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17 | 22 | The code uses goroutines for basic data transfer from client to Hub. There is a Hub and Client struct for the Data part. The User inputs the data and forwards it to the Hub and the gup broadcasts it to all other clients connected to the server. 23 | The `runner.go` file helps the clients connect to the server. It dials up to the websocket url and gives and input buffer for text entry. 24 | It was by accident when I actually found that this whole code actually works. 25 | 26 | **Here is a sample working 👇** 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | The command part and connection is a simple `goroutine` dialing the websocket and connecting to it, but the difference here is that it connects from a Terminal🤪. 31 | 32 | ## Phase 3 - Making it Better 33 |
36 | This is not the perfect implementation but it works, so sharing this 😅. I felt so proud that I hacked this up in the quarantine and learned a bit more of Go and websockets with this. Who knows, makng this better may help someone in some way. 37 | Some ways it could be used is,
38 | 39 | - Secret message passing in Local network(Like in Programming labs in college😂) 40 | - Organization Messaging 41 | - Hackathons for messaging mentors and organizers 42 | 43 | **This phase is still going on and might improve Termchat's functionality or design in the near future(I Hope).** 44 | 45 | ### What I learned from hacking this 46 | Learning is a part of everyday now, so hacking this up helped me a learn a lot about 47 | - Goroutines 48 | - Structs in Go 49 | - Interfaces in Go 50 | - Websockets 51 | 52 | > The chat in video is me talking to myself in 3 other aliases 🤪 53 | 54 | Here is another nerdy websoket Meme 👇 55 | 56 |  57 | 58 | > If you find any typos or have any suggestions or questions, feel free to use the comments section -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /content/blog/useful/index.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | --- 2 | title: Using your Old System Better 3 | date: "2019-12-14" 4 | description: Using your Old System as your Private Server,GitHub, Cloud and Whatnot 5 | --- 6 | 7 | # Using your Old System Better 8 | We all went through that stage(most of us), when we buy a New Laptop and we forget about out Old Computer. This is a much common trait of us. 9 | Most us has spend a lot of money fixing that old system and improving it. We've upgraded the RAM and HDD and still when we get this fancy new laptop and all of a sudden we Forget our PC. 10 | This **Negelected** peice of ICs and Love could be your next big side project. For me I was totally sad of not using my PC for weeks after buying my Laptop. I even felt empathatic for my PC. 11 |  12 | ### What did I do? 13 | So after all this introspection and empathizing, I thought why not set my system to be my Server? 14 | Why not use it as my Storage Space? Why not use it as my Git Server???? Why not my Personal Cloud?????? 15 | So I started to work on this stuff. 16 | 17 | ------ 18 | ### Act 1, SSH 19 | 1. The First was of course I searched on What should I do? I found a lot of stuff for a server but most of them included booting to a new OS. I didn't want that. So I searched for other solutions 20 | 2. I currently run Manjaro and Ubuntu on my System and my Laptop is a Macbook. I couldn't drop neither of my OS. So I continued my Search. 21 | 3. Then I thought "Hey, I could just SSH into my PC and see what its like." I spend Half a Day just for the initial Connection. I have a Wifi card and a modem with WIFI, so I justed SSHed into my PC 22 | For SSHing use these commands 23 | ```shell 24 | $ ssh-keygen 25 | $ ssh-copy-id host@hostname/ip 26 | $ ssh host@hostname/ip 27 | ``` 28 | And congratulations you justed SSHed into your PC from a Laptop. :rocket: 29 | Now you get the Terminal of your PC(linux) and you're like the God of the Terminal now 30 | 4. You can run any commands like `curl`,`wget`, `npm install` etc... 31 |  32 | 33 | ------ 34 | ### Act 2, Personal Git Storage 35 | GitHub is one of the famous(and my fav) Git Repository storing & hosting platform. Why not a Personal GitHub lookalike for you? You could save all your private projects here without any risk or Costs. 36 | Some Self Hosted Git Platforms are 37 | - GitLab Community Edition 🆓 38 | - Gogs 🆓 39 | - Gitea 🆓 40 | - GitHub Enterprize Server 💸 41 | 42 | I used **Gitea** since it was easy to install and setup. You only have to download a binary from gitea.io and voíla you get an instant GitHub lookalike webapp. 43 | My advice is that if you want to use it cross-device install it in the central server and ssh to it from any device and for that(ssh-ing) I'd higly suggest (not a promotion)[Termius](https://termius.com). It has got a 14 day free trial of premium and you can get the pro pack from the [GitHub Student Developer Pack](https://termius.com/education). 44 | Or you can just enter the IP of the server followed by the port number in your browser like `192.168.322.12:3000` and you will get the webapp. 45 | Now create some repositories and use Gitea 🎉🎉 46 | 47 | ------ 48 | ### Act 3, The File Storage shenanigan 49 | Yep, use it as your personal data center. Store all your stuff. Your films,songs and *study materials*. Do it coz only you're the only one who can access all that since you're the one who knows how the folder structure is. Add a media server and you can use it with your Smart TV and forget about paying any bills for streaming. 50 |  51 | 52 | ---- 53 | ### Act 4, The Future 54 | "Wait what? This is what you've been Bragging about?" you might ask? I'd say yes since the next big selfhosted stuff maybe your best Ideas. You can self-host anything from Websites, Games to Even Media Servers 55 | 56 | 57 | Here are some good Places to find out more on what to selfhost 58 | - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted The GitHub Repo tells it all 59 | - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ The Epic Place to get all the info . 60 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /content/blog/pink-floyd.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | --- 2 | title: "Coming Back to Pink Floyd" 3 | date: "2021-09-10" 4 | description: Rant on Pink Floyd's Music 5 | tags: ["music", "personal"] 6 | --- 7 | 8 | _"For long you live and high you fly_ 9 | 10 | _And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry_ 11 | 12 | _And all you touch and all you see_ 13 | 14 | _Is all your life will ever be"_ 15 | 16 | \- Breathe, **Pink** Floyd 17 | 18 | --- 19 | 20 | ## Coming Back to Life 21 | 22 | Pink Floyd, the band of the 70's and 80's which brought mainstream attention to Psychedelic Rock and Progressive rock as a whole is an important part of my daily listening activity. Like most people who love Pink Floyd, there has been days when I listened to just them, various albums, various timelines, various states of mind. Even while writing this sentence I'm listening to "Shine on you Crazy Diamond(Pt 1-5)" from "Wish you were Here" and it's 1:36AM. 23 | 24 | I started to listen to Pink Floyd for the first time in 2019, my cousin had told me to listen to them since I loved Queen,AC/DC and Led Zeppelin(Immigrant Song mainly) then. I gave it a try by listening to "Wish you Were Here" then. I was hoping for something so pumped up and dance level since Immigrant Song was something like that and my Pop remix listening brain thought so. Underwhelming as the first thought came in 2019 when I listened to it. Maybe it was the forced liking effort from my side which made me less like it then. 25 | 26 | Then I watched 'Person of Interest'. There is a shot where the Machine asks for forgiveness to Harold. The background music actually struck me quite well. I went on to Google and searched for the music with the season and episode number. The music of that scene was "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd. I really liked that one and occasionally listened to that single song for so much time. I was more into Pop and Regional music then. 27 | 28 | FF to 2021 July. I met a senior from College who used to be the Guitar player back then(I'm still in College :see_no_evil:). He actually told me more about Pink Floyd and told me to listen to "Coming Back to Life". I came home and thought why not try it out, so I listened to it on my headphones at Midnight(usual music listening time) and that just blew me away. The more I listened to Pink Floyd, the more I loved it. I still listen to at-least one song from "The Dark Side of the Moon" album(mostly Breathe or Time). It just eases me and gives me enough hope and darkness for to move the day. 29 | 30 | ## This Irresitable Pasttime 31 | 32 | Wish you were here is the most listened songs by Pink Floyd on Spotify. The Guitars in _wywh_ is :sparkles:. Most of my thoughts when listening to Pink Floyd are from a feeling of heartbreak from past experiences. The song was originally made for their the then exited member Syd Barret but me as like most people, enjoyed this song from a romantic perspective. The frequency of listening to Floyd increased after a total breakdown of the emotional side of my brain. 33 | Wish you were here still reminds me of past romantic feelings, how common both the parties were and the ideologies each had. 34 | 35 | --- 36 | 37 | Mostly the Pink Floyd listening experience can be boosted with a tinge of "Melancholy". Melancholy helps us to understand art in a deeper perspective(I heard this in a Ted-Ed video). This is also true in many examples including music in varying genres, poetry and so on... 38 | 39 | Pink Floyd for me was the farcry to soothe the non-existing-non-relationship-friendship-break part of myself with a new music genre but turned out to be the best music choices yet. Pink Floyd is the main reason I'm learning to play the :guitar: (David Gilmour :zap:) and enjoy things without the lost friend. 40 | 41 | One of the things that I find funny is that I enjoy the songs made in my Dad's generation while he doesn't. 42 | 43 | ### My Favorite Albums and songs of Pink Floyd 44 | 45 | - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) 46 | - Breathe 47 | - Time 48 | - Brain Damage 49 | - Wish you were Here (1975) 50 | - The Division Bell (1994) 51 | - Coming back to Life 52 | - Poles Apart 53 | - Lost for Words 54 | - Animals (1977) 55 | - Green is the Color - More(1969) 56 | - Comfortably Numb - The Wall(1979) 57 | - Echoes - Meddle(1971) 58 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /content/blog/pwcli/index.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | --- 2 | title: From 0 to Go, Building a CLI for Postwoman 3 | date: "2020-02-01" 4 | description: Building a CLI for Postwoman without any Prior knowledge in Golang and learning golang better by building the cli. 5 | --- 6 |  7 | 8 | > "All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that" - Swami Vivekananda 9 | 10 | You might be thinking why I started with a quote by Swami Vivekananda. This quote has been a driving factor in my pursuits to learn new things and building stuff and moving forward. 11 | 12 | I have been into Go for about 2 months now. I just wrote up two hacks in Go too. One was [Shelby](https://github.com/athul/shelby) and now lemme introduce you to [Postwoman CLI](https://github.com/athul/pwcli). As the name says It's a CLI client for [Postwoman 👽](https://postwoman.io) in Go. 13 | 14 | ## The '0' 👦 15 | Learning either Go or Rust was in my TODO list of 2019. It was only in late 2019, I had reached the mindset to learn Go. I started out on tutorials in building servers in Go. I used to code servers in Python and falled for Backend Programming. I made a bunch of servers in Go with Gin. Go was intimidating at first since it felt more like C to me, but in a few days I got the clutch of it. I still don't actually know most of Go like using slices and goroutines that much. I learn mostly by building so, I learn when I build. 16 | ## The '-1' 👶 17 | I met Liyas Thomas, the author of Postwoman in the official Telegram Group of Postwoman. Since he too was from the state of Kerala, we had a few convos. I had opened a PR to Postwoman when it launched in August-September but it didn't get merged due to my lack of Vue/Js. But later on I had a chat with him if I did a refactor PR. He really gave me the confidence to do that and I did. The PR was reviewed and made changes by the Maintainers of PW and where it started in 1 commit it changed to 8 and the diff was **+8k and -8k**. The PR got merged and I was the **#11 Contributor of PW 🎉.** The PR didn't give me any satisfaction but later after 2 days, Liyas send me a bug and told me to try to fix that. I traversed over 2k lines of Vue code and found the bug. He made a commit and fixed it. This bug squashing gave me much satisfaction than all the contributions I've done. Later that week, a maintainer and My Friend James made a repo for a CLI in Js. So the idea for making another CLI was basically for learning for me. 18 | ## The '1' 👨 19 | So, Liyas gave a Green Flag to work on the CLI. I considered Go as first option since I didnt know how to make one in any lang and Go was fresh in my mind. I built it in almost 2 weeks. `pwcli` is like *httpie* with displaying the Request Headers and Status Code and Output Highlighting. The Output is now limited to Json but will add support to HTML and XML in the coming days. **It also has a `send` feature in which you can give it the Postwoman-Collection.json file and it will test all the endpoints in their respective methods and output the status code**. This was actually a feature request in the Js counterpart of the CLI. 20 | ```bash 21 | NAME: 22 | Postwoman CLI - Test API endpoints without the hassle 23 | 24 | USAGE: 25 | cli [global options] command [command options] [arguments...] 26 | 27 | VERSION: 28 | 0.0.2 29 | 30 | DESCRIPTION: 31 | Made with <3 by Postwoman Team 32 | 33 | COMMANDS: 34 | get Send a GET request 35 | post Send a POST Request 36 | put Send a PUT Request 37 | patch Send a PATCH Request 38 | delete Send a DELETE Request 39 | send Test all the Endpoints in the Postwoman Collection.json 40 | help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command 41 | 42 | GLOBAL OPTIONS: 43 | --help, -h show help 44 | --version, -v print the version 45 | ``` 46 | You can find **PwCLI** in GitHub at https://github.com/athul/pwcli. Consider trying it out and Giving a star. 47 | **PwCLI is open sourced under MIT and is waiting for Feature requests and Contributions** 48 | ## The '+1' 👨💻 49 | In these two weeks, I've learned a lot of Go, HTTP Requests and REST APIs. The main highlights were 50 | - Learned Go Structs 51 | - How to parse Json in Go 52 | - Learned Go Slices 53 | - Learned how to use `net/http` package of 54 | Go 55 | - HTTP Requests 56 | - Meeting the Postwoman team, especially from Kerala 57 | - Homebrew Packaging and bits of Ruby 58 | - Building CLIs 59 | - My insecurity with starting a convo with new people 60 | - Taking a workshop *(by actually taking one)* 61 | 62 | > "Learn like your life depended on it, coz it will" - Unknown 63 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /content/blog/gorelaser/index.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | --- 2 | title: Go ❤️ Travis+Gorelaser 3 | date: "2020-01-05" 4 | description: Using Travis CI with Goreleaser to Build and Deploy Your Go Applications to GitHub Releases and Godownloader to help users download your packages the easy way....🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 5 | --- 6 | Past Month, I've been wworking on Shelby a lot. I had set up my CI pipeline using [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/) by a `.travis.yml` file from [Powerline Go](https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go).I used a shell script from [Mimir](https://github.com/talal/mimir)'s documentaion to help users install the binary or tar. 7 | I had tweaked both of em a bit to make it work for Shelby's requirements. 8 | 9 | #### The Email 10 | One day morning, I e-mailed [@talal](ttps://github.com/talal/) since I used some of the source code from Mimir for bootstrapping the project. He was so happy to receive the Email and gave mesome much needed feedback for Shelby. Out of this was one to try out Goreleaser for deployment. So I went on try it. Some other feedback also came from one of my telegram group [TinkerHub](https://t.me/TinkerHub/6839) to change the default installation path. 11 | > We'll be using goreleaser to Deploy a Go application to GitHub Releases.I am writing this because the Docs were a bit confusing to me. 12 | 13 | --- 14 | 15 | ## Setting Up Goreleaser and Travis CI 16 | 17 | All the installation Instructions of Gorelaser can be found in their [Official Docs](https://goreleaser.com/install/). 18 | After Installing Goreleaser, you just have to `cd` to that go repository you want to deploy and run `goreleaser init`. This command will create a `goreleaser.yml` already filled with some commands and stuff. 19 | 20 | **Here is the Gorelaser part to Deploy the Application to GitHUb Relases** 21 | ```yml 22 | release: 23 | github: 24 | owner:
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37 | }
38 |
39 | export default Callout
40 | ```
41 | Here we're making a new Callout function with 2 arguments. The Emoji argument is for the for the emoji for the callout and the children argument is the data that will be enclosed inside the component's tags while in use. We're appending the emoji tag to the div as an attribute for getting the data with CSS.
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43 | Now we need to be able to use it in the blog/website. I'll show an example of a blog.
44 |
45 | In your `src/templates/blog-post.js` file add these in the top
46 |
47 | ```jsx
48 | import { MDXProvider } from "@mdx-js/react"
49 | import Callout from "../components/callout"
50 | const shortcodes = {
51 | Callout
52 | }
53 | ```
54 | and for using the callout inside the markdown content, paste this
55 | ```jsx
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27 | What Probot does is that it abstracts the authentication system that all GitHub Apps have to follow - letting you focus on writing API requests without worrying about API tokens or permissions.
28 | Probot ships with an example of setting up an issue commentor bot in `index.js`.
29 | We'll edit the `index.js` to the following
30 |
31 | ```js
32 | //index.js
33 | module.exports = app => {
34 | // Your code here
35 | app.log('Yay, the app was loaded!')
36 | app.on('issues.opened', async context =>({
37 | const issue=context.payload.issue //getting issue details
38 | const user=issue.login.user //Getting the username
39 | const message=`Thanks @${user} for opening this issue!:tada:
40 | You are awesome..`
41 | const params = context.issue({ message })
42 | return context.github.issues.createComment(params)
43 | )
44 | })
45 | }
46 | ```
47 | The above code is for a bot which comments on new issues. It mentions the user too. The *"Robotic"* characteristics start from the 4th line starting with `app.on` function the first argument passed is the action which the bot listens to. These are **webhook** events of GitHub - you can learn more about them from the [Webhook Documentation](https://developer.github.com/webhooks/).
48 | Probot uses Node's `async/await` API for returning the data. We used the *`* character to enclose the string/comment body because we won't need to use escape characters and we can also interpolate [Template Literals](https://flaviocopes.com/javascript-template-literals/).
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50 | Now we need to check if our app is working or not, we can do this **clicking** on a "sunglasses" button on Glitch which should look like this  51 | 52 | Then You'll see a Page like this  53 | Click the **Register GitHub App** button and provide a name and install it in a repository. 54 | > Tip: Create a new private repository because we'll be making a lot of noise for the testing 55 | 56 | Now, if you check the `.env` file you'll see the variable values auto-filled with the necessary data. Glitch automatically deploys our app and our app will be listening to the webhooks to be received. 57 | 58 | > Test the app by making a new issue in a test repo on GitHub. 59 | 60 | It works right? 61 | Congratulations 🎉🎉 You just made yourself a GitHub App👌👌 62 | ##### Redelivering Webhook⤴️ 63 | We can view all the webhooks of any event triggered by the Repository and we can redeliver them by going to **Settings->Developer Settings->GitHub Apps->"Your app name"->Advanced Tab** in your profile. 64 | #### Commenting on PRs 65 | We need to add an extra permission for our App to comment on PRs, we can provide that by going to `Settings->Develope Settings->