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01 May 2024 Anshul Raj Verma

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Weekly Journal by ARV of May 2024

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Week 18 Journal

  1. Continue working on credit-modeling project with Sambhav.
    • Sambhav wrote documentation of this project.
    • Added the project documentation in repo too. The documentation PDF is saved after it converted into my website’s page.
  2. Start working on freeapi-py project. Also shared the project on Hitesh Chaudhary’s Discord Server.
  3. Rahul recommended an amazing YouTube channel @probabl_ai which goes deep inside the libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, polars, duckdb) code.
  4. After attending the DSMP 2.0 session on “Project Based Interview Session” (by Rohan Azad), I knew many important rules and conventions regarging Interviews.
    • Know yourself so that you can introduce yourself very well without jargons for approx. 1.5 minutes to 2 minutes.
    • Know your projects because you have to explain it very well any process/concept of your project can be asked by interviewers. You’ve to explain your project for 30 to 40 minutes.
    • Know the basics interviewers will try to trick you with them.
  5. I woke up at 4 AM and immediately called my friends, Priyanshu, Suraj, Binam, and Pushpam. After a quick chat, we left home at 4:30 AM to play cricket on the PP School ground.

Week 19 Journal

  1. Re-think md_badges.py CLI tool. Now it works very well.
  2. curl -sSL url_to_file.py | python - arg1 arg2 arg3
  3. LinkedIn post on ARC Browser also requested to download it with my referral link.
  4. Opened a new discussion #2 in arv-anshul.github.io github repository.
  5. Wrote a new article /ref/resume-tips.

Week 20 Journal

  1. Restart the yt-watch-history project as yt-watch-history-v2.

    • Thinking the whole process from scratch, draw some digrams on app.eraser.io.
    • Copied the code of api/ and ml/ but writing the code for frontend from scratch.

  2. Creating a website for Rahul using mkdocs-material. Check it out here.

  3. :sparkles: Added recommendation pages for Music, Movies, Shows and Anime on the website.

    • First, I’ve decided to maintain them here in diary but I got a solution which hide those page from website and at the same they are explicitly accessible from URL.
    PageURL
    Music/music
    Movies & Shows/movies-and-shows
    Anime/anime

  4. Disable, Dependendant Bot :robot: analysis on yt-watch-history repository.

  5. Assign keyboard shortcut to raycast’s emoji extension. Now pasting is very awesome :partying_face:.

  6. Found the way to import my CSS and JavaScript files to add them in mkdocs.yaml.

    • It helps to sync all the extra and custom CSS/JS files from main website where I maintin them.

  7. Changed battries of Mouse and Keyboard on 18 May, 2024.

    mouse:
  old:
    name: Eveready
    price: ₹30
    installed_on: 2023-12-02
  new:
    name: Nippo
    price: ₹10
    installed_on: 2024-05-18
keyboard:
  old:
    name: Duracell
    price: included in box
    installed_on: on purchase date
  new:
    name: Nippo
    price: ₹10
    installed_on: 2024-05-18

Week 21 Journal

  1. Updated the GitHub Profile README.
    • Shorten the About Me section.
  2. yt-watch-history-v2
    • Created more diagrams.
    • Now, download ML Model from URL (if not exists).
  3. Custom Stylus Themes: I customize website’s UI using stylus extension and for that I’ve to write CSS. So I’m going upload all those .user.css custom CSS in GitHub repo.
    • Customized: youtube.com, gemini.google.com, chatgpt.com, open.spotify.com, linkedin.com and more.
    • BTW, I also use ARC Boost for quick customization but I it doesn’t give me ability to export the customization in CSS format.
  4. This week update:
    • Painting in my room took 2 Days.
    • Installing Gypsum False Celling in my room disturb the daytime.
  5. Get the current week number with this python command.
# using bash
echo "Current week number is $(date +%V)."
 
# using python
python -c "from datetime import date; print(f'Current week number is {date.today().isocalendar()[1]}.')"
  1. Opened issues in zed, simpleicons, CampusX-Course repositories. Check my github activity.
  2. Used mkdocs-redirects plugin in website repo. I found it very helpful and easy to use 😇.
  3. A github repo which contains materials of CampusX Free Courses.

Week 22 Journal

  1. New release for campusx repo (previously know as campusx-dsmp repo)

  2. Learned Taskfile (alternative to Makefile). Taskfile is better, easy, intuitive to use than Makefile.

    • Pushed global Taskfile.yaml into dotfiles repository.

  3. Marimo is a alternative to Jupyter Notebooks.

    • I came to about it while juggling between Zed isuess.
    • Also, Marimo has a blog where they discussed that how Marimo has overhead on Jupyter Notebooks.

  4. After using Marimo:

    • It has very functioning than Jupyter Notebooks because Marimo works on .py files instead of .ipynb files.
    • It has better markdown support. You can natively pin the python vars in MDs.
    • It has builtin support to convert a Jupyter notebook or Markdown file to a marimo script.
    • You can use marimo but it has long learning curve.
    • BTW, currently I uses VSCode builtin Notebooks but looking lokking forward to switch to Zed (when they supports it).
    • Currently, I have no plans to switch to Marimo.

  5. There is a big problem, I am facing with Taskfile.

    Here, when you run Taskfile from different dir while referring to another Taskfile (present in different dir) with -t or -d flag, it will not take reference of pwd instead take reference of dir where the Taskfile present.

    This is a big negative for me because I’ve defined a global Taskfile through which I ran many useful and important commands.

    $ pwd
~/Developer/diary
$ task -t ~/Developer/dotfiles/Taskfile.yaml pc-all
task: [pc-all] pwd
~/Developer/dotfiles
task: [pc-all] pre-commit run --all-files
An error has occurred: InvalidConfigError:
=====> .pre-commit-config.yaml is not a file
Check the log at ~/.cache/pre-commit/pre-commit.log
task: Failed to run task "pc-all": exit status 1

    Previously, I uses Makefile for this and there it works fine.

    $ pwd
~/Developer/diary
$ make -f ~/Developer/Makefile pc-all
# works fine...