This is a rant story about two incidents that happened to me with the Bounce Share, the self-drive bike rental service currently available in Bangalore, Hyderabad and a few other cities. I wouldn’t have probably written this at all, if the customer service was this bad. I was a regular customer of Bounce until the following incidents happened. Read on. […]
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[How To] Use Real-time Air Quality API from data.gov.in
data.gov.in is an Open Data platform which has many datasets and APIs from the Government of India. One of them is the Realtime Air Quality Index API which gives values from different monitoring stations across India. The pollutants monitored are Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone(O3), etc. I’ve played around with […]
Alexa Skills - Tutorials
Understanding Alexa Skills Kit Templates
Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) offers a set of templates for you to start developing skills for Amazon Alexa. However, when you are developing with ASK CLI and you are doing it for the first time, it is hard to understand which template means what kind of skill. This post it to detail it down to each template Alexa offers as […]
Alexa Skills - Tutorials
Create Alexa Skills Using Google Spreadsheets & Storyline
In this video, you will learn how to create an Alexa skill using Google Sheets. You can use Google Publish to Web functionality to convert your skill into a JSON API. Update November 13, 2018: Storyline is now Invocable and they are moving into a paid plan and a prototyping tool for UX designers. This tutorial is not relevant anymore. […]
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Bulk Bit.ly URLs Shortener – 2018
Do you have more than 10 links or even 100 links that you need instantly shortened using bit.ly? I am sure you are not looking to do them manually and I am sure you tried to google for the solutions and found quite a few excel sheets which are not working. This tutorial is for 2018 with updated API of […]
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Something, Something at the Cochin Airport
A friend asked me “Why do things like this always happen to you at airports?” and my response to her was, “Ahh, well because I am single and I keep looking around for stories”. Third travel weekend in January and I am almost falling sick this time. After a very beautiful wedding in Guruvayoor, Kerala, I head to the Cochin airport on […]
Alexa Skills - Tutorials
Working with APIs in thestoryline.io
Working with APIs is the coolest part of thestoryline.io according to me because I don’t have to sit and work on new ideas everytime I want to build a new skill. Since there are quite a few gaps on how to use APIs with the tool, I’ve decided to write a lengthy article which covers every single kind of API […]
Alexa Skills - Reviews
Create Alexa Skills without Coding at all
ProductHunt is an amazing website I tell you. I was browsing through new products and I find an online tool to build Alexa Skills for free and without knowing anything related to Alexa Skills or Alexa Skills Kit.
Tutorials - Vue.js
Directives in Vue
This example uses directives in Vue. To begin with learning directives, start by creating a new folder vue-directives.
Tutorials - Vue.js
Getting Started with Vue.js – Vue Instance
If you are someone like me who is struggling to type Vue and ends up typing View, don’t worry, you are in good company.