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  <title>Aashish Varier R : Blog</title>
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  <description>Blog posts by Aashish Varier R on GitHub Pages, Chrome extensions, HuggingFace pretrained models, Docker, designing an alerter, and WSL2 dev setup.</description>
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    <title>#5 QuickLoad - One Script to Set Up a Fresh WSL2 Box</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A single interactive bash script that sets up my usual dev stack (Git, Java, Docker, KinD, Elastic, Node, Postgres and more) on a fresh WSL2 Ubuntu box. The repo is archived, but it is self-contained and might still save you an afternoon of setup.</description>
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    <title>#4 Designing an Alerter</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A scalable ETL pipeline using event-driven architecture for real-time data processing, which have components for synthetic data generation, pub-sub, and alerting.</description>
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    <title>#3 Docker Cheat Sheet</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Docker cheat sheet of commands that I frequent</description>
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    <title>#2 Finding and Using Pretrained Models from HuggingFace</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Usefull notes to find and deploy a pre-trained machine learning model from HuggingFace, including translation tasks using Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en. Also contains usefully tips on Python venv and TensorFlow setup to use HuggingFace.</description>
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    <title>#1 Extension 101</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A concise quick reference guide on Chrome Extention.</description>
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    <title>#0 How to use Github Pages?</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>GitHub Pages is a free hosting service provided by GitHub that allows you to showcase your web development projects, personal blogs, or documentation directly from your GitHub repository</description>
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