Instagram Challenge - 2019

Year after year, I see so many gifted people share their art during month of October tagged #inktober Guess what, I wanted to join last year and I did.

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2019 Review

I ain’t no Stephen Wolfram but I do try to time myself on any activities I do on my computer whenever possible.

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Book: 'Never Grow Up' by Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is the first action star I remember from my childhood. I know Bruce Lee and his fame but never seen his movies, coming to think of it, I do not remember if I have ever seen any one of his movie complete at all, to date.

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My Raspberry Pi Collection

I’ve always been interested in Raspberry Pi. I pre-ordered, waited for about 3+ months and even paid Customs (ridiculous amount) to import my very first Pi.

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Happy Teachers Day

This is a post I’m meaning to write for a very long time. I wanted to write this every year around Teachers day (5-Sep) and failed to publish.

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Website redesign

Today I’m launching the redesigned website palaniraja.com. It’s a shame that I took to this much time to update my own website which I’ve paying for years.

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Dropbox Mac - Deletes files on reinstallation?

I uninstalled Dropbox from my work mac before submitting my laptop of reimaging of OS with corporate junk installations. Since I was sure, I should be able to install it again and download all synced files back on mac, I had deleted before handing over to IT people.

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Merging multiple MP4 videos with FFMPEG

I have a collection of video tutorials split into multiple sections and multiple clips in each section. I wanted to merge the files to one, so I can upload and download from services like Google Drive & Dropbox.

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Poor man's pdf diff tool

Recently a client shared updated requirement document, unfortunately the document was in PDF and I don’t want to go through 60+ pages of document for changes.

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Book Recommendations

I was too lazy to write blog post for a long time. To break my lazy streak, here is something I wanted to write and procrastinated for at-least 6 months.

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Dev Diary: Apple Pay

I’ve recently integrated Apple Pay for an iOS app. Though I have heard it is very easy to integrate and lot of tutorials available, I could not find overall requirements/activities involved in integrating Apple Pay.

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