Ketan Vijayvargiya

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Learnings from our Europe trip this month

Ntfy notifications on Proxmox

Break down of Staff+ role

How to approach the interviews

Reverse interviewing

Automatic disk decryption on Fedora Workstation

Official train websites in Italy

Fstab with special characters

Platforms for mock interviews

Automate SOPS encryption in Git

Feedback from mock interviews

Dell R730XD or a similar server

Questions for behavioral interviews

Takeaways from latest trip to India

Data-only eSIMs for traveling

Side-projects on India trip

TunnelBroker on Opnsense

Research on Opnsense hardware

Would a thought exercise like "10 years from now" work?

First steps on a new Proxmox server

How to enable, and then migrate to, native ZFS encryption in Proxmox

Recommended BIOS setup

Dell desktop BIOS upgrade

Mount a remote filesystem over SSH

Proxmox Backup Server in the cloud

Setting up mailcow

Validate snapshots on a Restic Rest Server

Optimal bond duration

Revocable trust

Step CA: Generate root and intermediate CAs

Unified AI & ML runtime: How SageMaker Distribution aims to radically simplify ML development

Static site, Nix flakes and GitLab

Orphan directory or datastore in Proxmox

Limit ZFS's memory usage

Convert ZFS RAID0 to mirror and vice versa

Enterprise-grade server hardware

Shrink an LXC or VM's root disk

Photo display on a tablet

Coturn credentials and testing

DIY smart music

First rental property for investment

Migrate e-mail server

YABS for HostHatch

MergerFS on Proxmox and pass-through to LXC

East coast, around Boston

Exterior dimensions of our home

Tailscale & Headscale

Ad hoc long weekend

Change IP address of Proxmox Backup Server

TLS in the homelab: the easy way and the hard way

Wi-fi on Proxmox Backup Server

TrueNAS vs OpenMediaVault

Alcohol twice a month

NFS from OpenMediaVault as Proxmox storage

Extreme Ownership

NixOS as a Proxmox LXC

Los Angeles is a sad city

Muzata LED channel codes

Why not GrapheneOS

Home network setup

User setup for configuring Proxmox Backup Server on Proxmox

Resources for Nix

Simple front page on the internet

Power Hour at BrainStation

Brainstation.io talk

Pass raw hard drives to a Proxmox VM

Smart strip lights

DNSSEC on nic.eu.org

What neon lights to buy?

Smart switch installation

Home Assistant integration with Subaru Outback

Free parking in Amazon Seattle during nights and weekends

Big Island in Hawaii - travel ideas for next time

Proxmox management interface on Opnsense LAN

Air quality sensor

Carbs vs fat in conjunction to strength training

Rust Cohle's dialog from True Detectives

Tips for giving a talk

How to create a digital garden?

Oregon - things to do next time

Firmware upgrades on my Zigbee dongle

Pair garage door sensor with smart switch

Sync Proxmox's native backups to rsync.net

Workout tracker

Cold brew coffee

What type of backup system should I setup?

VoIP mobile apps

Where to get a hitch installed in car?

Shelly inside wall switch

Water leak detectors

Smart garage opener

Europe trip with the kiddo

Learnings from my Europe trip this month

MTA-STS policy on Migadu

Self-hosted email solutions

mTLS using Step CA and Traefik

How to think of Kubernetes

Self-hosted certificate authority

TLS vs STARTTLS

Ski gear rental near home

My professional background, from a judging perspective

Fidelity Core Real Estate Fund

Log management in Docker

Hugo, Ghost and wiki

Proxmox Helper Scripts

Looking back at the pandemic

Drip coffee makers

Probabilistic data structures

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

Sleep suggestions for toddlers

Chapter 7, "Transactions"

Treasury investments

Approach to prepare for system design interviews

Resources for distributed systems

Code Crafters, and other project-based tutorials

De-DRM Audible books

De-DRM my Kindle and Audible purchases?

Follow up to Crafting Interpreters

HVAC technicians near home

Good games for M1 Mac

Fidelity Personal Retirement Annuity

Interstellar’s docking scene

Linux namespaces

Test with Netlify CMS

Multi-region Kafka

Traefik, pihole and DNS over HTTP/TCP

Finishing a book

Man in the hole

Liquidity vs solvency problem

A random list of books

Ideas for TV purchase

First Halloween

On Quadtree and Geohash algorithm

Geohash vs Quadtree for location-based services

Properties of Geohash algorithm

How much money to invest at start of the next year

Schengen visa for May trip

The Incredible Logistics of Grocery Stores

Search for a projector for our den

Is investing in real estate syndication a good idea?

Why No One Wants This New York Skyscraper

Introduction to Coroutines

Leaderless replication

The Log - What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction.

The Log - What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction.

Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)

I am exploring new note taking apps

We were visiting Portland this weekend

Cache strategies

Argentina address

Mill Creek to Seattle commute

Healthchecks for cron

Wg-easy with Pi-hole

Rich dad, poor dad

Innovator's dilemma

Happy Sleeper book

Where to spend my time these days?

Self hosting ideas

Mindfulness & intentionality

DNS over HTTP on OpenWRT

Facebook Portal as a bad purchase & publicly sharing my work

Commands to check Docker resource usage

First impressions of the Bothell house

Hardware transcoding inside an unprivileged LXC container on Proxmox

Response to recruiters

Security freeze for minors

Nextcloud resources

Tailscale inside an unprivileged LXC container on Proxmox

Handle image duplicates

Got Your Backup - Backup Gmail

Intentionality and awareness

Near-term plan on system design interview prep

Interesting bits from Fundamentals of Software Architecture

How to print 2-sided on a 1-side printer?

Websites to fax online for free

Traefik through Docker

Aurora DB, quorums etc.

Ideas related to self-hosting

Don't ignore preferences

NextDNS on router

CRDTs and Operational Transform

Zookeeper and chain replication

Linearizability, Zookeeper etc.

Create new user on Linux

Transactions, ACID etc.

Phone addiction

Booster for parents

Virtual mailboxes

Today I learned - Raft

Today I learned - consensus algorithms

Automatic archival to rsync.net

Deep work ideas

Symantec VIP -> Authy

Tandoori chicken

Issues with Tailscale's exit node feature

Workout notes - cycle 3

Whenever I move out of Amazon, if ever

Offer negotiations

Smartphone-specific frontend for Restic

HTTP/HTTPS/SSH/TCP tunnels as a service

Not being able to crack Principal/Staff level interviews and other related thoughts

Pasta, in Instant Pot

Small number of things

Workout notes - cycle 2

Changes I’d like to introduce in life

Change companies or something else in life, learn more deep learning and other nagging thoughts

Focus, in general, and not just during work

Today I learned

Workout notes - cycle 1

Distractions, interviews etc.

Portland - things to do

Ideas on what I can create

Steps to approach a system design interview

Math for system design interviews

What can I do with all this new free time?

Block google.com country-specific redirect

Deep Work summary

IPv6 on Oracle Cloud virtual machines

Do I want to FIRE? Or just FI?

Time management, making an impact at work etc.

Showing up everyday, etc.

Build something, like start right now

Learning how to spend money is also important

Lyrics - what's the big deal?

It's high time to leave Amazon

Disk encryption

Next credit card, after Chase Sapphire Reserve

Aeropress coffee

Investment health checks

What to do if or when I FIRE

Coffee beans in Seattle

Stuff to get after moving to a new place

Cost difference of 529 vs Admiral fund

Tax loss harvesting

Convert Callgrind output to dot format

Whenever I change addresses in US

Before moving out of US

Priorities, side projects and switching companies

HP printer at home

What to keep in mind while filing tax returns in the US?

Actively managed funds are a bad idea

Install rpm packages through yum

Self-hosting email is probably a bad idea

What's running on my cloud server?

Git stash untracked files

Whenever I change credit cards in US

No long duration courses

Stop slacking on the D2L book

Gym before Covid-19 vaccination

Online Masters in Computer Science

Import local Python modules in Jupyter

Install Machine Learning libraries

Resources for learning AI

Resources to practice AI

Bag of Tricks for Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

DeepAnT - A Deep Learning Approach forUnsupervised Anomaly Detectionin Time Series

Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning

Create a private fork of a public GitHub repository

Music CDs from the library

Today I learned

Vihaan's birth facts

Vihaan's birth stories

Wireguard client

Life is too short for ...

Serve a static website through Nginx

Firewall on Oracle virtual machines

Get IP address from CLI

Smart light brands

Enough on the self-hosting front! Time to get back to my goals

Hot cacao drink

Child-birth preparation tips

Restart learning

What's running on my Pi?

How to clean bathtubs

Pediatrician in Seattle

Today I learned

Seattle - things to do outdoors

Where to relocate from United States?

Fastai vs Dive into Deep Learning, to learn Deep Learning

What I learnt about moving to London from an Amazonian

Today I learned

Today I learned

What next, after part 1 of the Fastai 2019 course?

Whidbey Island - things to do

How to operate at work

Query AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights through the CLI

Move Git repository to an older commit

Get error rate for an AWS Step Function state machine through CloudWatch

Get error rate for AWS API Gateway through CloudWatch

List Metrics from AWS CloudWatch

Manage AWS KMS Grants

Env variable to set default AWS region

Limit coffee intake

Child-care search in Seattle

Ted Talk - How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals

Expectations from an E6-level Facebook interview

Setup blog and email on custom domain for (almost) free

Today I learned

Today I learned

Today I learned

Change user information for Git commits

Today I learned

Effectiveness vs efficiency

Revert environments in Conda

Today I learned

Update packages in Conda

Today I learned

Today I learned

Today I learned

Write more, at least at work

Today I learned

Today I learned

Starting to write, again

Eurotrip, in retrospect

The Eurotrip countdown

The old age symptom

A hobbyist's backlog

The big man's story!

Why choose Wordpress over Blogger

My experiments with the social network. So far..

Triund - a weekend trekking delight near Delhi!

A half-remembered narrative

It wasn't easy to buy a camera!

Chadar Frozen River Trek

Visiting Delhi for the first time, are you?

Read a good book. Watch a good film.

A nation in distress. And a small ray of hope.

In search of good non-veg in NCR

Shawshank Redemption- An alternative interpretation

Diwali.. again!

On the second half-marathon of my life

Living an unfair life, are you?

What makes a movie great?

On being unconventional.

Lack of innovations - the Achilles' heel of Adobe

“Yaar please Shawshank Redemption dekh liyo, bohot sahi movie h”!

Whirlwind road trip to Kasauli

The most memorable night-out of DCE

Drive to Mussoorie

Traffic nightmares in Noida.

My story of the Academy Awards '12

How easy do you think it is to control a bunch of kids?!

Did you love watching 'The good, the bad and the ugly'?

Taj Mahal and the Yamuna Expressway

A bull rider’s first road trip

Experiences of a Delhi Half Marathon runner.

Visit to DCE after an year and a half or so..

Absolute must places to travel from US

Acadia National Park

Accessories with Greg Nuckol's program

Assume AWS IAM role

Browser extensions

Change temporary folder for Python

Client-side encryption using AWS KMS

Copy paste text in MacOS without formatting

Cost difference of Admiral vs Target mutual funds from Vanguard

Create pre-signed URL for AWS S3

Create SSH key for AWS Glue

Describe AWS EC2 instance status

Describe AWS EC2 instances

Disable dock bouncing in MacOS

Docker image for Jupyter

Dumbbell-only workouts

Format USB drive with ext4 format

Full-body warm-up

Get AWS EC2 console logs

Get AWS EC2 instance ID

Git uncommit the last one

Glacier National Park

Hide top bar in Firefox

HSA bank customer care

Interview question bank

Jupyter notebooks

Kettlebell swings challenge

Los Angeles - things to do

Meal prep - chicken

Meal prep - fish

Mount Rainier - things to do

Movers in Seattle

Museums through the library in Seattle

Nextcloud through Docker

Olympic National Park

Password-less SSH

Plex server on Raspberry Pi

Python - Virtualenv

Refer to previous Git commits

Remote desktop on AWS EC2

Rip CDs using abcde

Run remote commands on EC2

Shopping during travel

Sleep reminders

South America visa

Taxation for Vanguard ETF vs mutual funds

Tmux configuration

Upload encrypted files to AWS S3

Victoria BC - things to do

Volleyball in Seattle

Westside for skinny bastards

Whenever I change my primary bank

Write to or create a file