Generating Git Punchcard plot from the terminal

Around 6 pm today, I found guanqun/git-punchcard-plot.

At 10:45 pm, approximately 4 hours later (of which I spent rather less time writing stuff, I opened PR #7.

Once I cloned the repository, I realised that you need to put the git-punchcard python script in your PATH for it to start working as git punchcard. I didn’t need any of that, I did really want to see a punchcard though. So, I put it there, (Note 1: Take path from the CLI if provided!)

When I generated the punchcard for a repository, it looked like this:

It looked okay. The opacity was a problem. I might have made fewer... Read More

Setting milestones to understand TLS

I downloaded the TLS IETF draft. It’s 104 pages long, That’s as big as Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

This is perhaps my 100th attempt at reallt understanding the internals of how TLS works. My end goal is simple here: I want to know how a secure channel is established between a server and a client. I don’t want an apples-and-oranges-are-fruits level understanding of it, I have that. I know all the digital signature and public key cryptography analogies that are out there. I want to be able to form a general idea of HOW each step works, why it is required, and how that particular step fits in the larger scheme of things.

I started with Wireshark and captured... Read More

Learning React -> Understanding why Redux -> More time spent!

So, I had this idea for an app. It’s a pretty basic app and it takes the current location and prints some distances. It does all of this stuff without an active internet connection because GPS DOES NOT NEED INTERNET. It drives me crazy that Google Maps won’t download the area that I live in (which they might know because I occasionally have to turn on Location Services on my phone) or any location that I tell it to.

From their POV, it’s probably not the best because most of the traffic related data on Google Maps is crowd sourced and you ain’t getting no data from a phone that is offline.

So, I decided to leap frog that and... Read More

Old Habits Die Hard, Criminal show - GET IT

I find myself thinking about what to write every day. This has been happening everyday since the end of the 100 days.

A general update, is what this post is.

I am reading Apt Pupil. The book has gone literally nowhere since I started it. Since this is a book of four stories, I don’t even know how much of it I have read, it must be 20-30 pages and the book is slowly progressing somewhere. This initial period of intrigue that exists right before the explosive event and the chase that happens in the end + climax of the book seems to be a common theme in Stephen King books.

I have also been raving about the Read More

Day 100 - Shawshank Redemption + The Last Post in this series

HELL YEAH, WE ARE FINALLY HERE.

(Prologue: This is going to be a normal Ep 100 post. My thoughts about this series, the things I wrote about (and didn’t), the days I really did write well etc will all be covered in a different post.

That is Rita Hayworth. She was the one that Andy Dufresne began with. For 27 years he toiled, and made it out. It’s an amazing novella! I kind-of knew the ending but was blocking it off so I could still enjoy the book. The revelation is not the climax and I think that’s where the story really excels. In telling the story of two men, vastly different from each other, but... Read More

Day 99 - Mongoose + async act up to create cocktail

I found another really strange thing that happens with Mongoose when used inside Async.

let mongoose = require('mongoose'); mongoose.connect(db_conn_string); let util = require('util'); let async = require('async'); let Schema = mongoose.Schema; let ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId; var PersonSchema = new Schema({ name: { type: String }, username: { type: String,... 
    


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