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2026

Feb 01 Displaying Google Calendar Events in Conky

Jan 01 Image location detection using Bedrock and Claude Model

2025

Dec 29 Automating Gmail PDF Extraction and Paperless NGX Integration

Dec 01 Building a RAG System for Your Jekyll Blog with AWS Bedrock Claude

Nov 01 Rofi Process Killer

Oct 01 Configuring AWS ALB Timeouts

Sep 01 Non Blocking I/O

Aug 01 Troubleshooting Shared Library Issues on Linux

Jul 09 Row level locking in database

Jun 01 Run elasticsearch in docker

May 01 HTTP Certificate Pinning

Apr 01 Combine videos using ffmpeg

Mar 01 Case of sudden Kafka lag drop

Feb 01 Revealing Hidden characters in a string

Jan 19 Homelab Dashboard

2024

Dec 25 Qtile crash on Arch Linux

Nov 01 Resize disk in Proxmox VM

Oct 07 s3cmd Fast way to copy s3 data

Oct 05 _class attribute in Spring data MongoDB_

Sep 01 Create local kubernetes cluster using Kind

Aug 04 Load testing Websocket servers using Locust

Jul 14 Monitoring Redis Streams lag in Prometheus and Grafana

Jul 01 Faking time in JVM Process

Jun 22 Rtkit Daemon flooding journalctl logs

May 01 My Homelab Update - Part I

Apr 13 Quick Websockets client in Python

Mar 08 Building RediSearch module in Amazon Linux 2

Feb 11 Websocket - Close Status codes

Jan 07 Proxmox - Setting up user friendly urls

2023

Dec 28 Using Kitty hints to parse maven output

Dec 05 Android SSL Pinning Bypass

Nov 14 Transfer files from k8s or docker shell to other host

Oct 30 Intellij cannot launch because 'process 2' already running

Sep 30 Recovering from Arch Boot failure

Aug 30 Ansible roles for installing and configuring Vitess

Jul 30 Creating vagrant basebox

Jun 10 Process huge log files

May 21 LeetCode Format v1.4

May 10 zsh and /etc/profile

Apr 23 Taking memory dump of JVM Applications

Mar 23 Workaround AWS Lambda 6 MB Response size limit

Feb 23 A nifty Apache Benchmark alternative - hey

Jan 23 Monitoring Guava Cache Statistics

2022

Dec 10 User Defined function(UDF) to filter cloudfront IP Addresses from AWS Athena Logs

Nov 20 Linux Tips and Tricks

Sep 03 Adding HTTP Proxy to Spring WebFlux Client

Aug 06 Fedora Tips & Tricks

Jul 10 Gracefully shutting down JVM applications

Jun 19 Web3 ethereum development breaking changes

Jun 04 Find non-expiring keys in Redis

May 15 Redis Node moving out of cluster repeatedly

Apr 16 Difference between upper90 and mean90

Mar 20 Execute a transaction in etherum using ganache

Mar 18 Clear buffer memory on Linux

Mar 13 Setup Cassandra Cluster using Ansible and Vagrant

Mar 06 Parental Control Softwares for Windows and Linux

Feb 27 Linux GUI Tips

Feb 20 Useful Systemd commands

Feb 05 CentOS is dead

Jan 30 Increase Grub2 Resolution in CentOS / Fedora

Jan 23 Fedora / CentOS Tips & Tricks - running it as Desktop OS

Jan 16 Quickly Compare two MySQL databases

Jan 09 Forbidden error while accessing AWS services on Kubernetes

Jan 01 Provision Redis cluster through Vagrant and Ansible

2021

Dec 12 Proxy nodejs requests through Proxy Server

Nov 27 Kernel Panic with AMD Ryzen 5600x on CentOS 7

Nov 20 Offload IO Intensive tasks to worker threads

Nov 13 Conventional Commits

Nov 06 Querying AWS ALB Logs using Athena

Oct 30 Backup and Restore specific cassandra tables

Oct 23 Using sshpass to skip entering passwords for SSH

Oct 16 Running Spark on Windows

Oct 09 zsh Autocomplete

Aug 20 Designing Change Data Capture

Aug 14 Liveness and Readiness Probes

Jul 18 Meaning of at-least once, at-most once and exactly-once delivery

Jul 11 How tinyUrl Does redirection

Jul 06 Encoding and Hashing

Jun 27 Capacity Estimation Examples

Jun 20 Simple Design of Communication Service

Jun 13 API Response Group Pattern - Improving latencies using GraphQL

Jun 05 Migrating from SQL to No-SQL without downtime

May 30 Fun with Splunk

May 22 Few Useful Kubectl commands

May 16 Handling Distributed transactions rollback

May 09 Removing the empty space around image using blur technique in CSS

May 02 Useful Angular libraries

Feb 27 HashMap with TTL

Feb 20 Same origin policy and CORS

Feb 10 Ways of traversing tree

Feb 06 Pitfalls while using Lombok with Java Development

Jan 18 LeetCode Format

2020

Dec 27 Realtime Google Analytics in Firefox tab

Dec 13 Sockets in shell

Dec 05 Binary Search bug in JDK

Nov 29 Generic traffic splitting algorithm

Nov 13 Speed up debugging in IntelliJ

Nov 01 Dual Booting Windows and Linux on different HDD / SDD

Oct 18 Partitioned Browser Cache Starting Chrome v86

Sep 27 Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript

Sep 27 Handle timeouts while connecting to cassandra

Sep 12 Javascript Event loop and call stack

Sep 06 Estimate no. of kafka partitions handled by a single thread on compute

Aug 30 Kafka Consumer Multithreading

Aug 21 Debugging SSL Issues

Aug 16 Why do Lambda functions require final variables

Aug 08 Best Mechanical Keyboards in India for Engineers

Aug 01 Overview of Active-Active Kafka Cluster using MirrorMaker 2.0

Jul 26 Kotlin for Java Developers - Part 3

Jul 17 Kotlin for Java Developers - Part 2

Jul 10 Kotlin for Java Developers

Jul 03 Bulk insertion of Rows in CosmosDB

Jun 28 The validation data provided must contain class

Jun 21 Determine if your Macbook battery is about to die

Jun 13 Finding intersection of two lists in shell

Jun 06 Executing commands in parallel in Shell and other fun stuff

May 30 Customize Windows 10 Desktop

May 16 Different HTTP Timeouts in HTTP Client

May 09 Unit testing HTTP retry strategies

May 01 Tools to test remote connectivity in Linux

Apr 25 Classloaders, Containers & Unit Tests

Apr 11 Fastest way to spin up Kubernetes cluster on AWS

Mar 28 Adding package suppressions in Checkstyle and Spotbugs

Mar 22 Lessons learnt using Apache HTTP Connection Pooling Library

Mar 14 Tailing log files on multiple remote machines

Mar 07 Importing certificate into Java Keystore

Feb 29 Solving: Request header is too large

Feb 15 Must have Java code analysis Tools - Part 3

Feb 08 Incrementally routing traffic to newer version of service

Feb 02 Must have Java code analysis Tools - Part 2

Jan 26 Must have Java code analysis Tools - Part 1

Jan 18 Running splunk on docker on OSX

Jan 12 Ensuring git commit messages contain JIRA ID

2019

Sep 13 Goodreads For Flipkart

Aug 31 Kafka rebalancing

Aug 19 id generation strategies

Aug 04 Meaning of atleast once, atmost once and exactly once delivery

Aug 02 Deadlocks in Optimistic locking

Jul 14 Concurrency in Python

Jul 04 Parallelism and ordering

Jun 29 Setting up Java project for monitoring

Jun 17 Considerations for high throughput kafka producer

Jun 15 Lessons from History

Jun 15 Consuming from Kafka

Jun 09 Using SEDA

2018

Apr 18 Life is a game of risk and reward

Apr 07 Koshish

Apr 01 Ramifications of a mediocre founders

Mar 27 Push beyond comfort zone

Feb 24 Quality or Quantity

Feb 16 Doraha

2017

Apr 30 Handling stack traces in Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK)

Apr 09 Using curator to delete older elasticsearch indices

Mar 26 Angular2 Confirmation Dialog component

Feb 18 Useful tcpdump usages

Feb 12 Bulk git clone repositories

Jan 30 Tuning Linux servers for scalability

2016

Dec 25 Close look at proxy_cache_lock and proxy_cache_use_stale in Nginx

Dec 25 Improving performance using Batch APIs

Dec 04 Integrate node.js logging with Sentry

Dec 04 Couchbase exception handling in Node.js

Oct 30 Debugging SSL Issues in Java

Oct 16 Learnings from moving from MBR to GPT, multi-booting and random stuff

Sep 05 Effect of connection pooling on node.js performance

Sep 04 Code linting tools

Aug 21 Adding Service worker to Jekyll Site

Jul 31 Caching authenticated requests using NGINX

Jul 07 Create a couchbase bucket during build of the container

May 28 Speeding up Node.js HTTP requests with DNS caching

May 14 Things to learn for Modern Web Development

May 13 Read Google docs spreadsheet using Python

Apr 25 Handling special characters in Python 2

Apr 09 Making AngularJs play nice with Social sharing

Apr 08 Understanding free output in Linux

Apr 08 On calling your former employers shit

Jan 25 NSImage Caching

Jan 03 Google groups for Developers

2015

Dec 27 Managing Programmers By Douglas Crockford

Dec 14 Timing function / task execution in Celery

Dec 06 Ringtone Preference in Feed Notifier

Nov 29 Flexbox is not supported Android 4.3 and below

Nov 17 Scaling Celery Task queue

Nov 02 CountDownLatch in Python using Condition Objects

Oct 25 Feed notifier updated

Oct 18 Why is only UI thread allowed to modify the UI

Sep 14 Angular Chat popup

Aug 24 Caching http requests with Angular

Mar 06 Emoji Keyboard and Chat bubbles in Android

2014

Dec 26 Encoding and Decoding Emoji for Cross platform

Dec 15 Useful Javascript Design patterns

Oct 18 Multiboot: Booting linux from ISO placed in HDD via GRUB

Oct 10 An awesome conky configuration

Jul 29 Union and Intersection of ArrayList in Java

Jul 28 Find Nth largest element in an array

Jul 28 Algorithm: Convert number to word

Jun 08 Building Git 2.0.0 from sources on Windows

Jun 04 Change ImageView src based on Android Application theme

May 26 Hermes removed from Play Store by Google

May 25 Javascript Basics Part IV

May 24 Javascript Basics Part III

May 23 Javascript Basics Part II

May 22 Javascript Basics Part I

May 07 Portable Jekyll Upgraded to 2.0.1

May 02 Decoding the hidden Wunderlist API (Part II)

May 02 Decoding the hidden Wunderlist API (Part I)

Apr 17 Feedly OAuth 2.0 implementation using Scribe in Java

Apr 09 Updating Created By field in SharePoint through Client Object Model

Apr 09 Hosting Git repository on a Windows LAN

Jan 29 Writing Silverlight people picker control using SharePoint 2010 Client object model

Jan 29 Reading and writing People Values in SharePoint List through Silverlight Client object model

Jan 29 Convert claims based login name in SharePoint Client object model

Jan 10 New look for my site

2013

Nov 05 Portable Jekyll Updated to Jekyll v1.3.0

Nov 05 Making most out of _data directory in Jekyll

Nov 05 Introducing Hermes Android App

Jul 20 Building portable Jekyll for Windows

Jul 20 Adventures with Corel Draw

Jun 02 Jekyll upgraded to 1.0.2

2012

May 05 Browser Market Share of Internet Explorer

Apr 15 WebServices or Client Object Model

Mar 27 Move your projects from TFS to Git in Codeplex

Mar 05 Enable code highlighting with Pygments/Jekyll

Mar 01 What's wrong with Microsoft

Feb 26 How to upgrade your Jekyll Blog/Site to HTML5

Feb 20 Learning HTML5

Feb 20 Conditional comments in Internet Explorer

Feb 15 Future of Web and Mobile: HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript

Feb 08 Using MakeFile with Assembly Programming

Feb 02 Updated with Blueprint CSS Framework

Feb 02 GitHub Pages are served from the Default Branch

Jan 09 Invoke SharePoint 2010 Approval Workflow with Dynamic Approvers using Web Services and Jquery

2011

Dec 29 Silverlight Chart Control for SharePoint 2010

Dec 29 Windows command shell(cmd.exe) runs only first command

Sep 23 Privilege escalation on Windows using Binary Planting

Sep 18 Difference between Filtered vs Closed Ports

Sep 18 Crack or Reset Windows Passwords

Sep 10 HackingLab Challenge: Disassemble .NET Clients

Sep 09 Best fonts for programming

Sep 06 Removing the Default Editor Parts from SharePoint Web Parts

Sep 06 AOE slang

Sep 01 Running Jekyll on Windows

Sep 01 Migrating 3rd party blogs to Jekyll

Aug 16 Pass the Hash Exploitation on Windows

Aug 13 Burnout

Aug 12 Integrating Wordpress Tag cloud Plugin in Jekyll

Aug 06 Protections against buffer overflow exploits in Linux

Aug 04 Classic Buffer overflow exploits on Linux x64

Jul 26 Exploring Web Application vulnerabilities

Jul 25 Hacking Router password using Hydra

Jun 22 My Top Network Security Tools

Jun 12 Facebook Vulnerability - Session sidejacking

Jun 11 Creating Tag cloud of Categories in Jekyll

Jun 11 Github as a development platform

Jun 03 Reverse engineering Google chrome extensions