Tagged: Free and Open Source

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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 dashboard1...

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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...

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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...

Zim Wiiki screenshot in my outliner mode 0

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...

Building in the times of COVID-19 0

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...

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How to be a Good Software Developer

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...