https://avinash.com.np/ Recent content in Avinash's Blog, Ramblings and JPT on Ramblings and JPT Tech Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2025/11/10/vibe-coding-...-misses-the-vibe/ Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2025/11/10/vibe-coding-...-misses-the-vibe/ I spent the weekend vibe coding a ticketing app for our conference, with payment integration and everything. As part of the process, we (me and my agent ;) ) also built a mock server for the payment service since one didn’t exist. It turned out to be a very productive 4–5 hours. By the end of the day, tickets could be bought, QR codes were being generated, and emails were being sent. https://avinash.com.np/2025/11/08/realization-nas-it-expo-is-tech-mashup-just-bigger-and-better/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2025/11/08/realization-nas-it-expo-is-tech-mashup-just-bigger-and-better/ Had a small realization on my regular morning-walk today. I was feeling a bit sad that NAS-IT didn’t allow us to put an AI Conf standee at the expo. Especially after seeing the crowd there yesterday, it felt like a missed chance to share something community-driven. Their reasoning was that it’s a professional event and there isn’t space for community. I kind of get it, but not really. (Edit: there’s a banner somewhere in one of the display board scrolling, but honestly i didn’t see it once, so probably no one did) https://avinash.com.np/2024/10/06/barcamp-kathmandu-2024---rain-resilience-and-a-remarkable-turnout/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2024/10/06/barcamp-kathmandu-2024---rain-resilience-and-a-remarkable-turnout/ Cloud of Uncertainity 8:00 AM - I’m driving to St. Xavier’s College, my alma mater, where BarCamp Kathmandu 2024 will take place. Its raining cats and dogs. Actually, It’s been raining non stop for the last 2 nights. The streets are flooded and the very little traffic that is out this stormy morning is being re-routed in multiple places. I am wondering how today will go. 8:30 AM - Several of the organizing team reach the venue. https://avinash.com.np/2024/04/19/live-engage-practice/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:51:04 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2024/04/19/live-engage-practice/ I’ve been reading the book “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin for the last year or so. My method of reading the book has been rather unmethodical. Every couple of days/weeks when I feel like it, I pick up the book and continue reading where i last left off. Sometimes when I come across a strong thought (which happens more often than not in this book), I keep that thought in my mind and try to put it into action over time. https://avinash.com.np/2021/05/14/react-native-expo-fix-error-reanimated-2-failed-to-create-a-worklet/ Fri, 14 May 2021 05:42:04 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2021/05/14/react-native-expo-fix-error-reanimated-2-failed-to-create-a-worklet/ Have you seen the following error when using reanimated2 in expo ? Reanimated 2 failed to create a worklet, maybe you forgot to add Reanimated's babel plugin? I have spent quite a lot of hours fixing this issue. The solutions you see online are really random and they don’t always work. Well, you don’t know why it works if/when it works. 1. use yarn 2. reinstall all modules 3. It just resolved on its own https://avinash.com.np/2021/05/07/react-native-did-the-text-truncate-using-numberoflines/ Fri, 07 May 2021 09:50:43 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2021/05/07/react-native-did-the-text-truncate-using-numberoflines/ I enjoy writing apps in React Native because of the amazing community and the ocean of tutorials available online. But, every once in a while we hit a we hit a wall and then we have to go reading the documentation and dig through the typescript types. I had one of those issues the other day. We can easily truncate text using the numberOfLines prop. If we want to show the first 3 lines and truncate the rest, we can write it as the following https://avinash.com.np/2020/09/17/git-aliases-for-better-productivity/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:07:34 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2020/09/17/git-aliases-for-better-productivity/ Ok, so you’ve figured out a workflow with git and use it on a daily basis to get work done. Happily minding your own business pushing things and pulling some other things. I was there some years back when I realized that i could optimize my workflow. Over the years, I have collected number of git aliases which makes me better at git (PS: also i dont have to remember complex commands) . https://avinash.com.np/2020/09/02/running-firefox/chrome/slack-in-a-memory-and-cpu-restricted-enviornment/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:25:32 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2020/09/02/running-firefox/chrome/slack-in-a-memory-and-cpu-restricted-enviornment/ The problem is clear. Web browsers are resource hogs. They run well on 2G of RAM and run well on 8G of RAM. The side effect being whole RAM is used, and CPU and everything that is available. using cgconfig I’ve spent multiple hours in the last years trying to have a setup where i could limit Memory and CPU of browser processes. I had a decent setup using cgconfig and it used to work well until the last year. https://avinash.com.np/2020/08/25/react-native--what-does-stylesheet.create-do-/ Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:14:17 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2020/08/25/react-native--what-does-stylesheet.create-do-/ I mostly work on the web and haven’t worked a lot with react native. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time learning and building small apps using react native. It gives web developers superpowers to build native (ish) experiences for mobile using the same toolset we are aware of. One thing that seemed rathar odd, especially coming from react web was the use of StyleSheet.create in react native. All the docs suggest to use it while creating styles but what exactly is the benefit of using it ? https://avinash.com.np/2020/07/01/til-css-display-contents/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:20:15 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2020/07/01/til-css-display-contents/ The Problem I’ve been playing around a lot with flexbox and css-grid in the last days. One of the problem that I commonly run into is when an element group has a wrapper and the wrapper is contained in a flex or a grid block. The easiest way to fix an issue like this is to assign the wrapper a display:flex (or grid). It’s really easy to do that, but whenever I do this, I hear sounds that says “It’s a hack”, “This is not clean”. https://avinash.com.np/2020/05/18/build-eleventy-using-github-actions-and-github-pages/ Mon, 18 May 2020 05:21:43 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2020/05/18/build-eleventy-using-github-actions-and-github-pages/ I have been helping a friend move his not-so-static php based websites to a static site setup served by GitHub Pages. Perfect opportunity to play around with eleventy and github actions (mostly because I have never liked Jekyll) The idea is to use a Github Action to build static pages using eleventy and push them to the gh-pages branch. The action below does exactly that. It uses the nodejs action to run the build script. https://avinash.com.np/2019/03/15/on-sharing-knowledge/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:27:08 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2019/03/15/on-sharing-knowledge/ Having organized various meetups, hackathons and conferences and after speaking on several occasions I have been thinking about this whole process of learning and sharing. As I have been preparing for my talk at WordCamp Kathmandu tomorrow, I realize that there are so many angles that I’d have never thought of, if I were not speaking at the conference. It sounds counter-intuitive but this self-process that one goes through to prepare to share is when you learn the most. https://avinash.com.np/2019/03/12/make-i3lock-hip-again/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:12:19 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2019/03/12/make-i3lock-hip-again/ I have been using the i3 window manager for almost 7-8 months now and I really like the peace that comes with it. Its a tiling window manager which (in some way) pushes one to have a more managed workspace. Sharing my i3 configuration is probably a post of its own, but today I want to share my i3lock wrapper script. Generally i3lock locks the screen and puts a white wallpaper (rathar ugly white wallpaper). https://avinash.com.np/2018/12/31/going-indieweb/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 03:55:45 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2018/12/31/going-indieweb/ Introduction The Web is more than Facebook and Twitter. It is definitely more than the photos we post on Instagram. Our lives are more than that. Our physical lives are in our own control (in general). But we have been losing control of our virtual lives in exchange for a tine-tiny bit of convenience. We have been losing ownership of our own content (thoughts, pictures and what-not) while others are selling our data to god-knows-whom. https://avinash.com.np/2018/10/16/web-weekend-kathmandu-2018-wrap-up/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2018/10/16/web-weekend-kathmandu-2018-wrap-up/ 🌯 It’s been 3 weeks since Web Weekend Kathmandu and we’ve almost finished all the pending work for the conference. The event was pretty successful and beyond what we had planned and expected for. Facts and Figures ~300 attendees in the whole event Representatives from >55 different companies in Nepal 11 different nationalities at the conference 10% female attendees 😢 8 wwktm sponsored attendees (exluding other partial discounts) 80 people hiked 1 HUGE bag of trash collected from the trail. https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/11/the-html-base-element/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:48:57 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/11/the-html-base-element/ #TIL I usually like to look at the HTML of web pages that get delivered to my browser window. Today, I noticed that all assets that were loaded relatively came from a different URL. Interesting huh! * OMG!! How did they do thaatt??* HTML has a <base> tag that specifies the base URL for all relative links in a web page. Well thought through, right? Definitely. 1 2 <base href="base-path"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main. https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/03/what-the-detached-head/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:41:07 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/03/what-the-detached-head/ One could use git for years and not have to hear of detached heads. I came across detached head when I was showing a colleague what git really is. I was showing how to “go back in time” using git; Basically a git checkout <commit-hash>, right? Yes, that is exactly when git goes to a detached head mode. So, what exactly is a detached head? Before that, what exactly is a HEAD? https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/01/a-resolution-that-makes-sense/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 11:29:20 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2018/01/01/a-resolution-that-makes-sense/ Reading through HackerNews this morning I noticed this comment, which is something that I have been telling a lot of folks in the past days. For the lazy ones, the thread is about 2018 resolutions and the comment mentions the resolution as ” Less consuming, more creating. Doesn’t matter what it is, doesn’t matter if it’s bad. “ The comment reminds me of something I wrote on Jan 1, 2015. https://avinash.com.np/2017/12/31/amp-wordpress-and-amp-form/ Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:59:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2017/12/31/amp-wordpress-and-amp-form/ Now that google is pushing AMP a lot, it has been one of the better ways to attract some organic traffic. In one of my recent projects we had to setup a signup form on the AMP pages. We use AMP for WP (a very well done plugin btw) but wanted to try adding the form ourselves, instead of purchasing one of their paid plugins (Which would be the easier way, but one must get their hands dirty to understand). https://avinash.com.np/2017/12/15/the-mighty-git-reflog-or-how-to-undo-a-git-rebase/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:06:55 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2017/12/15/the-mighty-git-reflog-or-how-to-undo-a-git-rebase/ Generally, whenever I have to undo a rebase I just reset my working directory to the origin remote and that works pretty well. This one time I didn’t push my changes to the remote and did a rebase. Only then I realized i didn’t really want to rebase. Tough life right? I couldn’t even reset to origin now. That is when I learned about the git reflog command/feature. git reflog is quite similar to git log but instead of logging commits, it logs changes to the HEAD. https://avinash.com.np/2017/07/15/corrupt-or-unorganized/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:35:24 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2017/07/15/corrupt-or-unorganized/ Chaos is a Ladder — Little Finger, GoT This is to compare and contrast two worlds, two stories that seem the same but totally different experiences. … sometime in 2014 I don’t remember the exact date, but, in 2014 someone shipped me a piece of gadget to Germany. I got a letter which asked to be present at the customs office in 3 days. I went to the customs office. https://avinash.com.np/2017/07/10/on-web-forms--to-next-page-or-not/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:15:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2017/07/10/on-web-forms--to-next-page-or-not/ Today I want to discuss a simple frustration I have with forms on the web. Half a decade back, I was told that it is nice to have shorter forms. Duh! That’s quite obvious, right? Well, the problem is that short forms generally aren’t enough to get all the data you want from the user. True, so form designers (one could be using google forms or sorts) thought of a nifty hack. https://avinash.com.np/about/reading/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:44:25 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/about/reading/ 2024 Storyworthy — Matthew Dicks 2023 Invent and Wander — The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner 2022 Ikigai — Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia How to live on 24 hours a day — Arnold Bennett 2021 The Midnight Library — Matt Haig Creativity Inc — Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace 2020 The Culture Map — Erin Meyer द्वन्दको अवसान — राजेश्वर देवकोटा Notes on a Nervous Planet — Matt Haig Good Economics for Hard Times — Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo 2019 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari The undoing project — Michel Lewis Purple cow — Seth Godin Leonardo Da Vinci — Walter Issacson (Best read of the year) 2018 An Astronauts guide to life on Earth — Chris Hadfield Eat Dirt — Dr. https://avinash.com.np/2017/01/06/dear-event-organizers-in-kathmandu/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:59:02 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2017/01/06/dear-event-organizers-in-kathmandu/ Dear Event Organizers, I have been attending dev/tech/art related events for quite some years now. It fills me with pride looking at how far we have come, and how colorful and eventful (ba-dum-tiss) the community has become. There is an event every week or so, community-leaders are meeting often discussing about maximizing community interaction. The best part of it is that the community also feels that we need to have such events. https://avinash.com.np/2016/12/17/review-how-stella-saved-the-farm/ Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:39:18 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/12/17/review-how-stella-saved-the-farm/ Innovation is a force to bring significant positive change. It’s easy to say one is innovative, but it’s quite an achievable feat to be innovative. It’s a tough job for an organization to foster innovation and reward teams that show signs of being innovative, even though if the results were not positive. That is one risk to take with innovative teams, there are chances that they will not be able to deliver, for the simple fact that innovation is a high bar and not easy to achieve a state of. https://avinash.com.np/2016/11/16/hiked-for-nepal-champadevi-hills/ Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:44:37 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/11/16/hiked-for-nepal-champadevi-hills/ On 12th Nov, I joined the amazing folks from Hike For Nepal for a day hike to Champadevi Hills. It was a great hike with a nice weather accompanied with some beautiful landscapes. Perfect recipe for a good hike. Like every other hikes, this one also helped me think deeply and contemplate about a number of things. Among them, most of my energy was spent on thinking about the hike itself. https://avinash.com.np/2016/11/15/git-clone-in-a-slow-connection/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:06:40 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/11/15/git-clone-in-a-slow-connection/ It happens more often than not, I am on a slow internet connection and I have to clone a decently-huge git repository. The most common issue is the connection closes and the whole clone is cancelled. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cloning into 'large-repository'... remote: Counting objects: 20248, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10204/10204), done. error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed After a lot of trial and errors and a lot of “remote end hung up unexpectedly” I have a way that works for me. https://avinash.com.np/2016/10/30/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2/ Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:56:42 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/10/30/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2/ अाज महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाको जन्मदिनको अवसरमा पागल कविता सम्झदैछु। जरुर साथी म पागल ! यस्तै छ मेरो हाल । म शब्दलाई देख्दछु ! दृश्यलाई सुन्दछु ! बासनालाई संबाद लिन्छु । आकाशभन्दा पातालका कुरालाई छुन्छु । ती कुरा, जसको अस्तित्व लोक मान्दैंन जसको आकार संसार जान्दैन ! म देख्दछु, ढुङ्गालाई फूल ! जब, जलकिनारका जल चिप्ला ती, कोमलाकार, पाषाण, चाँदनीमा, स्वर्गकी जादूगर्नी मतिर हाँस्दा, पत्रिएर, नर्मिएर, झल्किएर, बल्किएर, उठ्दछन् मूक पागलझैँ, https://avinash.com.np/2016/02/11/memorable-lines-from-the-hobbit./ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:42:12 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/02/11/memorable-lines-from-the-hobbit./ I totally love how Gandalf is introduced in the book. This line has been so smartly crafted, I feel awe everytime I read it. Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort I of remarkable tale. In the first movie, there is a scene where Gandalf explains why there is a Hobbit with the Dwarves. https://avinash.com.np/2016/01/23/unhackable-websites-super-awesome-stition/ Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:34:47 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/01/23/unhackable-websites-super-awesome-stition/ You have been warned, do not take this seriously. There are many ways that a website can be hacked, more ways than one can possibly count, more ways than one can keep track of. Technology can be confusing, it can be tough, especially with so many different standards, so many weird languages, useless tooling around them. And on top of that, so many ugly developers, who write code that make them look like Miss/Mister Universe. https://avinash.com.np/2016/01/21/i-am-frustrated./ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:06:44 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2016/01/21/i-am-frustrated./ I read the news every once in a while, and realize that nothing has changed. Nothing has changed in the once peaceful country. That peaceful country where people are fighting; They are divided, divided by caste, divided by religion, divided by color, divided by reason, divided without any reason. Fight all day long, fight for your ego, fight for the fake pride and then in the end of the day take pride in being the most peaceful country in the world, take pride in being the most peaceful people, take pride in coming from the land of Buddha. https://avinash.com.np/2015/12/30/just-tell/ Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:09:10 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/12/30/just-tell/ Tell - v. To communicate by speech or writing; express with words: Tell ! If you have an idea, Tell, Tell your friends, Tell your colleagues You want to lose weight? run every morning? Tell me about it ! For the sake of God, Tell someone what you want to do. Whatever you’re thinking of doing, stop thinking for eternity, take a moment, and tell. It’s one of the simplest & easiest hack I’ve found. https://avinash.com.np/2015/12/11/on-fun/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 01:11:11 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/12/11/on-fun/ Fun is random, fun is rage, fun is what that takes you out of the cage. Where is Fun? It is so relative I have learned, it depends on how your mind is wired and where your heart it. For some, partying all night long and having an insane night might be the fun that quenches the thirst. But, for some, maybe being able to stick to the timeline might just be the fun that is added to life. https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/27/international-buy-nothing-day/ Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:33:31 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/27/international-buy-nothing-day/ ”…our disconnection from what we consume. If we all had to grow our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of if (as we do now in the UK). If we had to make our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior décor. If we could see the look on the face of the child who, under the eyes of an armed soldier, cuts the cloth for the garment we contemplate buying on the high street, we’d probably give it a miss. https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/22/on-forgiveness/ Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:33:31 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/22/on-forgiveness/ What do you think is the right course of action, bringing justice by punishment or forgiving the wrongdoer? Fighting the fight for ego or forgiving? These are tough discussions to have and there is enough philosophical evidence to justify either side of the argument. I have come to believe that there is no “right-way” or “the recipe” that one can follow, one must always think about the implications, the stakeholders involved and the bigger picture and take the righteous action. https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/20/thinking-of-governments-and-countries-as-open-source-organizations/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:31:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/11/20/thinking-of-governments-and-countries-as-open-source-organizations/ Just for a moment, think, what would it be like, if governments and countries were open source organizations (mentioned as OSO from here on)? The status quo is that governments are synonymous to big black boxes where no one knows what’s going on until and unless you are part of the big black box. On the contrary, most OSOs are an amazing expression of freedom and transparency. Wouldn’t it be great if all the policies would be made in the open, the processes would be listed out in the open and the reason for policies being made would also be available for everyone to understand and reason with. https://avinash.com.np/2015/09/11/on-dogfooding--charity-begins-at-home-change-begins-in-the-self./ Fri, 11 Sep 2015 22:43:30 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/09/11/on-dogfooding--charity-begins-at-home-change-begins-in-the-self./ [note: half baked, but posted as i might not work on this in the near future] When I was a school going kid, I used to think that I could change the world, I could bring change in society and as time passed by I realized i couldn’t even bring a positive change to myself. How could i change anything in anyone when I was stiff enough to not be changed. https://avinash.com.np/2015/07/11/self-reliance/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 23:49:31 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/07/11/self-reliance/ त्यो एकलाई जान, जसलाई जानेपछि जान्न बाँकी केही रहँदैन । – शिवसुत्र Know the one, after which there will be nothing remaining to be known - Shivasutra I’ve been reading “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson and this is just an archive of the quotes and parts-of-text that touched me the most. In some cases I have also added the reasoning or the idea that is being sent across by the text or just notest that made sense to accompany them. https://avinash.com.np/2015/04/19/minion-yellow---to-hope-joy-and-optimism/ Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:24:15 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/04/19/minion-yellow---to-hope-joy-and-optimism/ Pantone just announced a new Pantone Color named as Minion Yellow. Now, I am very excited to use it in several elements in this website. It does add an identity to the website, doesn’t it? Makes it look more fun. “Just as the sun’s rays enliven us, PANTONE Minion Yellow is a color that heightens awareness and creates clarity, lighting the way to the intelligence, originality and the resourcefulness of an open mind – this is the color of hope, joy and optimism,” https://avinash.com.np/2015/02/21/the-unconventional-barcamp-kathmandu-2015/ Sat, 21 Feb 2015 23:15:45 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/02/21/the-unconventional-barcamp-kathmandu-2015/ Today was my first BarCamp (ever) and I have to say it was quite unconventional. I left in between the event as it didn’t rise up to my expectations. I always thought that BarCamps are an open event with an open platform for people to learn and share their thoughts and hacks, atleast that’s the impression one gets when they read about other BarCamps or its wiki. Since I didn’t attend the whole event and didn’t have the chance to give any feedback to the organizers or the team, I would take this as an opportunity. https://avinash.com.np/2015/01/04/my-changing-vulnerable-views-on-oss-and-contributions/ Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2015/01/04/my-changing-vulnerable-views-on-oss-and-contributions/ I have been a long time open source user, fan, contributor and all that’s possible to be. At one point of time I was very involved in open source, contributing to the likes of firefox or CI-Bonfire. It was fun and I was learning a lot but at one point of time I was not satisfied. I knew that I had my contribution to the web, to move the web forward and to make things easier for the next new contributor. https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/19/deployd-stuck-on-starting-deployd-v0.6.xx..-osx-fix/ Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/19/deployd-stuck-on-starting-deployd-v0.6.xx..-osx-fix/ The Problemo Yesterday I was checking deployd and wanted to try it out. Doing as the docs said, when I to started deployd It stuck on starting deployd v0.6.10... ##The Fixo After going through the issues on github i finally found this old-ish similar issue which was still unresolved. To solve it start monogd as a seperate process and run deployd as dpd -P 27017 -H localhost -n testing-deployd -d https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/14/look-ma-its-so-easy-to-write-a-dashboard-widget/ Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/14/look-ma-its-so-easy-to-write-a-dashboard-widget/ I have been tinkering quite a lot with the osx dashboard lately and was curious how could one write a widget. I went digging online and found most of the apple links ended up in a 404. Luckily I found this article, which is a little outdated, but so is the dashboard. To my surprise, dashboard widgets are written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Yes! right, those web technologies that we’ve been pushing forward for quite a while now. https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/14/using-the-html5-classlist-api/ Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/03/14/using-the-html5-classlist-api/ Recently while i was working on a dashboard widget, I planned not to use any JavaScript library but just plain ol’ vanilla JavaScript. At one point I had to check if an element was shown or not. This was controlled using a CSS class and all that the basic API had returned a string of the classes of an element and one had to control it using string manipulation. Having read stuff about the classList API sometime in the past, I decided to have a look. https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/23/the-right-temperament-four-years-of-engineering/ Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/23/the-right-temperament-four-years-of-engineering/ Note: This has come back from the archives and was written way back on 03 May 2011. [Back from the Grave] Disclaimer : This article is a compilation of my say about four years of college, things that i wish people told me, things that people told me and helped me make a difference and yeah, of course things that i want to say :). It would also be a a lot biased towards computer engineering (obvious reasons). https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/23/what-i-initially-planned-to-do-this-summer/ Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/23/what-i-initially-planned-to-do-this-summer/ TL;DR : This is mostly going to be a post about how things have fucked up recently and how my plans of doing an internship this summer went into the dump and some extensions and pre-post thought process to that. The master-plan My ideal summer would be an internship at one of the best tech companies working and learning with/from the most talented people of the industry. Contrary to the fact that a lot would suggest to do it at a startup, I wanted to do it at a big company because I have never worked at one and wanted to learn from that experience. https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/22/a-life-tip-from-flappy-bird-mega-random-rant/ Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/02/22/a-life-tip-from-flappy-bird-mega-random-rant/ Flappy bird has been one game that i’ve been playing/fighting with quite a lot recently. If you have not played it yet, maybe its already too late as the author has taken it down from all the app stores, but a quick google search will give out a lot of recent clones. It might be quite obvious from the game, but it tells one, how important it is to be in the perfect zone. https://avinash.com.np/2014/01/01/making-the-media-keys-more-useful-basically-what-ive-been-doing-this-holiday/ Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2014/01/01/making-the-media-keys-more-useful-basically-what-ive-been-doing-this-holiday/ A little Context (is always better) It all started with me getting very used to the spotify web player and for some weird reason never using the desktop player. For some reason, if I can do something (effectively) in the browser, I try to do it in the browser. I must say that the browser based web players are getting really sophisticated and amazing but very quickly I started missing the ease of using the media keys in my latop. https://avinash.com.np/2013/11/23/setting-the-right-context-on-delay-backbone/underscore/ Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/11/23/setting-the-right-context-on-delay-backbone/underscore/ I have been working on a backbone based project recently and had a situation where i wanted an event to emit only once that too with some restrictions. The way I thought to do it was to do it with an dealy and clearTimeout when required by the state of the application. Everything was fine untill i figured out that the function passed to _.delay doesnt bind to this like the rest of backbone application does, generally. https://avinash.com.np/2013/11/01/the-month-of-mozilla--learning-teaching-and-experiencing-the-openweb/ Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/11/01/the-month-of-mozilla--learning-teaching-and-experiencing-the-openweb/ Part 1 : Mozilla Summit 2013 To make things less confusing, lets start from the beginning. It all started back in mid-2013 when my twitter stream and facebook newsfeed was filled with status-es like “It’s official, you’re invited! Yay!” and there in my mailbox was an unread email with the same subject. Yes, It was official and I was invited too :D. It was an invitation to attend the Mozilla Summit 2013 to be hosted simulatneously in 3 cities (Brussels, Toronto and Santa-Clara) and with the mission for (almost) all mozillians to come together, get inspired, talk and shape the future of the open web. https://avinash.com.np/2013/06/08/app-days-nepal-2013/ Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:13:02 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/06/08/app-days-nepal-2013/ One fine day (1st of June, 2013) about 75 web enthusiats gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal to celebrate the open-web and spend a day hacking on open web applications, this was the first official event of Mozilla Nepal as Firefox OS App Days, Nepal. The registrations started at 8:30 AM in the morning and there were people at the venue around 8:15. In the mean time we were checking if the Firefox OS simulator was setup in everyone’s machines and had some informal talks on the ideas and implementations. https://avinash.com.np/2013/04/07/php-developers-meetup-6/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/04/07/php-developers-meetup-6/ This is my first post regarding the PHP Developers Meetup we have in Kathmandu almost every month. Yesterday, we had the sixth iteration of the meetup and it went pretty well. We started with a 10 minute delay because we Nepalese are used to Nepali Time :-P, but on a serious note I wish we could start right on time moving forward. I took the first session and had planned to discuss about Open Web Applications and how awesome it is. https://avinash.com.np/2013/04/01/my-experience-at-formatatbesu/ Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/04/01/my-experience-at-formatatbesu/ Last week (22nd and 23rd of March 2013), I was at the super talented city of Kolkata, attending FORMAT (Firefox OS: Renaissance of Mobile App Technology) which was a part of the technical festival of Bengal Engineering and Science University (also known as BESU). This was a two day event completely focused on developing web applications which would also work on Firefox OS. ###Day 1 The first day of the event was aimed at giving the audience an idea of mozilla, the mozilla community and Firefox OS, ofcourse. https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/20/switching-to-jekyll-so-long-wordpress/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/20/switching-to-jekyll-so-long-wordpress/ Yes! I will be moving to this blog asap, and all the content will come here too, one at a time :D https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/18/the-web-is-the-platform/ Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:13:02 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/18/the-web-is-the-platform/ I have had the itch of developing a “mobile application”(with finger quotes) since quite some time now. But, the thought of learning Java or Objective C kept me waiting. With B2G, came new hopes and the idea to write your mobile applications with only web technologies. Wow, doesn’t that sound awesome :D Procrastination is what i do best, so I installed B2G Desktop, r2d2b2g(B2G Emulator for firefox), Firefox Nightly and waited for more than a couple of months to even start writing an application. https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/02/mozsaarc13-learnings-and-takeaways/ Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:47:06 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/02/mozsaarc13-learnings-and-takeaways/ Last weekend (23-24 February 2013) we had the first Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community meet-up. Participants consisted of Mozillians from the South-Asian region, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was a great experience to meet some of the awesomest people from around the region. They have already blogged and shared their experiences of the event. Since the event has already been compiled in such a detailed fashion, I would like to take the time to share my learnings from the event. https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/01/leap-motion--a-big-leap/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:24:16 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/2013/03/01/leap-motion--a-big-leap/ What? How? I had applied for the leap motion developer program couple of months back and was one of the lucky ones selected to receive the device. The device was mailed via fed-ex and came in a black box with just leap motion written on it. I smell apple-style there. The device was quite smaller than i had anticipated, about the size of a pack of gums and it is very light of-course. https://avinash.com.np/now/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/now/ I will try to make this page more informative over time. At this moment I am working on one of the following Arbyte Plantura App My Stream This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too. https://avinash.com.np/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://avinash.com.np/about/ This website contains thoughts, ideas, rants and all sort of random stuff that comes to my mind. I tweet and like random stuff on the internet. Ocassionally, I push some code on this github thingy. In most cases, I check my email more often than other stream-like applications. I am also trying to maintain a reading list. Read about what i’m doing now.