Tech, IT, and General tips

In this article, I will share the steps that I found most effective when installing the LAMP stack on a DigitalOcean droplet.

Hey there, fellow papermod enthusiasts! If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for ways to make your Hugo blog content more engaging and easy to understand. That’s why I’m excited to share with you my experience of adding Mermaid.js to my Hugo Papermod site using the CDN method. Mermaid.js is a fantastic tool that allows you to create beautiful, interactive diagrams and flowcharts right in your web browser. With its simple markdown-like syntax, you can create complex visualizations in no time - no need to be a coding expert or a design whiz!...

Microsoft Outlook is a wonderful app that helps you manage your emails perfectly with labels, flags, filters etc. If you have a good configuration laptop/ PC, using outlook is butter. But! If you have a low configuration system, Outlook becomes laggy over time. This has partly to do with the offline caches stored by outlook. What are offline caches? Outlook has feature called “caching” which downloads a copy of your mailbox to your local storage....

Hugo is one of the simplest ways to write and manage a blog. Yet, I totally get the frustration a lot of people express with managing images in the GitHub repository. It’s like trying to fit an elephant into a Mini Cooper. I tried to address this issue using AWS S3, which I have documented below. Why AWS S3? It’s reliable (it’s Amazon, after all) You can scale up or down as needed It’s pretty cost-effective for most bloggers You maintain control over your data (bye-bye, third-party image hosting services!...

Microsoft Office appears to be suffering from the same problem that current Indian government does: they have a ton of interesting schemes and initiatives, but they cannot communicate them to the people effectively. Office 365 introduced a new comment feature last year that removed the comment lines from the document. Comments have always shown to the pane on the right and I had a line connecting the balloon to the highlighted text....

Create multiple folders with file names in PowerShell

If your USB pendrive is not detected on a specific Windows PC but works on others, the issue might lie within the software or hardware compatibility of the problematic PC. Here are some technical methods to address the issue.

I’ve been a long-time user of Chocolatey, primarily using it for clean installations and uninstallations of software. Recently, I started using Chocolatey to manage and upgrade existing software on my PC, combined with PowerShell. Here’s how I achieved it. To update all the software on your PC, the command choco upgrade all -y works perfectly. Since the packages come from verified sources, I generally don’t worry about malware. This command performs an unattended installation of all possible software, as Chocolatey can take over existing installs and handle uninstalls in most cases....