I broke my phone and missed carrying a few items on my last trek. This is a short checklist for future references.
Bonus: Want some ideas for places to travel? Check this.
Last week, I visited Shenzhen in China with my family for 3 days. Shenzhen is a shopping paradise with huge markets such as Dongmen and Lo Wu commercial center. Shenzhen is surrounded by hills, which give it a pleasant weather all the year round.
I compare my visit to China to that of some alien world, where the habitants have progressed as much as us (or even more), but where they don't understand our language, they don't accept our credit cards and where we can't use our mobile applications.
These are few of the things I noted for …
I like to use DigitalOcean for trying out new web-applications and scripts. The cheapest plan comes at $5/month but provides only 512MB of memory. Adding a 1Gb swap memory is usually sufficient for temporary memory extensive needs. These is a short documentation on how to add the swap partition.
Adding a swap partition:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=1024 sudo mkswap /swap sudo swapon /swap
Making the partition persistent on system reboots:
sudo vi /etc/fstab # Add a line to tell the system to use the file /swap none swap sw 0 0
Optimize swappiness …
These are few of the bash commands I often find useful:
z: Z allows jumping (cd) into frecently (i.e. frequently and recently) used directories. Instead of doing
cd /home/pratyush/websites/project_name
each time, I can now simply do z project_name. Z supports tab completion too. Link to Z library.
ps -u <username> -o pid,rss,command | awk '{print $0}{sum+=$2} END {print "Total", sum/1024, "MB"}': When accessing remote servers using shell, I often need to check the list of scripts running and the memory they are consuming. This command does exactly that. It is …
These are the websites I use the most based on my browser's frecency:
This post is inspired from S Anand's blogpost.
I celebrated the new year on a vacation with a group of friends. One of the best time-pass was the group game of Werewolf.
Be it a bus journey, waiting at a stop or a late night hangout on a beach, we played Werewolf everywhere. It required only some chits of paper (though we used a playing deck as a better substitute).
It requires minimum 7 players and is best experienced with 10-12 players.
I would highly recommend it to anyone who has a large group, scope to shout, and time to go through the rulebook.
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