Productivity

Literate programming with markdown and $\LaTeX$: Part 1

Introduction $\LaTeX$ is a Turing complete langauge besides being one of the popular typesetting systems in action since a very long ago. $\LaTeX$ workflows are fully reproducible and extremely customizable, hence its popularity over WYSIWYG softwares. This my first in a series of lessons about easing the workflow with $\LaTeX$.

Batch scripting and using open source video downloader

Background Open source community is a host of invaluable tools for raising productivity. One of these tools include youtube-dl which is a shell/command line based tool for making requests and streaming data. In addition, it links to the popular ffmpeg library to weave together video and streams, all seamlessly.

Writing a Reference/Recommendation Letter

Draft a LoR for yourself