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.
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Linked List: FOSS Download Managers for Everyday Use
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 to download something large enough like the latest Ubuntu ISO during the day. The only option is download managers. So these are my choice.
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
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
A Key (like a primary key) A unique identifier for an entity; it’s usually a long number. But it’s more than that. It’s a complex object which contains the unique ID (64-bit integer), Entity Name, Path, Parent, etc Datastore also gives you. URL Safe Key; that you can safely pass around. Here is how you decode it.
Moving away from Feedburner
There was a small but dedicated set of users subscribed to this blog using FeedBurner feed. FeedBurner was working, but it’s virtually dead. So this week, I decided to move my feeds away from FeedBurner.
