Bhrigu Srivastava

Developer | Software Engineer

Blog posts

2020 - A Look back at the Year
December 31, 2020

2020 - A Look back at the Year

Looking back at 2020, it was a confusing ride. It started off well in January, but Feb/March onwards was when it started to get…confusing. I guess it’s all part of life to experience challenges in life. In the end it’s all good.
Migrating to Hugo

Migrating to Hugo

December 8, 2020

Back in 2015 I kicked off blogging when I discovered Octpress. It has been a great journey in my writing experience. I had started it to mostly comprise of technical articles.
Track Your Time Effectively and Easily Using Google Sheets or Excel

Track Your Time Effectively and Easily Using Google Sheets or Excel

May 24, 2020

The first step in time management is to assess yourself. Meaning, track how and where you spend your time. I was reading one of Harvard Business Review’s publication
Mac Os X Command Line Tools to Edit Media

Mac Os X Command Line Tools to Edit Media

April 12, 2020

Sometimes it is quite convenient and quick to edit media files (for eg. resize images) via command line. Below are such helpful tools for Mac OS X.
2019 Year in Review

2019 Year in Review

March 9, 2020

It’s the March of 2020 now. I am super late this time to write about my last year in review blog post. The thing is, 2020 has been a super confusing ride from the beginning. And it’s just March.
2018 of Strings and Beats

2018 of Strings and Beats

January 2, 2019

Well, 2018 is over and it feels like it went by so fast. As compared to 2017 or ‘16, there might not be anything that was majorly interesting, but nonetheless, it was a good year.
Test Blog

Test Blog

November 5, 2018

Oh, hey! Don’t mind, this is just a test blog. I don’t really have anything on my mind on what to put down on this one. I overslept the last night, had some relaxing nap some time later, and here I am super awake at midnight.
Instant Lyrics New Project

Instant Lyrics New Project

March 13, 2017

I love listening to music on Spotify. There were times I used to wish that I could instantly view lyrics of the song being played on Spotify, without going through the trouble of browsing the net. Well, not anymore.
JEEQuery - Journey, Stats and Updates

JEEQuery - Journey, Stats and Updates

February 23, 2017

It was the summer of 2015. I was down with an illness and had to stay confined in a room. Being too disinclined to prepare for interviews, I started out with a new django project, with the purpose of learning some new stuff in django.
My Own Octopress Theme and Other Blog Updates

My Own Octopress Theme and Other Blog Updates

February 5, 2017

Recently, I have been doing a lot of changes in my blog’s layout and pages, to incorporate better readability, good looking pages and make it less cramped.
Lru Cache C++ Implementation

Lru Cache C++ Implementation

January 22, 2017

LRU, or Least Recetly Used, is one of the Page Replacement Algorithms, in which the system manages a given amount of memory - by making decisions what pages to keep in memory, and which ones to remove when the memory is full.
Huffman Coding Python Implementation

Huffman Coding Python Implementation

January 17, 2017

Huffman Coding is one of the lossless data compression techniques. It assigns variable-length codes to the input characters, based on the frequencies of their occurence. The most frequent character is given the smallest length code.
2016 My Year in Review

2016 My Year in Review

December 29, 2016

2016 is almost over and I felt like writing again (which happens quite rarely). Trying to recollect few of the highilghts of this year, which was full of surprises, excitement and challenges.
Hyderabad Moments Amazon Internship

Hyderabad Moments Amazon Internship

October 12, 2016

My 2 month internship at Amazon was an amazing experience and a new phase, be it living separately for the first time in a different city, or my first ever internship/job experience.
Photoshoot at Lodhi Garden

Photoshoot at Lodhi Garden

June 3, 2016

Before I leave for Hyderabad in a few days, I thought of paying another visit to Lodhi Garden, and immerse myself into its serene environment one last time (before I return).
Django How to Add Foreignkey to Multiple Models

Django How to Add Foreignkey to Multiple Models

May 21, 2016

Test string1 Basically, how to make relation to more than one type of model, using one ForeignKey. (using contenttypes app and Generic Relations) Suppose you have two models: Article and Post
A Song of Ice and Fire Analysis

A Song of Ice and Fire Analysis

April 17, 2016

“Game of Thrones” is almost on every lips of the people you come across. You yourself might be an ardent follower of the hit HBO TV series. But what you might not be aware of is the genius put behind in building up this epic fantasy series, by none other than the author himself of A song of ice and fire books: George RR Martin.
3 Jug Problem Python Code

3 Jug Problem Python Code

April 4, 2016

I came across this image by a Facebook page (Curiosity), which asked a solution to the famous Water Jug problem, involving 3 jugs.
Ubuntu Some Handy Tools to Edit Audio / Video

Ubuntu Some Handy Tools to Edit Audio / Video

April 1, 2016

There are several tools & libraries to edit audio/video files in Linux, such as change dimensions, video converter, resize/rotate images etc. Mainly we’ll use avconv, which can be used as command line in Linux.
Deployed and Hosted

Deployed and Hosted

September 1, 2015

The site's live. It took a lot of work and testing to finally launch the beta version of JEEQuery. It is something I have been working on for a long time, which brought forward various challenges and hurdles, and kept me occupied all this time.
Starting Django Project

Starting Django Project

July 6, 2015

django-admin.py startproject newproj I had learnt the django framework basics quite a while ago, but never worked on or made a complete functional project. To kick off, I’m starting a basic Q&A app using django, and plan to learn along with the challenges I face, and discover new stuff.
How to Install Ubuntu With Dual Boot Easy Step Wise Guide

How to Install Ubuntu With Dual Boot Easy Step Wise Guide

June 22, 2015

Here is the easy step-wise installation guide to install Ubuntu along side with your Windows (dual boot)
The Game Is On

The Game Is On

June 18, 2015

So after setting up octopress and learning how to use it and deploy using Github, I have finally set out to blogging, which I wanted to start for a long time but was everytime too lazy to set up my computer.