A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
A browser is q sandboxed area where you can access, view, and manipulate the data. Somehow the ability to manipulate the data (website) locally; to suit users’ needs doesn’t get noticed much. This feature is a potent tool in the hands of capable users. The following addons will add to that users’ power.
If you are a web developer, or if your work involves anything involving the Internet, you can’t escape DNS. DNS is Internet’s addressing system. When you change domain settings or when you want to debug connections. You often end up querying DNS. Here are my go-to tools that I use to query DNS.
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.
Over the years I have gathered a set of tools for effective documentation and communication. I use these tools to communicate on this blog, with my coworkers or anyone else that I want to share things with. Now that all of us are working remotely, they have become very important. I am listing my favorite ones here.
For last few days we have been running a dog cam to watch Max. whenever we are away. Max is getting older, faster than I think. So even though he is very comfortable staying alone at home 1, we like to keep an eye on him for our sanity. The camera is nothing...
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Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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