This is how my Youtube experience is these days. And stop judging me! Yes, I am a middle aged man who follows Mr. Beast 😀 . But let’s come to the point on why I think Youtube can be a serious competitor to hiring sites and specially Linkedin. As creator economy is growing and some […]
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Roe Vs Wade, period trackers and why we should NOT give away our data!
After the leak of the US supreme court draft that might overturn the rights of women and people with uteruses to get an abortion in USA, social media is buzz with how data from period tracking apps can be weaponized against these people. With Covid-19 we also ceded lot of authority to government and even […]
Homeless for a Night in Beijing & Lessons learnt
It’s been a while that I have not written a blog post. It’s hard to find things to write about when life is a routine and one is on the hedonic treadmill. But last week I was forced to make some urgent travel plans to Beijing to get some documents from Indian Embassy in Beijing(EOI). […]
Connect Mongo DB on IBM Cloud Using Compass
Task at work required me to connect MongoDB hosted on IBM Cloud from the Compass App on my PC. I was not able to find updated information easily over internet, so I decided to document it here. 1> Go to Resource List on your IBM Cloud Web UI. 2> Find the Mongo Db service that […]
How should work look like?
There has never been a day from last 10 years when I have not thought about work I do, the work people around me do and the work that is important! 2020 has just complicated things, when we saw what’s essential and what’s not! Although I won’t dwell much on this black swan event but […]
How to connect Db2 from Jupyter Notebook?
I recently came across a problem where I needed to connect to a Db2 server with SSL connection from Jupyter Lab. Our environment is one on Kubernetes cluster on Cloud. Although one can easily find how to connect to Db2 from Python, I was not able to find a clean way to do what I […]
Death by Video Conference!
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius News these days can give us PTSD and along with all the things pandemic has forced on us, excessive video conferencing on zoom and other platforms […]
Hacking Time!
There are two kinds of people in this world; one’s who procrastinate others who only exist in productivity and self help books . For most of my life I have had some good days where every minute is productive may it be work or a hobby and then there are some days where it’s just […]
What’s old is new Again
Old solutions that will work in covid-19 world Sooner or later, everything old is new again Stephen King Over time our society has evolved to this modern , high tech world but we should not forget we have not came here in a quick sprint but rather a long marathon of thousands of years of […]