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.

Location: Bengaluru

ನಾಗರತ್ನ ಸ್ಮಾರಕ ಅನುದಾನ - Nagarathna Memorial Grant 1

Life

 

 

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 year’s total grant amount is 2,90,000. Kids scholarship of 1 Lakh is outside the initial budget that I had allocated for NMG. So its more like the base NMG is now 2 Lakhs, rest of it came from friends of NMG.

Image of flowering tree with blue sky background 1

Weekly Notes

 

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Weekly Notes 15/2024

The heat wave continues in Bangalore, and there have been no summer rains 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 side, plants love the sun. All of our balcony plants are shining, and there are new dasavala (Hibiscus) flowers.

Node red flow 2

Technology

 

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, I didn’t have to do any migration there. I moved the automation to Node-Red And viewed it using HTML and CouchDB Views.

We took lots of goofy pictures 0

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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)...

Echo At Cubbon Park 0

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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,...

Summer is here. It's been very, very hot outside. Usually, I like to walk to neighborhood shops, parks, etc. It's been almost impossible, except for some streets that are blessed with trees. 1

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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....