The way a child learns
Shows how we should learn a new thing
July 16, 2023
| 2 minutes | 253 words | Dheepak
Of late I’m spending good amount of time with my toddler. The things she learns and the way she communicates is intriguing me. To be frank, I believe almost every kid does the same, more or less. But as I am seeing her development from very close I do observe on how she learns.
Imitation: She imitates us. Whatever we do she tries to replicate us. For example, she tries to saute the imaginary food on her toy kitchen set.
Fumbling 145 days long kindle reading streak
June 24, 2023
| 3 minutes | 628 words | Dheepak
If my memory serves right, Snapchat popularised the streak phenomena. Later on, the amount popularity and stickiness it creates among the user, many companies jumped on the band wagon - fitness trackers, calories trackers and many more. What the streak does is it creates a habit among the users and make them to use the particular service on daily basis. Also, it creates a sense of pride with the longer streak on has.
Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3 - v3
June 3, 2023
| 2 minutes | 224 words | Dheepak
This is a follow up to last month’s post on same name.
What’s new? Tooltip - Earlier, we were employing the browser’s native tooltip. With this update we have customised tooltip with publish date and categories along with the title of post. Transitions - On hovering the circles turns green and tooltip pops up. .tooltip { position: absolute; font-family: monospace; pointer-events: none; background: silver; color: black; /* width: 400px; */ text-align: left; border-radius: 6px; padding: 5px 5px; left: 50%; margin-left: -60px; z-index: 1; } .
Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3 - v2
May 18, 2023
| 1 minutes | 188 words | Dheepak
This is a follow up to last month’s post on same name.
There are few changes made to the chart.
Today marker: Instead of drawing a full line for the current year, we are allowing the line to grow with passing day. This is a major change. Transition: The trasnition effects are the major change here. Ironically, the amount of code change is minimum - tbh addition of 2 lines is all that’s needed.
Visualization: Post grouped by years - D3
April 24, 2023
| 1 minutes | 80 words | Dheepak
This is an attempt to recreate the earlier created blog post through D3js.
I’m more of backend developer, working predominantly in Python + SQL. But, trying out JS is long time wish, which got fufilled through a Udemy course and some good imspiration.
The visuals can be improved vastly and can add few more options. But this post is to show the progress. Also, this is an attempt to conform that D3JS output can be hosted on our static site.
Visualization: Post grouped by years
April 8, 2023
| 5 minutes | 1018 words | Dheepak
Once in a while we stumble into something interesting while we are not looking for it. This is a post on how I came across a chart while going through an online course, the experience in replicating the chart, the lessons I learnt.
The instructor of the course - Course: Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices by ObservableHQ. While going through his website I found this interesting chart - Blog Calendar.
Multiple roles of a man
Which one survives, dies or thrives
March 5, 2023
| 4 minutes | 709 words | Dheepak
The 30s are tricky period. Till 20s you can survive with a student or young earner tag. In the late 20s, you experience what the freedom is. And, when you start feeling you can do whatever you can and reach wherever you want to in life. Now you’re in your 30s and most likely you got punched at your face.
Why 30s are so tough A simple answer is roles that each person plays.
API, Configurations & Database operation
Some helpful accessories
February 12, 2023
| 2 minutes | 233 words | Dheepak
Right now the project focuses on creating dashboard for Mutual funds, and gradually adding other investement vehicles viz stocks, PPF, and EPF.
Fetching NAVs To track the mutual funds, we come across an API by Yuvaraj Loganathan - MFAPI. Thank you, Yuvaraj. The API gets updated on daily basis and free to access (as in free beer). For our project, which is not intended for any financial gain, this api is the right fit.
Osmosis IRL
February 5, 2023
| 4 minutes | 692 words | Dheepak
Osmosis Osmosis is term all of us come across during our schooling days.
In biology, osmosis is the movement of water molecules from a solution with a high concentration of water molecules to a solution with a lower concentration of water molecules, through a cell’s partially permeable membrane.
Water purification through reverse osmosis is one of the popular application in our day to day life.
Do we see anything similar to Osmosis in real life?
Project Update - 3
Some helpful accessories - tech specs
January 29, 2023
| 3 minutes | 619 words | Dheepak
This is continuation in the series about our side project. This post is a follow up to the pervious post on various tools used to build the process of building the application
The Environment Core language used in our project is Python. Python is used to fetch details from API calls, cleaning the API return value, and also writing it into DB. Even though the language is very popular and user ranges from amateurs to big corporations, it undergoes development.