Writing about software, self-hosting, open source, and more.https://avinal.space/en-ushttps://avinal.space/posts/articles/this-is-about-lilies-or-is-this/https://avinal.space/posts/articles/this-is-about-lilies-or-is-this/Plant your lilies, and let them teach you how to grow.Sat, 30 Nov 2024 23:47:00 GMTLilyDespairPatienceGardeningPlantHearthttps://avinal.space/posts/articles/fragments-of-unarticulated-despair/https://avinal.space/posts/articles/fragments-of-unarticulated-despair/The Big Red AntsThu, 10 Oct 2024 03:47:00 GMTantssavhttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/privacy-is-the-new-black/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/privacy-is-the-new-black/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.Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:47:00 GMTgrapheneosprivacydegoogleandroidpixelgooglesecurityhttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/best-terminal-command-rm--rf-world/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/best-terminal-command-rm--rf-world/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.Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:47:00 GMTterminalzellijneovimtmuxzoxidelazygitfzfatuinalacrittystarshiptoolboxtoolbxghzshoh-my-zshclistowhttps://avinal.space/posts/raspi/everything-on-my-pi/https://avinal.space/posts/raspi/everything-on-my-pi/A list of everything I have installed on my Raspberry Pi 5 and 4B.Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:47:00 GMTraspilinuxpiraspbiandebianubuntuserverdockerhttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/configuring-logitech-mouse-on-fedora/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/configuring-logitech-mouse-on-fedora/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.Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:47:00 GMTfedoramouselogidlogitechlogiopsmx-master-3shttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/fetching-data-from-tekton-results/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/fetching-data-from-tekton-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.Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:08:00 GMTtektonkubernetesredhatopenshiftresultshttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/my-gsoc-proposal/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/my-gsoc-proposal/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.Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:14:00 GMTgsocfossologyproposalhttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/hey-tekton-results/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/hey-tekton-results/Tekton Results aims to help users logically group CI/CD workload history and separate out long term result storage away from the Pipeline controller.Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:47:00 GMTtektonkubernetesredhatopenshiftresultshttps://avinal.space/posts/development/lovely-dangerous-things-redhat/https://avinal.space/posts/development/lovely-dangerous-things-redhat/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.Sun, 27 Feb 2022 20:47:00 GMTtektongokubernetesopenshiftredhatinterngolangopenshift-pipelineshttps://avinal.space/posts/development/i-am-loving-it-redhat/https://avinal.space/posts/development/i-am-loving-it-redhat/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.Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:47:00 GMTkubernetesredhatdockergolangtektonopenshiftinternhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/final-evaluation/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/final-evaluation/This is the final report of my Google Summer of Code 2021 at The FOSSology Project.Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:07:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-11/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-11/This week I implemented CMake testing configuration and fixed most of the tests. As of now all but 5 tests are working fine.Sat, 14 Aug 2021 22:47:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-10/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-10/This week I worked on CMake testing configuration. Most of the time was spent understanding the previous testing architecture.Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:47:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-9/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-9/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.Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:47:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-8/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-8/This week I implemented CMake packaging configuration for FOSSology. There were two meetings in this week and this report covers both of them.Fri, 23 Jul 2021 22:22:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/first-evaluation/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/first-evaluation/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.Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:29:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-7/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-7/This week was dedicated to perfecting CMake Installation Configuration. The installation was tested and bugs were discussed.Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:22:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-6/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-6/In this eighth meeting questions related to post install generation were asked. This was a short meeting.Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:22:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-5/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-5/In this seventh meeting question related to installing the FOSSology were discussed.Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:22:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-4/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-4/In this fifth meeting, question related to versioning and obtaining commit hash were discussed, this was a short meeting.Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:22:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-3/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-3/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.Fri, 18 Jun 2021 23:30:00 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-2/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-2/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.Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:30:40 GMTgsocFOSSologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-1/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-1/In this second meeting points over default Makefiles were discussed. Ninja can be used as an alternative for Makefiles.Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:30:00 GMTgsocfossologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/meeting-0/https://avinal.space/posts/gsoc/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.Fri, 28 May 2021 21:00:00 GMTgsocfossologyhttps://avinal.space/posts/development/cmake-basics/https://avinal.space/posts/development/cmake-basics/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.Mon, 24 May 2021 23:56:00 GMTcmakegsocfossologygsoc21https://avinal.space/posts/development/wakatime-readme/https://avinal.space/posts/development/wakatime-readme/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.Tue, 02 Feb 2021 21:47:00 GMTwakatimegithub-actioncodinghttps://avinal.space/posts/blogs/hrt-interview-1/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/hrt-interview-1/Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:47:00 GMTHRThudsonrivertradinginterviewinternshiphttps://avinal.space/posts/development/wsl1/https://avinal.space/posts/development/wsl1/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.Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:07:00 GMTwslwsl2https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/gsod2020-report/https://avinal.space/posts/blogs/gsod2020-report/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.Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:47:00 GMTvlcgsodgsod2020https://avinal.space/posts/articles/for-sunshine/https://avinal.space/posts/articles/for-sunshine/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।Sat, 21 Sep 2019 15:47:00 GMTlovearticlehindihttps://avinal.space/posts/articles/big-red-ants/https://avinal.space/posts/articles/big-red-ants/The Big Red AntsMon, 27 Feb 2012 22:47:00 GMTantssav