Rewind: South Trip 2019
By Varun Kruthiventi
| Jun 11, 2021
| Travel
Off late, wondering when we will be back to normalcy and free to travel, just had a chance to rewind and look back at my trip to South in 2019.
I had a fantastic opportunity to visit couple spiritual places like Tirupathi and Tiruvannamalai. Had been to Tirupathi many times, but it was my first trip to Tiruvannamalai.
Here are some of my clicks during the trip
Flight Flight Flight Flight Tirumala Ramanasharamam Ramanasharamam Arunachala Hill Arunachala Hill Tiruvannamalai Temple
python-alpine and Postgres issues
Ever ended up with this issue ?
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Best way to fix this ?
You can remove the existing Xcode CLI tools with the below command
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