Undergraduate Student @IIITD | GSoC @VLC
Line endings are tricky. There are a lot of articles/questions/answers that exist about it but to get my answer I had to read (and re-read) many of them and spent a lot of time. Here is my attempt to give a detailed one stop explanation.
Earlier this summer I got selected in Google Summer of Code to work with VideoLAN on the Project VLC macOS Interface Redesign. It has been a blessing to get a chance to work on one of the highest impact open source projects. I had a phenomenal experience. Let’s have a look at my contributions :)
There are three levels of settings:
Ever wondered, what your android app is secretly sending to its servers? This is my attempt, at trying to intercept and decrypted the transmission by an android app. To understand what’s happening on my device.
I had been always printing all my output and the debugging statements as well. I had to run a script as python3 script.py > out.txt 2>err.txt.
. and -> || a->b === (*a).bIf you have a variable of a structure, use . to access its elements.
Often times my External Hard disk stops being detected on my MacBook Air. The first few times were scary but now I generally know that I will figure a way out.
I have seen a lot of blogs on how to fix it but I often get stuck. This one seems the most useful at times.
I use iTerm2+zsh+oh-my-zsh. Recently I wished to change the dark theme to a ligher one.
Recently I took part in a competetive programming contest. It was a practice one and I learnt some very important things.
I was trying to use GCC in combination with GDB. There were some errors, that are still unresolved. The problem was that GDB was unable to use the output that was created. I tried changing from clang to gcc provided by brew install gcc but it did not work out.
The resources are hard to comprehend and general understand is (in my case at least) being done with a lot of Stack Overflow answers. So, let’s make some notes and consolidate all the learnings together