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US Green Card Interview Experience  

Initial screening  My interview was scheduled on a Monday, Jan 24th, 2022, at 2.30pm and I was planning to enter the building at 2.15pm....
Prabhakar Kasi
5 min read

Magic Trackpad won’t connect with bluetooth to your Mac

Today I faced a weird issue with the Magic Trackpad, which was already paired with Apple M1 Pro laptop, stopped working. I tried to...
Prabhakar Kasi
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Download sequence of files using Curl command

There are many times in our browsing experience we want to download images or video-chunks that are in a particular sequence. I have used...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

How to turn Slack badges ON with macOS Ventura…

Problem I personally don’t like notification from apps especially on Laptop. Although this feature gives the app developers the ability to notify and get...
Prabhakar Kasi
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How is Pongal or Sankranti celebrated?

What is this event about? This is event is all about farmers, harvest and celebration. It is a celebration by the framers to thank...
Prabhakar Kasi
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Inspiring ideas to name a kid with pure Tamil…

I wanted to share the criteria that we used and the strategy we refined and ideas & inspirations that led us to name our...
Prabhakar Kasi
2 min read

Secrets of the Whales and Avatar 2 movie

Introduction Secrets of the Whales is a National Geographic documentary about whales which was filmed across different parts of the world. The narration in...
Prabhakar Kasi
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Secrets of the Whales – S1E4 – Ocean Giants

About “Ocean Giants” is the fourth and last episode of the “Secrets of the Whales” documentary by National Geographic. This articles captures a sneak...
Prabhakar Kasi
5 min read

Secrets of the Whales – S1E3 – Beluga Kingdom

Introduction “Beluga Kingdom” is the third episode of the “Secrets of the Whales” documentary by National Geographic. This articles captures a sneak peak of...
Prabhakar Kasi
4 min read

Secrets of the Whales – S1E2 – Humpback Songs

Introduction “Humpback songs” is the second episode of the “Secrets of the Whales” documentary by National Geographic. This articles captures a sneak peak of...
Prabhakar Kasi
3 min read

Secrets of the Whales – S1E1 – Orca dynasty

Introduction Orca dynasty is the first episode of the “Secrets of the Whales” documentary by National Geographic. This articles captures a sneak peak of...
Prabhakar Kasi
2 min read

qView – Good replacement for Xee³ photo viewer

Xee journey Xee³ was $3.99 worth lightweight, minimalist styled photo viewer. Until Xee2, it was free app but the author stop his/her support. Later...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Making new laptop development ready

Whenever I get new laptop there are list of things that I setup and configure to make the machine development ready. I usually keep...
Prabhakar Kasi
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Create gifs from still photos using ImageMagick

If you want to create gifs from sequence of photos just like how modern photo-booth does, here is a quick command line tool that...
Prabhakar Kasi
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Recommended Git commit message format

It is a good practice to write a detailed git commit message but very often we don’t write proper message but whenever we do...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Create gifs from video using ffmpeg

There a times we want to create gifs out of a video. I extensively need this at work as git did not support video...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Configure iTerm2 + zsh + oh-my-zsh for powerful terminal…

Being a developer we spent lot of time in terminal. It would be nice to have more powerful, informative and beautified terminal experience. The...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Configuring multiple git accounts on new MacBook

As a developer, after getting a new laptop there are sequence of setups and configuration one needs to do to keep the computer development...
Prabhakar Kasi
2 min read

Change your Mac Hostname, ComputerName, LocalHostName and DiskName via…

If you own a new MacBook or Mac, your machine will usually have system’s serial number as it’s hostname, diskname and computer name. You...
Prabhakar Kasi
55 sec read

Dynamic Type & Font weight name value mapping in…

Handy mapping table for font-weight named and numerical values
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Apple TV Remote Connectivity Issue – It stopped working…

It is too easy to loose Apple TV Remote (physical one named Siri Remote), which I did few years back and have been using...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Immigration Tracker for Indian Born Individuals

Immigration Tracker for Indian Born Individuals for EB2 and EB3 category. It is a simple way to track visa-bulletin changes every month.
Prabhakar Kasi
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Covid-19 Vaccination – 2nd Dose Experience

On May 3rd, 2021, I got my 2nd dose of Covid-19 vaccine at Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA. For the next few days apart...
Prabhakar Kasi
1 min read

Timeline of human vaccines

Even before COVID-19 pandemic hit us, vaccines have been part of our lives right from our birth, but the need to learn about vaccines...
Prabhakar Kasi
2 min read

Covid-19 Vaccination – 1st Dose Experience

If you are booking for your family, you need separate appointments for each. You can all stick together as a group with different appointment...
Prabhakar Kasi
3 min read

Journey to the phenomenon – The name is “Thanthai…

An apt way to define Thanthai Periyar's political spectrum, is to see him as the grandson of Gautama Buddha, brother of Dr. Ambedkar and...
Prabhakar Kasi
4 min read

Indian Rupee Symbol Font – “Rupee Foradian” Download

This article is definitely outdated but still gets lot of traffic so restoring just for those who would want to download the font. After...
Prabhakar Kasi
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