Cusco or Cuszo, an Andean city in South America, was the seat of the Inca empire and is home to world-famous Machu Picchu. I would recommend staying near the city center of Plaza De Armas (“Parade Square”). Most tourist activities are in and around the area. Day 1 Start your journey with a walking tour. …

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To use monorepo or not is an eternal debate. Each has its pros and cons. Let’s say you decide to go with monorepo, one major issue you will face over time is slow testing. Imagine a monorepo, consisting of an Android app, an iOS app, some backend code, some web frontend code. On only very …

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The book posits a unique viewpoint to understand randomness and unpredictability in the world around us. Rather than trying to predict the improbable black swans, it focuses more on how not to be adversely impacted by them.   Mediocristan vs Extremistan This is the central concept of the book. Let’s illustrate this with human height …

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Deploying side-projects can be expensive, it can cost ~120$ a year to run a VM. In this blogpost I will describe a cheaper way...

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A basic webserver Docker containers are small OS images in themselves which one can deploy and run without worrying about dependencies or interoperability. All the dependencies are packed in the same container file. And the docker runtime takes care of the interoperability. You are not tied to using a single language or framework. You can …

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A single developer has to sometimes deal with 7 different consoles by the same company… Google Analytics console – to see website analytics Google Cloud console – to access Google Cloud Platform Google Developers console – to configure and access Google APIs Google Firebase console – to create and Firebase APIs Google Play Developer console …

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Strenuous hikes Half Dome hike 17-miles 12-hours with a breath-taking dangerous climb holding chains on the majestic half dome at the end. This hike requires a permit for the final half dome climb. The Clouds Rest Trail 12-miles 7-hours hike. The trail ends at a point higher than the Half dome. One gets a great …

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Day 1 If you are arriving at MSP airport, then start your journey with the Mall of America. It is the largest shopping mall in the United States and is pretty close to the airport. Next, head to Minnehaha falls. It is the favorite fishing spot for the locals. Hereafter, you can head towards the …

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The first statement is a Mac, GNU/Linux, and BSD portable way of finding the location of the bash interpreter. The second statement combines...

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Update: As of April 2020, I have switched over to GitHub Actions. Travis CI has become buggy and flaky over time and I got tired of trying to keep the builds green. My GitHub action scripts can be seen here. Just like many software engineers, I maintain my config files for GNU/Linux and Mac OS …

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