Side-Project

My thoughts on why I work on personal projects, which are silly sometimes

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 I kept bugging my sister to gift me a Raspberry Pi. After few weeks of crying & begging I finally got it and immediately put it to use by installing the Pi-hole. To quote their website, Pi-hole is ...

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 comments using a 3rd party commercial tool. But, after moving to Google Cloud, that feature was lost and I was only running a plain blog. I didn’t enable comments earlier because this time I wanted to do it differently. With all the privacy related issues going on, I didn’t want to share data about my readers with a 3rd party. So I decided to look for a self-hosted open-source tool which fits my bill. And after a quick google-fu I found remark42. ...

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 music, only to get interupped by those ads with Skip option. You understand youtube needs to make money so you have disabled adblocker, but still wish there was a way to skip those ads automatically? ...