My Solo Trek to Tsho Rolpa
I was going through a difficult time in my life around March-April 2024, for both academic and personal reasons, to be precise, I was burnt out and was going through existential crisis. Travelling far from Kathmandu had been on my mind for quite some time—I wanted to escape the hustle of the city and enjoy nature in peace. I had been plotting my travel plans even before then, and I think in March, I chose Rara Lake as my destination....
Reading Discord messages with RSS reader
TL;DR I had a bot listening to messages in Discord. If there were any messages, it would store them in a MongoDB collection and then the messages would be fetched to make an RSS feed. The problem This was over a year ago back when there was ‘Lockdown’, I wanted to stay away from Discord for the peace of my mind but as our class server in Discord was the only way to remain informed of any class updates, I was having a hard time doing that....
Diagramming with ChatGPT
Introduction ChatGPT cannot embed pictures in conversations, but it is still possible to draw diagrams and charts like flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts and many others. There are tools such as mermaid.js (or, just Mermaid) that enable this. Quoting the official introduction about Mermaid: … is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. So with Mermaid, you just need to ask ChatGPT to write Mermaid code to draw diagrams....