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I reimagined Firefox Preview for Android (with wireframes)

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:40:22 +0000

Introduction

If you’re using a mobile browser to read this article, chances are high that it’s either a Chromium based Blink engine powered browser on Android or a WebKit engine powered browser on iOS. In fact, all browsers on iOS are actually WebKit based because Apple forces all third party browsers on iOS to use WebKit, essentially making them just re-skinned versions of Safari.

Unless you’re among the 0.35% of the world’s mobile users who prefer Firefox on Android.

Getting started with freelancing? Here's the ultimate cheat sheet

Sun, 01 Sep 2013 06:30:00 +0000

INTRODUCTION

At the outset, let me clarify that I’m not a freelancer. Then why did I write this post? Who is this post intended for? Well, this post is a result of an experiment I successfully pulled off recently. (More on that shortly) And this post is intended for anyone who’s struggling to get started with freelancing. (Read: haven’t grabbed their first project yet).

I wanted to pick up AngularJS and learn LESS. So I decided to put myself in a situation where there would be an incentive to learn and a constraint to perform. In short, I was thinking how can I get paid to learn, how can I work on real life use cases to experiment. I decided to give freelancing a shot. My stint lasted for 10 days after which I returned to my startup life.

How to enable Gzip on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with Tomcat and Apache

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:36:00 +0000

Follow these steps to enable gzip on Amazon EBS

Step 1:

Create a top-level directory named .ebextensions in your source bundle.
And create two files in it as shown below.

The contents of enable_mod_deflate.conf

# mod_deflate configuration
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Restrict compression to these MIME types
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml+rss
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/png
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/gif
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/jpeg

# Level of compression (Highest 9 - Lowest 1)
DeflateCompressionLevel 9

# Netscape 4.x has some problems.
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip

# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>

</IfModule>

The contents of myapp.config

Why did a cancer patient travel 260km all alone to meet my dad?

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:53:00 +0000

The 7 hour long bus journey of a cancer patient

On Wednesday, 2nd Feb, 2011, a cancer stricken patient got on a State Transport bus from Guwahati to start a 7 hour long journey to reach Numaligarh, a small town near Golaghat, Assam. After reaching Numaligarh, he walked for 20 min, under the sun, to finally meet my father. The first thing he asked for was a glass of water. He was all alone. But, for what purpose?