life What has to happen, will happen! What's more difficult? Knowing beforehand the exact moment you would talk to a person for the last time, or staying oblivious to the odds of future. In both the scenarios, though the event is common, the before & after is very different. In the
thoughts Say cheese! And smile for the đź“· I never liked having my photos taken. To me, it always felt awkward to pose or smile in front of a camera, for no reason whatsoever. For so long, I didn't even know how to smile for the camera. But lately, I have started
thoughts What doesn't kill us makes us stronger Have you heard the above quote? It’s a famous quote by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. Do you know what’s the real meaning behind it?
side-project Why I work on silly personal projects My thoughts on why I work on personal projects, which are silly sometimes
life A happy ending Even though life might not give us a happy ending. We can still read stories, watch movies, listen to songs & poems which have happy ending. Even if life doesn’t give us happy ending, stories can. In those stories we imagine ourselves, having
side-project Pi-hole on the go Till last year I was a happy user of uBlock Origin. A browser extension which blocks all the ads, trackers and malware sites. But then I found out about Pi-hole. At that time, I didn’t have the right hardware to install it, so
notes Notes: Host a new web service on linux Hosting a new web-service requires 2 steps: Create a new virtual host on nginxCreate a systemd service, so that the web-service can start automatically on server restart.Setup virtual host on nginx> cd /var/www/frp > nano frp.smurfpandey.me.conf ``` server
thoughts Work Work Work Many moons ago I saw the above status, and it got me thinking. Why should I work? Why does anybody work? A very high level view is, people work to satisfy their hunger. For some it's for satisfying the basic need of body, hunger
side-project Introducing comments on blog Since a couple of weeks I have been more active in sharing my personal thoughts on this blog, and few readers said that there's no option for them to comment, and share their thoughts. When I was hosting my blog on Heroku, I enabled
notes Notes: Fix "Drive sharing seems blocked by a firewall" with Docker The below content is copied from another source, and kept here in case original source is lost. Open up Kaspersky and select Settings (bottom left) and then select Protection from the side menu and select Firewall. Open Configure packet rules. Select Local Services (TCP)
life Blast from the past Since past few days I have been reading a book “The Course of Love”. There are many quotes which I liked from the book, but there's one which made me think: We all constantly interpret the present through the distortion of the past. Which
life Settling down? When a person decides to get married, they say, they want to settle down. Why? Settling down has such a negative tone. Why attach it to such an important decision of your life. Why settle down, when you can elevate yourself. I don't want
Open Sourcing my ideas Since last few years I have been maintaining a Trello board of all the ideas I get to work. While none of them will make a successful startup, but they can definelity be an interesting side-project. These ideas vary from creating a browser extension,
Going back to nodejs I have been working on a side project since couple of weeks, and the 1st choice I had to make, was to decide what language to use. The project was going to be command line application, so any language would have sufficed. Among the
macOS Notes: Install macOS in Virtualbox on Windows InstallationDownload the image from https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-10-14-mojave-virtualbox-windows/Refer the detailed installation steps mentioned in above link. Or refer below steps for quick reference: Â Create new VM of type Mac OS X & latest 64bit version. Disable Hyper-V if 64-bit option is not available
side-project Side Project: Youtube Skippz Adzz Do you also get lazy to click on Skip Ad on youtube? Do you get annoyed when between your music marathaon an ad appears? Are you also like me who starts youtube, and gets busy with life, relying on youtube to keep playing good
thoughts What are you? The other day I was thinking about different mindsets of people in a professional world. Some people have this single mindset, some have a mixture. People come in many flavors you know. Worker MindA worker knows how to work. You give them a task,
mysql FYI: There is no magic bullet Last night I did an amazing thing. A mysql query was taking around 20-30 minutes to execute. It was a pretty heavy query with the purpose of creating a dump of data in excel format. With 3-4 JOINs, 2-3 WHERE clauses. And it was