Category Archives: Software

Windows Security Tips

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Probably the most important tool is Windows Defender. Press Win+R followed by wf.msc and check all the inbound rules. Delete ones you don’t recognize – it can be difficult. Useful powershell commands: this is equivalent of ss -tpln on Linux. … Continue reading →

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10 Svelte Tips for a Backend Engineer

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Svelte is currently my framework of choice for frontend web development. Further Reading

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letsencrypt/certbot tips

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Letsencrypt uses certbot for certificate management. If your certificate is not auto renewing follow the runbook below: we see that certbot is scheduled to auto-renew I see there are failures when certbot attempted to renew the certificate in the past: … Continue reading →

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NuVoice.AI – Immortalize Your Voice

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

NuVoice.AI is offering a voice cloning service. You can clone your voice for free but in return grant us permission to sell your voice elsewhere and to use it in our products and services without any restrictions. This lets us … Continue reading →

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Static vs. Dynamic linking in C++

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

3 Power Tools You Must Know on Linux to debug DLL (.so) not loading

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Installing ImageMagick on WSL

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

First I just downloaded the pre-built binary as described here but trying to run it gives this: So the next step is to install FUSE [1] but still no luck: next run this [2]: after this it works:

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Introducing Honeybadger.bot: Java Class Registry

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

What is the biggest pain point you encounter with Java development? For me, its debugging those ClassNotFound exceptions and not knowing what dependency I need to add to my pom.xml in order to use a class [1,2]. Fortunately there is … Continue reading →

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Hive, Spark and Presto

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

from https://www.uber.com/blog/presto While batch and ETL jobs run on Hive and Spark, near real-time interactive queries run on Presto. this is a sentiment I have seen at other places as well – use presto for adhoc, near real-time analytics. My question is: what … Continue reading →

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Lucene: Getting Started

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

Making some notes on how to get started with Lucene. The first step is to clone the repo. The best way to getting started is by running the demo program org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexFiles which indexes files and org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles which searches files. In … Continue reading →

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ASCII art generation on Mac using FIGlet

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

FIGlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinaryscreen characters These days you can use online websites like this to generate the art for you but if you want to install the program on your computer and run … Continue reading →

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