A List of songs I have covered and recorded using logic pro at the Oviatt library in California State University, Northridge:
- My Hero - Foo Fighters - Taylor Hawkins tribute -
- Live Forever - Oasis -
A List of songs I have covered and recorded using logic pro at the Oviatt library in California State University, Northridge:
In the summer of 2018, I shipped one of the largest 3D printed design and manufacturing projects I've ever undertaken.(Probably the largest in the world at the time)
Here is a link to it : www.reflection.art
It is a large scale kinetic sculpture commissioned by a world famous designer name Zivo .
This project was a turning point for me, in terms of utilizing additive manufacturing to build large scale products; I had only ever used additive manufacturing to fabricate small parts, and reflections took me over the edge, not just from an engineering perspective but also from a design and artistic angle. I was forced to think out of the bounding box of my machine (3D printer ) and put together a work of art that accurately portrayed the message being conveyed.
Reflections is all about balance, the three sculptures directly correspond to a nuclear family - The father, The mother, and The son.
Set at a towering height of almost 5 meters for the father , 4.5 meters for the mother and 4 meters for the son, the family is perched on a dome ( the dome of life) that functions just like a Rolly Poly toy, only magnanimous !!.
Weighing in over 3 tons, the entire sculpture moves when the figurines catch the wind just like a sail, they sway from side to side, rolling over till the edge of their world and then due to counterbalancing of the weight of the family, they all roll back in, representing the ever present and balancing force of family in our Human lives.
Reflections ask's us the question: Where are we without the ones we love ??
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Github link : https://github.com/discourse/discourse
1- AMAZON EC2 - Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS instance.
2- AMAZON Simple Email Service ( SES) - SMTP
3- Route 53 domain hosting and routing.
1- Docker
2- Discourse
1- Login to AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/
If you do not have an AWS account , you can sign up for a free trial and you will receive 750 hours of EC2 compute hours, 5 GB of S3 storage and many other great Amazon Web services for free, for the first 12 months.
2- Once you have created your account navigate to the EC2 option under compute, when you click on the services menu.
Once your in the Instances dashboard, at this point my suggestion would be to select the correct region in AWS. For this example and many of my projects I use North Virginia Usa east-1, due to a host of reasons like : cost , latency , & features,
3- Choose the region which is closest to you or your target market, from the drop down menu on the top right.
4- Click on the instances option on the left menu bar.
5- Now select the blue colored launch Instance button
Next you will find your self in the AWS market place , here you can find the list of all images of the operating systems available on AWS EC2.
6- In the top search bar type in Ubuntu , the first option that will be displayed is the ubuntu configuration we are looking for : Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM). Select the instance by clicking the blue select button on the right.
Select the instance type, for a fully functional website with 1000's of users, you should use at least a t3a.small instance with 2 GB of RAM memory and 2 Virtual cpus, that can be utilized to handle heavier work loads. For this example we will use a t2.micro instance, which is eligible for the free tier usage by AWS, it has 1 GB RAM and 1 Vcpu , the bare minimum required to run Discourse.
7- Select t2.micro , with 1 GB Memory RAM and 1 Vcpu.
8- Next click configure instance details , do not change anything here, click on Next:add storage.
Click add storage, the next part is important as AWS by default allocates only 8 GB of SSD memory to your instance. The required memory is at least 10 GB, not including back ups. My recommendation is to allocate at least 20 GB of memory to your EC2 instance, in case you will be utilizing heavy images and expect many users.
9- Allocate 20 GB of memory to your instance.
10- First name the security group, here we have name it as: launch-wizard-Discourse, then click add rule and add HTTPS, HTTP, SMTP, with default port numbers 443,80, and 25. SSH will be enabled by default , but my recommendation is to white list only your IP address, in the source section, to prevent any attacks.
11- Click review and launch, take the time to check your instance settings.
12- Click Launch.
At this point you will be prompted to select an existing authentication key or use a pre-existing one. For the sake of safety I would suggest you to create a new key pair, this is important as using the key is the only way you will be able to login to your instance.
13- Select create a new key pair from the drop down menu, and name the key pair, here we have used : Discourse_key1. Then click the download Key pair button and save the .PEM file in a secure location, your file will be name : Discourse_key1.pem.
14- Then click launch instances.
Configuring SMTP is a very important step, as Discourse will not be able to send the account activation email without it.
1- Navigate to Route 53 under the services menu in AWS and purchase a domain name if you do not already have one, then click on Hosted zones button.
1- Login to your Ubuntu instance, open an SSH client (connect using PuTTY)
2- Locate your private key file (Discourse_key1.pem). The wizard automatically detects the key you used to launch the instance.
3- Your key must not be publicly view-able for SSH to work. Use this command if needed :
chmod 400 Discourse_key1.pem
ssh -i "Discourse_key1.pem" ubuntu@ec2-3-89-121-152.compute-1.amazonaws.com
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
6- Install Docker, Run the below command to install the latest version of docker :
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
7- Check your docker version and running status with the below commands :
docker version
systemctl status docker
sudo mkdir /var/discourse
sudo git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
sudo su -
cd /var/discourse
./discourse-setup
Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]: www.forgify.io // use activated domain email//
Email address for admin account(s)?: admin@example.com, // Use verified email //
SMTP server address? [smtp.example.com]:email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
SMTP port? [587]: 465
SMTP user name? [user@example.com]: Aasdwfewfc@#$#@ **
SMTP password? [pa$$word]: BL3456gdsDFEFS
Optional email address for setting up Let's Encrypt? (ENTER to skip) [me@example.com]: admin@example.com
./launcher rebuild app
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- By Rabindranath Tagore
This is by far the longest list of books I have managed to read in the last two years . I wish I could read more , but right now my work schedule just does not permit more reading .
Sometimes I post reviews of these books .
This is my review of factfullness - http://www.axelfernandes.com/review-of-the-book-factfullness-by-the-legendary-doctor-hans-rosling
I maintain this list on Evernote , next I will review the Hero with a thousand faces.
Axel
In the winter of December 2018, I visited United states of America for the first time in my Life.
God what a beautiful country !!
These are some photographs of the places I visited.
Equipment : Xiaomi Mi 8
Camera resolution :
1- A side glance from the " Highline"
The Highline is an abandoned railway line in the city of New York , that has be revamped into a public park like environment .
link to information about the Highline - https://www.thehighline.org
Any visit to New York , requires you to pass by the Highline without fail.
“Harmony, patterns and progressions matter to me “. My analogy of life is similar to a series of musical chord progressions that fall into place one after another, but to actually figure out which chords sound good together, you have to play as many of them as possible. To pave my path I need to keep playing out new chords all the time and rearrange the patterns of life to make good life-music.
I have experimented with music therapy since probably high school and it has always been a great method, I have experience with to control anxiety and cognitive difficulties . Crazy unpredictable things happen to us as life progresses forward, second by second .