Narendra Acharya

ASIC engineer for profit, hobbyist programmer for fun.

My projects

Desktop

• Enhance face detection in shotwell and add face recognition using DNN

Android

• Owntracks Waypoint widget - inspired by the Weasley clock in the Harry Potter books, an app that shows locations of people with respect to waypoints, built on top of OwnTracks
• StorageTrac - track phone internal storage usage

Web

• Enhance Home-assistant zone plugin to capture waypoint list published from OwnTracks

Emacs

• diff-actor - Act out diff’s between files in Emacs
• org-autonum - automatic section numbering in org-mode

What I would like to do

Web

• Photo (stored on Google/Facebook) flashbacks based on Hindu calendar events
• An authentication and ACL management web app for the Mosquitto broker, using OpenID and mosquitto-auth-plug

Android

• Encourage kids to hand-write code on paper that can then be scanned by an app to execute on device

Tools

• WiT - Waveform in Text - show digital waveforms in ASCII art, want to write in Haskell using ncurses bindings

Posts

• Face detection and recognition in shotwell
• Running a Scotty web-app in Openshift
• How to setup the Owntracks Waypoints widget
• Owntracks Waypoints widget
• Making a Weasly clock on top of OwnTracks

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