Shakthi Kannan @shakthimaan@mastodon.social

Sunsetting Mercurial support in Bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/aarogya-setu-is-now-open-source-for-developers-govt-announces-bug-bounty-programme-1682226-2020-05-26 and https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." ~ George R. R. Martin

EleLab is a modular electronics lab system for hobbyists https://github.com/Chrismettal/EleLab_v2 #hardware #Electronics

To honor a prepaid order request,
And to ship it before an approaching storm,
And deliver it two days prior to ETA,
That is 120% customer commitment.
Kudos Amazon India @amazonIN!

Lisa Piccirillo solves the Conway Knot problem https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/ #mathematics

The Common Trace Format (CTF) is a flexible, high-performance binary trace format https://diamon.org/ctf/

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/22/microsoft-releases-the-source-code-you-wanted-almost-30-years-ago/

#Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) May 2020 virtual meetup starting at 1400 Indian Standard Time (IST). Join https://meet.jit.si/EmacsAPACMay2020

Ubuntu 20.04 is responsive! https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/05/19/heres-why-ubuntu-linux-2004-feels-insanely-fast-and-responsive/

Microsoft releases Terminal 1.0 https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-releases-windows-terminal-1-0-package-manager-announces-linux-gui-app-support-gpu-acceleration-subsystem-linux-wsl-2/

watched "Donald Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming. Satisfiability and Combinatorics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lhrVPDUG0 (~2h 10m)

Announcing Emacs online APAC meetup, Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 14:00 IST with Jitsi and #emacs on irc.freenode.net. DM if interested to give a talk or demo!

Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to Free/Libre and Open Source Software https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/

TVS Group, IIT-Madras develop low-cost automated respiratory assist device https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/autocarpro-epaper-autocar/tvs+group+iit+madras+develop+low+cost+automated+respiratory+assist+device-newsid-n184301952

watched "Eight best ergonomic office chairs for 2019" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcs9srbVTr0 (~ 10m) #productivity

How DNS Works! https://howdns.works/

watched "AMD Threadripper tips!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2ad-lp53I (~ 17m) #hardware

https://www.ifixit.com/News/41330/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-apple-for-macbook-pro-flexgate-issue #apple

Why are some people better at working from home than others? https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200506-why-are-some-people-better-at-working-from-home-than-others #productivity