Popular Projects
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ENDOFLIFE.DATE
- A website to track EoL of projects
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IDEAS
- Ideas for everyone under a CC licence. Feel free to use.
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HACKERTRAY
- A system-tray Hacker News app for Linux
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HACKERCOUCH
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RSS
- A list of various RSS-related projects
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EBOOKS
- Multiple Scrapers for online content that generates EPUB/MOBI files
Projects by Date
Almost all the projects below are under a FOSS license (mostly MIT). This page does not include contributions to other projects. Most projects are still maintained, unless stated otherwise.
Some of the projects are mirrored on my personal Gitea server at https://git.captnemo.in/.
- Stackshare Dataset
- Jan 2024: A well-tagged dataset for various tools and services, sourced from StackShare.io.
- EpicQR
- Jan 2024: Library to decode a QR code on a modern India EPIC/Voter ID card.
- emoji-every-day
- Dec 2023: An emoji character for (almost) every day, such as 🎄 for Christmas, or 🧑🏾‍🚀 for International Day of Human Space Flight.
- blr.vote
- Dec 2023: A website to guide Bangalore residents to register to vote. Made with Shreyas.
- Bangalore Habba Calendar
- Nov 2023 A ICS calendar that you can subscribe for the unboxing BLR Habba 2023.
- Uttarakhand State Gazette Archive
- Nov 2023 Created an archive of Uttarakhand’s State Gazette, going back to 2006. Updated on a monthly basis.
- Policy Submission - Dark Patterns
- Oct 2023 Submitted recommendations and suggestions on the
Draft Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns (Ministry
of Consumer Affairs, India). Documented a lot of egregious behavior from
Indian startups and suggested improvements in the guidelines to account
for those. In collaboration with Chandra and
Joy.
- Beatroot News: Text-Only
- June 2023 A plaintext-only version of Beatroot News.
- Forteller yt-dlp plugin
- May 2023 A
yt-dlp plugin to rip DRM-free tracks from Forteller.
- Mutual Funds TER Tracker
- May 2023 Automatically tracking Total Expense Ratios of Indian Mutual Funds.
- Jekyll SQLite Plugin #ruby
- May 2023 A Jekyll plugin that lets you use SQLite database instead of data files as a data source.
- Debian Version #ruby
- May 2023 A port of Debian Version comparison to Ruby.
- blr.puzzledpint.com
- May 2023 A simple link website for the Bangalore PuzzledPint chapter (which I host!).
- Swiggy OpenAPI Specification #openapi #reverse-engineering
- Mar 2023 An unofficial specification for the Swiggy APIs, written using OpenAPI 3.1.
- Historical Mutual Funds Dataset #data
- Mar 2023 An automatically-updating SQLite database with pricing information of all Indian Mutual Funds, going back to 2006.
- Microsoft Knowledgebase Metadata #data
- Jan 2023 A small automatically-updated subset of the Microsoft Knowledgebase metadata, useful for mapping KB IDs to Publication Dates or URLs.
- Photon OS Advisories #data #security
- Jan 2023- Automatically publishing an OSV Feed from advisories published for VMWare’s Photon OS.
- Debian ELTS Advisories #data #security
- Jan 2023- Automatically publishing an OSV Feed from advisories published for Debian ELTS by Freexian.
- tatooine.club #self-hosting
- Dec 2022 Running a Mastodon server for friends and family.
- Indian Synonyms
- Dec 2022 A list of Indian Synonyms for use in search engines. Initially targeted towards address matching.
- India Mutual Funds API #automation #data #api
- Jun 2022 A public API for Indian Mutual Funds using data from public sources.
- NPCI RSS Feeds #rss
- April 2022 A simple RSS feed generator for various NPCI Circulars.
- plugo.io dataset #data
- Mar 2022 A simple website to republish and surface plugo.io powerbank locations on the internet.
- iff-fundraiser #non-profit
- Dec 2021 Organized a fundraiser for the Internet Freedom Foundation and raised approximately 5 Lakh rupees (6700 USD).
- airtel-blocked-hosts #data
- Nov 2021 A periodically updated list of websites known to be blocked in India on the Airtel Broadband network.
- which-electron #nodejs
- July 2021 Find out which Electron version is bundled inside an application.
- electron-fingerprints #nodejs #php
- July 2021 Fingerprints of electron releases that can be used to guess electron version of applications without running them.
- simpl-docs #openapi #reverse-engineering
- June 2021 An unofficial specification for the simpl API.
- india-isin-data #data #automation
- June 2021 International Securities Identification Numbers for various Indian Securities
- plaintext-everything #resources
- Ongoing A list of tools and articles helpful for keeping everything under plaintext.
- youtube-cue #nodejs
- May 2021- Helps you tag music compilations from YouTube by generating a CUE file.
- pystitcher #python #ebooks
- May 2021- Sitches your PDF files together, with customizable bookmarks using a markdown file to declare the PDF structure.
- kuvera-docs #openapi #reverse-engineering
- May 2021 An unofficial specification for the Kuvera API.
- forteller-dl #reverse-engineering
- Apr 2021 A reverse-engineered implementation of the Forteller Games mobile app. See Forteller-YT-DLP above.
- electoral.bond #activism
- Apr 2021 An April fool’s joke on India’s opaque Electoral Bond instruments and how they can be used for money laundering
- HgInit #archival
- Nov 2020 Re-published HgInit, a Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky at a stable URL using GitHub Pages.
- never-say-you-cant-survive #ebooks
- Oct 2020 Script to generate an ebook for “Never Say You Can’t Survive” - book by Charlie Jane Anders.
- sanskari-proxy #activism #infrastructure
- Sep 2020- A proxy for security researchers outside India to access Indian government websites without resorting to shady VPNs.
- boardgame-research #resources #boardgames
- July 2020- A list of research content on modern boardgames - such as Catan, Risk, Uno, Mafia, Hanabi, and more.
- modernart #boardgames
- June 2020 A MiniZinc based attempt to solve the Modern Art: Masters Gallery game.
- suntime #crystal
- May 2020 Crystal library for calculating sunrise and sunset times for Earth.
- ickabog-ebook #ebooks
- May 2019 Generates ebooks for The Ickabog by J.K Rowling. Uses original text from https://www.theickabog.com/, falling back to the Web Archive where needed. Supports all 9 languages.
- okiya #boardgames
- April 2020 A
boardgame.io implementation of the Okiya boardgame.
- muse-dl #ebooks
- March 2020 A crystal command line application to support downloading and stitching of books from Project MUSE
- epub-metadata-generator #ebooks #nodejs
- Feb 2020 Generates a
metadata.xml file for an EPUB from various online sources, can be used with pandoc.
- security-engineering-ebook #ebooks
- Feb 2020 A script to generate a combined PDF of the Security Engineering Book (Ross Anderson) using the chapters available for review.
- pincode-validator #python #nodejs #javascript #php
- Feb 2020 A regex based validator for Postal Index Numbers in India in various languages.
- url-to-epub #nodejs
- Jan 2020 A simple zero-config script that generates a standards-compliant EPUB from a webpage.
- sarkar.icu #activism
- Dec 2019 Communications guide for network shutdowns. @prtksxna did most of the work.
- terraform-data-looker-ips #terraform #infrastructure
- Oct 2019- A terraform package that keeps track of various IP addresses used by Looker. Can be used to easily create firewall configurations.
- outliner #ruby
- August 2019 A simple Ruby Client for the Outline knowledge base with easy-to-use export and import functionality.
- tld-a-record #dataset
- Ongoing I maintain a continously updated list of all TLDs with A records. Available at https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/
- endoflife.date #dataset #website #openapi
- Ongoing A simple informative site with EoL dates of everything you need.
- DNS-over-HTTPS #infrastructure
- 2019 Running a DNS over HTTPS server.
- prometheus-act-exporter #nodejs #infrastructure
- July 2018 A simple prometheus exporter for ACT Fibernet customers that generatetes Internet Usage metrics by scraping the ACT Self-care portal. Uses Google Puppeteer. Also available as a NPM package.
- Kayak #infrastructure #kubernetes
- 2018 Bootstrapping a kubernetes cluster on top of the Docker API by using Terraform and Bootkube
- DNSCrypt #infrastructure #privacy
- 2017 Running a DNSCrypt server on a Digital Ocean BLR1 server.
- SpeakForMe #activism
- Dec 2017 A website to contact your MP about the Aadhaar Bill. See news coverage.
- Sushi Go #boardgames
- Summer 2017 This is a work-in-progress conversion of Sushi Go (original), the popular card game by Gamewright into Ruby.
- cosmere-books #ebooks #ruby
- September 2017 Wrote a EPUB generator for multiple books in the Cosmere. Currently covers 10 different books or serializations of some sort, mostly at Tor.com. See a list of all my ebooks projects at /ebooks/
- ideas #resources
- Ongoing I maintain a CC0 licensed list of personal ideas. Feel free to use.
- spectrumyzer #python #maths
- May 2017 Created an animated wallpaper using spectrumyzer. Wrote a blog post about it.
- google-sre-ebook #ebooks #ruby
- Feb/Sep 2017 EPUB generator for the Google SRE ebook. Started in February in Python. Gave up and redid it properly in September. Now also supports the SRE Workbook.
- CodeChef Offline #dataset
- March 2012 I attempted to make a offline repository for CodeChef problems. I spent some time in May 2017 upgrading the project with a cleaner scraper and a Jekyll base.
- hoshruba #ebooks #ruby
- June 2015 I wrote a script that scraped Tor’s serialized publication of the first book in Hoshruba series to generate EPUB and MOBI files.
- HackerTray #gui #python
- December 2013 - I wrote a Linux PyGTK application that sits in your taskbar using Indicator Applet to show you the latest stories from Hacker News. Looking for a maintainer.
- MagicMuggle #ebooks
- May 2017 I wrote a script to convert Magic Muggle (A Harry Potter fanfic about a muggle who accidentally gets into Hogwarts) books from their original reddit posts to EPUB and MOBI files.
- Kerala IT Policy #activism
- March 2017 Attempted to transcribe the draft IT policies put up by the Government of Kerala. Lots of OCR followed by manual fixes. I stopped working on this when I realized that the government had actually put up a really nice website for this (with clear plaintext, not the bad PDF I was using as the source).
- lightsaber #ruby
- August 2015 I created a DNS based HTTP-3xx redirect service. Useful if you own a domain and you want it to be redirected, but don’t have a webserver with you. Made as part of the Django Hackathon organized by HackerEarth in Ruby.
- HackerCouch #jekyll
- November 2015 My hack during hackbeach 2015. Created something best described as “couchsurfing for hackers”. Simple Jekyll/Ruby website hosted on GitHub Pages.
- Constitution of India
- April 2015 A git-based constitution of India, that lets you view each amendment as a plain-text diff. Updated till 100th Amendment as of Jan 2020.
- ifttt-webhook
- 2014- A webhook middleware for the ifttt.com service. Still used by some people.
- WoNA Archives
- 2011- A download page for all issues of Watch Out News Agency. (source) (A college magazine at my Alma-mater).
Packages
I maintain a few packages on the Arch User Repository.
Older Projects
You might wanna take a look at my github, NPM, PyPI, Packagist, Rubygems, or AUR profile pages. Most of the following projects are no longer under active development. Ther’s also a lot of work missing here that I did while at SDSLabs. Some of my projects are mirrored on my Gitea server.
Very Old Projects
- Hacker - Hacking Game Simulator in written in 8th grade #turbocpp
