I stopped using Putty as my SSH client when I moved to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I have started using OpenSSH client that comes with Windows 10 & I am pretty happy with it. Sometimes we need to add our private key to SSH-agent for repeated use. And sometimes we need to use connection … Read more
This question has been answered online in multiple places. I want to highlight few challenges faced while running pip command with multiple versions of Python installed in the operating system & my preferred way of doing it.I have an old machine with Ubuntu 16.04. By default Ubuntu 16 has Python 2.7 and Python 3.5. So … Read more
JWK is a JSON that represents a cryptographic key. PyJWT is a pretty popular Python library to generate, verify JWT token. But one drawback is that it doesn’t support JWK format, at least it is not properly documented. Suppose we have an RSA private key, but it is given in JWK format. Our objective is … Read more
Generating all possible combinations of balanced parentheses is a common interview problem & is found in websites like LeetCode & GeeksForGeeks.Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses. We are using backtracking to solve this problem. There are two cases where we can proceed to the next recursive … Read more
I am using GeneratePress as my WordPress theme. I wanted to remove the previous & next links section that is shown at the end of each blog post. It just looked a bit cluttered to me & I wanted to keep my post page as clean as possible. But there is no ready-made way to … Read more
This is a common type of error. Even I faced this issue while setting up HTTPS on this blog using Cloudflare. On checking the Developer Tools console in Google Chrome, I found out that few Javascript files were getting sent over HTTP. That was causing the HTTP/HTTPS mixed content error & messing with the blog … Read more
Overall I like WordPress Twenty Twenty-One theme. But I have couple of issues with the theme. I wanted to have the option of a sidebar. It gives more flexibility. And I thought the container width is too narrow & content can be displayed on a bigger width. But these options are not customizable by default. … Read more
Who doesn’t like to download software or computer games for free! If we get something free for which we need to generally pay, that is a plus, especially for those who love to play around with new softwares. But how do you download fully licensed software for free? You can download the trial version with … Read more
I loved Death Rally. Those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, it is a top-down racing game from the 90s developed by Remedy Entertainment. Anyways, if you are here & reading through the post, then I assume you already know what I am talking about & how good the game was. … Read more
If you are looking for some software to download subtitles of YouTube videos for free, you can check out DownSub. It doesn’t require any additional software to be installed in your machine which is a good thing. Installing third party software from unverified source can compromise your security after all. DownSub supports most of the … Read more