I was on the hunt to find out how to organize my blog and project archive pages by year in Hugo. After being unable to find any easy solutions I decided I would sit down and write the go template to render these pages myself. The idea was simple, iterate over the list divided by …
If your CGO development toolchain depends on external dependencies such as system libraries, or you want to develop on an older version of go while having a different version on your host, you can use a docker container and mount the source from your host machine and build the project inside the container. This can …
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Last weekend I attended a hackathon after a long time. HackInOut, which is India’s biggest community hackathon, was happening very close to where I live. I went with my office colleagues Vivek and Karan and we had discussed a lot of ideas before reaching the venue, but we were not sure what we will finally …
I have recently stopped using Facebook, but I really miss the convenience of the birthday notifications. I tried to find the .ics which you could export from the Facebook events page to your calendar program but it was nowhere to be found and I thought I would have to script scraping it myself. A quick …
Sometimes old projects and libraries require certain specific system library versions that are hard to reproduce, or cumbersome to replicate on our development environment. Docker can be used to simplify the build process of these projects and it is often a lot faster than starting a VM in your machine and using that to build …
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