21 Dec 2020
Anyone who works in a field related to computer software, ends up
running a bunch of CLI (command line interface) commands pretty
often. The longer you stay in the field, the larger is your command
set. With new systems being invented everyday, the complexity of
commands being run is also increasing. Day by day, I am finding myself
running more and more complex commands. That’s when I decided I need
something to manage these commands for me. Shell history is great, but
it is not portable and reliable. So, I have built pin, a portable
commands organizer. Pin is available for use at
https://github.com/harshadjs/pin. In
this post, I’ll go over some of the key design choices I made while
building this tool.
12 Oct 2020
I use cscope in emacs as my primary code browsing tool for Linux kernel
development. However, I started to get annoyed by cscope errors for broken
symlinks. What is happening is that during the Linux kernel build process, a few
symlinks get created which are not needed once the kernel is built. I presume
that the build tooling doesn’t clean up these symlinks after they are removed
and that confuses the cscope program. This results in the following annoying
messages when I try to lookup definition or text or anything:
11 May 2020
After numerous attempts at finding a cheap and easy solution to making a
password protected static website, I finally have settled my mind on one! Before
going over the solution let me go over the requirements that I had in my mind
for the website:
01 May 2020
I often struggled to keep chords for songs I played in a handy
place. For a couple of years I have been maintaining chords in a
Google Doc. Given the forgetful person that I’m, storing all the
chords in one place has come as a blessing. Having all the chords in
one place has helped me to be more organized about my music. It has
helped me collaborate better with other musicians.