-mobile-one-service-by-gok-2-security-and-privacy/) - Mobile One is an useful utility. To get the most of it user has to provide personal information like Full Name, DOB, Address etc. Also to use some of the features you need to give your PAN no, Car registration no etc. With so much of personal data and transaction store at MobileOne, its important - [Detailed Review of Mobile One Service by GoK - Part 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/11/detalied-review-of-mobile-one-service-by-gok-part1/) - A detailed review of Goverment of Karnataka's mobileone mobile service. Its a multi part review. This is part part 1. - [Pictures: One more weather station](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/01/12/pictures-one-more-weather-station/) - We just added one weather station to my house. So I have now two weather stations running in two different parts of Bangalore. This time we used one by Yuktix, A Bangalore based start-up. It has much better sensors compared to my NetAtmo. I will share more details about the same in couple of days. - [Sense Your City](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/01/15/sense-your-city/) - This would be my third sensor in the city. You already know about the first two. This one is part of much bigger community called Sense Your City. As part of Sense your City, 100 people in 7 cities across the world will build and install the sensors. These sensors will measure air quality, noise, - [Reblog: Hope You Find Your Sri Lanka](https://thejeshgn.com/2015/01/19/reblog-hope-you-find-your-sri-lanka/) - A detailed blog with lots tips from our time in Sri Lanka...reblogged Sri Lanka was my promise. Long before we got together for real, I had promised to take him there–it was to be our first getaway. Time took a hike for weeks, months, years only to return as our first wedding anniversary. SL will - [HTW 7: SQLCipher for Encrypted SQLite Database](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/09/sqlcipher-for-encrypted-sqlite-database/) - Building and using the SQLCipher for encrypting SQLite database. Now its become much easier than before. - [HTW 6 : Here I bring you the Bad News](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/12/02/htw-6-here-i-bring-you-the-bad-news/) - I have shared links for a long time. What ever I share ends up mostly on Thej.IN aggregator. But its not easy to find interesting links of certain category. One such category is Chill Factor India which is full of bad things that are happening in India. Bad news has certain chilling effect and I - [USA a Decade before - Personal Story](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/11/13/usa-a-decade-before-personal-story/) - My first ever flight was to Chicago from Bangalore. It was ten years back today. Since then I have travelled so much, but this first one remains very memorable one. It was my first ever flight. It was to a place where I didn't have any friends or I didn't know much about. Also for - [Things you didnt know about Kannada Movies](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/06/05/things-you-didnt-know-about-kannada-movies/) - Mani Ratnam’s debut movie was in Kannada. Pallavi Anu Pallavi Anil Kapoor (debuted) was the hero of the Kannada movie Pallavi Anu Pallavi Juhi Chawala first major hit was Premaloka 1987. IMDB comment “You have seen QSQT, u have seen DDLJ, u have seen Maine Pyar Kiya, but if you have not seen Prema Loka, - [HappyTuesday Week 5 - Learning Lua ](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/10/15/happytuesday-5-learning-lua/) - Its been a while I learnt a new programming language. I have been very happy with Python. All most all the work that I do involves Python. But there has been an itch to learn something new. So I made up my mind to learn a new programming language this week. But again which one? - [Religious Freedom In India - No Religion is Valid](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/09/30/religious-freedom-in-india-no-religion-is-valid/) - For last few weeks I have been debating about the religious freedom in India. Even-though its one of fundamental rights. I had my own questions about it. One also doesn't know about the rights until it gets challenged in the court of law. This week a set of people asked themselves to be free of - [Notes from first Data BootCamp India](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/09/11/notes-from-first-data-bootcamp-india/) - First ever DataBootCamp in India was organized by ICFJ in collabaration with Data{Meet}, HT, Hacks/Hackers - New Delhi, 9.9 School of Journalism in Delhi. It was a three-day event hosted by Bridge School of Management. It was an interesting gathering as more than 50% were from journalistic background. I have never seen such a big - [Bureau of Indian Standards and Open Access](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/08/06/bureau-of-indian-standards-and-open-access/) - Lets say you want to buy a bicycle tube. How do you know which one is the best? how do you know which cycle tube is made as per specification prescribed by Govt for safety? You go by ISI mark right? How do you know what that standard means? How do you know what you - [Triggering Innovation by Opening up Govt Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/08/04/triggering-innovation-by-opening-up-govt-data/) - I was at Takshashila's Shaping India’s Growth Agenda: Implications for the World conference listening to Innovation panel. The main debate revolved around what should Government do to catalyze the innovation in India. There were obvious suggestions like funding, policy support, taxation and not being a hindrance to business etc to increase the innovation. I didn't - [HappyTuesday Week 3 – CitizenMatters](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/15/happytuesday-week-3-citizenmatters/) - I have never written about CitizenMatters before, it seems very strange. CitizenMatters as they define is a Bangalore focused, citizen-oriented news-magazine, covering city public affairs, community and culture. They do a great job of it. Its run by Oorvani Foundation which is also behind IndiaTogether. They have been a great supporter of Open Data movement - [Indian CA - NIC issues fake Google SSL certificates](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/11/indian-ca-nic-issues-fake-google-ssl-certificates/) - I was listening to the latest episode of Security Now this morning. I came to know that an Indian CA was issuing a fake SSL certificates for Google subdoamins. Later got to know that it was NIC as per Google's blog post The certificates were issued by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) of India, which - [HappyTuesday Week 2 - Coimbatore City Data](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/09/happytuesday-week-2-coimbatore-city-data/) - Most of my Tuesday went into baby sitting my nephew and niece. I must tell you its lot of work. Babies and computers dont go together that well. I got an hour or so to work the project I started last week. I am done with the code required to scrape the Coimbatore city property - [HappyTuesday Week 1 - Scraping the Web continues](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/07/01/happytuesday-week-1-scraping-the-web-continues/) - Notes from my first ever HappyTuesdays. I couldn't get to sit at HappyBelly Cafe, it seems they open only at 10am. Instead I went to french loaf. I sat outside under the green, I really liked it, weather was awesome. I continued my work on earlier scraping projects Fixed bugs and updated the data for - [Crowdsourced data collection for legal activism](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/04/26/crowdsourced-data-collection-for-legal-activism/) - Environment support group in Bangalore is fighting a legal case against BBMP about tree planting. I got to know about this case late in the evening. From a friend who had read about my previous attempts at mapping the trees using ODK. What we need Bangaloreans to do: Please download the document accessible at ESG's - [What is My Political Ideology or View?](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/03/05/what-is-my-political-ideology-or-view/) - Its very surprising that I haven't written much about politics in last five years. I am as much interested in politics and history as I am in technology. I have been thinking about this post on my political philosophy from long time. But was lazy enough not to write about it until today. The time - [Brew your best Coffee with Aeropress](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/26/brew-your-best-coffee-aeropress/) - I knew about Aeropress from long time. Their website didn't build much confidence, but then Leo always talks about it on TWIT. And I trust Leo enough. I got myself an aeropress from Blue Tokai Coffee which offers world-class Indian coffee online. They are probably the first Indian coffee subscription service where in you pay - [Bangalore Tree Survey - POC Results ](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/06/bangalore-tree-survey-poc-results/) - Bangalore, once upon a time called Garden city, still has quite a bit of green cover. Almost every week we read a story about cutting down trees for some reason. But nobody knows the details, including the people who write those articles. I thought it would be great if you had a baseline survey of - [Trusting DataMeet](https://thejeshgn.com/2014/03/01/trusting-datameet/) - It seems Anand and I thought about the same thing at the same time. We called it differently but we settled on DataMeet because it was better. In the initial days we used to have virtual meetups on Skype, then offline. After a while we started an email list so we could discuss and then - [Now Open PostBox India data is available as GeoJSON](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/11/13/now-open-postbox-india-data-is-available-as-geojson/) - We crossed 100+ postboxes this month. As promised I am releasing the data in an open format that can be used by anybody. I am planning to update data for every 25 new addition of postboxes. Data is available in the form of GeoJSON which I thought is the most user/developer friendly format. Also GitHub - [1by2coffee - Voice from Egypt - Iman Bibars](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/02/03/1by2coffee-voice-from-egypt-iman/) - Vibha helped me to get in touch with Iman Bibars ( I am extremely sorry for mispronouncing your name) who works with Ashoka.org in Egypt. In this ten minute telephone interview we talk about situation in Egypt, expectations of people of Egypt from rest of the world, mainly India. And of course is internet back? - [1by2 coffee - Cup13 - New year resolutions, wikipedia etc](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/01/17/1by2-coffee-cup13-new-year-resolutions-wikipedia-etc/) - First episode of 2011 starts with the promise of recording at least 25 episodes this year. We also talk about Wikipedia, Google and other great stuff. - [A Decade of Blogging](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/06/12/decade-of-blogging/) - By next week I will be a decade old blogger. In internet times I am really old :) It all started with a newsletter ten years back. Never knew It would continue so far, its been an awesome 10 years. Thanks for reading. - [Shiny New MySwar App for Andoid and IOS](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/03/29/shiny-new-myswar-app-for-andoid-and-ios/) - We have been working hard at Mavrix. We have been releasing new features almost every month. But this time its bigger. Now we have shiny new MySwar app for Android and IOS. Both of them are free at this point. Go ahead and install them. I am happy about the way apps have turned up. - [Conflict of Interest and Indian Parliament](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/09/24/conflict-of-interest-and-indian-parliment/) - This post is not about MPs having conflict of interest. That is a different discussion and some thought has gone into that. What I want to talk about is the Parliament in itself having conflict of interest. Let me elaborate. Parliament (Legislature) in a democracy is elected by people and hence derive their authority from - [Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/08/22/sometimes-you-have-to-pay-a-heavy-price-to-live-in-a-free-society/) - The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live - [Introducing Bangalore Open Data Repository](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/09/15/introducing-bangalore-open-data-repository/) - Update: Bangalore Open Data Repository has a new home. Its called OpenBangalore.org. Please bookmark it, I have been collecting data about Bangalore for years. The collected data includes GIS, election, weather reports etc and were from different sources. I have been meaning to distribute it online for a while now. Two big reasons to do - [Then they came for whistleblowers](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/10/17/then-they-came-for-whistleblowers/) - Today's Salman Kurshid incident reminds me First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade - [You could be committing crime by Scraping or Stumbling](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/11/21/you-could-be-committing-crime-by-scraping-or-stumbling/) - For most of us who work with data, Scraping is the default way to get the data out of public internet. To give you an example what it means. Lets say you have a published URL like http://openbangalore.org/postbox/pb/pincode/571120 which gives you the postboxes in the pincode area 571120. If you are smart enough you will - [Julian Assange - Whats wrong with Gaurdian](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/12/09/whats-wrong-with-gaurdian/) - I do follow Guardian very closely. Today I read this so-called interview based profile of Julian Assange. Its wrong at so many levels. It doesn't talk anything about his work or whats the effect of it. It's completely focused on his personal life to bring him down at any cost1. Gaurdian which thinks high of - [RIP: Aaron Swartz](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/01/13/rip-aaron-swartz/) - I got to know more about Aaron while using web.py. I think he built it during his stint at Reddit. In fact I am such a big fan of web.py that I use it everywhere including at myswar. I used to follow him on his blog and then his work at DemandProgress. He was one - [Open DataCamp Bangalore 2013](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/03/21/open-datacamp-bangalore-2013/) - The second Open DataCamp in Bangalore was earlier this month. This one was much different from the first one. I was very happy and tired at the same time. Now that I am back from a very good vacation. Its time to sit back and reflect upon #odcblr2013. First of all, to all the participants. - [Ask Your Govt](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/05/05/ask-your-govt/) - This is just an idea as of now. Lets call it "Ask Your Govt" where community can ask questions and vote on questions. Questions should be non personal and relevant to the community. If a question gets a certain points (or up votes if you like or retweets). "Ask Your Govt" will raise an RTI - [Why AskYourGovt.in ?](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/05/28/why-askyourgovt-in/) - For a long time, we (the so-called middle class) didn't have access to the ruling and administrative classes. We couldn't ask them questions directly and they didn't care about us. We were dependent on journalists to question politicians and politicians in turn to question the bureaucracy. It never worked for us. Journalists never worked for - [Telegrams - End of Line](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/07/14/telegrams-end-of-line/) - End of Line for Telegrams. How could I not send/receive one? Telegram that Mathang sent to me :) Was a very busy day for Mr. Puttaswamy. He was very nice to all of us. Thank you sir. Good old Standard list of messages. - [Of course Minister](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/07/11/ofcourse-minister/) - Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid thinks PRISM is nothing to worry about. In his own words “This is not scrutiny and access to actual messages. It is only computer analysis of patterns of calls and emails that are being sent. It is not actually snooping on specifically on content of anybody’s message or conversation”, - [Library Of Congress](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/05/21/library-of-congress/) - Its been a dream to visit the library from long time. This time I made sure I did. Library of Congress is the largest library in the world (British Library is very a close competitor). It roughly attracts 1.75 million visits in an year and is a reference library. It has books from all over - [Our first big vacation](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/03/20/our-first-big-vacation/) - This is the first time we went out for a vacation. I am happy that my parents enjoyed it throughout. Some pictures from my Instagram photo stream. - [You are invited to Open DataCamp Bangalore 2013](https://thejeshgn.com/2013/01/26/you-are-invited-to-open-datacamp-bangalore-2013/) - Yearly Open DataCamp Bangalore is here. This time its going to be a two day event with awesome talks, workshops and hackathon. So block your calendar for March 2 and 3rd. Its a weekend, so its easy that way. We have already received quite a few interesting proposals from visualizing politics to playing with Open - [Instgram for Crowdsourcing Postbox Locations](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/10/16/instgram-for-crowdsourcing-postbox-locations/) - Update: Its become an all India postbox data collection project. Now we use the tag #openpostboxindia. The source code is open sourced and can be used for any type of photo and location based data collection using Instagram and Twitter. I have been using instagram a lot. If you follow me on instagram you would - [On Lynx](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/11/29/on-lynx/) - I was curious about the appearence of my blog on Lynx. I should say its very usable from command prompt. Even the contact form looks good. And works as well. - [TechMag Issue - 1](https://thejeshgn.com/2003/06/25/tecmag-issue-1/) - Issue:1 Date:25062003 TechMag Weekly By: Thejesh GN Editors Note: Hai everybody, I am Thejesh GN starting my first newsletter. Since I am an engineer it is obvious that it will be a tech newsletter. You can expect all types of tips, tricks, pointers to other sources etc here. Even though this is not a full-fledged - [DIY Origami Bookmarks using Instagram Pictures](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/11/10/diy-origami-bookmarks-using-instagram-pictures/) - Not all instgram pictures have to stay on instagram. They can be part of your life if they are good memories. I created this fun bookmarks using instgram pics as a gift. Step 1: Print the picture on the right corner of a square as top down. With pictures on them they look like this. - [Anil Kumble Circle - Time Lapse video](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/08/12/anil-kumble-circle-time-lapse-video/) - BTIS.IN provides images from traffic cameras across Bangalore. I wrote a simple script to capture and store images from camera no 3 (Anil Kumble Circle). Code is very simple and is listed below. The camera AK circle is usually up from morning 6 to evening 7. I have about 1.3k valid pictures from last four - [Rajasthan Rainfall Data (1957 to 2011)](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/07/27/rajasthan-rainfall-data-1957-to-2011/) - The Rajashtan rainfall data was scraped as part of Scrapathon held in Bangalore 21st July 2011. Intially I used scraperwiki, but the huge amount of data made it to timeout all the time :) so I wrote a simple python script to do it. Data is in the SQLITE file data.sqlite, in a table called - [Early pics from Barcamp Bangalore ](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/04/22/early-pics-from-barcamp-bangalore/) - This my first attempt of live blogging of an event. Here I am at Yahoo office in Koramangala to attend few interesting sessions (discussions) and to blog the event live. Reached here around 10am after beating around. I am still to participate in any discussions. Here are the few first oics from barcamp bangalore. Chad - [Half knowledge is dangerous .. specially if you are a journalist](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/09/01/half-knowledge-is-dangerous-specially-if-you-are-a-journalist/) - I read this article today "No free lunches for me" byline Charles Assisi(Times of India, 31th August 2006).All I can say is Times of India needs better technology writer than him. Half knowledge is too dangerous that is what you can conclude from this article.But heavily dangerous if the person is a reporter to famous - [The World Tomorrow : Cypherpunks](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/06/18/the-world-tomorrow-cypherpunks/) - Julian Assange in his latest episode of The World Tomorrow talks to Andy Muller Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmerman and Jacob Appelbaum. They discuss about privacy, using the internet anonymously, safely and freely, encryption technology, and the importance of web activism. Andy Muller Maguhn (web) - German hacker (Chaos Computer Club) Jeremie Zimmerman (twitter) - French ( - [Why I support Annulment of Intermediary Guidelines (Indian IT) Rules](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/04/20/why-i-support-annulment-of-the-it-rules/) - CIS has a detailed blog post explaining why all of us who care about freedom of expression on the internet should support annulment motion by MP P. Rajeeve. You should actually read that blog post but the following are the most important points No chance to defend. There is no need to inform users before - [Books, Books and Books](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/05/01/books-books-and-books/) - Thanks to Audible and Kindle. I have already read/listened to nine books this year. I am very happy about it considering that I read 5 books in entire twelve months of 2011. 1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 2. The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick 3. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the - [Satyamev Jayate and The world Tomorrow](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/05/08/satyamev-jayate-and-the-world-tomorrow/) - There are two interesting shows on TV The World Tomorrow hosted by Julian Assange and Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan. Both are completely opposite but looks at changing the world for tomorrow. One is a softer version and looks at the problems of India. The other one is very radical and loud. Satyamev Jayate - [Octopoda - MapReduce for Human Beings in Python](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/02/21/octopoda-mapreduce-human-beings-python/) - I have been wanting to learn MapReduce for a long time. I never got a requirement where I could use it. Last few weeks I have dabbling with huge datasets. It was time and as usual I started with wikipedia. There are huge systems and frameworks built on the concept of MapReduce. They use distributed - [Deployment of PHP or Python Applications using Mercurial and Fabfile](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/02/01/deployment-php-python-app-using-mercurial-and-fabfile/) - Deployments are usually very painful. We generally write scripts to make it automated as much as possible. I wanted my method to be as easy as running single line on command prompt from anywhere in the world. I didn't want to worry about anything. At last with some experimentation I have found my way. This - [Audio Boooks and Pain of DRM](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/01/19/audio-books-pain-of-drm/) - Since last december I have been listening to books than reading. It makes my daily commute enjoyable. The last three books have been Steve Jobs, Art of Inception and Ghost in the Wires. That's three books in one and half months, not bad. I used to listen to lot of podcasts while driving. I have - [Why I oppose SOPA and PIPA ?](https://thejeshgn.com/2012/01/18/why-i-oppose-sopa-pipa/) - My reasons: SOPA and PIPA are the worst laws that anybody can propose to stop piracy They are actually anti-technology than anti-piracy They break internet Even though I am an India, It hurts me and my business Internet is supposed to be international, not yet, it's mostly controlled by USA India has an habit of - [hg4subl - Sublime Text plugin for Mercurial](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/12/26/hg4subl-sublime-text-plugin-mercurial/) - I love Sublime Text and Mercurial. All most all my projects use these two tools. Clearly I need a tighter integration between these two. Sublime Texts provides Python based plugin API architecture. Its quite easy to follow and write a plugin. So I took sublime-text-2-git and modified it to work with Mercurial. I have added - [My mercurial dev/prod workflow using clones](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/12/16/my-mercurial-dev-prod-workflow-using-clones/) - Most of the people whom I work with are very confused about repository and work-folder of mercurial. If they are comfortable with that then they are hesitant to use named branches. Hence I stopped using branches for maintaining my dev and prod code streams. Instead settled on clones (forks on Bitbucket/GitHub). I find it easy - [How to keep my data safe and secure?](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/11/25/keep-my-data-safe-and-secure/) - If you are like me then you will be traveling with all your data all the time. There are two big risks when you do that 1. Risk of losing the data 2. Risk of others accessing your data I have managed the first one by setting up a daily sync from my laptop to - [Help me in raising money for CRY](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/10/23/help-me-in-raising-money-for-cry/) - I am planning on running at the Bangalore Marathon scheduled in Dec 07. I am running this marathon in an effort to raise awareness about the development issues in India and for funds to support CRY- Child Rights and You. CRY is a non-profit organization committed to bringing about sustainable and equitable development in India, - [Let women get in touch with the world ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/12/15/let-women-get-in-touch-with-the-world/) - As you know I have been working with UbuntuAtWork for an year now. We help women micro entrepreneurs enhance their capabilities, pursue their entrepreneurial aspirations, and escape poverty. According to me computers and internet can help them in big way. This holiday season I want to raise $500 to setup a computer center at Kodagalli - [RMS speech at 4 intl GPLV3 Conference Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2006/08/26/rms-speech-at-4-intl-gplv3-conference-bangalore/) - Notes: Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws. RMS RMS was addressing the gathering of 4th International GPLv3 conference at Bangalore. He was in his regual mood with the software freedoms (a) the freedom to use the software, (b) the freedom to copy and share the software, (c) the freedom to modify the software - [Namma Metro](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/21/namma-metro/) - Pictures from my first ride on Namma Metro which opened yesterday. Most of them are goofy pics of myself and Mathang. We are just happy that metro is here. Pictures were taken on my broken phone so don't expect good quality. - [Insanity](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/12/insanity/) - I was trying to pre-order After Fall - Insanity game today. First thing it asked me! Have a great day. - ["i" will die too](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/10/06/i-will-die-too/) - The message came through mail. This paragraph from Steve's commencement address at Stanford flashed my mind. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for - [9/11](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/09/11/911/) - I don't remember that day very clearly. I guess I was getting ready to go to college. I saw it on TV. I remember going through different emotions. I felt sad for people who lost their lives and their family. I appreciated the police and fire department. According to me they are the real heroes - [Most of my command line](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/09/09/most-of-my-command-line/) - Most of my life is spent inside a command line. Until last month, you would see me with multiple command lines or multiple tabs. It used to be very confusing and I couldn't see important ones without multi-monitor setup. When I shifted 20+ inch monitors both at home and work. I wanted to use something - [Steve Jobs - We will miss you](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/08/25/steve-jobs/) - Note: I am a Linux guy but Steve Jobs' story is quite an inspiration. - [Right to Fight](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/08/25/right-to-fight/) - Well I have many reasons not to agree with Team Anna. But what I agree is their (or anybody's) right to fight. Specially if its against a corrupt system. What raged me is tactics used by Government to kill the movement even before it started. And probably that is the reason I support this movement. - [My Workflow with Mercurial (Hg) and bibucket ](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/06/29/my-workflow-with-mercurial-hg-and-bibucket/) - Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive. Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for the popular Mercurial distributed version control system. You know the reason why I chose Bitbucket/Hg as opposed to GitGub/git. This tutorial is my regular workflow - [My Life in a Distributed Version Control System](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/08/05/my-life-in-a-distributed-version-control-system/) - I am completely sold to DVCS and in particular mercurial. You already know that I maintain most of my projects on bitbucket but what you dont know is the fact that every bit of my creation now lives inside a mercurial repository. Most of my creations on my laptop are inside Documents folder. I have - [First class experience](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/07/26/first-class-experience/) - I am teaching Processing to Information and Interface Design students at NID, Bangalore. I am just back from my first class. This is the first time I am teaching in a class setup. I have taught before in a corporate setup. Most of my students have visual arts background and have no prior knowledge of - [Book: Anything you want](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/07/10/book-anything-you-want/) - Just finished Anything you want by Derek Sivers. Its not your boring business book even though it talks about CDBaby. Its a small book with lots of stories. It reads like a blog, hence its more personal than most of the business books. But it does have some good suggestions for anybody who wants startup - [What do you do v/s where](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/06/14/what-do-you-do-vs-where/) - Wanted to write about this from long time but never got that blogger urge until today. I had noticed this during my sabbatical but then it became much more after I quit. In most of those social meets I get asked "So where are you working now?" It seems for some reason where we work - [I Just Had To Let It Go](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/05/21/i-just-had-to-let-it-go/) - This song by John Lennon says what I was going through last week. How could he write so well? People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange Surely - [So what am I up to?](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/05/16/so-what-am-i-up-to/) - As you know I quit Infy last month.It took a while to settle down both on work front and at home. Now that I have settled down, here is an update. I am working on Indian music discovery engine at Mavrix, started by yet another outfoscion. Its an interesting story how I met him after - [Turning Android Phone into GIS Data Collection Device ](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/05/04/turning-android-phone-into-data-collection-device/) - For a project at Janaagraha we need to collect location data. The process needs to be as simple and cost effective as possible. General GPS data collectors are expensive and doesn't make sense for us to own those single purpose devices. Hence we started looking at mobile phones. We wanted something that can collect the - [Sorry if its broken](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/30/sorry-if-its-broken/) - Theme updating is in progress :) The amount of green has reduced, i have tried my best to keep it as much as possible. There are new colors like blue and dark red now. Let me know what do you think. Still need to be worked on 1. Formatting pages 2. Wiki and wiki breadcrumb - [Thank you Infosys](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/21/thank-you-infosys/) - I entered Infosys, almost eight years back on Jan/13/2003 to be exact. I dont have to say I was young, I was also energetic and eager to work. Mysore campus is a great place to begin career, three months later returned to Bangalore. Ever since its been a great roller coaster. I worked at Mysore, - [Let us get Indianized Creative Commons](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/04/12/let-us-get-indianized-creative-commons/) - With Indians making their presence felt online it becomes necessary to have a proper/legal way to share their creations. Creative Commons is the best and cheapest way to share your art, music or knowledge. There are around 29 internationalized versions of creative commons. The time has arrived for India to have its own Creative Commons. - [Generic toString Method for Simple Java Beans](https://thejeshgn.com/2008/06/24/generic-tostring-method-for-simple-java-beans/) - I have seen developers writing toString method in each of their bean class. The purpose is to print the bean variables for logging or debugging purposes. I thought of reducing their effort by writing a generic toString method to have in their base bean class. It works for simple bean classes. Its no-brainer you can - [Javascript API for wordpress posts](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/11/javascript-api-for-wordpress-posts/) - I have been looking at ways of using my activity stream. The stream is a WordPress blog and has various kinds of data (status msg, pictures, links and posts). Eventhough wordpress provides certain xml based APIs, I wanted something simple, that works on client side. One of the requirement was to pull the latest mobile - [Using Barcode Scanner for buying books in India](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/13/using-barcode-scanner-for-buying-books-in-india/) - isbn.net.in is the easiest way to get book prices from all e-stores in India. Given an ISBN code it gives prices from almost all e-stores in India, Very useful. But if you want to check book prices on the go (specially in a physical book store), then it's not an easy. It's tedious to get - [Wines of Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/03/wines-of-bangalore/) - This blog post is not for under 18 (under 21 in some parts of the world). If you are not legally allowed to consume alcohol them dont read further :). Okay, for the record I like beer but then once in a while I like other alcohol too. Wine tastes good and also now that - [Support Bribe Bandh](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/04/01/support-bribe-bandh/) - We need laws similar to RTI for activists to fight corruption.I think unless we citizen ask for it we wont get it. I Paid a Bribe as part of Bribe Bandh is collecting one million signatures to influence the Indian Government to tighten its laws against corruption. BRIBEBANDH Go ahead show your support. - [Bug Fix for Sortable Table - Sorting Date functionality](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/09/13/bug-in-sortable-table-sorting-dates/) - Sortable Table is a great javascript library for client side sorting of HTML table. Its under Apache 2.0 license so its very compatible. Recently I faced a bug when sorting date columns. It was not sorting the dates properly. After some debugging I got to know that the library assumes the date format to be - [From Java to Python](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/02/22/from-java-to-python/) - If I remember properly I haven't learnt any new language in last three years. All I had done was learning more libraries in Java, PHP and JavaScript. Partly because I was not interested in learning completely new language and its ecosystem. Also because there was no need. All my bread and butter work was done - [Getting started with Processingjs by writing Analog clock](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/10/29/getting-started-with-processingjs-by-writing-analog-clock/) - As most of you know, I love JavaScript. Recently I started exploring Processing.js to create some dynamic graphs and animation. I was bowled over by the power of Processing.js. "Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js - [Batch transliterating names into Kannada using Google API](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/02/04/batch-transliterating-names-into-kannada-using-google-api/) - Some times work at Janaagraha throws awesome challenges. Like as part of BEST project we are cleaning up voters list. Voters list in Karnataka will have names in both English and Kannada, Most of the volunteers have filled up only in English and hence we were left with transliterating names into Kannada. I was thinking - [Tweet4blood comic strip](https://thejeshgn.com/2011/01/07/tweet4blood-comic-strip/) - Thanks BrainStuck :) BTW on a serious note Tweet4Blood is used for requesting blood during emergencies. - [Android applications for developers](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/06/02/android-applications-for-developers/) - When I am traveling, I usually carry my netbook to check the statuses of my servers, check log files, upload files and very rarely to edit too. Ever since I got my Nexus one, I have been trying to do as many things as possible on my android phone Nexus one. There are great free - [Choropleth maps of Bangalore BBMP Wards](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/12/17/choropleth-maps-of-bbmp-wards/) - "The choropleth map provides an easy way to visualize how a measurement varies across a geographic area or it shows the level of variability within a region." - Wikipedia Its an easy, colorful, effective and simple data visualization. At Janaagraha we use them visualize ward level data of Bangalore. A week back I thought it - [First year end edition of 1by2Coffee](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/12/26/first-year-end-edition-of-1by2coffee/) - Probably the longest episode of 1by2coffee where myself and Veetrag speak about everything. 1. Privacy tools for everybody - TorProject (Android app), Eraser, TrueCrypt 2. Time Man of the year - Mark and Facebook 3. Calibri ebook management software 4. Veetragś open letter to Yahoo CEO about Delicious Cup12 - 1by2Coffee First year end edition - [Cup11: UID in India and Windows Mobile 7 seems to be fun](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/10/19/cup11-uid-in-india-and-windows-mobile-7-seems-to-be-fun/) - This saturday noon myself and Veetrag got a chance to record the 11 episode of 1by2coffee. We had great time talking about travel plans, Windows mobile 7 and all Indian UID. It seems like our trouble in recording has not ended yet. Phone didn’t record for a while in between, so you might find a - [So its out....](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/10/02/so-its-out/) - Just woke up now. I haven't even read my mails yet, isn't it kind of strange? iJanaagraha went live early today morning. Three months of hard-work is out for your eyes. Its no where near completion, we will stabilize and make it a much better system in days to come. Along with my own team, - [Cup10: Happy Engineer’s Day](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/09/16/cup10-happy-engineer’s-day/) - I couldn't miss talking about Sir MV whose birthday is celebrated as Engineers Day, which is today, Sep 15th. I was so tired, so I talked only about this and hence probably this is the shortest. But we will be back next week. PS: I am a Sir MV fanboy. Cup10: Happy Engineers day - [Parsing and Visualizing Indian Flood Forecast](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/09/10/parsing-and-visualizing-indian-flood-forecast/) - Flood forecast alerts are provided by Central Water Commission. They have boring maps and tables. Also they don't provide data in program accessible format. Members of ICTD for asia are working on parsing and storing that data. In the meantime I wanted something to play. I found ScraperWiki (hacker news discussion) which can be used - [Notes on Rainfall data visualization of Karnataka](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/09/07/notes-on-rainfall-data-visualization-of-karnataka/) - After watching "developing world" video on TED, I was eager to try out Google visualization API. When I found the rain fall information, I thought its the best suited data to play around. Go check out the Visualization of Rain Fall in Karnataka. Data is from India water portal. Data is on public Google document. - [Online options for Kannada music lover](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/09/04/online-options-for-kannada-music-lover/) - I listen to Kannada music a lot. I mostly end up buying CDs and then rip them so I can use it on my ipod or Nexus1. Its such a waste of resources. CD (eWaste) plus my time and money. Last few months I was searching for a good Kannada online music store where I - [I Love Blr : Visualizing Bangalore Temperature ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/08/12/i-love-blr-visualizing-bangalore-temperature/) - I was going through weather data exposed by India Water Portal and I was thinking about an interesting application which would show my love to Bangalore. The best part of Bangalore is its temperature, rains and clouds. So I wrote this small app which uses the data provided by India Water Portal (which in turn - [1by2coffee: Cup9: Oracle sues Google and Google cheats Net](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/08/17/1by2coffee-oracle-sues-google-and-google-cheats-net/) - Recently recorded a new episode of 1by2coffee with Veetrag aka @kv. KV and myself were hosting YAP at one point of time. He was at his home town Udaipur and had some free time. We used this opportunity to record this episode of b2c. The subject of the episode is very well defined by the - [1by2coffee: Cup8: Indian comics, graphic novels and more](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/08/11/1by2coffee-cup8-indian-comics-graphic-novels-and-more/) - Had great fun recording the eight episode of b2c. Both my guests Shweta and Lavanya are great fun to talk to. I should have them on regular basis. Had to end it abruptly because memory on the phone got over and also we reached our artificial time limit of 30 mins. According to me 30 - [7 Years Of Blogging. What Next?](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/25/7years-of-blogging-what-next/) - I have been here for 7 years now. Thanks to all my readers without whom it wouldn't have been possible. Initially there used to be separate blogs for my tech and non-tech posts. Then i migrated them to the same blog as they both were very much part of my life. There are certain subjects - [TEDx is not about talks](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/13/tedx-is-not-about-talks/) - Before it becomes a controversy let me rephrase it. TEDx is not just about talks. Sure, it is the place where you can hear best of the people. But TEDx is also about people who have ideas. This way TEDx is not very different from TED. ‘Visual poetry’ was the theme for this event. Though it is - [Ijanaagraha - What we have for developers](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/07/ijanaagraha-what-we-have-for-developers/) - Crossposted from Janaagraha. Three months back when I was introduced to iJanaagraha, by Jaagte Raho! Coordinator Jasmine Shah, I was struck by the amount of geographic and ward data that Bangalore based Not-for-profit Janaagraha wanted to publish. That was the time when Data.Gov was live and developers all around the world were going crazy. I - [Why Android is my platform of choice](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/04/why-android-is-my-platform-of-choice/) - I never developed for mobile platform. I have tried a bit of J2ME but never got hang of it. When iPhone got in, I was so exited to develop for it. But then it had a lot of entry barriers. I never got a start there. Then came Android, but then I was never curious - [Upgrading](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/07/01/upgrading/) - Blogs these days are always under construction. I am upgrading my blog theme based on wordpress 3.0 and default theme twentyten. So if you find anything broken, let me know. - [Experiences from my first three months at Janaagraha](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/04/20/experiences-from-my-first-three-months-at-janaagraha/) - I cant believe, its been three months already! Initially the idea was to write one blog post per week. But then the work did not allow me :) Now that its been three months and the projects that I am working on have stabilized to great extent, I have time to write. Here is the - [Three requests to Google India regarding Android](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/06/18/three-requests-to-google-india-regarding-android/) - I am back from my first ever Bangalore Android meet-up. I should say I was impressed with the turn up on Friday evening. Here are the questions that I asked as a developer and user. 1. Support for Indic fonts and IME I use Nexus one which doesn't have Indic support (2.1 update 1). I - [Google Nexus One Review](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/03/20/google-nexus-one-review/) - Okay. Nexus one is still not available in India. A friend of mine got it for me from USA. I am not really happy with Google there. Anyways, let me get back to the review part of it. When ever I get a new gadget, the kid in me wakes up. I use it all - [Building community of developers](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/05/19/building-community-of-developers/) - What makes Facebook or twitter or Flickr successful? Is it the community of users? is it the usefulness of the product? is it the uniqueness? I think it's all above and set of passionate developers who used the APIs and created extensions with above mentioned characteristics. Yes. According to me developers who used Twitter or - [To women](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/05/09/to-women/) - Well its not women's day but Mother's day. But then thanks to my mom and my sis who made my life so beautiful. And of course all other lady friends of mine who cared and loved me. - [Is @tweet4blood successful?](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/03/05/is-tweet4blood-successful/) - Its been a year since I launched @tweet4blood with VSR's help. It's not a great geek work, it's a simple two page application based on twitter api. It didn't take more than an hour to design and code the app. But for me its been one of the happiest moment as I was trying to - [The Debut ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/02/26/the-debut/) - Its 11pm, I am back from the office of Bangalore Mirror after completing my first ever byline article. It wasn't meant to be like that, I went there to meet few friends and talk to them about an opportunity. But then thanks to all the staff they forced me to sit there and write. I - [From an IT Engineer to HomePlanGuru ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/02/03/from-an-it-engineer-to-homeplanguru/) - This is one of the case where the person tried his hand in DIY project and made it his job after wards. Viru wanted to re-plan his fathers house, which he did as a DIY project, but then he thought he can do it for others too. Thats how HomePlanGuru started. Go ahead and read - [Standing on the shoulders of the giants to solve chicken and egg problem while building web community](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/02/02/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-the-giants-to-solve-chicken-and-egg-problem-building-web-community/) - When building community sites, we will always have the problem of chicken and egg. Nobody gets involved into your community if they don't have critical mass, and critical mass wont get built if users don't join the web community. How are you going to solve this problem? I think it can be solved to some - [From organizing Potluck to starting Potluck ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/24/from-organizing-potluck-to-starting-potluck/) - Here is the third installment of Outfoscions about which I was talking. After the first two technology ones, I am presenting you, next very tasty one called Potluck. Yes, the venture is called potluck and its an exclusive north Indian restaurant in Bangalore, started by B K Birla. Here I present small interview I did - [At 90di travel search comes naturally ](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/17/at-90di-travel-search-comes-naturally/) - Second in our Outfoscions series is a travel search product which is easy and humane to use. Yes, you don't have to fill to and from places, date, time textboxes. All you have is one single search box and ask it the way you ask your friend. For example Jammu to Knyakumari next monday gives - [LatLong by Onze trying decode the maps for us](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/11/latlong-by-onze-trying-decode-the-maps-for-us/) - As promised I am starting the outfoscions series with Onze Technologies. With their first and primary product Latlong.in they are trying to decode the maps for the rest of us. Latlong tries to give you the information on the go, hence the best way is to deliver by SMS. But the biggest problem for delivering - [Meet the Outfoscions](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/09/meet-the-outfocions/) - This is a small project where I am planning to interview series of people who were Infoscions once. They are usually called Outfoscions inside. This series mostly covers those people who spent their significant time at Infosys and then exited to do something big. I personally know many but there could be many more, who - [The Bad Code Offset](https://thejeshgn.com/2010/01/04/the-bad-code-offset/) - All of us at one time or the other written bad code. Now we cant go back and correct it, but we can offset it by buying "The Bad Code Offset", just like how big companies buy "carbon offset". The money spent on buying "The Bad Code Offset" is sent to these five great open - [Indian blogger v/s IIPM, whats up?](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/10/11/indian-blogger-vs-iipm-whats-up/) - Well the whole indian blogosphere is into heavy discussions on this notice served by IIPM www.iipm.edu to Gaurav. They find him guilty for linking to a magazine called Just Another Magazine which wrote about the false information IIPM advertises about. The notice as posted on the website (in blue are the snippet of the notice - [What does a bike (motor cycle) mean to a Guy?](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/11/14/what-does-a-bike-motor-cycle-mean-to-a-guy/) - Freedom. I don’t know what others think but my definite answer would be Freedom. That is what a bike offers. Freedom to go anywhere, anytime at you will. The dream gals associate with wings, guys associate with bike. Its next best thing to flying (actually flying an airplane). It’s his next best friend (I am - [Meeting the film geeks](https://thejeshgn.com/2005/12/08/meeting-the-film-geeks/) - I had been to this seminar on " New Age filmmakers and new trends" in Bangalore. It was arranged by Commits and called Flickers. Known filmakers like Ashuthosh Gowrikar,Khalid Mohammed,Nagesh kukunoor,Nagthihalli Chandrashekar,Mahesh Dattani. Each of them gave speech about their starts. I enjoyed Nagesh's talk about the way he made Hyderabad Blues ( I haven't - [Eddelu Manjunatha : Satire Comedy](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/08/05/eddelu-manjunatha-satire-comedy/) - Cast: Jaggesh, Yagna Shetty, Tabala Naani, V. Manohar, Shyam Prasad, A.S. Murthy Story-Screenplay-Dialogues-Direction: Guru Prasad Producer: Sanath Kumar; Music: Anoop Sileen; Camera: Ashok Raman My Rating: **** Watched "Eddelu Manjunatha" on Saturday. Its so different from any regular Kannada movies (or Indian movies). Its a satire(double meaning) comedy which makes you laugh and think at - [Two great souls..](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/31/two-great-souls/) - This last week of 2009 is probably the worst week of this decade for Kannadiga's. We lost two really big artists and more than that great human beings. C. Ashwath Much before Kodagana Koli Nugitta became famous outside Karnataka (thanks to Raghu Dixit), it was introduced to Kannadigas by C.Ashwath. He made all those poems - [One Advice : Dont watch Avatar](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/23/one-advice-dont-watch-avatar/) - You have been warned, don't watch it. Because once you watch it, the movies wont remain movies for you. Every other movie will look very very ordinary. Once the movie started, I was like wow, then fcuk.. then amazing.. then... then.. then silence for next two hours. It was 2 hours:45 minutes of magic tour - [Love and Sex ](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/18/love-and-sex/) - Yesterday I was at friend's place for dinner. As usual we were talking about many things from twitter, to taking breaks, to brand images to MJ. Then suddenly I had to give this quote from one of the TED speeches, but then both of them are mostly non techies. So I had to take a - [An Evening Chai at Char Minar](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/13/an-evening-chai-at-char-minar/) - This is yet another long post. So give it time to load and take a big cup of coffee before start reading it. As most of you who follow me on twitter know that I am in Hyderabad. This Saturday me and my friend Achalesh decided to explore some parts of Hyderabad. We started with - [TechMag Weekly - Issue 2](https://thejeshgn.com/2003/06/30/techmag-weekly-issue-2/) - ________________________________________ Issue:2 Date:30062003 TechMag Weekly By: Thejesh GN Thankx Thankx to Swaroop,Sandeep Patil,Sandya,Shibashis,Narayan(BTLITM) and all others for their encouragements...I will try to keep up to ur expectations.. Thankx Again, Thejesh GN ________________________________________ Simputer What is Simputer? The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the - [Lesson Learnt - Backup properly](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/12/11/lesson-learnt-backup-properly/) - Accidentally deleted TechMag database today. I thought I had full backup. Only after the deletion I got to know it was not the case. As of now TechMag is down. I am trying to get the posts from other sources like RSS feed, my very old backups etc. I am not sure how many posts - [Javascript libraries for logging , XML parsing](https://thejeshgn.com/2007/07/12/javascript-libraries-for-logging-xml-parsing/) - jsLogger - JavaScript logger for your web application Coded by yours truly.JsLogger is a Javascript logger utility. Just include it in your HTML file using script tag. And start logging. Has many features like disabling logging, Styling etc. Its just v1.0. Give your suggestion to improve it XML to JSON - a converter There are - [Why is it difficult to change?](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/12/08/why-is-it-difficult-to-change/) - Sometimes myself and my friends have great discussions on email. It dies out after few days. There has been occasions when I have tried unsuccessfully to dig out old mails. This time I made it a blog post so we share and get to keep it. Some parts have been removed to keep privacy. From: - [Joy of using Jolicloud on my Netbook](https://thejeshgn.com/2009/11/30/joy-of-using-jolicloud-on-my-netbook/) - I am an early adopter of eeepc but never got a chance to write about it in detail. EEEPC became part of my must carry travel gadgets during my euro trip last year. Ever since them I have carried it to multiple conferences and backpack travels. The only problem I faced was battery life which ## Pages - [W](https://thejeshgn.com/w/) - Invitation Card Details On November 1, 2013AddressMini resorts and Ayurvedic RetreatBehind IES SchoolNear Pazhampuzha Kavu TempleChitilapilly, Thrissur, Keralawww.vishnuresort.comTel : +91 487 2304905 On Thrissur – Kuttippuram Road, Ask for Amala Hospital, Take left there for IES School.Temple Wedding Time6:30PM to 7:30 PMTime7:30PM to 7:45 PM Temple wedding dress code Indian formals for women Mundu or Panche - [Postcard](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/postcard/) - Occasionally, I send a ton of postcards to friends and readers from around the world. If you like to receive a postcard, you can leave your details here. If you have already received one, you can leave a message below. You can also upload a picture of the postcard for my gallery below. Receive Postcards - [OpenPostBoxIndia](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/openpostboxindia/) - OpenPostBoxIndia i's a crowdsourcing project to collect pictures of postboxes and post offices from across India. Make them available under creative commons license for people to use. Add them to OpenStreetMaps. Each image is tagged with gps and pin. The style used is key:value without any spaces. Each image also has a title as part - [Flash Proxies](https://thejeshgn.com/falshproxy/) - As of 2017, the flash proxy project is deprecated. but I wanted this page to continue. Now this page supports a similar project called Snowflake by torproject. Below is the widget that you can enable to donate your bandwidth and help Tor users circumvent censorship. Go to Snowflake page to know more on how it - [Support our Pincode Project by Receiving a Postcard :)](https://thejeshgn.com/epic-drive/pincode-project/) - All of you know that for a while we have worked on solving the mystery of pincode. Our hackpad has some great information. One of the exercise we wanted to conduct was to send postcards, track them and measure time. We got busy with organizing ODC and other stuff so we couldn't do it. Personally - [Coffee Meets](https://thejeshgn.com/contact/coffee-meets/) - I love catching up with blog readers, friends, colleagues (past and present), and students when you’re in town. If you give me a little heads-up, we can grab a coffee somewhere near the central district and chat about… well, pretty much anything under the sun. Some ideas to get us started Tech & Making – - [Lists](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/) - My lists. Some of them are simple lists and others are checklists. Anyway they are all lists. Subscriptions Podcasts that I have subscribed to and listen often. Blogroll - Blogs that I read Travel Checklist - Car Travel First Aid Box Weekend Backpack Checklist Weekend Motorcycling Trip Checklist Travel Week - Lightweight Essentials Checklist Stretching - [Stretching Routine for Long Drives](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/stretching-routine-for-long-drives/) - Stretching Routine for Long Drives (Before, In-Between, After) - [Nagarathna Memorial Grant](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/nagarathna-memorial-grant/) - I am creating a yearly micro-grant to support something meaningful. Grant is named after my mother – Nagarathna. The reason for grant could be anything as long its meaningful to you and people around. Though I prefer free and open source or creative commons projects. It's not a must. It’s no strings attached grant. - [About](https://thejeshgn.com/about/) - Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) “Thej” is an independent technologist, developer, hacker, maker, traveller, blogger and an open data/internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. - [Readlists](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/readlists/) - Readlists are my collections of links around a subject. They are available primarily as JSONFeeds. I prefer using them in a feed reader. However, I have a page that can render the JSONFeed as a simple page. If you are interested in any of these reading lists. Please copy the link and paste it into - [Idly Dose Vada Coffee Price Survey](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/idly-dose-vada-coffee-price-survey/) - This is my survey of Idly Dose Vada Coffee Prices across darshinis in Bangalore. Idea is to collect the data over time across Bangalore for fun and analysis. Collection It uses Kobo toolbox for collection. You don't need an account for submitting data. I vet and approve each submission. Submit Data Multiple submissions are okay. - [Archives](https://thejeshgn.com/archives/) - Categories Locations Cambodia 🇰🇭 Finland 🇫🇮 France 🇫🇷 India 🇮🇳 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Italy 🇮🇹 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Singapore 🇸🇬 South Korea 🇰🇷 Spain 🇪🇸 Srilanka 🇱🇰 UAE 🇦🇪 UK 🇬🇧 USA 🇺🇸 Characters Tags Time - [World Travel Map](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/world-travel-map/) - [Indian Philosophies](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/indian-philosophies/) - Compare Philosophies Philosophy vs Practice - [Bengaluru - Where Do You Work From?](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/bengaluru-where-do-you-work-from/) - Survey I am looking for the most common pattern of your week. There are four options, on mobile you might see only two, scroll to right you will see other two. From Office - For the days you most probably work from Office or coworking place or something similar. From Home - For the days - [Baby Books](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/baby-books/) - [Guide to Typing Kannada with Optitrans v2](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/kannada/guide-to-typing-kannada-with-optitrans-v2/) - In my opinion, the easiest way to type in Kannada on Linux is using the keyboard Kannada (optitransv2 (m17n)). It's an ASCII to Kannada transliteration keyboard built on top of ITRANS. It's much easier to learn and use compared to ITRANS. Just like ITRANS, if you know one of the Indic languages, it works well - [Bucketlist](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/bucketlist/) - These are the things I would like to do in My life Want to visit ancient wonders of the world. PyramidHanging Gardens of Babylon Statue of Zeus at Olympia Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus Colossus of Rhodes Lighthouse of Alexandria 🟡 Visit new wonders of the Great Wall of China - [GPG](https://thejeshgn.com/gpg/) - Primary or preferred4096R/C06DD6B0 2012-01-24 Thejesh GN (Thej) fingerprint: C7D4 1911 9893 ADAF 27B0 FCAA BFFC 8DD3 C06D D6B0 Old1024D/5A0C5ABA 2010-06-30 Thejesh GN (Thej) fingerprint: 812C A876 8D8F 9150 01B2 CA31 45C0 80BA 5A0C 5ABA - [Thanks](https://thejeshgn.com/thanks/) - Thank you for everything. - [Wiki](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/) - This is my wiki; I am calling it a wiki because it's never finished, and I keep updating it. It can also be called a digital garden 🌱, if you like that term. Basically, It's my playground, and it keeps changing. - [SiteMap](https://thejeshgn.com/sitemap/) - [Aadhaar](https://thejeshgn.com/aadhaar/) - Status of Aadhaar. I have now. Surrendered to system. Aug 14, 2019 - Applied Sep 26, 2018 - Aadhaar verdict: many challenges still remain May 10, 2018 - Aadhaar Verdict Reserved By Supreme Court. - [3Kfor30](https://thejeshgn.com/3kfor30/) - We three friends (Anand, Sandeep & Me) celebrated getting into fourth decade by motorcycling 3000kms and another 3000kms by train and bus. Since we were motorcycling for 3000kms its was called #3kfor30. But like any other motor cycle trip it changed on the go. We did ride 3000kms together but then I also rode another - [My Name in Different Languages](https://thejeshgn.com/about/my-name-in-different-languages/) - Just for fun. My name in different languages along with respective ISO 639-1 language code. If you know any language which is not here, can you please transliterate (not translation) it for me? Please mail the same to [I @ thejeshgn.com]. If you send your name and link, I will credit you as well : - [Books Tracking](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/books-tracking/) - Books read by me over the years. Stats and visuals around them. Its part of my #quantifiedself project. - [ಆತ್ಮಶ್ರೀಗಾಗಿ ನಿರಂಕುಶಮತಿಗಳಾಗಿ- ಕುವೆಂಪು](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/ಆತ್ಮಶ್ರೀಗಾಗಿ-ನಿರಂಕುಶಮತಿ/) - ಅಮೃತಪುತ್ರರಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಜ್ಞಾಪನೆ, ಮಿತ್ರರೇ, ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮುಂದೆ ನಿಂತು, ನನ್ನ ಕೆಲವು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಾಶಪಡಿಸಲು ಅವಕಾಶ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಟ್ಟುದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ನಾನು ನಿಮ್ಮೆಲ್ಲರನ್ನೂ ಮನಮುಟ್ಟಿ ವಂದಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. ನನ್ನ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳು ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ರುಚಿಸದಿರಬಹುದು, ಮತ್ತೆ ಕೆಲವರಿಗೆ ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಕಾರಿಗಳಾಗಿ ತೋರಬಹುದು ಆದರೂ ನನ್ನ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರನ್ನಾದರೂ ನೋಯಿಸಬೇಕೆಂಬ ಇಚ್ಚೆ ಲವಲೇಶವೂ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅಲ್ಲದೆ ನಾನು ಹೇಳಲಿರುವ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳು ಅಲ್ಪಾಲೋಚನೆಯಿಂದಾಗಲಿ, ಉದ್ರೇಕದ ಬುದ್ದಿಯಿಂದಲಾಗಲಿ, ಅನುದಾರತೆಯಿಂದಾಗಲಿ, ಪ್ರತಿಹಿಂಸಾಭಾವದಿಂದಾಗಲಿ ಬಂದುದಲ್ಲ; ಬಹುಕಾಲದ ದೀರ್ಘಮಂಥನದಿಂದ, ಪ್ರಶಾಂತ ಧ್ಯಾನದಿಂದ, ಅನ್ಯಾಯಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅವಿವೇಕಗಳನ್ನೂ ಅಜ್ಞಾನಜನ್ಯವಾದ ಕ್ರೂರ ವರ್ತನೆಗಳನ್ನೂ ಕಂಡಾಗ ಮೂಡಿದ ಸಾತ್ವಿಕ ಕ್ರೋಧದಿಂದ, - [Major Stampedes in India](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/major-stampedes-in-india/) - This dataset documents major stampede incidents in India, including religious events, railway stations, and public gatherings. Each entry includes date, location, state, departments involved, number of injuries and deaths (with source links), actions taken, and compensation paid. It is formatted with HTML links for easy web publishing. The data spans from 2010 to 2025, for - [GANATHE](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/ganathe/) - No 699, Behind Suvidya College 1st Cross Rd, Vinayaka Nagar Kammasandra Bengaluru, Karnataka 560100 - [Labs](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/labs/) - I have been developing lots of small, single purpose apps and experiments. Below is the list of them. Some of them have a descriptive blog post if you are interested in knowing the details. IMD Warnings for a Location - read more about it in this blog post. Location and Routing - Given OpenLocationCode or - [Maps](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/) - Various maps created by me for different projects. Motor Cycle Trip - #3kfor30 Epic Drive - Our Drive Across India Road Trip With Appa Aadhaar #SpeakForMe Petition Status - [Projects](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/) - Personal Nagarathna Memorial Grant This is a micro-grant to support something meaningful in the name of my mother - Nagarathna. The reason for grant could be anything as long its meaningful to you and people around. Though I prefer free and open source or creative commons projects, It’s not a must. It’s a no strings - [GST](https://thejeshgn.com/gst/) - GST Certificate Board - [Embed PDF Documents](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/embed-pdf-documents/) - We can use the following following code to embed the PDF in HTML. It makes use of object tag and also PDF-open parameters (rfc3778) To fix the zoom, open specific page etc. Many other options are available. They are listed below along with example. Fit to page Zoom, - [Contact](https://thejeshgn.com/contact/) - Email and Chat Email: i @ thejeshgn dot com You can use GPG keys with fingerprint C7D4 1911 9893 ADAF 27B0 FCAA BFFC 8DD3 C06D D6B0 XMPP/Jabber: thej@chat.thejeshgn.com with omemo E2E encryption. Contact Form On other sites @thej@social.lol GitHub Stack OverFlow del.icio.us LinkedIn Flickr Wikipedia - [PayMe](https://thejeshgn.com/pay/) - Ask me - [Paper Games Zine](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/paper-games-zine/) - Idea Games Making Its easier to cut and fold. You can either cut by hand or use scissors. Here is the full tutorial by 42nd Street. I have embedded a their single image how-to manual below. - [GIS Coordinates order - Lat/Lon or Lon/Lat ?](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/gis-coordinates-order-lat-lon-or-lon-lat/) - GIS coordinate order is always a source of confusion when working with different software tools. Is it Latitude (lat) followed by Longitude (lon), or the other way around? I’ve made mistakes with this before. So here’s my way of recording it to get it right next time. The examples below use Bengaluru’s coordinates: Latitude = - [Subscribe](https://thejeshgn.com/subscribe/) - Subscribe to Thej's blog using email or RSS. It's the easiest way to get them delivered to you. - [Calendars of India](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/calendars-of-india/) - New Year and Calendars New Year is celebrated across India as festivals on different days based on the region, community, calendar etc. Below is the table of that. - [Blogroll](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/blogroll/) - These are the people I follow online. I love what they write. The subjects vary a lot. It's replaced by blogring. - [blogring](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/blogring/) - blogring (ˈblɒɡˌrɪŋ) a group of blogs joined in a ring. I’ve long wanted a webring of blogs on my site—now it’s here. You can browse the blog in the ring below. Click on the Title of the blog to see the description. A random blog from the ring also appears in the side column on - [Weekend Backpack Checklist](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/weekend-backpack-checklist/) - [Travel Week - Lightweight Essentials Checklist](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/travel-week-lightweight-essentials-checklist/) - Travel Week - Lightweight Essentials Checklist. Weights are mentioned, so you can count grams. - [Dots and Boxes](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/games/dots-and-boxes/) - I like 8x8 grids with at least 64 boxes, but it works with any size. A perfect game to play on a plane. What You Need A sheet of paper with a 8x8 grid of dots. Two players. Two pens of different colors (optional). Setup Draw the Grid: Create a grid of dots, 8 dots - [Favorite Games](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/games/) - [Games](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/games/) - [Book Cricket](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/games/book-cricket/) - It's a game that we used to play in school all the time. You don't need much to play it. What You Need A book with numbered pages. A pen and paper to record scores. Setup Decide the number of players (2 or more). Agree on the number of innings per player. Rules Each player - [Travel Locations for Geeks in India](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/travel-locations-for-geeks-in-india/) - Attractive, Unique travel locations for geeks to visit in India. These locations may not be of interest to non-geeks. Some of them are open to the public. Some of these venues are in a restricted area and need prior appointments. So do your research before you plan to visit. You can download this whole map - [Styles](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/) - Embedding Web Examples - [PMR446 - Personal Mobile Radio at 446 MHz](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/pmr446-personal-mobile-radio-at-446-mhz/) - PMR446 (Private or Personal Mobile Radio, 446 MHz) is a license-free service and UHF radio frequency for communication in India and the European Union. Sometimes, they are also called license-free walkie-talkies. Though it is license-free, there are some restrictions on power, bandwidth, etc. License free General Statutory Rules - G.S.R. 1047(E) - Use of Low - [Motorola Talkabout T82 Extreme user manual](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/motorola-talkabout-t82-extreme-user-manual/) - [License free bands in India](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/license-free-bands-in-india/) - I have tabulated here for my own reference. Please do your own research and reading before using any band. License free bands LoRaWAN Check LoRaWAN Regional Parameters Rev1.0.2 India 865-867 MHz ISM Band The network channels can be freely attributed by the network operator. However the three following default channels must be implemented in every - [Baofeng Radio UV-9R Plus User manual](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/baofeng-radio-uv-9r-plus-user-manual/) - [Delicensing Low Power and Very Low Power Short Range Radio Frequency Devices [G.S.R. 1047(E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-low-power-and-very-low-power-short-range-radio-frequency-devices-g-s-r-1047e/) - [HM Pearl House](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/hm-pearl-house/) - HM Pearl House Apts, No 28, Davis Road - [Soundcite](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/soundcite/) - SoundCite is a simple-to-use tool that lets you add inline audio to your story. The audio is not isolated; it plays right under the text you choose. Planning to start an all new podcast about tech in Kannada called TechMaathu. Stay tuned. will appear as : Planning to start - [Survey of India - OSM/Topo Map Index](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/survey-of-india-osm-topo-map-index/) - This is an index map(geojson) of Survey of India - Open Series Map (OSM) 50K Map sheets and Topo 50K Map sheets. Click on the box to find the details about the sheets. Once you get the map sheet number, you can go to SOI online maps site to download the actual map. Credits: Survey - [Surveillance in Bengaluru](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/surveillance-in-bengaluru/) - It started with a personal interest in mapping surveillance in Bengaluru in the middle of 2019. I began mapping CCTV cameras in Bangalore on OSM. Initially, there were very few CCTV mappers. Now, I see so many OSM contributors mapping CCTVs. We are not officially or unofficially organized. We are just regular contributors to OSM, - [PostCards](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/postcards/) - Post cards that I have received from friends, family, well wishers and strangers from around the world. Thank you all. Keep sending. - [Best Things to Do in Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/best-things-to-do-in-bangalore/) - If you are in Bangalore for a weekend or a week, these are the must do things in Bangalore. I have lived in Bangalore all my life these are my recommendations. - [Checkin](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/checkin/) - [South Korea - KOAT2016](https://thejeshgn.com/south-korea-koat2016/) - [Bangalore Lake Water Quality Data](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/bangalore-lake-water-quality-data/) - Introduction This is a community sponsored project for collecting lake quality data once a year. The project started in 2016 with the initial donation of Bellandur Lake data by Namma Bengaluru Foundation. As of now we have eleven lakes as part of this data collection project. Lakes under the project Status Report Data Links to - [Epic Drive Plan](https://thejeshgn.com/epic-drive/epic-drive-plan/) - This was the original plan. We took a lot of time to decide this. But like any other plan somethings change. I have it here for comparison. Day by Day - [Character](https://thejeshgn.com/character/) - [Embed 360 Degree Panorama Images](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/embed-360-degree-panorama-images/) - We can embed the 360 Degree Panorama Images on the webpage using Pannellum. With autoload on With autoload off Important parameters hfov (number) - sets the panorama’s starting horizontal field of view in degrees. Defaults to 100. pitch (number) - Sets - [What I’m doing now](https://thejeshgn.com/now/) - I live in Bangalore, India. I spend my time on I spend lots of time with Anju, Uma, Echo, and Pathu. I am currently enjoying my parenthood. CTO at Peppo Data Archivist at DataMeet Teaching Modern Application Development I (BSCCS2003) and II (BSCCS2006) at IITM Online Degree Contributing data using various platforms like DataCommons, OSM, - [Bengaluru - Craft Beer Walk](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/bengaluru-craft-beer-walk/) - Bengaluru has lots of choice for good beer. These are my favorite in central business district. They are all walk-able (GeoJSON map file). Want to add to list or any suggestions? Send me an email. - [Weekend Motorcycling Trip Checklist](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/weekend-motorcycling-trip-checklist/) - Weekend or extended weekend Motorcycling Trip Checklist. It includes parts of Weekend Backpack checklist. - [Power Adapters Sizes and Rating](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/power-adapters-sizes-and-rating/) - Power adapters for various devices that I own. This is for general reference, do your own research in general before using or you will see magic smoke. - [Hack Spots - Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/hackspots/) - These are the places that have the best vibes, great coffee and are good for chatting and having a good hack. This also includes places that are not coffee shops but are still great places to sit down and hack. - [Bangalore Dosa Tour](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/bangalore-dosa-tour/) - Eventhough this is called Dosa tour. It's Idly, Dosa, Vada, Coffee Tour of Bangalore. Download the map (geojson) file for offlie use. - [Bangalore's Military Hotels](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/bangalore-military-hotels/) - Best Military hotels of Bangalore. The best, no nonsense, very affordable, non-veg restaurants from Bangalore. - [RoadTripWithAppa - Road Trip around UP](https://thejeshgn.com/roadtripwithappa-road-trip-around-up/) - A weeks road trip with Appa and his friend. He always wanted to visit Varanasi, So I figured it will be interesting for me if we drive. If you are interested in details, go though daily logs. - [EPIC Drive](https://thejeshgn.com/epic-drive/) - In 2015 I am planning to drive across India. This time I will take more pictures, capture more data, and contribute to Open Data projects on the go. - [Beer Project](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/beer-project/) - The beer that I have tasted and rated as part of #TannusBeerProject on Instagram. - [RTO - Road Tax Collection Centres](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/rto-road-tax-collection-centres/) - RTO - Road Tax Collection Centres at the state border. You will have to pay ta if you are driving a self drive or an yellow board taxi. - [Inscription Stones Of Bangalore](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/inscription-stones-of-bangalore/) - This is the log of my visits to #InscriptionStonesofBangalore. I will add as I visit them personally. Source: Team #InscriptionStonesofBangalore Facebook group. - [Great Trigonometrical Survey](https://thejeshgn.com/maps/great-trigonometrical-survey/) - [Embed Maps](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/embed-maps/) - Embedding maps on this website. Quick reference Top level Marker GeoJSON GPX Combination Links Leaftlet Wordpress settings Styling Path using attributes like 'stroke', 'color', 'weight', 'opacity', 'lineCap', 'lineJoin', 'dashArray', 'dashOffset' 'fill', 'fillColor', 'fillOpacity', 'fillRule', 'className' Elevation Settings Cluster Grouping Elevation Parameter Settings - [Pictures of Thejesh GN](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/pictures-of-me/) - You can use these pictures of me for publication. BY nob - Romel Dutta By Meera Sankar At DataCamp - I need to figure who shot this - [India, Adoption Regulations, 2022](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/india-adoption-regulations-2022/) - MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT NOTIFICATIONNew Delhi, the 23 rd September, 2022 G.S.R. 726(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (c) of section 68 read with clause (3) of section 2 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (2 of 2016) and in supersession of the Adoption Regulations, 2017, - [Open Location Code aka Plus Codes Support](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/open-location-code-aka-plus-codes-support/) - I have started using OLC, aka Plus codes, in non-technical communications where lat,lng doesn't make sense or confuses folks. On this page, I am tracking the support of it on various platforms, apps, etc. The algorithm and libraries are open source, if you like to use them in your app. The Open Location Code (OLC) is - [The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/the-digital-personal-data-protection-bill-2022/) - [Synology DS420+ Datasheet](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/synology-ds420-datasheet/) - [Prompts](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/prompts/) - [Constitution of India, For Engineers](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/constitution-of-india-for-engineers/) - Constitution of India, For Engineers Books - [Tamarind Valley Collective (TVC)](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/tvc/) - Biodiversity Community members map the biodiversity found at TVC using iNaturalist. You can go to the project page to explore. View more observations from Biodiversity at TVC on iNaturalist » - [Delicensing in 865-868 MHz band [GSR 853 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-865-868-mhz-band-gsr-853-e/) - [Location](https://thejeshgn.com/location/) - [Bengaluru Safe City Project Tender](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/bengaluru-safe-city-project-tender/) - Request for Proposal for selection of service provider for design, implementation and maintenance of Bengaluru Safe City Project. E-Procurement Tender Document - [Unified User Status and Availability API](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/unified-user-status-and-availability-api/) - I use all kinds of online systems to interact with my team, friends, and family. I usually set my availability and status based on where I operate. The problem is the language and meaning differ slightly in every system. The systems don't talk to each other. And there are very few offline systems that integrate. - [THE CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2019](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/cab/) - [Supreme Court on Playing National Anthem before Cinema Starts](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/supreme-court-on-playing-national-anthem-before-cinema-starts/) - [Supreme Court Judgement - Right to Privacy](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/supreme-court-judgement-right-to-privacy/) - [Solving for data justice: A response to the draft Personal Data Protection Bill](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/solving-for-data-justice-a-response-to-the-draft-personal-data-protection-bill/) - This was jointly drafted by participants following two workshops organised in Bangalore and Delhi by the Internet Democracy Project in September 2018. - [My Experiments with Air Quality and Sensors](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/my-experiments-with-air-quality-and-sensors/) - [Letter to CBDT - Clarification requested on linking PAN with Aadhaar](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/letter-to-cbdt-clarification-requested-on-linking-pan-with-aadhaar/) - [LEGAL NOTICE TO THEJESH GN CEASE AND DESIST INFRINGEMENT](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/legal-notice-to-thejesh-gn-cease-and-desist-infringement/) - [Invitation to join Executive Board of Oorvani Foundation](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/invitation-to-join-executive-board-of-oorvani-foundation/) - [Draft - The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/draft-the-geospatial-information-regulation-bill-2016/) - Source: “The Geospatial Regulation Bill 2016” - [Delicesing in 335 MHz band [GSR 532 (E)] and 26.957 - 27.283 MHz band [GSR 533 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicesing-in-335-mhz-gsr-532-and-26-957-27-283mhz-gsr-533-e/) - Delicesing in 335 MHz band [GSR 532 (E)] and 26_957-27_283 MHz band [GSR 533 (E)] - [Delicensing in 9-50 KHz band [GSR 83 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-9-50-khz-band-gsr-83-e/) - [Delicensing in 865-867 MHz band [GSR 564 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-865-867-mhz-band-gsr-564-e/) - Delicensing in 865-867 MHz band [GSR 564 (E)] - [Delicensing in 50-200 KHz band [GSR 90 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-50-200-khz-band-gsr-90-e/) - [Delicensing in 433-434 MHz band [GSR 680 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-433-434-mhz-band-gsr-680-e/) - The Use of low Power devices or equipments for indoor applications in the 433 to 434 MHz frequency range (Exemption from Licensing Requirement) Rules, 2012 - [Delicensing in 402-405 MHz band [GSR 673 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-402-405-mhz-band-gsr-673-e/) - [Delicensing in 335 MHz band [GSR 34 (E)], 26.957-27.283 MHz band [GSR 35 (E)], 5 GHz band [GSR 36 (E)] and 865-867 MHz band [GSR 37 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-335-mhz-band-gsr-34-e-26-957-27-283-mhz-band-gsr-35-e-5-ghz-band-gsr-36-e-and-865-867-mhz-band-gsr-37-e/) - [Delicensing in 302-435kHz, 855-1050kHz and 1.89-2.31MHz band [GSR 996 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-302-435khz-855-1050khz-and-1-89-2-31mhz-band-gsr-996-e/) - [Delicensing in 13.553-13.567 MHz band [GSR 884 (E)]](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/delicensing-in-13-553-13-567-mhz-band-gsr-884-e/) - [Modern Application Development - II](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/modern-application-development-2/) - Nitin Chandrachoodan and I teach the Modern Application Development course at IITM as part of the BSc Degree program. In part two of this course, Nitin handles theory, and I run all the lab parts. Here are the screen-casts from my sessions. You will need a computer with some tools installed (mentioned in the screen-casts) - [Modern Application Development - 1](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/modern-application-development-1/) - Nitin Chandrachoodan and I teach the Modern Application Development course at IITM as part of the Online BSc Degree program. In part one of this course, Nitin handles theory, and I run all the lab parts. Here are the screen-casts from my sessions. You will need a computer with some tools installed (mentioned in the - [Animal Welfare Board - Guidelines wrt Pet and Street Dogs](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/animal-welfare-board-guidelines-wrt-pet-and-street-dogs/) - [Petition Visveswaraiah Technological University to use Free Software](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/open-letterspetitions/petition-visveswaraiah-technological-university-to-use-free-software/) - Respected Sir, an appeal from the world of Free Software The Vice Chancellor Visvesvaraya Technological University Belgaum - 590 014 Karnataka State, India March 01, 2005 Respected Sir, Re: Opening wider software avenues for your students through Free Software. There are thousands of engineering and polytechnic colleges in India. Each year, a few hundred thousands - [Since](https://thejeshgn.com/since/) - Thejesh GN is blogging since Evolution Geocities TechMag On thejeshgn.com - [COVID19 India](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/covid19-india/) - Non Virus Deaths There are many deaths (Suicide, due to lock-down, lathi-charge, hunger, during migration etc) reported from the field which are related to COVID-19 disease but are not attributed to virus. You can see the listing and graph on a separate page. Communcal Incidents This is a public database of reported incidents of hate - [DNA of Thejesh GN](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/) - DNA of Thejesh GN for open research. - [Blood Donation Log](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/blood-donation-log/) - [Non Virus Deaths](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/covid19-india/non-virus-deaths/) - There are many deaths (Suicide, due to lock-downS, lathicharge, hunger ,during migration etc) which are related to COVID-19 disease but are not attributed to virus. - [Nithya Kannada - ನಿತ್ಯ ಕನ್ನಡ](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/nithya-kannada/) - NithyaKannada is simple and quick learning material to learn Kannada. It's a collection of audio files, along with the text in English and Kannada. Each audio file is a simple conversation that contains both English and Kannada Version. Idea is to keep each one is under 60 seconds. - [ProjectOnHerOwn](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/project-onherown/) - The Concept #ProjectOnHerOwn is a multimedia exploration through the landscape of women’s experiences of self-discovery, self-reliance and self-assertion. It travels through familiar stories about women all of us know. It unravels our moments of silent rebellion and shows us that we are not alone in these. In a world where the non-conforming voice has to - [Awesome CouchDB](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/awesome-couchdb/) - CouchDB related software and tools that I use. There are lots of apps for independent (unhosted) hosting along with tools to manage CouchDB. I use CouchDB as my personal DB. These tools have been very useful to me. - [Kannada Fonts](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/kannada/kannada-fonts/) - The fonts listed here are available under open source licnese. Mallige and Kedage Probably the oldest fonts out there. You can get them from Brahmi website or as a package on your Linux distro. Noto Sans and Serif Kannada Google has been developing a font family called Noto, which aims to support all languages with - [Communal Incidents](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/covid19-india/communal-incidents/) - This is a public database of reported incidents of hate crimes that have happened following the communalization of COVID-19 in India. These include incidents of physical violence, vandalism, hate speech, religious segregation, medical negligence on communal grounds, denial of public services, state-backed discrimination and communal deaths. We would like to acknowledge that the actual number - [List of Indian Celebrity blogs](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/indian-celebrity-blogs/) - Aamir Khan | RSS Feed | Actor Gul Panag | RSS Feed | Actress Amitabh Bachchan AB | RSS Feed | Actor Laalu Prasad Yadhav | No feed | Politician Karan Johar | No Feed | Film Director Kiran Bedi | No Feed | IPS Shekar Kapur | RSS Feed | Film Director Rahul Bose's - [HOPCOMS API](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/hopcoms-api/) - This is HOPCOMS (Horticultural Producers’ Co-operative Marketing and Processing Society Ltd) API documentation. This API is unoffical. This API provides daily rates of vegetables and fruits sold by HOPCOMS stores. API can be used by web or mobile apps. - [Thejesh GN in Media](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/thejesh-gn-in-media/) - Quoted in Times Of India about Free and Open Source Software in Education Front page of Bangalore Mirror Newsprint - Online OneIndia - Living section - Nokia Open Lab Event. Few hours before flying Dinamalar - Tamil Daily - Nokia Event Bangalore Mirror - Blog Talk - Finnish Sojourn SkyNews UK - On my Personal - [Unlimited Book @ Fahrenheit 451](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/unlimited-book-at-fahrenheit-451/) - Reminiscent of the warmth of a hard bound book and the scent of its pages, The Unlimited Book expands the ecosystem of a library as the keeper of infinite knowledge. Taking the form of a secret book safe which consists of a custom server that runs on battery it serves readings that are stored locally on the server without the use of the internet. - [Documents](https://thejeshgn.com/documents/) - Archived copy of Karnataka Mobile One - Privacy Policy Archived copy of Karnataka Mobile One - Terms of Use Supreme Court Judgement - No Religion is a Valid Religion Notice: Public Wifi Record Keeping RTI to TRAI - Requesting the report on AirTel - [Glucose Monitoring system - Part 1](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/glucose-monitoring-system-part-1/) - Introduction I wore The FreeStyle Libre Sensor for two weeks in May/June 2016. This was just a fun experimental run as I don't have any Diabetes. Along with wearing the device I also kept a food dairy[1. I have missed some details and some days. But it's fairly accurate.]. I have all the data available - [Open Source Tools that I use](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/open-source-tools-that-i-use/) - Here are the list of Open Source Tools that I use both at Work and at Home. A big thanks to all the developers. OS I use Linux. I use Ubuntu Linux on my PC and Laptop. On my EEEPC, I use CrunchBangLinux. Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: - [Color Schemes](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/color-schemes/) - Website #3b8dbd #82b965 #008000 #0f9d58 #F89361 #aaaaaa #666666 #444444 Blue-to-Dark Red, 18 Steps By University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). Useful for temperature-like data display. Color value table is below. Light Blue-to-Dark Blue, 9 Steps From ColorBrewer. Solarized base03 - #002b36 base02 - #073642 base01 - #586e75 base00 - #657b83 base0 - #839496 base1 - - [Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or Death](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/emmeline-pankhursts-freedom-or-death/) - [dropcap]I[/dropcap] do not come here as an advocate, because whatever position the suffrage movement may occupy in the United States of America, in England it has passed beyond the realm of advocacy and it has entered into the sphere of practical politics. It has become the subject of revolution and civil war, and so tonight - [Jupyter notebook inside wordpress](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/jupyter-notebook-inside-wordpress/) - Welcome to the experimental embeding of nbviewer notebook into wordpress. - [Podcast Tracking](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/podcast-tracking/) - I listen to a lot of podcasts. Since 2018 I have been tracking them. This page has details about my podcast listening activity. I will add charts and OPML subscription list in future. As of now its a live list of what I am listening now. Podcasts Episodes I am listening Podcast Episode Length When - [WordPress for Artists](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/wordpress-for-artists/) - WordPress is an open source software to run websites. It started as a blogging platform but now its become online presence platform. Its versatile enough to be a blog or a content management system. WordPress is no more just a blogging platform. WordPress has become now the most preferred platform for independent, community and even - [Terms and Conditions](https://thejeshgn.com/terms-and-conditions/) - Please read these Terms and Conditions ("Terms", "Terms and Conditions") carefully before using the https://thejeshgn.com website. By accessing or using the website you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the website. If you are looking for Privacy Policy. Its on - [Privacy Policy](https://thejeshgn.com/privacy-policy/) - Our website address is: https://thejeshgn.com. It's run by Thejesh GN. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string - [Aadhaar #SpeakForMe Petition Status](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/aadhaar-speakforme-petition-status/) - #SpeakForMe is a campaign to petition Indian MPs, Banks, Mobile operators and other service providers to speak for you against the Aadhaar linking coercion. You can go to #SpeakForMe to send your petition. This page shows the live stats. It's updated every 15 minutes. Emails Sent to Mobile Operators Emails Sent to Banks Emails Sent - [Movies Tracking](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/movies-tracking/) - Show/Hide the Graphs - [State of Indian Languages on OpenStreetMap](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/state-of-indian-languages-openstreetmap/) - This page is to track the effort of bringing OpenStreetMap to Indian languages. This page has all the reports and charts to track the progress - [Global Public URLs](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/global-public-urls/) - List of all public urls - [PDLF - Personal Data Logging Format Specification](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/pdlf-personal-data-logging-format-specification/) - Personal Data Logging Format Spec, PDLF is data interchange and storage format for #quantifiedself & IoT data. Its a JSON. Format is simple yet very flexible. - [What am I Proud of and Grateful for?](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/proud-of-and-grateful/) - Everyday I make a note of what am I proud of and what am I grateful for in one word. This is a live word cloud of those. - [Hueman Theme](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/styles/hueman-theme/) - Getting started Looks like you've found the documentation for the theme, we're off to a good start! On the right side you can see the table of contents of this documentation. Jump to the section you want, or read it all through - your choice. Let's move on! Installation Installing your theme is pretty easy! - [How to Get and Read DRM Free - EPUB Ebooks](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/how-to-get-read-drm-free-epub-ebooks/) - Where to get - [Kannada](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/kannada/) - Kannada Language related resources ಇ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಯೋಜನೆ - [ಇ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ಯೋಜನೆ](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/kannada-ebooks/) - ಪೀಠಿಕೆ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಎಷ್ಟೋಂದು ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳು ಕಣಜ, ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ, ಸರಕಾರಿ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯಗಳು, ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು ಹಾಗು ಇನ್ನಿತರೆ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಅಂತರಜಾಲ ಪುಟಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಲಭ್ಯವಿದೆ. ಅದರೆ ಅವ್ಯಾವು ಇ-ಪಬ್ (ಮುಕ್ತ ಹಾಗು ಉಚಿತ ಕಡತ ಸ್ವರೂಪ) ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಅವನ್ನು ಇ-ಪುಸ್ತಕ ರೀಡರ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಓದುವುದು ಕಷ್ಟ. ನಾನು ಮೊದಲಿಗೆ, ನನ್ನ ಸ್ವಂತ ಓದಿಗೆ ಇ-ಪಬ್ ರೂಪಕ್ಕೆ ಈ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿವರ್ತಿಸಿಕೊಂಡೆ. ಆದರೆ ಈ ಕಡತಗಳು ನನ್ನಂತಹ ಆನೇಕರಿಗೆ ಉಪಯೋಗವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಅನ್ನುವ ಕಾರಣದಿಂದ - [BOINC](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/boinc/) - What and Why? I am a big believer in Science. I believe it can have a positive impact on all lives. Specially if they are humanitarian projects. I like to support them in all possible ways. The most simple and cheap way to contribute is to donate some CPU cycles. I can choose to do - [ಪಾಕವಿಧಾನಗಳು - Recipes](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/) - Recipes that I love and collected over years. - [Corgi Pork](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/corgi-pork/) - [Javascript Libraries](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/javascript-libraries/) - [Python Packages I use](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/python-packages-i-use/) - [ESP8266 for Artists](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/esp8266-for-artists/) - ESP8266 for Artists is my notebook with all my learnings as I explored ESP8266. Its meant for all kinds of artists. From programmers to brick layers. - [NodeMCU/Lua Setup on ESP8266](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/esp8266-for-artists/nodemculua-setup-on-esp8266/) - Install NodeMCU Download the latest version of the firmware from GitHub, it generally has the file extension .bin. Rename it to nodemcu.bin If you like to have a customized, then go NodeMCU custom builds, select the modules you want in your firmware and build one for yourself. Download .bin extension. and rename nodemcu.bin Build the - [Weight Tracking](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/weight-tracking/) - Show/Hide the Graphs - [Sleep Tracking](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/sleep-tracking/) - For the current Year - 2016 Raw Files -- Will upload soon - [Podcasts that I Listen](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/podcasts-that-i-listen/) - These are the podcasts that I listen almost every day. I have listed them here so you can subscribe. - [What color is your name?](https://thejeshgn.com/visualizations/what-color-is-your-name/) - Enter your name in the textbox below to find the color that matches your name - [Checklist - Car Travel First Aid Box](https://thejeshgn.com/lists/car-travel-first-aid-box/) - Checklist for the first aid box that I can every time I drive. I carry all of these in my car while I am on a trip. All of this is stored inside a semi transparent waterproof plastic container. I created this during my epic car drive in 2015. Note: This is my first aid - [Beverages](https://thejeshgn.com/dna/beverages/) - Will upload soon. - [Checklist - First Aid Box](https://thejeshgn.com/epic-drive/checklist-first-aid-box/) - Moved to Car Travel First Aid Box - [Visualizations](https://thejeshgn.com/visualizations/) - Gov2.0, Politics IndiaVotes2014 – Lokasabha Elections 2014 - Coverage of the Worlds Biggest Election. Whole world is interested in whats going on in India. This is my attempt to capture the essential good, bad and ugly part of this election as a timeline. BBMP Election results BBMP Elections 2010 results are on the map. Go - [Talks](https://thejeshgn.com/talks/) - [Kannada Films to See Before You Die](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/kannada/kannada-films-to-see-before-you-die/) - List of Kannada films to see before you die. As of now I am collecting the names and then I will put them for voting to select the top 100. - [Life With Parkinson’s Disease](https://thejeshgn.com/life-with-parkinsons-disease/) - Note: This is not a medical advice. This is just a notebook of our experiences. Please consult your doctor[1. You should always double check anything on internet in general.]. Parkinson’s Disease Medicine Relationships and family life Equipment and aids Books Parkinson's and you is an introductory guide to Parkinson's. It contains information about symptoms, treatments - [Open Letters/Petitions](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/open-letterspetitions/) - [ATDrove15 on Instagram](https://thejeshgn.com/epic-drive/atdrove15-on-instagram/) - [Translating OpenStreetMap to Kannada or Any Language](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/translating-openstreetmap-to-kannada-or-any-language/) - Register at OSM Login Edit Mode Select an Item to Translate Add translation Save Done You are Awesome - [Feedburner Feedflare for Twitter](https://thejeshgn.com/tools2/feedburner-feedflare-for-twitter/) - Most of the bloggers use Feedburner to distribute the feeds and also use Twitter to communicate with their readers. How about adding a message at the end of your feed so your feed readers can follow you on Twitter. Check my feed on Google Reader. It shows "Follow Thej on Twitter" link on every post. - [Notebook](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/notebook/) - [Annihilation of Caste by B.R Ambedkar](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/annihilation-of-caste-by-b-r-ambedkar/) - By Dr. B. R. Ambedkar [pullquote-right]For The 1936 Annual Conference of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore. But not delivered owing to the cancellation of the Conference by the Reception Committee on the ground that the views expressed in the Speech would be unbearable to the Conference. [/pullquote-right] Friends, I am really sorry for the members - [Bangalore Biodiversity](https://thejeshgn.com/projects/bangalore-biodiversity/) - View more observations from Bangalore Biodiversity on iNaturalist.org » - [ಅಮ್ಮನ ಖಾರದ ಪುಡಿ - Amma's Karada Pudi](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/ammas-karada-pudi/) - [ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಕೂಲರ್ - Bangalore Cooler](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/bangalore-cooler/) - [Great Speeches](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/) - Great speeches by great leaders. Collected here for my own reading but no body is stopping you. - [ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ ಹುಣಸೆ ಗೊಜ್ಜು - Onion Tamarind Gojju](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/onion-tamarind-gojju/) - ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳು ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ (ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾಗಿ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿದ್ದು) 4 ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣು - 50ಗ್ರಾಂ ಕಡಳೆ ಬೇಳೆ - 5 ಗ್ರಾಂ ಉದ್ದಿನ ಬೇಳೆ - 5 ಗ್ರಾಂ ಸಾಸುವೆ - 1 ಗ್ರಾಂ ಉಪ್ಪು ಕಾರದ ಪುಡಿ ವಿಧಾನ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ನೀರನ್ನು ಕಾಯಿಸಿ ಹಾಗು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣನ್ನು ನೆನೆಸಿಡಿ. ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸಮಯದ ನಂತರ ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಕಿವುಚಿ, ಬರಿ ಹುಣಸೆ ನೀರನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಡಿ ಒಂದು ಬಾಂಡಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ, ಎಣ್ಣೆ ಕಾಯಿಸಿ, ಸಾಸುವೆಯನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ ಚಟ ಪಟ ಅನ್ನುವವರೆಗು ಕಾಯಿರಿ, - [ಒನ್ ಬೈ ಟು ಐರಿಷ್ ಕಾಫಿ - One by Two Irish Coffee](https://thejeshgn.com/recipes/one-by-two-irish-coffee/) - ಪಾಕವಿಧಾನಗಳು - ಒನ್ ಬೈ ಟು ಐರಿಷ್ ಕಾಫಿ Recipes - One by Two Irish Coffee - [Global Voices On Map](https://thejeshgn.com/tools2/global-voices-on-map/) - [Tools](https://thejeshgn.com/tools2/) - Web sites or web apps A list of all web projects which are created and run by me are on projects page. Gov2.0, data and visualization BBMP Election results BBMP Elections 2010 results are on the map. Go explore. Data is also available in JSON format for playing. I Love Bangalore..because is a fun visualization - [Weather](https://thejeshgn.com/weather/) - I run a NetAtmo weather station. I am still working on providing live weather API and historical data. - [Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/cargo-cult-science-by-richard-feynman/) - Adapted from the Caltech commencement address given in 1974. During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then amethod was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to tryone to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it.This - [Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You - John F. Kennedy](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-john-f-kennedy/) - Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom - symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning - signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and - [Give me blood and I Promise you freedom - Subash Chandra Bose](https://thejeshgn.com/wiki/great-speeches/give-me-blood-and-i-promise-you-freedom-subash-chandra-bose/) - On: At a rally of Indians in Burma, July 4, 1944 By: Subash Chandra Bose Note: Audio files of this speech is available here for listening is Subash's own voice. Friends! Twelve months ago a new programme of 'total mobilisation' or 'maximum sacrifice' was placed before Indians in East Asia. 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