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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 book1. But I have tried to make new friends since 2010. This...

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Subscribing to A list of feeds using Feedbase.io and Liferea

The biggest pain point of RSS feed reading is subscription management. I use different feed readers at different places. On a computer on which I can’t install a program I use browser addons. On my personal computer I use Liferea. On phones1 I use AntennaPod though which I subscribe and listen podcasts. All...

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Rechargeable Batteries

We had a Bush 14 inch TV when I was a kid. We were probably one of a dozen houses that had TV. Our house used to be filled with people during cricket matches and on Sunday evenings, specially because we had an Exide1 12V car battery and our TV had a 12v...

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Building HOPCOMS Fruit/Veg Rate API using 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...

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Notes from 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...

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NoteSelf – TiddlyWiki with 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...