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• Checking if Aarogya Setu's Source Code Produces the App from Play Store
  Mon, Jun 01 '20
  Aarogya Setu’s Android source code is supposedly on github. How do we know if it is the real app? [...]
• Going Dark Theme in Gnome Shell, Firefox, and all sites that support it
  Tue, Apr 28 '20
  Did you know there is a CSS media query called prefers-color-scheme that websites can use to switch to dark mode automatically? How about going fully dark in Gnome Shell and Firefox? [...]
• Java lessons I learned from GBIF's github repository
  Thu, Apr 23 '20
  A well-written software is a textbook in itself. This is a list of java language related stuff I figured out when I went through GBIF’s repositories on github [...]
• Zettlr - the markdown editor I didn't know I was missing from my life
  Thu, Apr 16 '20
  Zettlr is a beautiful markdown editor that I discovered just today (and I’m already writing about it) [...]
• Verifying Telegram Reproducible Build Diff Tool
  Sun, Mar 29 '20
  A failed attempt at proving that Telegram’s apkdiff.py is broken [...]
• Moving Abroad: Worth It?
  Sun, Feb 09 '20
  Is it worth going to a different country for a “better” life? Or are there costs that are hidden till when one looks back? [...]
• Why I Stopped Caring About Mozilla
  Tue, Jan 21 '20
  I had been a mozilla fan-boy for years. But last year, I gave up. This is an explanation post. It is also a semi-rant. So, please apply discretion. [...]
• IndiaOS (the first edition)
  Sat, Jan 18 '20
  IndiaOS is an open-source conference organized by ERPNext and Zerodha. This is my report from attending it (as much as I recall from memory)1 There are probably many many errors in this post. (I’ve already corrected two after publishing. Please let me know if you find one.) ↩ [...]
• [Newsletter] Deep Work
  Sun, Jan 05 '20
  As is usual, new year is an opportunity to restart things and start fresh things. Here are some fresh things from my life. [...]
• Bad, Java! Builder Pattern, Fluent Programming
  Fri, Jan 03 '20
  In this post on learning Java (and OOP) as a functional programming person, I look at the builder pattern, what problem it solves, and why it may be that way [...]
• [SOLVED] Netbeans won't start in ArchLinux | Fix xdm-archlinux from messing up path
  Thu, Dec 19 '19
  Netbeans won’t start in ArchLinux if you are using xdm or xdm-archlinux because of xdm messing up with the PATH variable. Here is a fix [...]
• InGenius and girlGeeks hack, 2019
  Tue, Nov 26 '19
  inGenius is a hackathon by PES Engineering College in Bangalore. I had attended it as a mentor from Mozilla community and this is an event log [...]
• Why Will Devices Accept ARP Broadcast Messages when the destination MAC doesn't match theirs?
  Tue, Nov 26 '19
  In ARP, broadcast messages are sent to the destination mac of FF:FF……FF, why will devices accept that packet then? [...]
• Traceability as a Mandatory Requirement (Intermediary Liability)
  Fri, Nov 22 '19
  The government of India is going to make traceability mandatory in social media in order to combat the various harms various social media bring on in real world. Is it really the right way? [...]
• What is GirlScript?
  Wed, Nov 13 '19
  I had a short call with the founder of GirlScript today. This is when I first heard about the organization. [...]
• Building an Open Health Dashboard for the Country
  Wed, Oct 30 '19
  Imagine if you had granular data about health at your fingerprints the way you can look up a movie info on IMDB or a fact on wikipedia. Imagine being able to engage with and contribute to that dataset. Imagine how powerful our public health professionals would be with that kind of a tool. [...]
• Programmer Skills: Syntax vs Concepts
  Tue, Oct 29 '19
  What should a programming interview test? Whether the programmer can write correct syntax or whether they have the concepts right? [...]
• Intermediary Liability and the Duty of Care Approach in Software
  Sun, Oct 27 '19
  Should online services like Facebook be held responsible for the content that is distributed through them? What about free speech? [...]
• Fake Liberal/Progressive Twitter Accounts (IT Cell Caught in Action)
  Fri, Oct 25 '19
  On the internet you could be talking to a dog and not know the difference. This post is the story of one such incident that I personally faced. [...]
• Migrating Wordpress to Jekyll
  Fri, Oct 11 '19
  Mozilla India blog has been on wordpress for almost 9 years. The community felt that it had to be migrated to a modern framework. As a dutiful admin, I did it. This is how. [...]

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