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.
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.
In the last five years I have seen how the technology has gotten used during the Mumbai Rains, Chennai Rains and Kerala Floods1. It’s been great to see that technology played a role in bringing some ease and swiftness to relief work. But it can do more if we are prepared. When I...
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...
Let’s say I have a Bluetooth Low Energy device which is a GATT server and is not connected to internet. I have a phone which can connect to this BLE device, authenticate itself and do some data exchange. The problem I am trying to solve authentication. The condition is both BLE device and...
Table of Contents1 CouchDB and Cloudant by IBM2 React Native and PouchDB3 Footnotes In 2015 I drove across India. It involved some of the most developed areas to very remote places. In some places it was difficult to get couple of hours of electricity. Connectivity was very patchy and in some places non-existent....
My various small term and long-term projects need database. As of now I have used various kinds of RDBMS like Postgres, SQLite, NoSQLs like Mongo and Redis. All these four are great and have made me really productive. All four databases are open source and they cover all my requirements as of now....
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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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