Last week, had a discussion with MalaiKannan on Linux, Linux Users Groups, Kaniyam, Tamil Computing, Ebooks, ML/AI etc. Today he published the talk on his youtube channel “Malai Talks” .

See it here –

Shhh. It is a 2 hrs talk. Get prepared to hear long stories.

Sivaprabu, a friend from ilugc, shared a small clip of him seeing the talk on big TV. So happy

Last week, had a discussion with MalaiKannan on Linux, Linux Users Groups, Kaniyam, Tamil Computing, Ebooks, ML/AI etc. Today he published the talk on his youtube channel “Malai Talks” .

See it here –

Shhh. It is a 2 hrs talk. Get prepared to hear long stories.

Sivaprabu, a friend from ilugc, shared a small clip of him seeing the talk on big TV. So happy

Last week was an event full week.

• Last Thursday, at Heartcomonos,we had a potluck and drumming Jam. Went with friends, Nithya and kids. Good to see around 40 people. Few people came from Ukraine and other countries. Happy to see that heartcomonos is connecting local people, provides a friendly environment for all who miss the back home friends and relatives. The Drumming Jam was mesmerizing. Imagine 40 people are hitting hand drum with same rhythm. It induced the interesting learning drum. But, I remembered all the pending planned activities and a sleeping keyboard. In few months, I have to complete all the planned works and then only can explore the musical keyboard at home.

• Took few photos and videos of the event. With Darktable, I can mass edit, apply filters to all the photos. But video editing was always a nightmare for me. After exploring OpenShot, ShotCut, found that KDEnlive is an excellent tool for video editing. Though it asks efforts to learn it, the time and efforts are worth. we can all the video magics with it. Edited few event videos with kdenlive.

• Found good tamil video tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQ_RnSTkSg&list=PLhPOYM1ZXzOFPb-tvIGxpykG4jicBnitI

  Thanks to Prasanna for making wonderful tutorial. Thanks for your beautiful cover images for FreeTamilEbooks.com too.

  With good tools and methods, we can really do things quickly. Started to like Kdenlive after Emacs. Feeling like Emacs is for text and Kdenlive is for Videos.

• Visited BAPS Swami narayana temple in Etobicoke. It has stunning architecture. Kids are seeing many gods for the first time. We discussed about various religions, faiths and rituals. They more they ask questions, the more I say as they are just stories.

• Our favorite Stand up Comedian, Alexander Babu was in Toronto, last week for a show “Alexperience”. Nithya attended it. She wrote a thanks note for the event in Facebook. Alex replied with thanks. Read it in Tamil here, https://www.facebook.com/nithya.duraisamy.7/posts/pfbid02wjuDsZpqSX8xcD9YXVRPSBYgw14vYCPgifoNxvFtF9vv1QzdANhX55oFJntVrmACl

• When Nithya went to the show, Myself and kids watched his show “Alex in Wonderland” in Amazon Prime. Don’t miss the show if you like Tamil movies and songs. Many songs and singers were spoken in the show. Watched those songs along with the kids. Kids wondered on Karnan Sivaji, Muthu Rajini etc. Demonstrated how ARR started new wave in tamil music, with different songs. We placed a water bottle on top of the woofer. As the songs go, the bottle started to move and fell down. Discussed few basic science behind it.

• Last Monday, celebrated Canada day with a day out and fireworks at night.

• Announced a free python course in tamil at Kaniyam.com Get more info at https://kaniyam.com/python-course-2024/

  Python is a crowd puller. Within a day, we got 540+ members in the whatsapp group. Looking for good online training platform to run the classes smoothly, with 100+ participants.

  Thanks Syed Jafar for providing the free training and Shyamala for initiating the training discussions. All started with a request in our forum – https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/need-python-tutor/1999

• Yesterday, Spoke at a podcast about kaniyam, LUGs, Saama and other activities. It will be released after editing soon.

• Wrote code to find the unused kubernetes deployments by the loadbalancer’s request count and mapping with the Route53 entries. Programming is the best drug to be immersed, next to reading books.
• Playing with airflow on kubernetes for its performance fine tuning.

Interesting weeks are ahead. Will share more news as they happen. Do you write blogs? Reply here with your blog URL. I will follow them.

I feel like reading blogs are more peaceful than any other social media.

Last week was an event full week.

• Last Thursday, at Heartcomonos,we had a potluck and drumming Jam. Went with friends, Nithya and kids. Good to see around 40 people. Few people came from Ukraine and other countries. Happy to see that heartcomonos is connecting local people, provides a friendly environment for all who miss the back home friends and relatives. The Drumming Jam was mesmerizing. Imagine 40 people are hitting hand drum with same rhythm. It induced the interesting learning drum. But, I remembered all the pending planned activities and a sleeping keyboard. In few months, I have to complete all the planned works and then only can explore the musical keyboard at home.

• Took few photos and videos of the event. With Darktable, I can mass edit, apply filters to all the photos. But video editing was always a nightmare for me. After exploring OpenShot, ShotCut, found that KDEnlive is an excellent tool for video editing. Though it asks efforts to learn it, the time and efforts are worth. we can all the video magics with it. Edited few event videos with kdenlive.

• Found good tamil video tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsQ_RnSTkSg&list=PLhPOYM1ZXzOFPb-tvIGxpykG4jicBnitI

  Thanks to Prasanna for making wonderful tutorial. Thanks for your beautiful cover images for FreeTamilEbooks.com too.

  With good tools and methods, we can really do things quickly. Started to like Kdenlive after Emacs. Feeling like Emacs is for text and Kdenlive is for Videos.

• Visited BAPS Swami narayana temple in Etobicoke. It has stunning architecture. Kids are seeing many gods for the first time. We discussed about various religions, faiths and rituals. They more they ask questions, the more I say as they are just stories.

• Our favorite Stand up Comedian, Alexander Babu was in Toronto, last week for a show “Alexperience”. Nithya attended it. She wrote a thanks note for the event in Facebook. Alex replied with thanks. Read it in Tamil here, https://www.facebook.com/nithya.duraisamy.7/posts/pfbid02wjuDsZpqSX8xcD9YXVRPSBYgw14vYCPgifoNxvFtF9vv1QzdANhX55oFJntVrmACl

• When Nithya went to the show, Myself and kids watched his show “Alex in Wonderland” in Amazon Prime. Don’t miss the show if you like Tamil movies and songs. Many songs and singers were spoken in the show. Watched those songs along with the kids. Kids wondered on Karnan Sivaji, Muthu Rajini etc. Demonstrated how ARR started new wave in tamil music, with different songs. We placed a water bottle on top of the woofer. As the songs go, the bottle started to move and fell down. Discussed few basic science behind it.

• Last Monday, celebrated Canada day with a day out and fireworks at night.

• Announced a free python course in tamil at Kaniyam.com Get more info at https://kaniyam.com/python-course-2024/

  Python is a crowd puller. Within a day, we got 540+ members in the whatsapp group. Looking for good online training platform to run the classes smoothly, with 100+ participants.

  Thanks Syed Jafar for providing the free training and Shyamala for initiating the training discussions. All started with a request in our forum – https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/need-python-tutor/1999

• Yesterday, Spoke at a podcast about kaniyam, LUGs, Saama and other activities. It will be released after editing soon.

• Wrote code to find the unused kubernetes deployments by the loadbalancer’s request count and mapping with the Route53 entries. Programming is the best drug to be immersed, next to reading books.
• Playing with airflow on kubernetes for its performance fine tuning.

Interesting weeks are ahead. Will share more news as they happen. Do you write blogs? Reply here with your blog URL. I will follow them.

I feel like reading blogs are more peaceful than any other social media.