Weekly Notes 48/2024
This week has been better than last week. I made good progress on the work front. I will be in Mumbai next week for work. Do ping me if you are around. We can probably get some coffee.
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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...
I was supposed to meet friends for lunch during the weekend, but I got the day wrong. So they were all at the restaurant waiting for me, and I was home. They sent me WhatsApp messages promptly, and I ignored them as I checked messages only once every 3 or 4 hours. My...
We had no particular plans for the last day. It was reserved for shopping, rest and, packing, etc. Appa and I walked quite a bit of downtown Siem Reap the previous night. It was lit up, and all the pubs were open for patrons. Siem Reap is yet to get as many tourists...
I wrote the Surveillance in Bangalore leaderboard using Budibase a while ago. However, I was not impressed with Budibase’s latest changes, so I replaced it with the good old Node-Red flow. Node-Red is already running at my home, so installing it was not required. Since the data was always stored on my instance of CouchDB, I didn’t have to do any migration there. I moved the automation to Node-Red And viewed it using HTML and CouchDB Views.
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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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