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  • article Nov 30, 2024 ~7 mins

    How to grow Lilies?

    Plant your lilies, and let them teach you how to grow.

  • article Oct 10, 2024 ~2 mins

    Ephemeral Lament in Temporal Decay

    The Big Red Ants

  • blogs Sep 22, 2024 ~10 mins

    GrapheneOS Saga: The Privacy-Centric Midlife Crisis

    Privacy is just like hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. This post outlines my switch to GrapheneOS and my experiences so far.

  • blogs Jun 7, 2024 ~7 mins

    Echoes from the Shell: The Tools That Talk Back

    In January, I started switching to terminal-based tools and just recently, I was able to use my terminal for most of my development work. This blog highlights what tools I am using and for what purposes.

  • raspi Apr 29, 2024 ~6 mins

    Everything on my Pi

    A list of everything I have installed on my Raspberry Pi 5 and 4B.

  • blogs Sep 25, 2023 ~6 mins

    Configure Logitech MX Master 3S using LogiOps

    I brought Logitech MX Master 3S mouse and it is a great mouse. It has a lot of features and I am still exploring them. One of the features is to configure the mouse using LogiOps. LogiOps is a command line tool to configure Logitech devices on Linux distos.

  • blogs Jul 19, 2023 ~4 mins

    Tekton Results - Storing and Retrieving Results

    In the last post, I described how to install Tekton Results on a Kubernetes cluster. In this post, we will see how to use Tekton Results to store the results of a PipelineRun and how to retrive them later.

  • gsoc Mar 30, 2023 ~12 mins

    New Build System and improving CI/CD workflow

    It has been 2 years since I was a Google Summer of Code Student. It was an outstanding opportunity and I really enjoyed working on the project. Not only that, but it added numerous skills to my resume and polished many others. Today I want to make my proposal public, that helped me get selected.

  • blogs Mar 16, 2023 ~4 mins

    Tekton Results to the Rescue

    Tekton Results aims to help users logically group CI/CD workload history and separate out long term result storage away from the Pipeline controller.

  • development Feb 27, 2022 ~5 mins

    Developing Minimal Tekton Server

    This blog is a descreptive account of the development of Minimal Tekton Server. This is highly technical in nature, so please make sure that you have sufficient knowledge about Golang, Docker, Kubernetes and TektonCD. You can refer to my [previous blog](/posts/development/i-am-loving-it-redhat/) to know about these topics.

  • development Feb 25, 2022 ~3 mins

    My internship at Red Hat

    I made it to the Red Hat as a DevTools intern. This post is about onboarding and how I prepared myself for working on the actual project.

  • gsoc Aug 19, 2021 ~14 mins

    GSoC'21 Final Evaluation Report

    This is the final report of my Google Summer of Code 2021 at The FOSSology Project.

  • gsoc Aug 14, 2021 ~2 mins

    Coding Week 10 Meeting

    This week I implemented CMake testing configuration and fixed most of the tests. As of now all but 5 tests are working fine.

  • gsoc Aug 6, 2021 ~3 mins

    Coding Week 9 Meeting

    This week I worked on CMake testing configuration. Most of the time was spent understanding the previous testing architecture.

  • gsoc Jul 30, 2021 ~1 mins

    Coding Week 8 Meeting

    This week I implemented CMake packaging configuration for FOSSology. The new configuration fixes issue with previous packaging configurations. It also retains the component wise installation features.

  • gsoc Jul 23, 2021 ~2 mins

    Coding Week 7 Meeting

    This week I implemented CMake packaging configuration for FOSSology. There were two meetings in this week and this report covers both of them.

  • gsoc Jul 14, 2021 ~2 mins

    GSoC'21 First Evaluation Report

    In the first phase of GSoC 2021 @ The FOSSology Project, I have completed the desired milestone. As of now, FOSSology can be installed completely via CMake and most of the components are working fine in initial testing.

  • gsoc Jul 9, 2021 ~1 mins

    Coding Week 5 Meeting

    This week was dedicated to perfecting CMake Installation Configuration. The installation was tested and bugs were discussed.

  • gsoc Jul 2, 2021 ~1 mins

    Coding Week 4 Meeting-2

    In this eighth meeting questions related to post install generation were asked. This was a short meeting.

  • gsoc Jun 29, 2021 ~2 mins

    Coding Week 4 Meeting-1

    In this seventh meeting question related to installing the FOSSology were discussed.

  • gsoc Jun 22, 2021 ~1 mins

    Coding Week 3 Meeting

    In this fifth meeting, question related to versioning and obtaining commit hash were discussed, this was a short meeting.

  • gsoc Jun 18, 2021 ~2 mins

    Coding Week 2 Meeting

    In this fourth meeting, a lot of questions were discussed related to the existing build system and what things we have to drop or modify.

  • gsoc Jun 11, 2021 ~3 mins

    Coding Week 1 Meeting

    In this third meeting, I demoed the working build system, currently building executables and libraries, a lot of queries were resolved about writing version files and attaching commits and hashes to the build.

  • gsoc Jun 4, 2021 ~1 mins

    Community Bonding Meeting 1

    In this second meeting points over default Makefiles were discussed. Ninja can be used as an alternative for Makefiles.

  • gsoc May 28, 2021 ~1 mins

    Community Bonding Meeting 0

    This meeting is the first of the recurring weekly GSoC project meetings. In this meeting the current status of progress according to the proposal was discussed and some topics related to current build system based on Make and the new build system based on CMake.

  • development May 24, 2021 ~7 mins

    Hello CMake

    CMake stands for Cross-platform Make. Normally, a build tool like Make will parse a configuration file (Makefile) that contains all the commands required to build an artifact based on the source files and other resources inside the project.

  • development Feb 2, 2021 ~5 mins

    How I implemented WakaTime embeddable Coding Graph GHA?

    If you use WakaTime to track your coding activity. You can add that to your README as a bar graph or embed it in your blog/portfolio. Just add this action to any of your repositories and there you have it.

  • blogs Jan 4, 2021 ~3 mins

    HRT (Hudson River Trading) Systems Internship Interview Experience

    I applied for Systems Internship Summer 2021 back in December 2020 at Hudson River Tradinghttps://www.hudsonrivertrading.com, New York. The …

  • development Dec 31, 2020 ~1 mins

    Move WSL 2 Safely to another Drive

    It is real pain when you have small SSD and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing exponentially in size. There is no easy way to move the WSL installation to another drive. Here in this blog I will discuss how to tackle this problem with bite size steps.

  • development Dec 1, 2020 ~5 mins

    Create the VLC User Documentation for one Mobile Port(Android)

    The project was to Create the VLC User Documentation for Android Mobile Port which was previously hosted on VLC wiki pages. The major portion of this was to start everything from scratch including chapter separation, section organization.

  • article Sep 21, 2019 ~6 mins

    प्रेम रतन धन पायो

    प्रकृति की सुंदरता और कलाकारी हिमालय की कण-कण में झलकती है। प्रकृति ने प्रेम को भी हिमालय के जितना ही विशाल और अलौकिक बनाया है । ये एक अलग चर्चा का विषय है कि हिमालय पहले आया या प्रेम। मैं तो प्रेम के पक्ष में हूँ । वो हर अणु-परमाणु जिन्होंने इतने बड़ा पहाड़ खड़ा किया वो सब आपस में प्रेम से बंधे हुए हैं।

  • article Feb 27, 2012 ~2 mins

    The Big Red Ants

    The Big Red Ants

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