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Go talk to the LLM

Heyo! These so called "AI" is everywhere these days. This blog is to show all the ways I personally make use of these things. I've been meaning to write this blog for quite some time as I've heard a

Putting Go's Context package into context

Hello Gophers and other beings of the world wide web. The context package is something all Gophers would have used at some point in their life, but do you know what it looks like inside(because

How does sync.WaitGroup work

One of my colleagues asked this question to a candidate during an interview. Although I've heard it asked many times, this time it felt different. I sat there thinking, "Do I really know how

Navigating around in your shell

I have been using terminals for a long time, initially because I thought they looked cool, and later because I genuinely found them to be easier/faster to get stuff done. And since I've been at it

How I manage my tasks in LogSeq

Here is an overview of how I manage my tasks/todos in LogSeq (https://logseq.com/). I do use LogSeq to take notes as well, but I'm not gonna go much into that here. I started getting more into

Releasing scopeline.el

Hey, this is a quick announcement about my new Emacs plugin, scopeline.el (https://github.com/meain/scopeline.el). You can find it here (https://github.com/meain/scopeline.el). What is does is

What is in a modern code editor?

What do I know? # (https://blog.meain.io/2022/modern-text-editor/#what-do-i-know%3F) Before we begin, let me give you an idea of where I am coming from and what my experiences are based on. Just to

Self hosted location history

I am a big fan of being able to view the history of places that I have been to. Google location history (https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-view-location-history-in-google-maps) is great in this

A useful shell prompt

I use my shell a lot and have a pretty good prompt which I have built up over the years. It has got to a point where I think I have a pretty good setup and don't find the need to tweak things a lot

Releasing gh-issues-to-rss

Project Url: https://github.com/meain/gh-issues-to-rss (https://github.com/meain/gh-issues-to-rss) Yet another package release coming your way. This is more of a scratch my own itch kinda entry.

Just flip a coin

A simple life hack that I use a lot. I just wanted to mention why I always use a coin toss to choose if I can't decide between two options. There is only two scenarios I am in when I can't decide

Zooming into Zoom meetings

Well, I have been attending a lot of meetings lately. More than I would like to admit. The number of meetings have gone down compared to the start of the pandemic, but it is still a lot. To be frank,

Edit everything in Emacs

Hello everyone, another installment of me going over my setup. This is one of those things which I don't use all that much but wheneve I do, I really am glad that this is a thing. Video of what I am

Templating things in Airflow DAG

Just another, TIL type entry. It is about Airflow. I have been working with Airflow for quite a while. I don't really like it to be frank, but I am stuck with it for now. With all that said, you can

Just a simple markdown previewer

I really like markdown. I write everything in markdown be it blogs, presentations, emails, todo lists, documentation, everything is in markdown. For the most part I can parse and render markdown in

My workflow hacks

Well, the year is about to end. It was a fun year, no shit. I wanted to write something like this for quite some time. I was like, "too lazy today, tomorrow" and the year is almost over. I did not

Highlight yanked region in Emacs

OK, so I recently switched over to Emacs just becuse I woke up one day and got the itch to write some lisp. It has been pretty fun so far. Now with that out of the way, let me tell you about what I