July 29, 2024
tldr # We got Rubber Ducky and FineAI working again. Both of these assets are built using Hugo.
Overall steps # Starting a new site Installing theme Writing some content Version controlling it Writing a Nginx’s config Ensuring sub-domains are mapped correctly Ensure SSL is working on the sub-domain Significance of this activity is: With Nginx we can map multiple sites onto a single server. Since traffic is not much, we can map multiple sites onto single machine.
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January 9, 2024
Experience looking for various transcription services # Our team keeps on recording various audio and video for internal documentation. We did find various paid offering but as an experiment we wanted to try doing transcription in Python. This blog post summarizes the experience we had:
Following were things we tried:
Veed.io Sphinx SpeechRecognition DeepSpeech Following are steps to setup SpeechRecognition
Step 1: Installing pre-requisit libraries # Specifically install SpeechRecognition==3.8.1 version for the recognize_google to run.
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January 9, 2024
Setting up various JS Projects # Following are steps for setting up various JS projects. This includes:
NewScout Fafadia Tech’s Website LearnExponent Steps # Following are steps to ensure we have SSH key mapped correctly
Log in to https://git.fafadiatech.com Click on the profile section. Select Your Settings. Navigate to SSH Keys. Ensure that your local machine SSH keys are correctly mapped. If SSH keys are not mapped click on “add key” button.
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January 5, 2024
Highlight # We had ice-cream party in office today. Lot of code reviews back to back at Fafadia Tech on XpertConnect project. And, of course we get to know about our Team members.
Highlight of AMA sessions # We had XC’s second AMA session. Doubts were cleared on various questions team members had around functionality of ACM.
We also had a general AMA session where we discussed Squid Proxy and Celery
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January 2, 2024
Highlight # Us as a team were able to record, edit and publish a video all under less than 4 hours from scratch. Along the way we discovered Chirag has a golden voice and Eshwa has excellent intentions :)
Lessons learned from Google Ads campaign we ran pre-covid # I shared with team few lessons on how we ran PPC campaigns. Few lessons we learned along the way
Use of correct negative keywords leading to good productivity Organizing ads into ad groups Importance of writing a good copy text Having a good landing page, specifically Having only call to actions on the site (lack of menu navigation for users) Highlighting value proposition first than asking for CTA - Call to Action Testing ads with tracking tool like Hotjar, there is an opensource version for this OpenReplay Biggest regret I have is not running campaigns long enough CONSISTENTLY, its an investment that reaps rewards over longer period of time Not having a mailing list to market to On topic of designing campaigns its important to:
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January 1, 2024
Introduction # Hello World! Post. This is where we will be documenting all our lessons and learning! To run this locally we need to type hugo server --minify --theme hugo-book
Change Log # Created section for 2024 added Quarterly and Yearly Goals Created sections for handbook and projects Added sandbox section Added section on projects