import upi link blogs, minor frontpage changes

assets/css/custom.css

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config.toml

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 baseurl = "https://rohanverma.net/" # Controls base URL sitewide
 languageCode = "en-US" # Controls site language
-title = "rohanverma.net" # Homepage title and page title suffix
+title = "Rohan Verma" # Homepage title and page title suffix
 paginate = 11 # Number of posts to show before paginating
 disqusShortname = "rhnvrm"
 googleAnalytics = "UA-90695618-1"

content/blog/2019-02-03-bcb-presentation.md

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+---
+title: Presentation about upi.link at Barcamp Bangalore - Techlash
+author: Rohan Verma
+type: post
+date: 2019-02-03T12:38:24+00:00
+url: blog/2019/02/03/presentation-bcb-upilink
+categories:
+  - upi.link
+---
+
+I recently got a chance to talk about [upi.link](https://upi.link)during 
+[Techlash at Barcamp Bangalore](https://barcampbangalore.com/bcb/bcb-spring-2019/bcb-spring-2019-techlash/building-a-mobile-app-neutral-upi-request-link-generator-at-https-upi-link). 
+I got to tell people about having started this small project. Here is the link to my presentation:
+
+<a href="https://upi.link/presentation/">Presentation</a>
+
+A small summary of [upi.link](https://upi.link)
+
+<blockquote>
+Introducing [upi.link](https://upi.link), which is is a Payment Service Provider (PSP) neutral
+UPI Request Link generator built upon the UPI Deeplinking Spec, enabling SMEs and individual users
+to collect payments directly by sharing links on chat apps or embedding on their own websites,
+without having to rely on building their own mobile apps and calling intents, making manual
+UPI requests on PSP apps, tying up with service aggregators that charge fees, or even
+purchasing licenses to APIs when they are just getting started.
+</blockquote>

content/blog/2019-02-17-progress-update-1-upilink.md

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+---
+title: upi.link - Progress Update 1
+author: Rohan Verma
+type: post
+date: 2019-02-17T12:38:24+00:00
+url: blog/2019/02/14/progress-update-1-upilink
+categories:
+  - upi.link
+---
+
+## What am I building, in a sentence?
+
+🔗upi.link: A programmable shortlink generator based on UPI (universal bank2bank payments service in 🇮🇳) sharable via social media & chat.
+
+## What did I complete till now?
+
+### Highlights
+
+#### Deployed at [upi.link](https://upi.link)
+
+I used AWS Free tier to deploy this website to reduce cost for hosting this. It uses AWS Lambda
+Functions to generate shortlinks which
+are stored inside Redis with a TTL of 3 Days. Authentication is
+implemented using a postgres backend along with secure cookies for sessions.
+I will port the lambda functions I wrote for
+shortlink generation out of AWS Lambda
+to my custom backend written in Golang as authentication. This is because
+I have seen that the cold start for Lambdas is pretty slow for my use case and takes about
+5-6 seconds which for the users seems like 10 seconds.
+
+The frontend is written using Nuxt.js which is a Universal app framework on top of
+Vue and is similar to what Next.js is for React. This was a neccessity for this use case
+as I need the links shared on social media as well as chat with
+HTML OG (Open Graph) tags to be populated dynamically based on their content. The only other option
+was to write a static website served through templating either in Go (Go templates)
+or Python (Django/Flask using Jinja templates), but then I would not be able to utilize
+the rapid development offered by Vue/Nuxt. Also, I can now separate my API and frontend, maybe
+totally host the API proxied via <a href="https://github.com/apex/up">Apex/Up</a>
+and the frontend via
+S3 buckets to reduce the cost to host the site.
+
+#### Created a roadmap
+
+I shared this project with a few friends and groups and lots of feature requests
+as well ideas propped up. To keep a track of all these I created a public
+<a href="//trello.com/b/VynO9sAk">Trello Board</a>. You can <a href="mailto:[email protected]">
+email to the board </a> for adding more feature requests.
+
+### Features 
+
+#### Donation Campaigns
+
+One of the major features this week, I added a campaign collection feature.
+The first campaign to be hosted is the <a href="https://upi.link/c/BharatKeVeer">#BharatKeVeer</a>
+campaign which was launched to collect funds for contributing to the
+wives of the CRPF Soldiers who lost their lives during the Pulwama terrorist attack.
+
+#### Temp Link Generator
+
+I updated the temporary link generator on the home page. Now you don't need to bother
+with the Long Link and you can directly see the page.
+
+#### Whatsapp/Telegram Share buttons
+
+Buttons for sharing on Whatsapp and Telegram were added below the generated shortlink
+
+#### UPI App compatible QR Code
+
+QR code with the embeded Deeplinking Intent is now displayed on the
+redirect page for people who open the link on their laptops/desktops
+so that they can simply scan the link from their phone.
+
+#### Emails via AWS SES
+
+My SES request for sending emails was approved, I added the email button
+behind authentication.
+
+### 📌Misc
+
+#### Progress Blogs
+
+Well, this blog, honestly, I wanted to have a blog where I could track the progress on this
+project but I did not want to have another setup on say Ghost/Wordpress. So again Nuxt came
+to my rescue and now I just have to add a page to my Nuxt folder and it handles everything
+else such as routing etc.
+
+#### Recorded demo video 📹
+
+You can view this video on [youtube](https://youtu.be/USK4UOn1Xkw)
+
+<iframe width="100%" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/USK4UOn1Xkw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

content/blog/2019-02-24-progress-update-2-upilink.md

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+---
+title: upi.link - Progress Update 2 
+author: Rohan Verma
+type: post
+date: 2019-02-24T12:38:24+00:00
+url: blog/2019/02/24/progress-update-2-upilink
+categories:
+  - upi.link
+---
+
+## Highlights
+
+I wanted to finish the underlying infrastructural things
+so that I can start to focus on the higher level
+features.
+
+## Features
+
+### Implemented User Profiles
+
+Added support for <a href="https://upi.link/profile">user profiles</a> this week. 
+Now, I can extend the user authentication table with profile data.
+Since, I want to store minimal data about the users on my server, 
+I have used gravatar to load the profile
+photo and as of now no other information other than email is stored. 
+Maybe, next week based on user feedback
+I might save the preferred UPI VPA so that the user does not have to 
+type it every time.
+
+### Track generated links
+
+Now users can track the permanent links they have generated so that 
+they don't have to create a new one every time.
+This same feature will be used to display links on the public 
+profile which will be released next week. Also,
+users will be able to edit and delete these as well soon so they 
+can be reused.
+
+### Email preview
+
+Now, you can preview the email that will be sent beside the 
+link generator on the <a href="https://upi.link/send">send page</a> in
+real time. I will add support to the profile page to send 
+emails directly from there to multiple comma separated emails.
+
+### Front page design
+
+The home page has improved quite a lot from what we started, 
+now we have more details about the features and
+a more clearer text explaining what upi.link aims to become.
+

layouts/index.html

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 {{ end }}
 {{ define "main" }}
   <header>
-    <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
+    <h1>{{ .Title }} <small>(rhnvrm)</small></h1>
   </header>
 
   <div class="leader">
     <img src="/wp-content/uploads/me.jpg" class="myimage">
-    <div>Hello World 👋, I'm Rohan, and welcome to my homepage.</div>
+    <div>
+      Hello World 👋 <br>
+      Welcome to my homepage.
+    </div>
   </div>
 
   <br>
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   <br>
   
   My blog is also available through <a href="https://rohanverma.net/blog/index.xml">[RSS]</a>
-  
+
 {{ end }}
 {{ define "footer" }}
   {{ partial "powered-by.html" . }}