As summer is here, the days are long. We are going to nearby park in most of the evenings.
Viyan started to play basket ball. I am also learning it along with him.
Got a kids guitar for him. He started to practise it daily.

On Last saturday saturday, Tamil classes concluded for kids, for this academic year. In this month end, we will get 2 months holidays for kids. There will be more outdoor, park, library visits.

TossConf25 ( Tamil Open Source Conference) is happening next month. July 18,19 2025 at St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai. Dont miss it if you are in or around chennai.
Interesting talks and workshops are planned. Book your ticket now here – https://TossConf25.kaniyam.com Thanks for the organizing team for the awesome efforts.

I am collecting huge tamil corpus from around 200+ websites daily. Getting content from RSS feeds are easier than scrapping. But need patience to build the huge text content daily. From 200+ websites, getting around 10 MB text content daily. Colelcting the new words and frequently used words, to build the base
of tamil spellchecker.

I am thinking of hosting one more FreshRSS instance with all these RSS news feeds.
We can read adfree news with RSS Feeds.

On exploring the news websites, found the below things

• Too many advertisements. Signal to Noise ratio is too high. We will lose interesting reading with this high amount of advertisements.
• Many websites dont provide RSS feeds. The custom platforms they use dont have RSS feed feature.
• For few of the wordpress websites, the admin disabled RSS feeds.
• Few site feeds provide only headings on the feeds.
• Cloudflare prevents feeds to be read by any feed reader, except the browser.
• Many writers have their websites, but not writing there frequently. But so active on social media.
  They should atleast keep a copy on their websites,blogs.
  
  Used the below plugin to get the RSS feed link from the websites. – Rsshub Radar – https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rsshub-radar/kefjpfngnndepjbopdmoebkipbgkggaa

Sad to see that Google is showing only 7-8 pages of text content websites. After that, for all queries, we are getting only youtube video links. Whatever we write, google will show only form the mainstream websites.

I am reading more about the copyrights and Rss feeds.
Is it fine to get the full text rss feed and open them all to the public for free reading?

It will be super good to read text without any advertisements, banners, popups, and distractions.
But, the copyright is tricky here. Writers will agree to send their content via email for subscribers, via RSS feed for any personal feed readers. But, may not agree for public feed aggregators.

is it okey to give login credentials for users, to read the content?

I will check with few friends and mentors on what they think.
Reply here on what you are thinking on this.

Here is a screenshot of freshrss shows content from various websites.

Work is going super busy with many new activities. Lot of new learnings on AWS and networking.

Published a video by Nithya on “Basics of IT” in tamil. Watch it here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sMgZZw0CY

Slowly building local tech community. There are many neighbours interested in learnig tech things.
Will do a python workshop for adults.
Will plan for few tech trainings for kids in the upcoming summer break.

Achutha, nithya’s friend is going to give a demo on azure pipeline this saturday evening.

How are you learning new things? If you have any tech people around you, how are you creating a community of learning together? Share your thoughts.

Missed weekly notes for few weeks. Got some interesting days. I reduced the time spent on facebook, twitter, instagram and youtube.
Wanted to work on some long year dreams. I am happy on the progress. Still have to do a lot on these. But giving a start itself a good thing.

• Working on word lookup based spellchecker for tamil language.
  Implemented bloom filter, bk tree based search/suggestion solution.
  Need to improve with error free tamil words.
  Collecting good words from available tamil datasets.
  May have to work on applying few grammar rules.
  It is a long dream to bring a open source tamil spellcheker.
  Giving some time and focus to work on the dreams.
  
  see the POC demo here – https://iyal.kaniyam.ca/
  It is just a POC. there are tons of things to improve.
  Stay tuned or contribute, to see the changes.
  
• I want to reduce the content consumption from social media.
  But still want to read the content by beloved writers and bloggers.
  Fortunately, few of them are still writing in their blogs, websites and online magazines.
  Collected the websites of the tamil writers, publishers, literary magazines.
  Hosted a FreshRSS instance here – https://reader.kaniyam.ca/
  You can also read good tamil content here daily, without any advertisements, promotions, algorithms.
  
  Let me know if we can add any more tamil sites that are related to literature and technology.
  The only requirement is that the website should provide RSS feeds.
  Sad to know that many webmasters are removing the RSS feeds from their sites.
  Please enable RSS feed in your blogs and websites, so that the content will reach many readers.
  
• As I am exploring many websites for good tamil content, found that many websites disappeared from the internet. One of the major reason is missing of domain renewals. we give some email id when registering the domains. But, we switch emails very often. When we get email alerts on the email accounts that we never check, we loss the domains. Working on a dashboard to show the list of domains and their expiry dates. Thanks to python, prometheus and grafana.
  Added around 200 domains to the monitoring list, which I know the persons who manage the domains. I am sending them private messages in whatsapp or telegram or email reminding to renew. Will try to automate the notification. Let me know if you like to add your or any domain to monitoring list.
  
• Will release all the code for all of the above this week.
  
• Many of my friends are worrying about the future of IT jobs. The recent AI tools are generating good code. Will they lead to human losing the technical jobs? I expect the same. There will be change always. We have to keep on learning new things and be ready to do any kind of job.
  The days of doing same role for many years are gone. In future, we all should be knowing backend, frontend, database, deployment tools. Interesting days are on the way. Be open to learning new things.
  
• Nithya released 4th video on GenAI series in Tamil – Next word prediction using LSTM – see it here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f0QMUOdfOg
  
• Tamil Open Source Conference 2025 is happening next month, in chennai. Check the details here – https://TossConf25.kaniyam.com
  
  Call for speakers is here – https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/tossconf25-call-for-speakers/2913
  
• On Saturday’s Tamil Grammar meetings, we are working on writing python code for tamil grammar rules using the very old book Tolkappiyam. Join and contribute, if you like to help for tamil language.
  
• On Sundays, we meet at Kanchi Linux Users Group online meetings and discuss various open source things. We mentor students and job seekers to do some projects. Dont miss these meetings, to dive into older and modern technologies.
  
• All our events are listed in the calendar at https://kaniyam.com/events subscribe to the google calendar there using computer. Thanks to Vanaja for curating all the events and publishing there.
  
• Syed Jafer from parottasalna.com is one of the passionate FOSS contributor. He is a good trainer on Python, redis, data structures, git etc. He started a forum to discuss tech things. Post your questions here – https://forums.parottasalna.com/ Happy to see many forums are being built. Contribute to the open forums, open websites and keep them active and alive.
  
• Books completed – சமயங்களின் அரசியல் – தொ. பரமசிவன். , ஓம் ஷன்ரிக்கியோ – பா. ராகவன்
• Currently reading – What the internet is doing to our brains – The Shallows – by Nicholas Carr
  
• What are you doing interestingly? Write them on your blog as individual blogs or as weekly notes like this.

Missed weekly notes for few weeks. Got some interesting days. I reduced the time spent on facebook, twitter, instagram and youtube.
Wanted to work on some long year dreams. I am happy on the progress. Still have to do a lot on these. But giving a start itself a good thing.

• Working on word lookup based spellchecker for tamil language.
  Implemented bloom filter, bk tree based search/suggestion solution.
  Need to improve with error free tamil words.
  Collecting good words from available tamil datasets.
  May have to work on applying few grammar rules.
  It is a long dream to bring a open source tamil spellcheker.
  Giving some time and focus to work on the dreams.
  
  see the POC demo here – https://iyal.kaniyam.ca/
  It is just a POC. there are tons of things to improve.
  Stay tuned or contribute, to see the changes.
  
• I want to reduce the content consumption from social media.
  But still want to read the content by beloved writers and bloggers.
  Fortunately, few of them are still writing in their blogs, websites and online magazines.
  Collected the websites of the tamil writers, publishers, literary magazines.
  Hosted a FreshRSS instance here – https://reader.kaniyam.ca/
  You can also read good tamil content here daily, without any advertisements, promotions, algorithms.
  
  Let me know if we can add any more tamil sites that are related to literature and technology.
  The only requirement is that the website should provide RSS feeds.
  Sad to know that many webmasters are removing the RSS feeds from their sites.
  Please enable RSS feed in your blogs and websites, so that the content will reach many readers.
  
• As I am exploring many websites for good tamil content, found that many websites disappeared from the internet. One of the major reason is missing of domain renewals. we give some email id when registering the domains. But, we switch emails very often. When we get email alerts on the email accounts that we never check, we loss the domains. Working on a dashboard to show the list of domains and their expiry dates. Thanks to python, prometheus and grafana.
  Added around 200 domains to the monitoring list, which I know the persons who manage the domains. I am sending them private messages in whatsapp or telegram or email reminding to renew. Will try to automate the notification. Let me know if you like to add your or any domain to monitoring list.
  
• Will release all the code for all of the above this week.
  
• Many of my friends are worrying about the future of IT jobs. The recent AI tools are generating good code. Will they lead to human losing the technical jobs? I expect the same. There will be change always. We have to keep on learning new things and be ready to do any kind of job.
  The days of doing same role for many years are gone. In future, we all should be knowing backend, frontend, database, deployment tools. Interesting days are on the way. Be open to learning new things.
  
• Nithya released 4th video on GenAI series in Tamil – Next word prediction using LSTM – see it here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f0QMUOdfOg
  
• Tamil Open Source Conference 2025 is happening next month, in chennai. Check the details here – https://TossConf25.kaniyam.com
  
  Call for speakers is here – https://forums.tamillinuxcommunity.org/t/tossconf25-call-for-speakers/2913
  
• On Saturday’s Tamil Grammar meetings, we are working on writing python code for tamil grammar rules using the very old book Tolkappiyam. Join and contribute, if you like to help for tamil language.
  
• On Sundays, we meet at Kanchi Linux Users Group online meetings and discuss various open source things. We mentor students and job seekers to do some projects. Dont miss these meetings, to dive into older and modern technologies.
  
• All our events are listed in the calendar at https://kaniyam.com/events subscribe to the google calendar there using computer. Thanks to Vanaja for curating all the events and publishing there.
  
• Syed Jafer from parottasalna.com is one of the passionate FOSS contributor. He is a good trainer on Python, redis, data structures, git etc. He started a forum to discuss tech things. Post your questions here – https://forums.parottasalna.com/ Happy to see many forums are being built. Contribute to the open forums, open websites and keep them active and alive.
  
• Books completed – சமயங்களின் அரசியல் – தொ. பரமசிவன். , ஓம் ஷன்ரிக்கியோ – பா. ராகவன்
• Currently reading – What the internet is doing to our brains – The Shallows – by Nicholas Carr
  
• What are you doing interestingly? Write them on your blog as individual blogs or as weekly notes like this.