23rd November 2018 The Fedora community of Bangalore assembled at the Red Hat Bangalore office. The event was scheduled to start at 1300, but the lunch at the office postponed the event by 45 mins. Sumantro kicked off the event with a small introduction, following which Vipul gave an introduction of open source with a short choco-chip story. Sumantro back on stage after that talking about the “What’s coming next?”, from discussing about GNOME/Pantheon, to Python 2 deprecation, to Ansible, to IoT, to Modularity. ...

Saturday, I am sitting at a Starbucks in Bangalore, trying my hands on a Golang project. I come across this argument -d in go get: The go CLI help says: The -d flag instructs get to stop after downloading the packages; that is, it instructs get not to install the packages.

2013 The year I graduated from a third-tier college in Durgapur. I did not expect much from the college, mostly because of the poor placement record in the college. To get myself a job, I was primarily going through hasjob.co and any job opportunities that came through Bangpypers mailing list. Finally, I landed myself into an internship and later which turned into a full-time at HackerEarth was through the hasjob.co. ...

Long I have been procrastinating over this. Whenever I had to quit out of the Vim while doing git-rebase interactively I would be going over to a new terminal window, and perform git rebase --abort and then close the other window too. Today, I learned if you ever want to quit Vim either while committing or rebasing, just do :cq. This quits Vim with an error code, and Git will abort the action. ...

It’s been a while that Amazon introduced Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Support to their cloud. Amazon EC2 provides enhanced networking capabilities to C5, C5 with instance storage, F1, G3, H1, I3, m4.16xlarge, M5, P2, P3, R4, and X1 instances through the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA). With the Fedora 28 release, the Fedora AMIs come with the ENA support. To check whether an AMI has the Enhanced Networking with ENA-Enabled, you can query the AWS EC2 API, using the AWS Command Line Interface. You need to check if the enaSupport attribute set. If the attribute is set, the response is true. ...