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Photo by Joseph Barrientos on Unsplash I saw an inspiring yet baffling news story on BBCNewTamil about a fisherman named Sivamurugan who fell from his relative motorboat into the sea.About Sivamurugan He is a 35 year old man, from Chettikulam village, near Kudankulam town in Tirunelveli district, Incident On September 20th, he went on a motorboat with his relatives from Kanyakumari’s…

As a developer, whenever you have the need to restart your machine, everyone would want to resume from where we left. Most apps like web browsers, code editor support restoring all tabs or windows after a restart but terminal in the past have not been great. Even if terminals have added support at a later point, developer have got used to the fact we have to start from scratch. So whether restore…

iTerm2 is a powerful terminal emulator for macOS that offers many ways to navigate text efficiently. While basic cursor movement using the arrow keys is fine for simple tasks, it can become slow and tedious when working with long commands or files. Fortunately, iTerm2 provides several shortcuts and features to move the cursor faster, making your workflow more productive If you are new to iTerm2…

Managing multiple Git accounts can be tricky, especially if you want to keep your commits signed and avoid conflicts. This guide will show you how to safely switch between Git accounts when using GPG keys, step by step. Previously I have written about how to configure multiple accounts with SSH keys, but this workflow needs to change if you have GPG Key setup to make your commit to show…

GitHub’s “Vigilant Mode” is a security feature that affects how commit signatures are shown — it doesn’t run in the background like a process but rather changes how your commits appear on GitHub’s interface. The feature Vigilant Mode for GitHub commit-signature verification was first introduced on April 28, 2021 (in beta). 🔐 What Vigilant Mode Does When Vigilant Mode is enabled: GitHub marks…

Initial screening  My interview was scheduled on a Monday, Jan 24th, 2022, at 2.30pm and I was planning to enter the building at 2.15pm. As per the interview letter, they will not allow us inside even if we enter the building too early. 15mins early was fine. My family arrived at the parking lot at 2.02pm and waited inside our car for few mins. After that, I took out the folder that had the…

Today I faced a weird issue with the Magic Trackpad, which was already paired with Apple M1 Pro laptop, stopped working. I tried to reconnect but it failed. I tried to “Forget This Device” and and re-pair the device but it failed. I restarted my machine and tried again but that didn’t work either. So I searched the web and didn’t find a solution in stackoverflow or stackexchange but I found…

There are many times in our browsing experience we want to download images or video-chunks that are in a particular sequence. I have used software that does the same Link Sequence Downloader. I know the same is possible using curl command but didn’t spend time learning it. Today I explored and wanted to document my learning here. Reading curl’s manpage, this capability is titled as “Globbing”.…

Problem I personally don’t like notification from apps especially on Laptop. Although this feature gives the app developers the ability to notify and get the attention of the users, it is big distraction when I want to focus on work. One might argue that Control center has focus mode “Do Not Disturb” to solve this problem and avoid such distraction. But our daily life is bombarded with so many…

How is Pongal or Sankranti celebrated?

What is this event about? This is event is all about farmers, harvest and celebration. It is a celebration by the framers to thank the nature especially sun, the equipment, the tools, the machinery and cattle for helping & providing a good harvest season in prior year and offer prayers for prosperous year ahead. In India this harvest festival is celebrated on January 14 or 15th of every year.…