Tagged: Free and Open Source

Onam Holidays are coming to an end 0

Weekly Notes 39/2024

Everyone has recovered. It seemed like a common viral fever that was going around, but it was nothing serious. Luckily, I didn’t get sick. Hence, we could handle the situation easily. However, this left a lot of work tasks pending to be picked up this week. Note: Title changed because its week 39...

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Simple IMD Alerts

Table of Contents1 What I want2 IMD WMS Layer3 My plan4 Example pages5 Future improvements6 Note IMD (Indian Meteorological Department) has a district-level alert system. They give rain alerts for today and the next four days. They also have something called NowCast that shows the same alert level for now. Alerts are basically...

Screenshot of the uMap embedding on Surveillance in Bengaluru project. Showing the CCTV data pulled using the Remote URL feature and Overpass Turbo. 2

Creating Maps using uMap

uMap is an open-source project that allows you to overlay your map data on top of the OpenStreetMaps and create custom maps. I have used it to create interactive maps; one example can be found embedded on the Surveillance in Bengaluru project page. It has features for both starters and advanced users. You...

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Grouptabs – Export as CSV

One advantage of using the same software again and again is that the process and toolsets are already established and proven. Grouptabs uses CouchDB as its backend, a database that I have been using for various purposes for a long time. I have toolset and process for CouchDB. In this case, I wanted...

Linked List: FOSS Apps for Bill Splitting with Friends 3

Linked List: FOSS Apps for Bill Splitting with Friends

I am a BillMonk refugee. I used it until it went down. Even though it was not FOSS, it was the first app I had seen and used for bill splitting. Today, there are lots of FOSS alternatives. Some of my favorite ones are listed below in this Linked List edition.

Floccus syncing 1

Syncing Bookmarks using Floccus and Git

I wanted a self-hosted version of the browser’s bookmarks sync system. There are quite a few options. The most appropriate one seems to be xBrowserSync. But even that needs a server-side API setup. It seemed a bit too complex for a simple service and for self-hosting. Then I came across Floccus.