Tagged: Free and Open Source
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...