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Khan MNM Sadh

Apr 2, 2020

Working from Home, long term

For those of us working from home, long term, I’ve compiled some points…

Khan MNM Sadh

Nov 26, 2019

Skills of an software engineer

People often identify knowledge of certain tools as skills. Those are skills too. However, I would not…

Khan MNM Sadh

Sep 18, 2018

On measuring the accuracy of a Wikipedia article

There is no universal metric of accuracy for articles, be that on Wikipedia or anywhere else. So, when we read articles, we trust it on face value. Yes, everything we read or hear, we believe them on face value.

Khan MNM Sadh

Sep 16, 2018

Styling with CSS in 2018

In an effort to revamp my websites, I have ventured into looking at current state of the CSS art. I have been…

Khan MNM Sadh

Sep 4, 2018

Generating random numbers in computers

Generating random numbers is an interesting field in computer science and in computer…

Khan MNM Sadh

Jul 24, 2018

Disqus + GitHub pages

Today I was trying to add a comment section in one of my GitHub pages site. Turns out it is very easy. All you have to do is sign up a disqus account and head here.

Then add the following text in _layouts/default.html:

Khan MNM Sadh

Jul 24, 2018

Avoid VS Code asking GitHub credentials all the time

git config --global credential.helper cache

Khan MNM Sadh

Oct 29, 2017

Sorting algorithm visualizations

This is essentially a bookmark post. Many awesome people out there create wonderful visualizations, often about sorting; and they are very pleasing to stare at.

This is from a redditor, morolin:

Khan MNM Sadh

Apr 20, 2017

The day I removed Cygwin from my %PATH%

I was trying to fix some issues with iamisti/mdDataTable. It was last updated in Dec 2016, and I was facing problem with even basic use of it. It worked when I made some very little tweaks in the dist JavaScript. So, I forked the repo hoping I can add these…

Khan MNM Sadh

Sep 2, 2016

hg commit count in a directory

Today I needed to find the number of commits per file in a directory. Doing that by going into each files’ mercurial log and counting manually is a incredibly boring chore. But, the following PowerShell script came to save my life: