Eloquently explained, writing have have loads of wisdom earned and clubbed with benefit of hindsight.

An on-prem CDN for enterprise level video streaming on LAN/WAN in and geographically distributed branch offices.

Used wowza, nginx, python-flask

IP may not be right choice as VPN are used

Keyboard setup says EN IN

No one - literally no one in India uses the 'EN IN' locale in India. Everyone uses the 'EN US' locale in India.

I'm Indian and I do use EN-IN, as do scores of people using devices sold in India that have pre-installed and pre-configured Windows.

If using en-in is as unpopular as you suggest in India, then surely it’s non-existent outside of India..

Not true mate. Have setup plenty of machines with this as the choice and have also seen others running with ENG IN as the layout in their off-the-shelf laptops.

I use en in too. Better with autocorrect in phones and computers

In role of IT manager py2exe and pyinstaller are my goto tool to make script work on machine.

I’m from a IT dept of a oil company not much of savvy apps mostly dull.

As manager have to do lots of data wrangling for this and that form of reports.

scripts to do jobs on machine.

Python is only fullstack i know. Pyinstaller is mine goto tool to build executable and make it portable across environment.

Goodread API are not maintained or as tou mentioned depreciated. Like you I was also working on side project to fetch bookquotes along with source author/book. Finally, I had to use web scrapping to make application work.