A curated list of “Top” based monitoring tools for use in Linux and Unix terminals. *I initially made this article only including those tools with top in their name but given this excludes many other great tools, I have relaxed this. Over the years several terminal-based tools have emerged for real-time monitoring of UNIX/Linux servers with respect to hardware related metrics such as Memory, CPU…

The Archimedean Spiral is a curve that is one of several types of spiral functions. It is traced out by a curve which moves outwards from a point, moving further away as it revolves around that point at a constant speed. …

Sine, Cosine and Tangent (AKA sin, cos and tan) are trigonometric functions we learn at school to solve angles and sides of a triangle using some infamous and quirky acronyms “SOHCAHTOA!”. Although it very much helps us interrogate a triangle and sketch out waves, we lose so much understanding of…

Gaussians as Exponential Imposters The notion of using a gaussian function as an imposter of an exponential can feel somewhat illogical. Even though they have the exponential exp in common, the two functions have very different distinct shapes. …

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption and broadened the application of QR codes in day to day life. Most notably, it's been used as a part of track and trace systems and digital vaccine passports in government efforts across the world to tackle the pandemic. Aside from pandemics, it's…