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ashishknitcson I built an AI company to save my open source project

Eloquently explained, writing have have loads of wisdom earned and clubbed with benefit of hindsight.

ashishknitcson Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

An on-prem CDN for enterprise level video streaming on LAN/WAN in and geographically distributed branch offices.

Used wowza, nginx, python-flask

ashishknitcson Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web

IP may not be right choice as VPN are used

ashishknitcson Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web

Keyboard setup says EN IN

ashishknitcson Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables

In role of IT manager py2exe and pyinstaller are my goto tool to make script work on machine.

I’m from a IT dept of a oil company not much of savvy apps mostly dull.

As manager have to do lots of data wrangling for this and that form of reports.

scripts to do jobs on machine.

Python is only fullstack i know. Pyinstaller is mine goto tool to build executable and make it portable across environment.

ashishknitcson Public API Lists

Goodread API are not maintained or as tou mentioned depreciated. Like you I was also working on side project to fetch bookquotes along with source author/book. Finally, I had to use web scrapping to make application work.