Ravi S. Iyer: Software Development

This post is a continuation of: Notes on learning stage of developing my own React Native education app using Expo Framework - Part 2 . Main tutorial used for learning: Simon Grimm: Build Your Own MASTERCLASS clone in React Native, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3D8lNs10c , 4 hrs. 42 mins, Mar. 2025. ======================================= 16:10 25 September 2025 Restarting after a break Restart point: Revenue Cat starting TS: https://youtu.be/fO3D8lNs10c?t=10412 (2 hrs. 53 min). The remaining parts of the video: 02:53:31 Purchasing Courses with RevenueCat 03:13:36 Handling Web Purchases with Stripe 03:25:56 Showing Courses and Drawer Navigation 03:42:00 Building out the Custom Drawer 03:56:28 Creating Lessons with Expo Video 04:23:30 Adding a Waitlist Page and User Profile 04:30:58 Transfer Data to Strapi Cloud 04:37:38 Deploy your Website through EAS Hosting 04:41:27 Breakdown As a first step in resumption after the break, I watched the whole of the remaining part of the video (...

Few days back, on 13 Sept., I did some reading/viewing up on possibility of free enrollment into Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, followed by trying out some of the suggestions. I was able to successfully enroll for free into Windows 10 Extended Security Updates through October 13, 2026 for my old Dell mini Laptop whose hardware is not good enough for Windows 11. There were some hoops to jump through but once that was done, it was straightforward. As one person was interested to know about the procedure I followed, I decided to put up this post based on my informal notes.  Key steps I followed Reference video:  How to Extend Windows 10 Support for an Additional Year (October 2026) , 21 Jul 2025, 5 min. 1 sec.  was very useful. But I did not follow any of its registry or Windows Service settings suggestions for 'Enroll Now' button show. I had to only do a Windows Update and then wait for some time after that for the 'Enroll Now' button to show. More in...

Last updated on 25 Sep. 2025 Quick Info Blogger Don't Track My Views Checker: Chrome Extension to check whether Blogger is tracking your own pageviews across multiple blogs - GitHub repo . The README.md explains how to install, configure and use it.  I have tested the 'release' download (smaller download than repo cloning or download) on an alternate computer (Dell mini Laptop) which does not have the GitHub repo. It worked as expected. The context for above extension is the problem of some, if not all, of my Blogger blogs reverting to OFF for "Don't track my views for this blog" even though I do not make such a change on any of my devices where I am logged in with the same Google a/c and access my Blogger blogs. The probable cause is deletion of a Blogger cookie named _ns under some circumstances. This cookie seems to be associated with this  "Don't track my views for this blog"  setting. It is set as a session cookie which may be getting wiped...