Webhooks from Android Apps
Webhooks don’t have to be from a traditional server to a web server. Webhooks can come from any software component which can connect to the internet (or intranet) and send HTTP requests.
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Blood Donation
Quite a few classmates from BTL used to donate blood at Narayana Hrudayalaya. Our college seemed like the emergency blood bank for the hospital. I did try, but I couldn’t. I was underweight. Once I left the college, I didn’t think much about it except onetime when I donated for a friend’s relative in 2011, considering that I used to run @tweet4blood. It seems strange. But this year it changed.
Reverse Engineering A Bluetooth Low Energy Oximeter
Just as COVID-19 is spreading in Bangalore. I got an Oximeter which can measure SpO2. SpO2 is also called as oxygen saturation, According to Wikipedia Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin relative to total hemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood. The human body requires and regulates a very precise and...
Using Habitica to Build Habits and GTD
Table of Contents1 Basics2 APIs, Webhooks and Hacks3 CLI4 Data5 Community I have been using Habitica for last two months very religiously. Habitica is an open source project meant to promote good habits by introducing the concepts of role playing game. I started using Habitica in 2015, on and off. But since this...
Tracking my Podcast Listening
I have listened podcasts for a long time now and I listen to a lot of them. It was about 600hours in 2017. It would have been great to have a history, rates and notes I made while listening somewhere in an open format. But I don’t have. Over the years I have...
Personal Analytics Dashboard using Metabase and Nomie
I love personal analytics. Ever since I have started logging using Nomie, I have experimented with data, mostly using spreadsheet. It’s interesting to find patterns and make corrections. Nomie uses CouchDB as the cloud storage. CouchDB is a great database but I prefer a simple RDBMS when I want to query. So sometime...
