On May 28, a friend bought the eBook version of my book on Amazon. But the royalties for the book have not yet shown up in my Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) account five days later. I definitely know the book was bought and that Amazon even has a record of it because Amazon paid me…
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Two weeks ago, I noticed that Elementary JavaScript hit the top 100 on Amazon in the category “Children’s Programming Books”: Then last week I noticed that it had moved up in rank to be in the Top 100 in three categories: As of today, it is still in the top 100 in Children’s Computer Programming….
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Here is a tutorial with code extracted from my son and my upcoming book – Intermediate JavaScript. This is the followup to my first book. This time we will teach you computer science and code concepts while building a game using the popular JavaScript game engine – Phaser 3. In this tutorial, I will walk…
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In 2019, we added another 4,380W of solar panels that went live in August 2019 on our garage as we were planning in 2018. Like our previous systems, we got these from Genesis Home and Energy. That brings our total system size to 20,735W of panels connected to two inverters (10kW + 6kW). Total production…
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I hope you enjoyed Part 1 with all the food I ate in Bombay Here is part 2 with some pictures of food I ate and some of what everyone with me ate on our Kerela trip:
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Every time I visit India, I eat a lot. A few years ago during a visit, I gained 7 pounds in three weeks. Since then, every time I visit India, all everyone wants to know is what I ate and how much weight I gained. Well this time around, I gained nearly 5 pounds in…
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No matter how many blog posts I write and the topics I write about, the most visited page on this site is my post about gelatin in yogurt. Now I found an even more confounding mechanism for innocuous delivery of gelatin via another food that doesn’t need it – dry roasted peanuts. Yes, you read…
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Pictures from Fort Kochi
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Pictures from a Kalaripayattu performance in Thekkady, Kerala. Kalaripayattu is the original martial art from which all others are derived.
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Here are some pictures from a Kathakali performance in Thekkady. It started off with a demonstration of eye movements and facial expressions: That was followed by a performance including live music depicting a story of a demoness trying to seduce a god but eventually failing:
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