Today I Learned

I was checking how my resume would look like when parsed by ATS. For parsing, I used the pdftotext command in linux.

There were some errors with parsing icons. I was using font awesome icons in LaTex as shown below.

\faIcon{laptop}\href{https://www.chaitanyavaru.com}{www.chaitanyavaru.com}

\faIcon{linkedin}\href{https://linkedin.com}{linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu}

When pdf file was parsed, icons were coming up as gibberish.

 www.chaitanyavaru.com
ï linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu

To resovle this, I used accsupp package to add accessiblity text for the icons.

\BeginAccSupp{ActualText={Website: }}\faIcon{laptop}\EndAccSupp{} \href{https://www.chaitanyavaru.com}{www.chaitanyavaru.com}

\BeginAccSupp{ActualText={LinkedIn: }}\faIcon{linkedin}\EndAccSupp{} \href{https://linkedin.com}{linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu}

With that, icons were parsed correctly without any gibberish.

Website: www.chaitanyavaru.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chaitanya-varu

Simple RSS (my rss reader) had one behaviour that bugged me for a while.

On the index page, there is a list of all available articles. I usually open a few articles in new tabs, read them, and then go back to the index page.

Once an article is read, it is marked as read. Now when I visit the index page again, those already-read articles are still present in the list. It would be good to remove articles once they are read. Simple RSS is a server rendered app. So I didn’t want any state management like zustand that could share state across browser tabs.

I found out about visibilitychange event which fits my use case. It is triggered when page visibility changes.

Now whenever the index page is visited after reading individual articles, a query is executed. The query compares current index page articles with their database status, and if any article has been marked as read, it is removed.

Now I don’t need to remember which articles are already read.

Further Reading

• Page Visibility API

Fedora released an update, so I upgraded my system. In hindsight, shouldn’t have done that.

System updated successfully still errors raised. Dependencies from hyprland started having errors as a result, hyprland stopped working.

I had to work without a tiling window manager & keybindings.

Update

After two days, I switched the hyprland repository from solopasha to lionheartp and it worked.

Found that earlier repository had became inactive and COPR now recommened the new one.

Usually I used scp to transfer files between my local system & VM.

Today, I had to transfer multiple files from my ~/.agents/skills/ directory. A copy of it was already on the local system, but multiple files were updated in the VM.

Instead of overwriting the full directory, I found rsync a much better command here because of its delta transfer. It will copy only the modified files.

Secure Copy Protocol (scp)

scp [options] <source> <destination>

• -r: recursively copy all files in a directory

Remote Synchronization (rsync)

rsync [options] <source> <destination>

• -a: archive. preserves permissions, timestamps, etc
• -v: verbose
• --progress: show progress

For example, we can sync directories between a remote location and local system like this:

rsync -av user@host:/remote/path/to/directory/ /local/path/to/directory/