Pull Request #6
Seaweedfs, (Face)Booked, Monica with some Rasmalai, Asia's No. 1 Chef Gaggan and The Upcoming Festival of Baisakhi
chrislusf / seaweedfs
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data warehouse, to store and serve billions of files fast! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, local tiering, cloud tiering. Filer supports cross-cluster active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX, S3 API, encryption, Erasure Coding for warm storage, FUSE mount, Hadoop, WebDAV.
language: Go
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tmthrgd / booked
A Facebook data export visualizer tool.
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monicahq / monica
Monica is an open-source web application to organize and record your interactions with your loved ones. We call it a PRM, or Personal Relationship Management. Think of it as a CRM (a popular tool used by sales teams in the corporate world) for your friends or family.
language: PHP
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A little about India, the food, the people, and the culture.
The Food
Rasmalai
(Rossomalai, Rasmalai)
Ras malai is a popular Indian dessert consisting of white cream, sugar, milk, and cardamom-flavored paneer cheese known as chhana. Almonds, cashews, and saffron are often added to the dessert. Ras malai is of West Bengali origins and is sometimes described as a rich cheesecake without a crust.
The name of the dessert is a combination of two Hindi words, ras, meaning juice, and malai, meaning cream. It is typically served chilled and garnished with cardamom seeds or dried fruits. This delicious dessert is most popular during the festivals such as Holi and Diwali.
Spongy, tender, and aromatic, this Bengali classic is usually served at the end of a meal.
The People
Gaggan Anand
The most famous Indian chef in the world
My earliest cooking memories started even before I held a knife. Even before I remember what my age was, I don’t think I could possibly remember how old I was or how mature my eating habits were , but that ride on the back of my Father’s motorcycle to the Sunday wet market was one of the moments. We would get fresh produce and create a menu that we would cook together and this became one of my fondest memories of childhood. I was always caught stealing food from the pots while dishes were cooking. I would dip pieces of bread into simmering curries and this simple act created such fond memories of food.
The first thing I ever cooked was instant noodles when I was six or seven years old. I cried after cooking it because it didn’t look like the picture on the packaging. I grew up cooking with my parents, eating home cooked food with conversations around the dinner table and discussions of menus and dishes to be cooked and served at celebrations and festivities. Thank god cooking is not work, but rather an act of love and affection from you to your loved ones.
The Culture
Baisakhi
(Vaisakhi, Vaishakhi, or Vasakhi)
Baisakhi Festival falls on April 13th and marks the beginning of the solar year. People of North India, particularly Punjab thank God for a good harvest. Visit Gurudwaras, Vaisakhi processions and traditional performances are the highlights of the day. Baisakhi has special significance for Sikhs as on this day in 1699, their tenth Guru Gobind Singh Ji organized the order of the Khalsa.