Hey! I'm Ershad. Welcome to my blog. I write about programming and technology.

Recent Posts

How to parse JSON in command line using jq

jq is an exceptional tool to parse JSON in command line. In this post, we will go through some of its basic options and usages.

How to configure a simple internet status widget in macOS Menu Bar

Sometimes during online calls, when we cannot hear the other person speaking, we would be wondering if it’s an issue with our internet or theirs.

How to terminate EC2 instance by IP from terminal

Here’s an quick command line shortcut to terminate an AWS EC2 instance if you know the private IP address but not the instance ID.

Install RMagick 2.13.2 in macOS Sierra

Homebrew is usually pretty good at installing ImageMagick and I was wondering why it threw the following error when I tried to configure an old Rails project...

TalentSpace and the 2 months BootCamp program

A few months back I joined BigBinary as remote Software Developer and relocated to Kochi to stay close with family and friends. It's an unique experience wor...

GSoC 2013: Week 10 of Grandham project

Last week I've been working on admin review feature to incorporate the new changes happened in the user end.With the addition of in-place editing feature, ...

GSoC 2013: Week 9 of Grandham project

In Week 9, I rewrote the complete crowdsourcing functionality of Grandham from a submission based approach to micro-edits based approach. Earlier we used to ...

GSoC 2013: Week 8 of Grandham project

Last weekly I mainly worked on Search feature and admin interfaces. Here's a quick review:Experimented with various search engines like Sphinx, Ferret, etc...

GSoC 2013: Week 7 of Grandham project

I couldn't post the weekly updates regularly for the last two times since I was kept more busy than I had expected and the festive holiday that came in betwe...

GSoC 2013: Week 6 of Grandham project

This week I've been mostly fixing bugs, refactoring code and building admin features. Grandham has built in checks to avoid duplication in Authors/Publishers...