VPN

Public VPN is not what's it advertised as

In the last few years, there has been a flow of public VPN services in the market. But there are now a lot of myths and misinformation about it is floating in the market. Sadly, this misinformation is being propagated by the company itself and knowing unknowingly by tech YouTubers who frequently gets sponsored by the Public Providers. Here I am listing a few of the things these services can offer and some which these can’t ...

December 19, 2020 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar

How to create UPI Payment link in HTML

TLDR - The URL scheme is upi://pay?pn=<Name>&pa=<UPI ID>&cu=<Currency Code> ...

November 6, 2020 · 1 min · Vikas Kumar

Taking a look at Modern alternatives for Microsoft Notepad

Notepad has been an excellent lightweight tool since the beginning of Windows. But lately, it isn’t changing much with the new fluent design language of Windows 10. However, there are some excellent third-party alternatives to Notepad. Since the version 2004 (May 2020 Update) of Windows 10, now we can uninstall Notepad easily. So you can get rid of Notepad altogether if you are satisfied with following 3rd party alternatives. :- ...

June 29, 2020 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar
Laptop

WSL and Visual Studio Code is making Windows better

Many developers would agree that Windows is not known to be developer-friendly until you aren’t developing for the Windows ecosystem. Linux distros, on the other hand, are very good for development especially adding the fact that most of your build is going to run on Linux based servers. ...

February 17, 2020 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar
Linux Subsystem

Windows subsystem for Linux is of any use?

I was a long term user of Arch Linux. But recently I decided to switch to Windows. Why? Because I needed to do some media editing and I heard about WSL which promises a more comfortable life for developers on Windows. Installation So I installed a new SSD and started my Windows 10 installation process. Installation went smooth. Then I opened PowerShell to activate the feature and downloaded Ubuntu from the Windows Store. Finally, I launched bash and installed git, nodejs, npm, yarn, python, pip. I was excited to try it all out on Microsoft own Visual Studio Code as it is the only editor which officially supports WSL. ...

March 21, 2019 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar