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Just Another DIY “Smart” Watch

December 17, 2025November 29, 2016 by Madhurendra

Note : This article was written after project was partially completed, so i don’t have better images. There are hundred’s of projects for building “Smart watch using arduino”, I have curated a list of better projects at end of this article. I didn’t plan to copy any of given projects but at end it turned … Read more

Kindle Universal Dashboard

September 17, 2019October 30, 2016 by Madhurendra

Kindle is Super awesome ! Because of its e-ink display. I wanted a display to present data which has – Least power consumption, Not painful to eyes & obviously one which doesn’t emit blue light. E-Ink displays fit perfectly to my requirement – acquiring a display which can be driven using Raspberry Pi or Arduino is hard, … Read more

Custom Nginx with PageSpeed

March 30, 2021October 1, 2016 by Madhurendra

Pulling nginx from source, customizing & auto updating across servers is a pain, We use pagespeed & custom header modules across all our servers, it autominifies resources & increases page performance without giving pain.

Below is script we use :

Offline Wikipedia with Elasticsearch and MediaWiki

August 18, 2016 by Madhurendra

Wikipedia is Awesome ! It’s open, its free – Yea. & its huge in size, millions of articles but as developer how to exploit the free knowledge. I started digging internet just to find ways to exploit my fresh 9+ GB of XML Gzipped archive which seemed to me of no use as even a simple … Read more

NodeJs – Improving performance using native binding

March 18, 2016 by Madhurendra

This is known fact that javascript is really slow in terms of sync operations like multiplications, divisions etc. – Since nodejs is based on js – Node inherits the curse. Check http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang=v8&lang2=gpp this article to cross check the fact. Nodejs is fast in some aspects. I love it 😛 Doesn’t matter how much you improve … Read more

Email Spoofing – Why its dead !

August 8, 2020March 13, 2016 by Madhurendra

There was a time, when mail spoofing was an art, was a thing to impress people, was a way to phish attack someone. With increasing intelligence in spam filters – it became harder, you need good IP reputation to deliver mail to box. But now it has become almost impossible to spoof address like [email protected] … Read more

Website Optimization – Cache Cache Cache !

March 8, 2016 by Madhurendra

You must have heard about cache in web (caches are everywhere in computer science), most times you find it really buggy when changes aren’t reflected as soon as you make them. For sites with small traffic these things are buggy – but they contribute a major in server traffic when you have a million hits … Read more

Website Optimization – Minfiying Output using PHP

March 8, 2016 by Madhurendra

Minification is technique used in which we remove all unnecessary Whitespaces Which include tab, space, newline, carriage return etc. This is done just to reduce data transfer. Since not everyone is serving a million hits a seconds – minifying html doesn’t help much, Instead enabling GZIP compression is a better technique. Apart from this – … Read more

Associated friends, companies, and partnerships.

August 25, 2024February 26, 2016 by Madhurendra

This is small list of people, products & companies, I am currently associated with:

Maintaining JS Libs – Changing bower path

January 29, 2016 by Madhurendra

If you are web developer it becomes hard to manage all js libraries if you aren’t using any package manager. Few folks created bower to make the job easier. (As far as functionality is concerned, it works same as npm, if you have used.) Steps for installations are just for linux guys – windows people … Read more