Akshay Maurya

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Create a new GitHub account with the same email (2021)

Creating a new GitHub account for personal use with an email, that is already in use....

May 4, 2021 · 1 min · Akshay Maurya

Why is there sysrq key on my keyboard?

The answer to this question lies further back in time. Let’s begin first by looking what is SysRq. What is SysRq? The magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low-level commands regardless of the system’s state. It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem. Its effect is similar to the computer’s hardware reset button (or power switch) but with many more options and much more control....

August 27, 2020 · 2 min · Akshay Maurya
Flutter & Figma

Going from Figma to Flutter in just 5 minutes

When I started developing apps with Flutter, there was this thing that one has to develop UI only using code. This makes it quite hard to visualise how the app will look beforehand. To solve this problem, Figma comes to the rescue. Using it, one can design beautiful UIs and assets for there application and then export them as images, which then can be used in Flutter using Image.asset objects. But there is one limitation to this that, even for like changing the color of button, you have to again export the image, import it into assets, and then rebuild the app to include those assets....

May 13, 2020 · 3 min · Akshay Maurya

Creating a simple Telegram Bot with Python

Automating a simple Telegram bot can let you serve different types of data to various people including channels and group of which you are a part. I use my bot to serve my channel members Tech related news directly. Today I am going to share on how you can make such a simple EchoBot and deploy it on Heroku, so that it works 24x7. So without any further ado, let’s get started....

April 28, 2020 · 5 min · Akshay Maurya