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Are you new to these parts of the internet? If you are, then allow me to be your guide in helping you understand what Mixster really is and why this little corner of the web has become an integral part of who I am and the work I have been doing in open-source over the years. There’s a free ice-cream waiting for you in the end. Read on!
You know the feeling you get when you haven’t eaten your favourite dish in some time. Maybe the taste buds have grown tired of it, the dish is seasonal and unavailable, or you want to explore something new. For me, this was attending meetups or giving talks at conferences.
With Covid hitting India in waves and meetups turning virtual, my motivation to present or attend gatherings took a nose dive. I lost a good chunk of my social battery with how events unfolded in my personal life too. The battery that I excessively burned out on organizing events for meetup groups and volunteering at conferences no longer existed.
So finally, when my proposal got accepted, I was excited to push myself out of my comfort zone and make the most of this opportunity. This blog serves as a log of how I revived the 2020 Vipul’s forgotten fire, the incredible conference I had and how you too can contribute to it!
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After Thailand, it was already time to head to the next journey, which was Mexico from September through August. Little did I know it was the trip that would inspire me to document my travels, create this series and provide me with the best experiences I could ever have.
This is #4 in the Lets Goto X series and my documentation for a trip to Mexico.
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See you there when I see you!
(more…)Short rant not on Netlify’s billing but more into engineering teams’ inertia for SaaS tools, leading to expensive bills.
(more…)This generation’s social media consumption (read addiction) is exponentially increasing. It’s getting more & more diverse as time goes on and the dopamine hit wears off. I am part of this generation. It’s me, I am the problem, it’s me.
While we make bad choices with our private data to stay connected, I wanted to prepare and safeguard my data. Hence, yet another blog in the Future Vipul series on backing your “virtual life” hosted on popular “potentially secure” social media platforms.
(more…)Leaving is frequent, seldom appreciated, and always leads to change.
A teen leaving their parents to pursue higher studies or opportunities.
A relative concludes their trip on their way home.
A friend heading out to never see them again.
I have been thinking to leave. I have finally decided. I am leaving.
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Quick 4 am blog on something I learned today.
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A month of eating Pad Thai, learning scuba diving, and shopping. What more do you want to do in Thailand?
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Come along, no time to waste. It’s almost 2 am here, and I want to document this build immediately. Spoiler warning, it took me 8 months to complete this blog.
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It’s 2022, and companies still aren’t equipped to handle incidents better.
Incidents can be best defined as a breakdown of a well-oiled machine running on code in a carefully spun environment using complex configurations. Folks in the industry, developers, and customers alike know it all too well. An undesirable phenomenon so common these days that even after years of development, we haven’t figured out how to deal with it adequately. This post is not about how to solve incidents better but handle them well at least publically.
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Back in April, my friend sent me this message on Instagram. And two weeks later, after rushed planning, I was on my way to finally cover these two cities. We cramped so much into this 10-day trip with so little planning that the satisfaction and exhaustion were well worth the effort. Here’s what we did, how things were planned, tips, and essentially me documenting my journey to help others plan their time in the City of Gold.
This is to document some rsync commands, a bash script here and there, and explain to Future Vipul how the backup strategy works for Vipul’s system. Future Vipul is a series on Mixster that I work on to document guides that I need again and again as I work. I firmly believe if even one person gets the help from this guide apart from me in the future then it has served its purpose. I continuously update this guide with more information as my own learning grows and I hope to see you down in the comments if you would like to contribute as well. I wrote my previous Future Vipul guide last year about dual-booting.
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