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Like most things in life, WordPress isn't perfect. But for a publishing platform, it is quite up there with the best in the business. For writing, I haven't had any complaints so far, but when it came to customization or workflows around maintaining a theme, I
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Humans are fragile creatures. The illusion of stability and control we have in our lives is comical. Our mind seems to have mastered the art of separating itself from the world events. We almost know it. It is hard not to if you spend any time on internet social medias
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Happy new year all! We're finally out of 2020, yaay! It has been, for lack of a better word, an interesting year. Not intending on becoming Abhi News Network, I'll spare you from having to read about the events of the past year for the thousandth
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Back in May, I wrote an article on the basics of Chess. Today, I'm super excited to announce and celebrate the milestone of breaking into the 1500s on Lichess.org rapid (barely, but surely). When I started playing chess back in late December last year, I had little
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates (from my quotes file) Today, we're going to learn how to be a 10x anything. We're going to do that by putting slack on mute. But not the simple way. That works, but don't expect 10x
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I've long established that adding heavy duty analytics and tracking scripts to my blog pages isn't the right thing to do. Personally, it is also a bit liberating to not know which article of mine is getting a lot of traffic and which isn't,
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Similar to the last two articles, this one is about the little improvements I'm making to my workstation. So far, I got a gaming mouse and a mechanical keyboard, a nice desk pad and a 24in full HD monitor from Dell to add to my existing setup (while
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Lenovo recently released their Thinkpad TrackPoint Keyboard II which I got super excited about. I could finally use a keyboard identical to my laptop's while not having the laptop down on my desk, something that's bad for posture and causes neck strain. But while looking at
I wrote a blog birthday blog post last year, and the year before that and for whatever reason, one after the first year but none in between. So I think we can really say I'm making this a thing going forward. But that's okay, as there&
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I was looking for an ergonomic mouse for my workstation upgrade (this mouse is one of the many things I'm adding to my work/hobby setup) and stumbled upon a lot of expensive gaming mice with RGB, scroll wheel and other fancy stuff. But I wanted none of
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So recently I got interested in Chess, and by recently I mean 6 months ago. I learned some important beginner's lessons along the way and I planned to document them in non-technical language in this article. I'm assuming you know the very basics, like how
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In this article, let's look at some of the ways to do batch HTTP requests in Python and some of the tools at our disposal. Mainly, we'll look at the following ways: 1. Synchronous with requests module 2. Parallel with multiprocessing module 3. Threaded with threading