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Bibhas Debnath

Hi I'm Bibhas Debnath

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cURL can connect to localhost but not 127.0.0.1

Recently came across a scenario, where curl was able to connect to localhost but not 127.0.0.1. When I tried curl 127.0.0.1:80, it just

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Bibhas Debnath
23 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
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How to know you're inside a container

Scenario: You SSH into an Ubuntu server. How do you know if you just logged in inside a docker container, or just a regular VM? Turns out there are no

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Bibhas Debnath
21 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
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Closing an open file without killing a process

In the previous post we figured out how to find the process which is writing an open file. And we also saw that we can kill the process and it'll

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Bibhas Debnath
21 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
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Find out which process is writing to a file

Scenario: Imagine you login to a server and you find that the disk is filling up rapidly. Either by using df -h or du -h -d1 /

or getting errors like

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Bibhas Debnath
21 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Maruti Suzuki S-Presso has a 3-Star GNCAP rating! auto

Maruti Suzuki S-Presso has a 3-Star GNCAP rating!

Since MS launched S-Presso in Indian market in 2020 there has been much ridicule about this tiny little car because MS sent it for GNCAP testing and it came out

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Bibhas Debnath
23 May 2023 · 1 min read
I bought a desktop almost 2 years ago, after ages desktop

I bought a desktop almost 2 years ago, after ages

Lol. this is a very late blog post. But I wanted to document my desktop config. Otherwise I forget every single time if somebody asks me. 2021 September, I bought

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Bibhas Debnath
18 May 2023 · 1 min read
Unexpectedly spotting a bird birdwatching

Unexpectedly spotting a bird

We stayed in HSR Layout, Bangalore for 2.5 years until recently. For the final 6 months or so, everyday evening after 6:30-7, after it was dark, I used

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Bibhas Debnath
19 Apr 2023 · 2 min read
Mysore road trip April 2023 roadtrip

Mysore road trip April 2023

A couple friend of Ayanti's and us decided to go for a road trip on the Easter Friday long weekend. Both families have a kid. They have a 1.5

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Bibhas Debnath
12 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
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2022 Wrap-up

What we did in 2022 - 2022 Wrap-up collages5 new items added to shared albumGoogle Photos 1. Bought our first ever car in January - a Maruti Suzuki S-Presso top

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Bibhas Debnath
2 Jan 2023 · 3 min read
Weekly update - 4th Nov 2022 life

Weekly update - 4th Nov 2022

Taking a leaf from Thej's book, I'm gonna try posting weekly updates about what I'm doing, as a journal. I don't do a lot of significant things. But this could

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Bibhas Debnath
4 Nov 2022 · 2 min read
Durga Puja 2022 Bangalore Map durgapuja

Durga Puja 2022 Bangalore Map

Every year I try to make a map of all the pujas in Bangalore to help my friends, those who are looking to go pandal hopping, and more importantly myself.

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Bibhas Debnath
30 Sep 2022 · 1 min read
Birds from our road trips - #1 birdwatching

Birds from our road trips - #1

I got a 50-230mm lens for my Fuji X-T100 few days back. Right before we went on our first road trip in the new car. So I thought I'll make

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Bibhas Debnath
21 Apr 2022 · 5 min read
Road Trip to Dodda Alada Mara and Manchanabele Dam roadtrip

Road Trip to Dodda Alada Mara and Manchanabele Dam

March 18-19-20 was a long weekend. While couldn't go somewhere out of town for couple of days, because we already had some other plans, we decided to go for a

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Bibhas Debnath
29 Mar 2022 · 5 min read
Road trip to Pyramid Valley International Import 2022-11-22 15:42

Road trip to Pyramid Valley International

After 2 weeks of downtime since the Gulakamale Lake trip, we found a Sunday with nice and cool weather. So in a plan made in half an hour, we head

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Bibhas Debnath
6 Feb 2022 · 5 min read
Road trip to Gulakamale Lake Import 2022-11-22 15:42

Road trip to Gulakamale Lake

News flash: We finally took the leap and got a car. A Maruti Suzuki S-Presso. We got a pre-loved one from spinny.com. It was delivered a month back. And

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Bibhas Debnath
23 Jan 2022 · 3 min read
Joining NUITEQ Import 2022-11-22 15:42

Joining NUITEQ

Late update. I've joined NUITEQ as a Senior Software Engineer at the beginning of this month. 20th June was my last day of work at Hasgeek. And it was a

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Bibhas Debnath
13 Jul 2021 · 2 min read
Build a Spelling Checker coding

Build a Spelling Checker

A friend suggested this book called "Elements of Programming Interviews in Python" to me. Interviews have always been a weak spot for me, and I am not particularly bright when

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Bibhas Debnath
7 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
Privacy on the Internet Import 2022-11-22 15:42

Privacy on the Internet

The Promise - Couple of weeks back I woke up to this prompt by WhatsApp first thing in the morning - TL;DR - WhatsApp is updating their privacy policy,

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Bibhas Debnath
13 Jan 2021 · 15 min read
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