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2021

A Typo Got Me $100 Bug Bounty
3 min read

Lesser Know Useful Utilities For Mac
2 min read

Mastering Dicom #2 - Setup Orthanc Demo Server
3 min read

2020

Minimum Viable Testing - Get Maximum Stability With Minimum Effort
2 min read

Finding Performance Issues In Python Web Apps with Sentry
4 min read

Make Python Docker Builds Slim & Fast
7 min read

How To Deploy Mirth Connect To Kubernetes
7 min read

Serial Bluetooth Terminal With Python Asyncio
11 min read

Set Default Date For Date Hierarchy In Django Admin
7 min read

How Dart, Flutter Stateful Hot Reload Work? - Part 1
8 min read

Tips On Improving kubectl Productivity
5 min read

Continuous Deployment To Kubernetes With Skaffold
3 min read

Work From Home Tips For Non-remote Workers
3 min read

How To Reduce Python Package Footprint?
7 min read

Disabling Atomic Transactions In Django Test Cases
8 min read

2019

Mastering DICOM - Part #1
2 min read

Verifying TLS Certificate Chain With OpenSSL
5 min read

Writing & Editing Code With Code - Part 1
5 min read

Tips On Writing Data Migrations in Django Application
5 min read

Profiling & Optimizing Bottlenecks In Django
3 min read

Versioning & Retrieving All Files From AWS S3 With Boto
6 min read

Why My Grandma Can Recall 100+ Phone Numbers, But We Can't
2 min read

Switching Hosts With Bookmarklets - Web Development Tips
3 min read

A Short Guide To Debugging PostgreSQL Triggers
3 min read

Essential PyCharm (Intellij) Plugins To Improve Productivity
2 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #12 - Automatically Set CSRF Token in Postman
2 min read

How To Install Private Python Packages With Pip
3 min read

2018

Find High-impact Performance Bottlenecks in Django Apps
8 min read

Archive Million Pages With wget In Minutes
7 min read

Comparision Of Alexa, Majestic & Domcop Top Million Sites
4 min read

Setup Continous Deployment For Python Chalice
3 min read

Parsing & Transforming mitmproxy Request Flows
6 min read

Linux Performance Analysis In Less Than 10 Seconds
2 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #10 - Log SQL Queries To Console
7 min read

How To Deploy Django Channels To Production
12 min read

Reliable Way To Test External APIs Without Mocking
5 min read

Convert Browser Requests To Python Requests For Scraping
5 min read

Running Django Web Apps On Android Devices
2 min read

Load Testing Celery With Different Brokers
4 min read

How To Plot Renko Charts With Python?
7 min read

2017

Automatic Magnetometer Calibration With Arduino
5 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #9 - Auto Register Models In Admin
6 min read

How To Install Custom ROMs In Xiamo MiPad?
2 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #8 - Hyperlink Foreignkey Fields In Admin
5 min read

How To Remove Clock From LockScreen/StatusBar?
1 min read

Bluetooth Serial Communication Between Ubuntu & Android
11 min read

Arduino Programming From Text Editor & Command Line
2 min read

Using LSTM-CTC For Complex Script Recognistion
1 min read

Auto Register Subclasses Without Metaclass in Python
6 min read

How To Auto Reload Celery Workers In Development?
3 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #7 - Django Auth Plugin For HTTPie
1 min read

Super Charge Your Shell For Python Development
6 min read

Provisioning Laptop(s) With Ansible
2 min read

How BMTC Is Exploiting Crores From Bangalore Citizens?
2 min read

Refactoring Django With Full Syntax Tree
4 min read

Why Blog Posts Are Better Than Scientific Papers?
1 min read

2016

What Is The Meaning Of Life?
1 min read

Detect & Correct Skew In Images Using Python
8 min read

Why I Use CyanogenMod?
2 min read

Remove Clock From LockScreen/StatusBar On Android
2 min read

Detecting USB Events In Ubuntu With Python
4 min read

Migrate From Blogger To Static Site (Nikola)
3 min read

emblem-mode for Emacs
1 min read

Auto Completion For Custom Search Engines In Chrome
6 min read

Concurrent Downloads - Bash Vs Python
14 min read

Emacs - Browsing Projects With Etags
7 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #6 - Make Deleting Easy In Admin
10 min read

Auto Convert & Upload Books To Kindle
2 min read

Automate Boring Stuff - Accepting Waitlist RSVPs
6 min read

2015

Dropbox As Wormhole Between Ubuntu & Google Drive!
5 min read

Book Review - A Psycho Path By Haris Ibrahim K. V.
4 min read

PyCon India 2015 - First PyCon Experience!
3 min read

Set Emacs As Default File Manager In Ubuntu!
9 min read

[Python] Functions, Methods & Attributes!
10+ min read

Django Tips & Tricks #5 - Use for...empty in Django templates
3 min read

Random Life Quotes #2
4 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #4 - Make Django Development Server Persistent
4 min read

Git Etiquette: Meaningful Messages & Linear Logs!
4 min read

Automatically PEP8 & Format Your Python Code
9 min read

Whats So Good About Django Traceback?
4 min read

The Intelligence Behind Python Slices
10+ min read

Django Tips & Tricks #3 - Dynamic Initial Values In Forms
10 min read

WD My Cloud NAS Setup On Ubuntu!
2 min read

Install Oh-My-Zsh On Ubuntu!
3 min read

Random Life Quotes #1
3 min read

How To Make Better Use Of Any Emacs Package?
6 min read

BangPypers Talks - Emacs As Python IDE!
1 min read

Bangalore Django User Group - Beginners Workshop
1 min read

2014

14 Great Quotes About Python Programming Language!
4 min read

Importing & Exporting JSON Data To mongoDB!
2 min read

7 Easter Eggs Hiding In Your Emacs!
2 min read

BangPypers Dev Sprint!
2 min read

ది పైథాన్ పారడాక్స్ (The Python Paradox)
5 min read

Generate Sphinx Friendly Docstrings For Python Functions In Emacs!
2 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #2 - Quickly Check If Your App Is Ready For Production
3 min read

Search, Play & Download YouTube Videos From Command Line!
3 min read

Mirror A Website (Or Part Of Website) In Split Second!
3 min read

[Telugu] యండమూరి అంతర్ముఖం సినిమా !
1 min read

[Linux] Splitting Required Portion Of Video In Ubuntu!
3 min read

[Transcript] Movie: You Don't Mess With Zohan. Scene: What Is The Area Code Of Amman?
2 min read

Unix Timestamp, UTC And Their Conversions In Python
5 min read

[Git] Updating Cloned/Forked Repository On Local Machine and GitHub!
5 min read

Automagically Reload Imports In iPython!
2 min read

[Python] Converting String Type Objects To Correct Types!
3 min read

Scaling Celery - Sending Tasks To Remote Machines
10+ min read

Pandoc: Best Way To Convert Markdown to reStructuredText!
3 min read

Start Up Job Boards In India
1 min read

Django Tips & Tricks #1 - Useful Shell Aliases For Python/Django Developers
3 min read

A Better Way To Take Screenshots Of Movies With Subtitles
5 min read

I Found A Purse Near Dairy Circle, Bangalore!
1 min read

How To Install Adobe Digital Editions On Ubuntu 14.04?
3 min read

తెలుగు సాహిత్యం పైన చలం ప్రభావం! (Influence Of Chalam On Telugu Literature)
1 min read

A Few Chrome Extensions For Efficient & Productive Web Surfing!
4 min read

Use Space As Both Space & Control - Avoid Emacs Pinky!
2 min read

Automatically Remove Unused Imports & Variables From Python
4 min read

Amazing Things To Do With Python In Everyday Life!
3 min read

How To Get Telugu Books If You Are Out Of Andhra!
3 min read

How To Fix Washedout Colors In VLC Media Player?
3 min read

Django Meetup In Bangalore
3 min read

A Weather Widget For Your Terminal!
1 min read

Definition Of Infatuation From 100% Love Telugu Movie!
1 min read

The Best Indian Confessions
10+ min read

The Mysterious Wall - Best Zen Story By Osho!
2 min read

A Simple Way To Split & Merge Multipage PDF Files With PDF Toolkit!
5 min read

How To Use Python & Beautiful Soup To Scrap Web Pages On Ubuntu
4 min read

Useful Custom Key Maps For Vimium To Speed Up Your Browsing!
5 min read

Access Clipboard From Terminal In Ubuntu Using Xclip!
4 min read

చలం వ్యాసాలు - ఆనందం ( Aanandam - An Essay By Gudipati VenkataChalam )
10+ min read

4 Delightful Short Zen Stories About Women & Love!
4 min read

2048 Game - TIps To Make a 2048 Tile Easily & Quickly!
4 min read

My Tribute To Relecura!
5 min read

Best Way To Restore USB Drive Back to Full Capacity!
1 min read

16 Most Interesting Facts About Patents!
8 min read

How To Find All Subsidiaries Of A Company?
4 min read

చలం కథలు - సీత తల్లి ( Seetha Thalli - A story by Gudipati Venkatachalam )
4 min read

How To Easily Screencast Android Device Without Rooting For Free?
2 min read

Wipro Campus Placement - My Interview!
2 min read

How I Got Into Alexa Top Million In A Few Days?
10+ min read

Little Alchemy Walkthrough 450 Elements Combinations!
10+ min read

Chrome Web App Pathuku Walk through All Levels!
6 min read

నాకు తెలిసిన చలం! ( The Chalam, I Know )
4 min read

Get 8 High PR Dofollow Backlinks In 8 Minutes!
10+ min read

List of Tollywood Movies Copied from Hollywood Movies
10+ min read

Start Up Companies In Bangalore
8 min read

101 Great Honesty Jokes/Memes On Arvind Kejriwal
14 min read

తప్పక చదవాల్సిన తెలుగు సామెతలు ( Must Read Telugu Proverbs )
10+ min read

Some Frequently Asked Questions About This Blog
2 min read

2013

Top 10 Most Visited Telugu Websites
12 min read

Unblock Me Puzzle Solutions
1 min read