• Bitbar Plugins for Github and ProductHunt Recognition

    Few days back, a project named bitbar app was launched, which lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. The app was trending on many famous sites like HackerNews, ProductHunt, Panda, etc. and is worthy of such recognition. That day onwards, my web browsing behaviour has certainly changed. Being a technocrat and open-source enthusiast, I like browsing awesome trending stuff each day on various popular sites like Github, ProductHunt, Dribble, etc. I use Panda for this. But I have a bad habit of peeping whenever I build something and post it on the above mentioned sites. So, just to prevent opening and viewing stats in window each time, I really appreciate the idea of having the things which require your utmost attention directly into your viewport i.e. Mac OS X menu bar

    Read More...

  • Redesigned website using Material Design

    Few months back, Google introduced the visual language, a single underlying system that allows for a unified experience across platforms and device sizes - Material Design. Since then, I’m following it and my mind enthusiastically forces me to develop something using it. While I was researching, I came across an open-sourced framework, materialize, which I think is the now most popular one among all. I started digging deep into it on Github and it really inspired me in kick-starting to develop. Finally, I decided to re-design my personal website on a whim, whose frontend was earlier coded using bootstrap3, now on top of Material Design. I introduced many new features like Kudoing blog-posts, Table of Contents & Read time for blog-post, side-navigation-bar, share selected text on Twitter, etc along with many improvements visually as well as technically.

    Read More...

  • Hands on Firefox-OS Apps - Introducing CSP

    I’m a die-hard fan of Mozilla Firefox. I always wanted to contribute to Mozilla in one or the other ways. This year only, it happened that I started getting involved in Open Source projects. Good Luck that I was familiar with Git as I used it merely for the purpose of storing my college projects :). Mozilla’s Open Source projects inspired me to contribute this time. Meanwhile, I heard the news of FIREFOX-OS, yeah, FIREFOX-OS(FOS) is a Linux-based open source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers being developed by MOZILLA.

    Read More...

  • Getting Started with Hyde

    A will for creating a personal portfolio cum blog site, after spending a lot of time researching and experimenting with various frameworks, came to an end with this. I’m glad to discuss my experience with a new open-source technology, smelting this site, HYDE. HYDE’s built-in web server + auto-generator provide instant refresh and unlimited flexibility. No database, no slowness, no digg-effect.

    Read More...