Gokul N. K
Hacker Noon
Bengaluru, KA, India
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Enhancing Search With Elastic
In our highlights application we recently worked on improving the search functionality. All the search API calls are routed through backend node api server to take care of authentication and access… → Read More
Understanding Intersection Observer API in Javascript
Just with a couple of lines and this API, you can improve the UX greatly for users. → Read More
Does it make sense to invest in Exchanges? –
Many cryptocurrency projects might fail badly and a very few projects might go on to become successful. A few successful projects might even become a household name in couple of years. But… → Read More
Tagging your entire knowledge Base
I am trying to do something. I broadly know how to do it but I don’t know the exact details. I search for it on Google. Google is a very big name today because it lets you get access to relevant… → Read More
Linux Survival Guide for Beginners
Switching from Windows to Linux can be really scary. But if you can survive the first few months the returns are exponential. Here is how I survived → Read More
Gatsby and Drupal
Gatsby is a popular static site generator that can communicate with any backend. → Read More
Understanding Zabbix
Use Zabbix to monitor all your server infrastructure from a single dashboard. → Read More
Tag your tweets and add private notes
Twitter recently added the option to bookmark your tweets. This was a great feature I was looking out for. These days I use twitter for keeping myself up-to-date about the latest happenings in tech… → Read More
Content Creation, Curation and Distribution in Digital Era — My Experiences
I have been doing a lot of thinking and preliminary research for the last six months about how content is created, curated and distributed in todays world, especially on internet. Most of my thinking… → Read More
Understanding UFW –
I have always been scared of IP tables. If you want to know the reason check out the man page for the same. Though I have heard from many people that IPtables are more robust and secure, I have never… → Read More
Linux Systemctl –
Before going gaga over systemd checkout arguments against it as well. But personally I find it easy to manage. Since I am not well versed in Linux it helps me make less blunders and miss out on doing… → Read More
Each of The Top 100 Cryptocurrencies Explained in One Sentence
From an All Time High(ATH) of $19,665.39 Bitcoin has now fallen to $3,398.68. That is a straight 82.78 % decline. If this is the condition of Bitcoin you can just imaging the plight of other… → Read More
Crowdsourcing The Image Search –
A couple of years ago (probably five to six years) I was reading an article and came across an image. The image was very interesting and caught my attention immediately. It was an original picture of… → Read More
The Thing about Rabbit Holes –
The dictionary meaning of a rabbit hole is as follows. → Read More
Why Hardfork20 is a big deal for Steem Blockchain –
This story was originally posted on September 25, before Hardfork20 went live. → Read More
Should I use Promises or Async-Await
I recently read a medium post where the author claimed that using async-await is better than using promises. While this might hold good in general cases, I think that generalisation was too broad and… → Read More
Understanding async-await in Javascript –
Async and Await are extensions of promises. So if you are not clear about the basics of promises please get comfortable with promises before reading further. You can read my post on Understanding… → Read More
Understanding promises in Javascript –
I have had a kind of “love and hate” relationship with Javascript. But nevertheless javascript was always intriguing for me. Having worked on Java and PHP for the last 10 years, Javascript seemed… → Read More
Sample data from Bitcoin Dominance Chart on Coin Market Cap.
CoinmarketCap has some global charts.You can find them on . I was particularly interested in the dominance chart. Recently when I was trying to do sampling from the… → Read More
Track your cryptocurrency trades and portfolio –
I first heard about Bitcoin back in 2011 and spent some time reading about it. I found it interesting but never considered investing in it. Again in 2013 I had a discussion with a friend about… → Read More