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Of a missing thread and some more

A couple of years back someone has suggested in a seemingly concerned tone that a good schedule would do me a lot of good. The irony was not in the suggestion, not the least in how I could deal with it. It lay in who …

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Adding an admin interface

What then is the next progression in writing one's own CMS/Blog engine for whatever the joy? That was the question that was running at the back of my head as I sat down watching the oddly timed rains in the evening. …

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Introducing nodevirtualenv

Long story short, created a virtualenv clone for NodeJS. Provides a flow that borrows from the convenience of both n and virtualenv Rationale At crisp, NodeJS powers our article content extraction services. A cause of …

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Of a meandering monk, boggy roads that get sunk, and such

The beauty of ascertaining issues that are sporadic is their providing sensible defaults. Odd word choice in a sense, but I’ve come to agree that a sensible default take with firefighting is calm. Add to that, a singular …

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Of a pendulum, sugar cube, and such

The good thing about early starts is how well paced they can be with bumping productivity. There isn’t a lot of proclivity at the current place (earlier one wasn’t great either, let me be honest) towards it. But, what it …

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Of a thousand miles in walks, a thousand less in folks and strokes

Atticus always used to say - “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”. The kid, hands now trembling o’er the pages wonders, “what then is it to live with myself when other folks wouldn’t?” There …

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Of ad-hoc changes and context's short-changes

I hate ad-hoc changes. There, I said it loud after long. I’m not sure about you, but I almost hate them with a vengeance. Not in an acerbic tone, but the layers they introduce in maintenance, a sure spoilsport. That’s …

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Of an awkwardly confusing path, maximum traversals, and such

At long last, a whole 10 days after I started, got to committing code again with the new code base today. What’s still something that’s a thorn in the flesh, so to speak, is the complete lack of documentation at code. …

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Of an oddly timed sprain, another silly brain, and such

Where the point of silver lining comes up, there is a certain thread of discomfort that wishes to be undone. Be it physical, mental, or otherwise, the theme does run undisturbed, in a sense. The last few weekends got …

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