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.

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.

While deploying my recent hugo website to github, I re-learnt that, you can only publish gh-pages from master branch for user or organization repository.

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.

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.

It is a simple python script to capture timelapse with few more addition option than raspistill -tl. Built-in command usage: raspistill -t 30000 -tl 2000 -o image%04d.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For my app Music-notes, I was searching for images of musical notes so I can use them in my flash card feature.

Speedy is an utility application for Mac OS X that lets you speed read the text contents. I created to read the emails & news faster, as I have a tendency to lost in ‘endless space between the words’ with my lack of concentration or I should say gift of imagination?

You would be surprised to know that Microsoft doesn’t support a viable option to view embedded documents. Embedded PDF’s are the worst, even the .

This is something I’ve started in Jan ‘15. This is to practice a habit of keeping a log of stuff I do which took me a lot of time to figure out myself (may be I’m not efficient?

Their documentation says it is built in, but I couldn’t find a sample anywhere, so here it is for everyone on how to integrate Chromecast with your Kaltura Player.

Last Sunday, I got to try iPad pro with all its accessories (most of the outlet here has only iPad pro without keyboard & pencil).

Disclaimer: Yes, I know about the typo “briding” in screenshots, but I’m lazy to redo all, so please ignore and read the article in peace :-)

Image slicing option in xcode asset catalog allows you to define resiziable area an image so it can be repeated to fit the object’s height & width.

It is no surprise that you know about Pixar if you are even remotely knew Steve Jobs and his history. And you definitely heard about Pixar’s movies Toy story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up & more.

Last weekend I was fortunate to be a technical evaluator of an hackathon. Yes, I’m trying to be vague here, as my company sponsored this event at a most reputed university of our state, this post is just my view.