Forem: Abhay Srivastav

All in favor of Typescript ?

Abhay Srivastav — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:18:00 +0000

As a long term Javascript developer, I feel that using typescript takes away the easiness that comes with Javascript. And it creates a very restrictive development experience.
Also there's a learning curve to Typescript. Typescript shouldn't be imposed in my opinion.

Here's an interesting poll, for the case again Typescript.

Love or hate Typescript ? Vote here

UX from an engineer POV

Abhay Srivastav — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:23:11 +0000

Hi,
Can anyone point me to a youtube channel, which talks about UX principles but more relevant to a Front end engineer ?

Dare to take the Red Pill

Abhay Srivastav — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 10:38:30 +0000

Have you ever felt that, there are never ending problems in our life. Almost like the world is against you. Something is stopping us to realise the true happiness or the real truth. We are always planning for the next moment but never really reach there. Everyone around you is trying to tame you, trying to slow you down, rejecting your ideas, keeping you waiting, trying to waste your time. Then you are not alone. Many of us feel the same. There is some secret hidden in the world. The world is not as it seems. Someone don’t want us to realise the real truth. They want us to be get stuck in the web of Maya.

Let’s talk about Maya. In Hindi it is Maya or The Matrix. If you have seen the movie Matrix, you either think that, it is just another action movie, or you have connected with the character of Neo at some deeper level. How he was looking for the truth. Because he knew there was something wrong with the world. And then when he finally realised his true identity, and defeated all the Agents. And this is all an illusion, he finally wakes up.

Aren’t we all Neo, waiting to wake up ?

My latest belief or theory about Maya is inspired from this video. The video is in Hindi. The gist of the video is that the world is an illusion and we have forgotten our true purpose here. At the end of our life, we all have to go back to the source or God (if you may say).

Now why would God or someone create this illusion of the world to trap us here. I think that God has sent us here to make us learn something. We will keep repeating this cycle of birth and death, till we have realised the real truth. Or as they say in Hinduism, that it is our Karmas from our previous life that lead us to the next birth. And till the time all our Karma are not resolved, we will keep coming to this world to learn and repay all our Karmic debts.

The same thing is told, in some movies. You have to see some of the movies and shows in order to understand the context here. Here I’m listing some of them. I would highly recommend to watch them.

The Truman Show
The Matrix
Hang the DJ
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

P.S. I’m on this parallel spiritual path. I know i haven’t reached the final destination yet. But i know it exists and if are on a similar journey. Let’s connect.

Using multiple git accounts

Abhay Srivastav — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:03:59 +0000

If you are a developer, then you must be using git. And there are chances that you might have faced the problem of using different git accounts for each git repository. How do we switch user each time we clone a new repository.

One of the solution is to change the repository username config using below command

git config user.name "youremail@email.com"

But you have to do this for every new repository. Fortunately there's a better solution of setting multiple accounts in ssh config. Below are the steps to do that.

First of all you need to generate ssh keys for each of the email.

How to generate and link public ssh keys to your git accounts

Next edit your ssh config file

For Linux or Mac, run below command in terminal

sudo vim ~/.ssh/config

For windows, ssh config file is found generally at below location

C:\Users\username\.ssh\config

Open this folder and edit config file in any editor (Notepad/Sublime)

Lets say you have you have two account on github, one is your personal account and the other is work.

And from the first step, you have generated two ssh keys your-ssh-public-id using personal email and your-work-ssh-public-id using work email.

Paste below configuration in config file

Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/your-ssh-public-id

Host github.com-work
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/your-work-ssh-public-id

Now whenever you clone any repository, edit the clone url accordingly.
For example, if you are cloning a repository from github, then change

git clone git@github.com:Abhay07/repository-name.git

git clone git@github.com-work:Abhay07/repository-name.git

If you don't change the clone url, your your-ssh-public-id will be used which uses personal email id.

You can also update the remote url after cloning the repo, with below command

git remote origin set-url git@github.com-work:Abhay07/repository-name.git

That's it. Let me know if it helped or you have any suggestions.

P.S. — I have created some tools. Do check it out
Youtube video downloader or cutting tool : youtubecut.com
Check your IP address / Locate an IP : myips.in

Create your own proxy network using Tinyproxy

Abhay Srivastav — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 04:38:40 +0000

I live in India and love watching TV shows. One of my favorite show is The Good Place. Few months back, i had watched 2 seasons on Netflix India, and i got to know that all the 3 seasons were on Netflix US. So i needed a proxy to watch my favorite show on Netflix US.

In order to do that, there are couple of free options, one is to install Opera Browser, which has an inbuilt VPN feature, the other is to create your own Proxy network using AWS EC2 and Tinyproxy.

Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems, which is open source on Github.

In order to setup a proxy network, these are the steps you have to follow

Launch an EC2 instance on AWS in the region where you want your network to pass through, in my case i chose N. California region.

Tutorial - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/launch-instance-custom-ami/

Make changes to security group of the EC2, so that it allows connections on 8888 port. Since 8888 port is the default port used by tinyproxy.
Install tinyproxy on the instance and start it. To install tiny proxy, run below commands after sshing to your EC2 instance.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install tinyproxy

Make changes to tinyproxy.conf, to allow your ip address to access the proxy.

sudo vim /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf

Look for Allow 127.0.0.1 line and add your public IP

To know your public ip, search "my ip" on Google or run below command in terminal.

curl ifconfig.co

Configure your newly created proxy in Firefox Browser

Test your public ip address, by searching "my ip" on google. Or try opening Netflix in Firefox browser. You will have shows from your proxy server country!

Footnote - I have a created a tool Youtube Cut to cut parts of youtube video and download, you can also choose to download the entire video. Let me know if you found this helpful.