Technology

Technical learning posts.

  • One of my Facebook friends posted the link to this interesting Tim Cook’s letter to Apple’s customers. I am shocked by these two paragraphs: …now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to…

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  • Hide media in tweets

    Twitter embeds are cool, just like everything else on WordPress.com. You just paste the link to a tweet and the editor auto-magically embeds the twitter card. While this is great, WordPress.com does a bit more that I don’t like: it also includes the images in the tweet. I don’t like it because the image increases the size…

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  • Theme Change

    I spent this evening making over my blog. I switched to Twenty Sixteen from Hemingway Rewritten theme. I hope you like this blog’s new design.

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  • Disk space mystery

    Today I resolved the disk space mystery on my work computer, the latest generation Mac Book Pro. This has bothered me for few months. A few months ago I noticed that there is only about 45 GB of free space in my Mac. This is on a 500 GB hard disk. This did not sound…

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  • Google Photos

    I wished only three things in a photos app: Auto upload camera roll including videos Unlimited storage Free Today this wish became true. Google released Photos app that ticks all three boxes. Like everyone’s, my camera roll has precious memories on it which I keep pushing to cloud regularly. But I only have a limited…

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  • I spent a fair amount of time on my blog’s CSS when I switched the color scheme of the Twenty Fifteen theme to aqua. But I always had a feeling that blue text on white background is not nice to the eyes and perhaps nothing beats the black text on white background for readability. I…

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  • Excitement

    That excitement when you give a test and await results.

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  • 100 hours of workout.

    Tonight’s hour long workout happens to be my 100th workout this year. It feels nice to actualize three rules I set for myself for 2014 (and beyond). Here’s to, not the next 100 but to the next one tomorrow. And next. And so on until whatever number it will be.  

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  • Tim Cook on privacy at Apple

    Read the interesting message from Tim Cook on Apple’s stance on privacy. I am impressed with the following two paragraphs: Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store…

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  • About 10 days ago I got the following notification in the WordPress app on my iPhone. It started as a hobby on a lonely Sunday afternoon in Trivandrum in the southern state of Kerala in India. I did not participate in the WordPress phenomenon as much as I wished. But it has been wonderful knowing…

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