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A Double Rainbow
In 2014 when I visited Toronto, Canada for a work meeting, my then manager took a whole day off to take me to see the Niagra falls. It was a...
Riding the Rann
A really interesting experience from my college days at IIM Ahmedabad was a bike trip to the Little Rann of Kutch. Once we were inside the Rann proper, utterly flat...
A color theme inspired by the beautiful scenary of the Nile riverbank in Egypt
A lazy cruise down the Nile river from Aswan to Luxor with stops at archeological sites was of the more memorable experiences my wife Deepa and I enjoyed in Egypt....
Cycling along the tree lined roads of rural Normandy
I took this pic of my friend Moi on a cycling trip in Normandy. I’m quite proud of the composition in this pic :-) The road narrows into the distance...
Millet fields in Laddakh
I came across many millet fields while trekking in Laddakh. Millet is the chief grain crop of Laddakhis. They cultivate it in the summer, irrigating their fields with meltwater from...
Photography
A Double Rainbow
In 2014 when I visited Toronto, Canada for a work meeting, my then manager took a whole day off to take me to see the Niagra falls. It was a...
Reflections of Ambition
The skyscrapers of Singapore’s Central Business District reveal it’s key role the world’s economy. Marina Bay is usually dotted with river-cruise boats churning the waters, today there were none due...
A Fire in the Sky
One cloudy summer evening looking east I noticed an brilliant fire in the sky. This clearly wasn’t the sun hiding behind a cloud because I was looking east while the...
Riding the Rann
A really interesting experience from my college days at IIM Ahmedabad was a bike trip to the Little Rann of Kutch. Once we were inside the Rann proper, utterly flat...
Lost in Music
This brilliant composition by my friend Moi still tugs me back through time to music practice sessions in my college days at IIM Ahmedabad. I used to play guitars, keyboards...
A color theme inspired by the beautiful scenary of the Nile riverbank in Egypt
A lazy cruise down the Nile river from Aswan to Luxor with stops at archeological sites was of the more memorable experiences my wife Deepa and I enjoyed in Egypt....
Cycling along the tree lined roads of rural Normandy
I took this pic of my friend Moi on a cycling trip in Normandy. I’m quite proud of the composition in this pic :-) The road narrows into the distance...
The lovely waterways of Brugge
Brugge in Belgium is one of the loveliest towns I have visited. It’s definitely on my “must visit again” list. Marketed sometimes as the Venice of the North, Brugge is...
Pilgrim Taking a dip in Mukteshwara Temple
Mukteshwara temple in Bhubhaneshwar is an exquisitely carved and pictueresque small Oriya temple. It’s compactness almost makes it look like a perfect toy temple. The site is protected by Archeological...
Statue of Jesus and Mary overlooking Chateau D'lf
I saw this expressive stature of Mary and Jesus at Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseilles. This church is atop a hill overlooking the harbor and is dedicated to...
The Flowery Ashtray
I noticed yellow flowers growing in a crevice in the limestone hill across from Acropolis in Athens. Looking closer, I found cigarette butts stubbed into the grass growing in the...
Millet fields in Laddakh
I came across many millet fields while trekking in Laddakh. Millet is the chief grain crop of Laddakhis. They cultivate it in the summer, irrigating their fields with meltwater from...
Whimsical
The Flowery Ashtray
I noticed yellow flowers growing in a crevice in the limestone hill across from Acropolis in Athens. Looking closer, I found cigarette butts stubbed into the grass growing in the...
Religion
Pilgrim Taking a dip in Mukteshwara Temple
Mukteshwara temple in Bhubhaneshwar is an exquisitely carved and pictueresque small Oriya temple. It’s compactness almost makes it look like a perfect toy temple. The site is protected by Archeological...
Statue of Jesus and Mary overlooking Chateau D'lf
I saw this expressive stature of Mary and Jesus at Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseilles. This church is atop a hill overlooking the harbor and is dedicated to...
Cityscapes
Reflections of Ambition
The skyscrapers of Singapore’s Central Business District reveal it’s key role the world’s economy. Marina Bay is usually dotted with river-cruise boats churning the waters, today there were none due...
The lovely waterways of Brugge
Brugge in Belgium is one of the loveliest towns I have visited. It’s definitely on my “must visit again” list. Marketed sometimes as the Venice of the North, Brugge is...
Programming
Building Modular and Flexible React Container Components
This article shows you how to correctly build React components, especially container components in a modular and flexible way such that they can be used with customization across apps and...
How type embedding intersects with Pointer and Value method receivers in Go
I recently encountered a subtlety in Go language in how methods exposed by an embedded type are resolved vs. those with the same name defined by the container types depending...
Hooking into Android Studio's Gradle build process
If you want to automate steps to re-build data-files or assets for an Android app every time the app gets built in Android Studio, you need to hook into the...
Making Android Studio (or Eclipse ADT) work on 64-bit Ubuntu Saucy 13.10 or Trusty 14.04
Note: This is of historical interest only. Getting Android Studio (or Eclipse Android Development Tools) to run successfully on 64-bit (ie. amd64) installations of the newer Ubuntu (or underlying Debian)...
GoAniGiffy: A versatile animated GIF creator
GoAniGiffy is a small utility written in the Go Programming language to create animated GIFs from a set of alphabetically sorted image files (eg. video frames extracted as JPEGs with...
FullScreenWrapper2: Python GUI framework for Android
Note: No longer under development FullScreenWapper2 is a GUI Framework for developing full screen apps using the FullScreenUI API functions provided by Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) using Python-for-Android It...
ArdGrafix6100: Fast Arduino driver for Nokia 6100 Color LCDs
ArdGrafix6100 is a fast and full-featured graphics library for interfacing the Nokia 6100 color graphics LCD with Arduino. It uses hardware SPI & block write features of the graphics controller...
Hello World Web Servers in Python & Go
Hello World programs are the first programs typically introduced in any programming language tutorial. However, in our modern era of web applications they are not particularly insightful into the strenghts...
Python
FullScreenWrapper2: Python GUI framework for Android
Note: No longer under development FullScreenWapper2 is a GUI Framework for developing full screen apps using the FullScreenUI API functions provided by Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) using Python-for-Android It...
Hello World Web Servers in Python & Go
Hello World programs are the first programs typically introduced in any programming language tutorial. However, in our modern era of web applications they are not particularly insightful into the strenghts...
Go
How type embedding intersects with Pointer and Value method receivers in Go
I recently encountered a subtlety in Go language in how methods exposed by an embedded type are resolved vs. those with the same name defined by the container types depending...
GoAniGiffy: A versatile animated GIF creator
GoAniGiffy is a small utility written in the Go Programming language to create animated GIFs from a set of alphabetically sorted image files (eg. video frames extracted as JPEGs with...
Hello World Web Servers in Python & Go
Hello World programs are the first programs typically introduced in any programming language tutorial. However, in our modern era of web applications they are not particularly insightful into the strenghts...
Arduino
ArdGrafix6100: Fast Arduino driver for Nokia 6100 Color LCDs
ArdGrafix6100 is a fast and full-featured graphics library for interfacing the Nokia 6100 color graphics LCD with Arduino. It uses hardware SPI & block write features of the graphics controller...
Android
Hooking into Android Studio's Gradle build process
If you want to automate steps to re-build data-files or assets for an Android app every time the app gets built in Android Studio, you need to hook into the...
Making Android Studio (or Eclipse ADT) work on 64-bit Ubuntu Saucy 13.10 or Trusty 14.04
Note: This is of historical interest only. Getting Android Studio (or Eclipse Android Development Tools) to run successfully on 64-bit (ie. amd64) installations of the newer Ubuntu (or underlying Debian)...
FullScreenWrapper2: Python GUI framework for Android
Note: No longer under development FullScreenWapper2 is a GUI Framework for developing full screen apps using the FullScreenUI API functions provided by Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) using Python-for-Android It...
Linux
Using FuseCompress to compress folders in Ubuntu
Fusecompress is a great little legacy utility that uses the FUSE (File System in User Space) library to provide an on the fly compressed mountable filesystem that in effect lets...
Video
GoAniGiffy: A versatile animated GIF creator
GoAniGiffy is a small utility written in the Go Programming language to create animated GIFs from a set of alphabetically sorted image files (eg. video frames extracted as JPEGs with...
Design
Getting the most out of Monoprice Cadet 3D Printer
I entered the world of 3D Printing recently with the small but surprisingly capable and affordable Monoprice Cadet 3D Printer. It has won recognition as the best budget 3D printer...
A color theme inspired by the beautiful scenary of the Nile riverbank in Egypt
A lazy cruise down the Nile river from Aswan to Luxor with stops at archeological sites was of the more memorable experiences my wife Deepa and I enjoyed in Egypt....
NodeJS
Building Modular and Flexible React Container Components
This article shows you how to correctly build React components, especially container components in a modular and flexible way such that they can be used with customization across apps and...
Jekyll
Switching to a Modern Blog Theme
I recently switched my blog’s theme from minima to a forked version of the Mediumish Jekyll theme, a fantastic full featured Jekyll website theme released by Sal. This theme is...
Migrating a blog to Jekyll
In this article, I share tips for migrating a blog to Jekyll from other platforms like Hugo which I was previously using. My main motivation to shift was to get...
Art
Lost in Music
This brilliant composition by my friend Moi still tugs me back through time to music practice sessions in my college days at IIM Ahmedabad. I used to play guitars, keyboards...
Science
A Fire in the Sky
One cloudy summer evening looking east I noticed an brilliant fire in the sky. This clearly wasn’t the sun hiding behind a cloud because I was looking east while the...
3D Printing