Ayush Raj

  • How to Fix ‘429 Too Many Requests’ When Fetching Images From Google APIs In Java

    Summary Excessive queries to any Google Cloud API may result in a 429 Too Many Queries error. This occurs due to Google’s imposition of rate limitations on API calls. In this article we are going to solve the problem of encountering 429 error when requesting images many times from the… Read ⇢

  • Compromised ecosystem of WordPress plugins

    These days the websites on the internet comprise a large number of WordPress websites; over 37% of the total websites on the internet are WordPress websites alone. This is a staggering number, as there are several web technologies that are available, but WordPress has become the choice of so many… Read ⇢

  • Godot script’s potential for utilizing design patterns

    Recently I completed an in depth tutorial on Godot 4 and GDScript. During the tutorial I noticed that GDScript has a great potential in being able to implement design patterns suggested by the GO4 (Gang Of Four). It is object oriented and interfaces smoothly with the engine. There were a… Read ⇢

    Godot script’s potential for utilizing design patterns

  • A Subtle Dance Of Creativity

    Many artists and creatives (including me) get really involved with the marketing and selling side of products and simply get stuck in there. From there they either stop practicing their art completely or they get financially successful and slowly lose interest because marketing, *surprise surprise*, involves impressing the market. And… Read ⇢

  • OpenLayers and Leaflet.js performance comparison for large vector layers

    So, I performed a little FPS test using a very large road network of Varanasi district. I used OpenLayers and Leaflet.js and I wanted to see which one offered me a better performance when it comes to importing and displaying large road networks from a Geoserver into a thick client… Read ⇢

  • A new and easy way to perform point pattern analysis on your spatial point data

    Presenting here a new web GIS (https://ayushraj.cc/map) (dead link now, sorry) that you can use to perform advanced point pattern analysis on your spatial point patterns. If you ever wanted to perform an advanced point pattern analysis like Ripley’s K Function, Besag’s L Function or Nearest Neighbor Analysis (Ripley’s G… Read ⇢

  • A small memoir on Little Fighter 2

    So I was scrolling through dank memes and anime tiddies when I saw a post about little fighter 2 today (2021, I am publishing this article in 2023 though). Someone was asking ‘Do you know this game?’ and I was like, know? That game probably makes up a small part… Read ⇢

  • I play American Truck Simulator and listen to Osho audiobooks (at the same time)

    What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? So I got this writing prompt in my WordPress home page, “What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?”. And so I answered in the title itself. There you go. You don’t have to read a wall of… Read ⇢

  • A Thought Experiment On Creativity

    You should always bring out the creative impulses inside you. Now, these creative impulses can be of two types. One, you want to throw out all the garbage that you have accumulated over the years and two, you want to express something into this world that wants to be expressed… Read ⇢

    A Thought Experiment On Creativity