Converting my blog to Hugo

Why I Migrated from Gatsby to Hugo for my blog Introduction I moved my blog from GatsbyJS to Hugo, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. In this article, I’ll share my experience and reasons behind the migration, focusing on the advantages Hugo brings over Gatsby. I already migrated my blog from Wordpress to Gatsby. That was long back when I was using PHP for website creations so I used Wordpress, then I moved to ReactJs and wanted to keep in that field so moved my blog to Gatsby, Now I am moving again to Gatsby because I am also moving to Go....

August 27, 2023 · 4 min · 734 words · M.Kumaran

My 2020 year in review

Official (work) Travelled to Poland for taking over a product(App) from vendor (Jan 2020). Travelled to SouthAfrica for a product(Software) commissioning (Feb 2020). Worked in VueJs/NodeJs/Java project. Worked in Android/Kotlin mobile app alone and published 3 new features. Participated in a knowledge transfer of a product(Angular/NodeJs) from vendor. Worked in my main project (C#/WPF). Worked in a new project (IoT – Linux Shell, Python). Took Git and Flutter sessions to team....

January 5, 2021 · 1 min · 132 words · M.Kumaran

How I avoided Ads in Network-wide using Pi-hole and a Raspberry Pi

TL;DR I used Ad blocker in browser to stop Ads. Thats only for browser, what about Mobile and TVs?! I used Pi-hole and Raspberry-Pi to block network-wide Ads. This blog is all about my own experience on using Pi-hole. Pi-hole Mostly we use Ghostery and uBlock Origin for ad blocking in browser. We can use Pi-hole, it is a network-wide ad blocker. Instead of installing adblockers on browser, we can install Pi-hole once on our network, and it will protect all of our devices....

June 16, 2019 · 4 min · 643 words · M.Kumaran

I stopped using WhatsApp and Why I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram

This is fully copied from around the net and summerized. WhatsApp and others are collecting Metadata Are your readers having trouble understanding the term “metadata”? Replace it with “activity records.” That’s what they are. Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 2, 2015 WhatsApp saying that We can’t listen/read the content of your communication because we use end-to-end encryption, we can only collect metadata. Don’t be fooled: Metadata is the real data Some example of meta data collection: They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge....

January 28, 2019 · 2 min · 242 words · M.Kumaran

Converting my blog to Gatsby

I had my blog on wordpress. Early days PHP was ruling the web and I learned PHP and created my website in WordPress and hosted. It was quite good and nice. I learned JavaScript I knew js already (we can’t imaging without js for a webpage) with jQuery and Ajax then NodeJs came into lime light. It was more promising. I liked the event driven and web-sockets in Nodejs very much....

January 18, 2019 · 2 min · 293 words · M.Kumaran