Tagged: Software

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Geek’s way of Setting up EV Charger at Home

Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Requirements3 Options4 Choice5 Further Reading6 Next7 Note Most electric vehicles come with a charger that you can use at home. You will usually have single-phase, three-pin plugs rated at 6A/230V or 16A/230 V at home in India. They deliver roughly 1.2kW (kilo watts) and 3.3k, assuming 0.9 as the...

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Tools for Effective Documentation

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.

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Outlining Your Notes with Zim Wiki

I have been using Zim Wiki for a long time now. Its my knowledge base. Very frequently I also use it as an outliner to take notes. This is an outline about that; written in Zim Wiki and exported as HTML. I have also attached a screenshot below. Outline is hierarchical text. Its...

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How to be a Good Software Developer

Yesterday I spoke to students of NPTEL. The topic was “How to be a Good Software Developer”. It’s more like my advice to my younger self. The talk went on quite well except for few internet glitches. It was also special we because I was part of NPTEL’s engineering team at Google. I...

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How to use DigDag Restful APIs to Trigger a Job

Table of Contents1 A Simple Project and Workflow2 Trigger the task using API2.1 Get Project2.2 Get Current workflowId2.3 Make an Attempt to Run3 Make an Attempt with Params DigDag has been a tool of choice to run data workflows and some batch jobs at First Walkin Technologies. I liked DigDag from day one. Just like any Unix...

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Using SQLite with Libreoffice Base on Linux

Table of Contents1 System2 Install SQLite3 and Libreoffice Base3 Install UnixODBC4 Install SQLIte ODBC Driver5 Configure ODBC – Driver6 Configure databases to be used by ODBC – Data Source Name (DSN)7 Use your SQLite in Libreoffice Base7.1 Setup7.2 Create a Report8 Remember9 Footnotes I love SQLIte for its simplicity, portability and stability. Most...