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Lorin Hochstein’s thoughts on BlueSky public Incident writeup

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Lorin Hochstein’s thoughts on BlueSky public Incident writeup](https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/04/12/thoughts-on-the-bluesky-public-incident-write-up/): Lorin Hochstein’s thoughts on BlueSky public Incident writeup ## Commentary - Lorin Hochstein’s thoughts on BlueSky public Incident writeup - That is a brutal one. This is like concurrency, you thought you had one problem, but after adding concurrency, you now have two. Setting a limit on how many go-routines can be spawned in a group is critical here. - TIME_WAIT, that is really a neat thing to learn. The TCP connection waits for that duration before sending another FIN so that the client can be sure of the delayed packet delivery, if any. And that TIME_WAIT actually caused them to fill up all the ephemeral ports. That is 28k ports, which sounds a lot, but after reading it through, that is surprisingly a low number. If you are Bluesky scale, you might need millions of ports. - Diagnosis skill is something that is going to be super valuable going forward in the AI era. AI can help, but it would be too slow and can never reach the instinct-based debugging of humans (as of now, at least)

AI will be met with violence, and nothing good will come out of it

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [AI will be met with violence, and nothing good will come out of it](https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/ai-will-be-met-with-violence-and): AI will be met with violence, and nothing good will come out of it ## Commentary - AI will be met with violence, and nothing good will come out of it - Spicy take. True in most senses. - The CEO things are pretty messed up, people might fight and get violent, which is inevitable in any direction we go. - The start of the post was quite well written, if that holds true, we can actually see where this will go.

Llama Parsebench: First Document parsing benchmark for AI Agents

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Llama Parsebench: First Document parsing benchmark for AI Agents](https://www.llamaindex.ai/blog/parsebench): Llama Parsebench: First Document parsing benchmark for AI Agents ## Commentary - Llama Parsebench: First Document parsing benchmark for AI Agents - I am a bit surprised that there are no document parsing benchmarks yet? What? Where are the Chinese labs and Msitral and all the OCR benchmarks then. Oh, they might be just OCR is it? Well then that makes sense. For document-specific parsing. - Another industry or field demolishing with the report card calculator ready.

Now is the best time to write code by hand

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Now is the best time to write code by hand](https://sitebloom.ch/writing/now-is-the-best-time-to-write-code-by-hand/): Now is the best time to write code by hand ## Commentary - Now is the best time to write code by hand - Yeah! People are firing now. This is happening. Writing code by hand can be a hobby but it will be a skill that pays like COBOL or PASCAL developers are paid today. Trust in code will be more from human than in agents, that is the bet we are making if that holds, software developers are going to be PHP developers with Lambos in their garage.

Six Characters: Decoding PNR Number and e-ticket system (Ajitem)

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Six Characters: Decoding PNR Number and e-ticket system (Ajitem)](https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-2-six-characters/): Six Characters: Decoding PNR Number and e-ticket system (Ajitem) ## Commentary - Six Characters: Decoding PNR Number and e-ticket system (Ajitem) - This is a treat. People should write these kinds of blogs. This is curiosity at its best. - PNR is not a unique global identifier, it’s specific to the airline or the entity handling it, it’s for passenger name record. - It’s quite ingenious how the currency conversion works, without breaking and keeping simple and straightforward.

Vim has a 0 day?

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Vim has a 0 day?](https://youtu.be/zMpn9ICagdE): Vim has a 0 day? ## Commentary - Vim has a 0 day? - This is evident, and quite not surprising to me. AI agents and slopy review system will make this worse. - Vim codebase was hand-chiselled for more than 30 years, it still has these vulnerabilities, now take AI into the game, and it could easily make it worse in a matter of months if not years. - Reviewing code and testing it will be quite a skill to have. Security essentials will be key in moving out of this kind of mess. I also read about the diagnosis skills in the read section, right from the Bluesky incident report, so that will be another skill to hone.

You are still better at editing documents than AI

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [You are still better at editing documents than AI](https://youtu.be/FqB_4QY6x6g): You are still better at editing documents than AI ## Commentary - You are still better at editing documents than AI - This is a great explanation of why the software interface is skewed for agents. It was never meant for them. - The right set of tools and context is really important. It might also depend on the model, since its training data, if it doesn’t have the right examples on how to manipulate docx or xml files, it might skrew up big time. But I have not seen those kinds of issues from proprietary models yet.

I’ve been blogging wrong

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [I’ve been blogging wrong](https://www.leoniemonigatti.com/blog/ive-been-blogging-wrong.html): I’ve been blogging wrong ## Commentary - I’ve been blogging wrong - People are waking up and finding the strength to write authentic content. Sharing human experience, which was the sole purpose of blogs. But it has taken the shape of vanity metrics and technical jargon. We are so back!

Who will be the senior engineer in 2035?

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Who will be the senior engineer in 2035?](https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/who-will-be-the-senior-engineers): Who will be the senior engineer in 2035? ## Commentary - Who will be the senior engineer in 2035? - Totally valid point. If AI is becoming the cheap junior dev, who are we upskilling for the future? - The gap is already wide. In a couple of years, it might grow like crazy, and the divide of expectation and reality might hit people and developers alike. - There is and will be an expectation of in-depth understanding of code, but by using the AI-Agents, the quality will deteriorate drastically; developers won’t read and write code, and the instincts and the muscle memory to write code without assistance will be gone. - I am thinking of doing weekly streams now, to hand-code certain things. Maybe that will keep me up my ante of vim flexing and away from vibe coding.

Frustration Driven Development

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Frustration Driven Development](https://swizec.com/blog/frustration-driven-development/): Frustration Driven Development ## Commentary - Frustration Driven Development - Wow! No engineering is good engineering. Remove the problem from the root, well said. Your job is not doing the work, your job is removing work. - How hard does that hit? In the AI world? Automating our own job, yeah, that’s fun, right? Maybe! - But this is a great point, great software engineers use swear words and get the problem out of the way, and do not work around the problem. (as codex does, and Claude code just wraps around the problem when it sees it)

Data Structures Explained by Nic Barker: HashMap

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Data Structures Explained by Nic Barker: HashMap](https://youtu.be/y11XNXi9dgs): Data Structures Explained by Nic Barker: HashMap ## Commentary - Data Structures Explained by Nic Barker: HashMap - This was a solid explantion of a hash map. I actually thought it was magic, but I knew it was some hash function or hash code, but this actually clears a lot of those magical things. - I learnt that we can have linked list sort of a structure to tackle collisions on hashes. That is a really clever way of solving a problem.

Anthropic Dunking and PI pilling

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Anthropic Dunking and PI pilling](https://youtu.be/3DNkDIVKtK8): Anthropic Dunking and PI pilling ## Commentary - Anthropic Dunking and PI pilling - Oh! That was a pure entertainment. Grilling Anthropic is my new pastime hobby, or I should say its Theo’s duty. - Anthropic is reduced to Syltherin and worse, for some time last year I was considering them Gryfindor, oh my god, how idiotic I was. I thought they shared the safety scores, and made it specific to developers so it might be nice. - But the CEO and the company are some evil propaganda to get funding. Good luck getting rejections.

AI and Remote work is a disaster for software engineers

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [AI and Remote work is a disaster for software engineers](https://medium.com/@lukas_kosinski/ai-and-remote-work-is-a-disaster-for-junior-software-engineers-a377b1d8ed20): AI and Remote work is a disaster for software engineers ## Commentary - AI and Remote work is a disaster for software engineers - Spicy take. I’ve been working remotely for ~2 years as a junior-ish backend engineer, and I use AI daily. If AI + remote sabotages juniors were broadly true, I should be a pretty weak engineer by now. That hasn’t been my experience at all.remote work sabotages careers of youngsters - I think remote doesn’t sabotage. It removes forced structure. If you don’t build your own, you stagnate and just feel lost. There’s no overhearing seniors, no accidental learning, no pressure to “look busy”. If you just do assigned tickets and log off, yeah, sure, you’ll stagnate. But that’s not a remote problem; that’s an ownership problem. You can sit in an office and do the same thing.AI — too little brain stimulation - Same with AI. If you use it to skip thinking, you’ll get faster at producing things you don’t understand. But if you use it to explore, ask “why does this break?”, generate edge cases, compare approaches, it’s like having a patient senior who will walk through things with you endlessly. The difference is in how you engage with it, the intention rather than the environment. - I do agree that juniors need tight feedback loops and exposure to better engineers. That’s harder to get remotely, and most companies don’t compensate for it well. But the answer isn’t “go back to office”, it’s “design better learning environments”, more deliberate mentorship, better code reviews, more context sharing. - Also, the market point is real: AI is eating the bottom layer of trivial work. But that just raises the bar; it doesn’t remove the path. Juniors now need to show they can reason about systems, not just implement tickets. - The point is, if an individual is naturally curious, remote or on-site doesn’t matter, he’ll succeed in whichever environment.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking mail addresses of customers

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Someone at BrowserStack is leaking mail addresses of customers](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/someone-at-browserstack-is-leaking-users-email-address/): Someone at BrowserStack is leaking mail addresses of customers ## Commentary - Someone at BrowserStack is leaking mail addresses of customers - This is all happening. The security of software is crazy right now. We just had a week of supply chain attacks on Python and JavaScript ecosystems. And now its getting into the weeds of the application. Not too far from AGI, right? - I don’t reckon that the company might be leaking it intentionally, it might be some vendor they aren’t fully aware of, or have really vibe-shipped something. Not sure. - Excited for the next post.

Simon Wilison on Lenny’s Podcast

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Simon Wilison on Lenny’s Podcast](https://youtu.be/wc8FBhQtdsA): Simon Wilison on Lenny’s Podcast ## Commentary - Simon Wilison on Lenny’s Podcast - This was a relieving video. I thought I was the only a minority amongst the developers who got exhausted after a few hours of AI prompting. It is a natural thing. We are doing the creme layer, the ephiony of the task, this won’t be sustainable. - The other thing is that he had more than 2 decades of experience.I am not giving excuses, but still, that is a lot more than just a 2-3 year me trying to wrestle the concept of agentic engineering. - It was refreshing to see this, his enthusiasm is truly contagious. I want to build more now. But mindfully. His tools section is really wild. - I fit in the middle, I not a junior or a fresher anymore, I am not more than 2 years into the industry. Alas! I am in the middle. But still I think, its not doom and gloom, I am not going to be passive and let the AIs take over my brain.

Building Zepto LLD, System Design

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Building Zepto LLD, System Design](https://youtu.be/FcbsppIX0bg): Building Zepto LLD, System Design ## Commentary - Building Zepto LLD, System Design - This was a good design. The system feels a bit chaotic, but was understandable. - The inventory, delivery, product, and everything could be a system on its own, but in the real world, systems are created by combining multiple systems. - Basically, we have products, orders, and order items. The inventory manager finds the product in a dark store(large storage or inventory) and then assigns the nearest dark store with those products or multiple stores, and maps the available delivery agents to those shipping those products as orders.

WhatsApp System Design By GKCS

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [WhatsApp System Design By GKCS](https://youtu.be/vvhC64hQZMk): WhatsApp System Design By GKCS ## Commentary - WhatsApp System Design By GKCS - Well explained. I thought it might be more complex or elegant. But it was neither. Its a chat app nonetheless that scales, that’s it.

How UPI Payments work

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [How UPI Payments work](https://youtu.be/fqySz1Me2pI): How UPI Payments work ## Commentary - How UPI Payments work - Oh, so every bank, small or national or not, has to go through a nationalised bank(or one of them), damm! - I wonder how and why that is so fast? Is it because the banks already have mapped out the route to each bank amongst them, yes, that’s probably the reason for the unified name.

Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices](https://ben.page/microservices): Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices ## Commentary - Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices - Yep, this is a valid and good observation. I have mostly written my side projects in cloud functions (Netlify, Vercel, or Cloudflare). I don’t mind the complexity of managing a bunch of environment variables and setup. It’s a one-time thing, and I know looking for them is a bit of chaos, but I have AI-agents to clean up as and when necessary. - Maintaining a monolith is no joke with LLMs, it used to change hundreds of out-of-the-blue things, nonsensically, but it has reduced almost to 0. But the cost of changing one thing is still high in those environments, since a change without review can cause a catastrophic production failure. (Just like GitHub is having right now)

Software never had a soul

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Software never had a soul](https://www.jmduke.com/posts/software-never-had-a-soul.html): Software never had a soul ## Commentary - Software never had a soul - Beautifully put.“You do not even need better or faster tools. You just need to really mean it.” - You need to mean it, you need to care it, this is the crux of being a developer. We should not be caring about the code but caring for the user’s problem, the product.

Strategy

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Strategy](https://youtu.be/v9ejT8FO-7I): Strategy ## Commentary - Strategy and Observer Design Pattern - Banger of a series. It was a great explanation, and it felt really enthusiastic. - Strategy patterns are like polymorphism, but for a specific component or functionality. Like payment can be a strategy pattern, where we can implement UPI, card, net banking, etc. - The strategy pattern is like implementing a family of algorithms and encapsulating the algorithms in their own, and we can make them interchangeable. - Observer pattern is like a push strategy rather than the client polling it. It makes it efficient and clean. When the observable changes, it notifies (pushes) the changes to the observers, and then it can fetch the changes since it can decide what it wants.

People love to work hard

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [People love to work hard](https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/06/people-love-to-work-hard/): People love to work hard ## Commentary - People love to work hard - Great point. This is about not what you do, but how people empathize with your work. If they don’t they say “you don’t want to work”, if they do you can see the title of this post and read it. - A very human post from this author. Kind of heart-touching. There is nothing more to say, like it’s something you feel and can’t describe in words.

Lessons from using SQLite in production

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Lessons from using SQLite in production](https://ultrathink.art/blog/sqlite-in-production-lessons): Lessons from using SQLite in production ## Commentary - Lessons from using SQLite in production - Useful bit here. The WAL mode is absolutely a clutch, most people don’t know of, and just lament about it being a single-writer constrained DB. It’s a super-powerful and very versatile lightweight database. - Folks at Turso are making it even better with read-write replicas and syncing, having a daemon for SQLite. The future might be apps full of SQLite.

Don’t let AI write for you

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Don’t let AI write for you](https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/): Don’t let AI write for you ## Commentary - Don’t let AI write for you - 100% Believer in this. If you can’t write the words, you are letting the world take over you. I just wrote a 8k words, though it was not 100% by my mind, I used some inspiration to talk and extract ideas out of my results and intuitions. But I wrote the full post myself, word by word. It gives a different level of satisfaction and authority that no LLM can. - It also is important aspect to build trust and connection, even resonance. LLMs are blunt and boring to talk to. When I write something, I have memories and thoughts that LLM can never have. That level of detail, it can have, but the emotion and the right set of words, LLM would never take off from humans.

I used AI, It worked, but I hated it by Taggart

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [I used AI, It worked, but I hated it by Taggart](https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/): I used AI, It worked, but I hated it by Taggart ## Commentary - I used AI, It worked, but I hated it by Taggart - A banger and the best blog I have read in 2026. Period. Just read it. Please give that author a hit on his site for his work. - But I will write about it anyways. It was a honest and blunt post, but written with both sides in mind, very balanced but favouring the other without defaming other side. Just take my money for writing this post. - I have been screaming this, but nobody realises itQUOTE ”the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? “ - banger after banger in the post, still saying you read it, please!QUOTE “I turned to generative models not only as an experiment, but out of desperation. I had a need for code that did not exist. Nobody was going to help me build it, nor should I expect help for a project.” - How many of you fellow developers are feeling it? True and very resonatingQUOTE ”For any new potential project, there is a voice in my head telling me how much easier it would be to let the model do it” - Sigh! this is sad part, we can’t box it againQUOTE ”If I could disinvent this technology, I would. My experiences, while enlightening as to models’ capabilities, have not altered my belief that they cause more harm than good. And yet, I have no plan on how to destroy generative AI. I don’t think this is a technology we can put back in the box. It may not take the same form a year from now; it may not be as ubiquitous or as celebrated, but it will remain.” - Great post. I am just processing it all. The words just hit hard and then resonate perfectly with my experiences.

LLM Knowledge Bases

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [LLM Knowledge Bases](https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595): LLM Knowledge Bases ## Commentary - LLM Knowledge Bases - This is neat stuff. I don’t have any wikis like that. I haven’t explored something that deep that requires more than 10k lines of content. I think I need to read one deep posts or a book. I do read some short-form content like other people’s thoughts and TILs, which is not bad but not really putting my brain to think. - I have seen Grok do really good extraction of information (not presenting the right way, though its not a great model for conversation, I suppose). LLMs are actually getting good at summarisation and linking different ideas together. Some times they are a bit cringe and try to shoehorn some weird analogy, which I have noticed.

Relaunching the instapaper API

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Relaunching the instapaper API](https://blog.instapaper.com/blog/2026/03/31/relaunching-the-instaparser-api/): Relaunching the instapaper API ## Commentary - Relaunching the instapaper API - Saw this coming. Was doing development on this in September-November 2025. But alas! Some procrastination habbits never change. I wanted a reader that can just help read without any distractions. Just text. And this instapaper is doing just that, wondered if I can make something like it but more robust.

Analysing YC batch with AI and reinventing how to plot charts

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Analysing YC batch with AI and reinventing how to plot charts](https://youtu.be/OBEDESfS6H8): Analysing YC batch with AI and reinventing how to plot charts ## Commentary - Analysing YC batch with AI and reinventing how to plot charts - This is typical twitter and linkedin these days. Slopify. I hardly read posts from twitter or any social media directly these days, only if I am following him or her then only I know its an authentic post. Otherwise its a chaos to find authentic posts from the slop. - The video is an excellent example of that. AI is everywhere that is the conclusion.

Resilience in the age of AI

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Resilience in the age of AI](https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/04/resilience-in-age-of-ai.html): Resilience in the age of AI ## Commentary - Resilience in the age of AI - This is a spicy prediction. I think this is a far dystopian prediction, but you never know. I had thought software creation was a far far dystopian fantasy, but here I am experiencing it. In late 2025, I thought it was a decade away, only to realise it was a few years away and then to wake up and realise it was already happening. Damm! This AI Era…. - The thought about privancy is really going to happen or is already happening with the dangerously skip permission or yolo modes in the code assistant terminals. This will spread in “whatever you want, take it”. This thing will test the security and design of the AI systems that we will be producing.QUOTE “While today there are concerns about personal privacy and security, in the future we will be much more willing to share information about ourselves to avoid ambiguity in our requests” - This looks feasible and could happen. They will resist it, everyone will as usual. But the thing that scares me here is there would be no linear trajectory of careers. Like if you work more harder you won’t be rewarded as much. Since AI will do the most work, you’ll just manage them, I don’t know what I am even talking about. But the trust and credibility will blur with these systems for sure, or atleast will be hard to earn as it is today.QUTOE “We can break down future employment categories into three major branches: those who care, those who service and those who experience” - Well concluded. If we need any of these, AI has failed us, humanity has not failed.QUOTE “If there is an ongoing need for leaders, educators, financial workers or professionals, this will be a sign that the AI revolution has ultimately failed and will signal a long-term limitation in the aspirations of humanity as a species” - I wonder what resliance meant in the title, I thought I was going in for a full resistance to AI, but found out the oppsite. So it would mean resistance or resliance to your older believes no longer will hold in the AI era I suppose? But older experiences might.

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era): I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era ## Commentary - I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era - Its actually a great post. I cannot relate on the writing side, I can always rant on for 2k words non stop just like this newsletter. But I can relate this to AI-assisted Coding. I think I might be a bit rusty if I had to hand write code now. That is something I wish not to do, but the industry is forcing the other way. - I never use AI to touch my words, I just use Grammarly to refine the word mistakes, that’s it full stop. Nothing ever touches the world. I throw it to ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok turn by turn to rate my writing, and I take some critique from them. I use the extra “be blunt and brutal but honest to rate this” to add a negative direction, forcing it to find mistakes. That is a good use of AI to improve your writing, but not accepting it blindly and pasting what it throws at you.

What is this job anymore

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [What is this job anymore](https://waylonwalker.com/ping-46/): What is this job anymore ## Commentary - What is this job anymore - I think I am a bit confident to say, we are a few months away from non-technical people saying, “oh crap, this is seriously bad!” (probably some security loopholes and ridiculous architecture) and saying we need some person that can fix it, the guys who are paid to edit text you know those, nerdy people out there. I thought our job was gone, we will be so back. - Back to not so sarcastic talk, I agree to the post. I am constantly asking what the hell it means to be a developer now? Sure manage agents and their output, but we weren’t build for that were we?

Software is a feeling

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Software is a feeling](https://robinrendle.com/notes/software-is-a-feeling/): Software is a feeling ## Commentary - Software is a feeling - I can see the frustration there. Maintaining a blog is wired. You want to have one thing, then another, and another and it just breaks the full design and flow. - Great blog design btw, it has inspired me to have my blog in a VS Code-like interface, just wondering and being a little more ambitious than I am, because I have LLMs to design it ;)

Sapling

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Sapling](https://youtu.be/7Wak2MVTsfw): Sapling ## Commentary - Sapling - This is a cool abstraction for git CLI users. I like the prev and next for branch switching and forget for rm —cached moving the file from the staging back to unstage, really neat and intuitive to use. - The web is also nice, the split is really handy in the times of AI if anyone is reviewing the code and you want to have mercy for them ;) - But the undo feature is so great. Like that is some super power of git hidden behind some awkward commands but that interface just made it a piece of cake. Amazing stuff.

Claude Code sourcemaps leaked

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Claude Code sourcemaps leaked](https://youtu.be/Wvj1mTqyzsQ): Claude Code sourcemaps leaked ## Commentary - Claude Code sourcemaps leaked - This is dramatic and really wasn’t needed, if they had opensourced the Claude Code in the first place. Like its now open atleast once, people have reproduced it in Rust, what is the point of hiding it? - This is kind of idiotic from Anthropic. I don’t know what the “secret sauce” really is.

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research): AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice ## Commentary - AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice - This is partially true, as I said in the above thought to add a “blunt and brutal but honest and grounded” advice, it steers the other way. Its not a sycophancy but more about instruction-following. - ChatGPT models are increasingly becoming instruction-following, but are overly sweet sometimes, I agree. Grok is the other way, as we know from the snitch bench.

Kafka and RabbitMQ differences and uses

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Kafka and RabbitMQ differences and uses](https://youtu.be/1HOVtQ-_fcE): Kafka and RabbitMQ differences and uses ## Commentary - Kafka and RabbitMQ differences and uses - A good explanation of Kafka and RabbitMQ, the difference was there I didn’t knew it. They both are message brokers but one is a smart and other is a storage place with other operations to do things around it. - I still don’t know which one to use when, its time to really use them

DatabaseMaxing with Preston Thrope

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [DatabaseMaxing with Preston Thrope](https://pthorpe92.dev/databasemaxxing/): DatabaseMaxing with Preston Thrope ## Commentary - DatabaseMaxing with Preston Thrope - This is a great guide. Inspirational and eye opener. I wanted to do it, year back. But still procrastinating. I had written about learning SQL, but now in the phase of building low level stuff like interpreter and compilers. - I am thinking of building a markdown parser like pydantic for the web. I know that is wired but it can open up a lot of possibilities.

Somethings just take time

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Somethings just take time](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/): Somethings just take time ## Commentary - Somethings just take time - Yes, some things do take time, and friction is what helps it grow. Rightly said. - I like the idea of building communities and trust, that is what I had done without having extensive technical skills at my job, I was there just showed up daily, and … it ends wiredly but not all time ends up the right way. Maybe it was my mistake, but anyways, moving on to a new chapter. - I don’t know why everyone wants to churn software, what is the hurry, do you know what you want to build?

The diminished art of coding

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [The diminished art of coding](https://nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/the-diminished-art-of-coding/): The diminished art of coding ## Commentary - The diminished art of coding - Very good. Really good. Its written from heart and humans value this. This is what I call writing. Writing not for attention, writing for connection.If you’ve never taken an interest in poetry, or painting, or dance, or whatever, now would be a good time. In an era where the internet is increasingly full of bots pumping their bland bot ideas into everybody’s brains, seeking out distinctly human forms of expression has become vital - A good point. In this era, connecting yourself with nature or art as we say is vital. Especially for developers, we need to get out of our heads sometimes, we need to ponder the blank, the boredom.

A eulogy for Vim

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [A eulogy for Vim](https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html): A eulogy for Vim ## Commentary - A eulogy for Vim - A really heartfelt post. I was not expecting AI, but yes, it matters. - Bram Moolenaar, an absolute legend, the creator of Vim. He died a couple of years back. The author of this post just wrote his heart out. Every humanly possible connection is relatable (not for me for Bram, but yes can see that). He was kind, he supported poor people in Uganda. - This post just gives me a hope that people can live still. AI will probably eat the world, but people like him will cease to be eaten up. And that is liberating, that is moving thought. People need to be aware what is happening in the world. - Vim Classic, a tribute to Bram, really great stuff. Will support if I can with any power.

Markdown ate the world

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Markdown ate the world](https://matduggan.com/markdown-ate-the-world/): Markdown ate the world ## Commentary - Markdown ate the world - This is really intriguing, I though markdown was old than docx. But its not it was there after 2004, that is quite a recent thing. Just over two decades. And it has changed the way people write. - I think majority of the non-tech people still use docx and whatever doc format is for Microsoft Word. Its just works you know. And if it doesn’t work it just doesn’t work. Nothing in between. But markdown always works. Anyways, who can convince them. Microsoft has a deep foot in the minds of people. - With LLMs, markdown just became a standard now. Everyone knows it, its simple with just enough structure to separate it out from plain text. Just the right balance but dead simple.

Every Kubernetes concept has a story

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Every Kubernetes concept has a story](https://x.com/livingdevops/status/2037430761150984475): Every Kubernetes concept has a story ## Commentary - Every Kubernetes concept has a story - A beautiful post. I was confused midway, should I laugh or learn? - I don’t think using a database in a container is a good idea in any situation. Unless you have a session-only requirement. - The pains of one thing are actually a concept in Kubernetes that is a good lesson to learn and learn each concept with a situation in mind.

You are not your job

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [You are not your job](https://jry.io/writing/you-are-not-your-job/): You are not your job ## Commentary - You are not your job - Gold. Just sheer empathy and gratitude for the person writing. “You evaluate someone's warmth first to gauge their intent before ability”“The people who love you don't love you because you're good at your job. They love you because of something else entirely. Maybe it's your humor. Maybe it's that you actually listen. Maybe it's that you remember things about their lives and ask about them. Maybe it's simply that you show up. You're present. You don't extract a conversation and then disappear.”“The harder version is asking yourself: if my job title disappeared tomorrow, would I still be me? Would the people who matter still love me? If the answer is yes, you’re in the right place.If the answer is no - if your identity is not cleanly separated from what you do for money - your relationship to yourself may need an update.You are not your job. You’re a person first. Your ability to connect, be present, and make people feel understood is what makes you irreplaceable to the people around you, which is the only market that counts.” - bangers after bangers. Really, I am framing this post. Its like a healing potion. A compass for life in tough times, such as the current ones.

So where are all the ai apps?

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [So where are all the ai apps?](https://www.answer.ai/posts/2026-03-12-so-where-are-all-the-ai-apps.html): So where are all the ai apps? ## Commentary - So where are all the ai apps? - Good questions and modest exploration. I don’t think the increase in productivity of building of software has any relation to packages being developed. Since the first trend that we would see is that people will make software for themselves. Solo software or personal software as many have called it, apps are just that. - Yes, that comparison of packages being shipped is a good point but not fully true and valid. Its kind of very early (oh, we are 3 years into AI now). But people are still figuring it out. - We say what just happened with LiteLLM on PyPI. That might be a nail in a coffin for shipping pacakges. Or even installing them.

Yes, I am bored of reading and listening about AI too

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Yes, I am bored of reading and listening about AI too](https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/is-anybody-else-bored-of-talking-about-ai/): Yes, I am bored of reading and listening about AI too ## Commentary - Yes, I am bored of reading and listening about AI too - I hear you. Managers and literally everyone are somehow shoehorned into software development for asking how many tokens they are using. - Do they even know what a token is? Do they know wha a database engine and storage is, their difference? The difference between a row and a column storage nuances? Why? Why not ask those, instead of obsessing over the metrics. Its a wired and frustrating time to be a developer in one perspective. - Yeah! I know its all great and wonderful time to be a developer as well. But the bad parts just suck out the joy of it. The analogy of discussing what tool to use and how is just infuriating. Just show what you build and how, not with what and nerd sniping the markdown file specifications.

Composer 2 and Cursor Drama on Kimi

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Composer 2 and Cursor Drama on Kimi](https://youtu.be/QGnKTRtEH50): Composer 2 and Cursor Drama on Kimi ## Commentary - Composer 2 and Cursor Drama on Kimi - Damm! This is a bit sad, but not bad. Like Kimi is happy with the parternship, Cursor played around the limitation. Which is not a good thing, and can lead to other major closed source labs to follow this trend which would make open source models like a free fruit to grab. - Not a good spirit, but cannot say anything about it if both of them are happy.

Ctrl + C in psql gives me the heebi-jeebies

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Ctrl + C in psql gives me the heebi-jeebies](https://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebies): Ctrl + C in psql gives me the heebi-jeebies ## Commentary - Ctrl + C in psql gives me the heebi-jeebies - This is really interesting. I like the way he calls it heebi-jeebies. It really is. - Like the TLS is not there for the cancel request, so your psql connection sends the unencrypted database secret in the wild, and somehow if intercepted by anyone in the same network, it can launch a Denial of Service attack. - The Neon Proxy and Elephant shark(the wireshark but for Postgres) have a workaround by noting the secret with the initial connection and when the psql sends it with the plain text the secret it intercepts it and kills the right session. Wired stuff but kind of no choice, that would require a bit of a refactor on the protocol.

Concurrency Patterns in Golang

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Concurrency Patterns in Golang](https://youtu.be/rDRa23k70CU): Concurrency Patterns in Golang ## Commentary - Concurrency Patterns in Golang - This was a great video explaining go routines and concurrency patterns. Loved the analogy of gophers as senders and receivers as passing the buckets in channels, the buffered and unbuffered channels as the gophers in between, really well explained. - Also, the patterns and concepts for those concurrent go routines and channels were well explained.

A bad day to use python

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [A bad day to use python](https://youtu.be/mx3g7XoPVNQ): A bad day to use python ## Commentary - A bad day to use python - Wired, how can a pypi credentials be comprimised that too for a founder and that leads to a release without the developers realising it? - Very weird, litellm was a great package, I like what they do, I want to make that for Golang. Never able to make one. Thankful that I was not the one with Golang yet.

Why I vibe in Go and not in Python and Rust

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [Why I vibe in Go and not in Python and Rust](https://lifelog.my/episode/why-i-vibe-in-go-not-rust-or-python): Why I vibe in Go and not in Python and Rust ## Commentary - Why I vibe in Go and not in Python and Rust - I can feel this might be written by AI, but still it has a valid point. Go doesn’t gets in the way. Python never does (only in prod), Rust just blocks you.

OSI and TCP Best Explanation

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [OSI and TCP Best Explanation](https://youtu.be/3b_TAYtzuho): OSI and TCP Best Explanation ## Commentary - OSI and TCP Best Explanation: - A very enthusiastic and clear explanation of the IP Model. - The difference is really explained really elegantly. The confusion and the separation of layers is pitched right way, removing all the why so questions. - Highly recommend watching it to get a good grasp on the fundamentals of the Network Model.

The machines didn’t take your craft

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

My thoughts on [The machines didn’t take your craft](https://www.davidabram.dev/musings/the-machine-didnt-take-your-craft/): The machines didn’t take your craft ## Commentary - The machines didn’t take your craft - A good one, the last paragraph hits home.No matter what tools arrive, no matter how powerful they become, they will always remain tools. They won’t replace our reason nor values. You will still choose what is worth building. And as long you reason, nothing essential has been lost. - This is a good call to not abandon your craft, just because a faster method exist, never attach yourself to the tools. They will keep on changing.

Peter Steinberger with OpenAI and OpenClaw

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - He just knew a lot of software, so he can do it, I am not there yet, I need to write and read a lot more code to be there. - This is fine, I think, as long as we can understand what the code is getting generated, I would feel nice to just let AIs do it.

Antidote

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The article has lived to its name. It truly has and is an antidote. Just read it. Read it I said. - Just do things like you used to do before AI, AI is just a tool, it is not necessary to shove it all the places and situations. Be candid, be original, make stuff just because you can.

Did Kellogs do the math right?

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Nerd stuff. Really cool to see it. - Really, spheres can cover more surface area for filings than donut shapes, really intriguing.

You can use newline characters in URLs

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is wired, I never thought about it, does that really work? I can see this being used for Base64 encoded images. - Worth knowing. Better presentable HTML.

Is traditional software engineering dead - Naval Ravikant

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Nope, this is true. - But software engineers still have two massive advantages on you. First, they think in code, so they actually know what’s going on underneath. And all abstractions are leaky. So when you have a computer programming for you—when you have Claude Code or equivalent programming for you—it’s going to make mistakes. - It gives me hope. - Not sure because, he is not a software developer, so cannot really fathom how he can commet those all things, but good points.

MicroGPT

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is beautiful! I used custom list of names of Pokemon, Places and LLM Model names. - This is so cool, I still don’t get it, I want to read the code, and build something different from it. So much to do, so little time.

Software Engineering is dead now

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ah! This is bad. I didn’t realise it till wednesday. Things just hit like truck. Really sad for so many people, atleast they have 6 months, though the times are tricky, the hiring might be wired place. Its not the same, people have confusion on what actual software would mean in 1 year of time. I can hardly think what I will work with in the next month.

Stop using Pickle

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Pickle and waste? - Ok I can understand the pain here. The pickle file is not readable except for that python program. - By using some other standard format, it can help in reusing of data

747 and Coding Agents

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Really good comparison. I feel like a pilot than an engineer now. Really good. - Yes, the learning is becoming the most least focused thing. - Finally people realise that it is happening. The change is too big of a deal, and its just shaking the grounds of software like crazy.

You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Man that is banger of a post, I just read 10% of it and was smiling and was in peace. content. - There is someone who understands this pain of working with AI. - I want to read this article, its too long, but I want to feel it. Weekends are for that.

This time is different

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is always different right? In tech, no change is the same, that’s why its called change right? But people think every change as revolution, and this is like that which hits like a truck after the hype has faded out.

We build a app to read books with LLMs - Merrilin

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This looks good, I want to build something like this. Recently I have been devouring books like crazy and have found myself typing 100s of queries to google (not GPT) to understand the plot deeper and certain quotes that I didn’t understand. - Might not be a good thing to add while reading a book, but as a companion to talk to is a good direction.

Writing code is cheap now

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - “The biggest challenge in adopting agentic engineering practices is getting comfortable with the consequences of the fact that writing code is cheap now.” - Banger, yes can agree to that. Turning that code to production grade is hell of a task. It seems so flawless that its tempting to just push it straight. But tests my god tests are like verataserum for those ai slop. - “Delivering new code has dropped in price to almost free... but delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than that.” - Yes totally. - “These best practices are still being figured out across our industry. I’m still figuring them out myself.” - Honestly he is the best one to put this way. Everyone thinks they know how it works, but having that probabilistic factor is very rough especially for thinking of code in a new way.

We used to be gamers

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a fun one. Really enjoyed the banter. I was also a novice gamer with my friends in teens. I used to play Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Minecraft. Those were the times. - Now it feels like a dread and creep, almost like wastage of life, not time even. I know, I know I am not a productive-rambling person. But it just, I don’t like playing games anymore, there are other things for me to enjoy and sip my soul in.

Hoard things you know how to do

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is an interesting idea, I can think that those all things that we can do could be a test on how good or bad the models are getting. Right now there are a few things that I can do and feels a bit awkward to do, so LLMs are a good point to tuck in. - Also the labour job of writing code is away now, no denying that. It was in the ChatGPT phase too. But now it can do at scale with the full context.

Google API Keys weren’t Secrets but then Gemini arrived

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is funny and scary at the same time. Funny because how carelessly the single API Key exposed the full Google access, scary because how can such thing at Google scale happen. - Kind of wired how they handled these. It felt a bit rushed and then never looked at. They wanted AI to be in the hands of everyone and everything. So I think that might be a decision somewhere that for AI studio it should be that but they mistakenly made it for all products accessible from the API Key.

Anthropic is lying to us

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I don’t want to start another week of dunking on Anthropic but this doesn’t seem to end. - They think using their APIs is against rights, but scraping internet and training claude is not? Well they should get more of these now, let them taste their own medicine. - I am starting to get a hatred for them now. Can’t bear them.

Google street View in 2026

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The indian region looks full of street views, shows how conjusted and cramped everything in India is. Peace is a luxury in India, though people have a unique way of finding peace in chaos.

Peter Steinberger to join OpenAI

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is huge. It also is showing the rift building up between Anthropic and OpenAI. The one taking the advantage of the mistakes of the other. And OpenAI I must say has not placed a foot wrong in 2026. Anthropic on the other hand has ruined itself with a few already. - I take my words back for now, Anthropic was Gryffindor but it choose to be evil and should be in Slytherin. OpenAI I am not sure it is brave but so is Google. For now, OpenAI is Gryffindor for me. Brave and Generous, expensive yes but better from the competition.

Desensitized to AI Hype until tried Opus 4.5

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes,very well put. The gap in everything is wide. The shift of perceiving software is changed 180 degrees. There is wide gap of what code is generated and what is shipped, the knowledge of developers, the usage of models, the landscape of product, its all widening like crazy.

link

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Anthropic is a Cult

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - More and more things are getting verified it seems. Anthropic is just on a brag mode. It thinks it is a superior or a pure-blood kind of race. Really they are wired about how they perceive intelligence. - I am annoyed by them now. They have good models, but the vibes are not feeling good.

Opus and Codex Models

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Another banger! Sort of proving my experience too. - I was working with amp (it uses claude models in free tier with rate limits) for creating TUI for Clickup, I asked it a feature for opening the task when supplied with a link when opening the TUI. Like clickuptui --link clickuptask-link. It was not able to load or understand the things. It added the feature but was not working. I asked it to fix it, it was not working. It just removed the feature! Like what? It just removes the problem out of the way rather than untangling it. - Then I switched to codex and it solved the problem, slow yes but it did it. - Amazing how each of these types of LLMs are evolving.

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This I must say is true again.

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - True, maybe. It feels it kind of trashes the way through the solution rather than path finding to a solution - The image is so well presented, the idea hits home. - Though I think only certain people are able to get value out of it, its a skill issue which eventually everyone will cope with in the end. - Not sure how well good or bad it is, it seems to be fading out now.

Some notes on starting to use Django

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I wonder if django is like unintentionally made for LLMs - It has everything suitable for context - great docs - 2 decades of stack overflow questions - robust and explicit - not exceptionally magical - It just makes sense, its like a mechanical part of a system, others might hide complexity or maybe too verbose - But django just hits the harness the right I think. I have read couple of articles on this and I think it makes sense. - Though for now I favor golang instead of django why? type system. You can add pydantic or mypy in django but out of the box support is where I am inclined towards for now.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

# One-Year Writing Journey ## Context 7l-1.72 1.71">

One-Year Writing Journey: This is really a good read of a person trying to be consistent at writing, I have personally done this for over two year **Source:** techstructive-weekly-7

We need to talk about Ralp loops

Thoughts on motivation and my 40 year-old career

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

# Thoughts on motivation and my 40 year-old career ## Context

MCP is a bit verbose and might not be right for all kinds of models with less context window or limited capabilities.

Thoughts on motivation and my 40 year-old career

This was a intense read, a bit of self reflection and some insights into business vs wage job.
I think engineering is ha **Source:** techstructive-weekly-50

The recurring dream of replacing developers

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

- what a flashback, everything makes sense. - Programming is not mechanical - yet people tried hard to make solve for it as it was mechanical - COBOL made syntax readable. CASE tools eliminated typing. Visual tools eliminated syntax. AI can now generate entire functions from descriptions - Each advancement addressed a real friction point. Yet the fundamental challenge persists because it’s not mechanical. It’s intellectual. Software development is thinking made tangible - Just sheer facts those two. We need to find a way around using AI not away from it.

Ideas are cheap, Execution is cheaper

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Oh, my god. This is a bitter truth. Geez. - Never thought about it. Really its kind of true now. It just is a quick change. - The mindset shift is critical.

A Letter for those who fired Tech Writers because of AI

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - True empathy is key Liability, everything becomes liability if outsourced. - LLMs don’t have the taste, the care feeling of the users, the developers yet. - I read a few other posts, but haven’t gotten a chance to sit on it. Will roll a blog for such link post, vibe coded yes! Ideas are cheaper, executive is cheaper now! Hell yes.

Don’t Fall into the AI hype

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is interesting and it comes at the right time - facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway. What is the social solution, then? Innovation can’t be taken back after all. I believe we should vote for governments that recognize what is happening, and are willing to support those who will remain jobless. And, the more people get fired, the more political pressure there will be to vote for those who will guarantee a certain degree of protection. But I also look forward to the good AI could bring: new progress in science, that could help lower the suffering of the human condition, which is not always happy. - All points and counterpoints are well addressed here. Innovation can’t be taken back, that just hits hard. Harsh reality even. AI is in the wild, you can’t avoid it, you’ll have to capture and understand them, just like pokemons. Its hard at first, but never say never. I learnt the hard way, kept giving AI things, tried different things, modes and models, and found the mindset shift. I found what I cared the most, but also a part of me felt taken away.

Don't Fall into the ANTI AI HYPE

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is interesting and it comes at the right time > facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever > It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway. > What is the social solution, then? Innovation can't be taken back after all. I believe we should vote for governments that recognize what is happening, and are willing to support those who will remain jobless. And, the more people get fired, the more political pressure there will be to vote for those who will guarantee a certain degree of protection. But I also look forward to the good AI could bring: new progress in science, that could help lower the suffering of the human condition, which is not always happy. All points and counterpoints are well addressed here. Innovation can't be taken back, that just hits hard. Harsh reality even. AI is in the wild, you can't avoid it, you'll have to capture and understand them, just like pokemons. Its hard at first, but never say never. I learnt the hard way, kept giving AI things, tried different things, modes and models, and found the mindset shift. I found what I cared the most, but also a part of me felt taken away.

Typical PDF document

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is cool, i've read a lot of these and working at docsumo, makes me want to read about them more.

Fear is not advocacy

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is real advice. People are hyping about the next workflow to 100x our productivity. Its ok to be 1x and still push less bugs than 100x and push 1000 bugs.

Dialogue between a developer and a kid

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is hilariously funny. - What a real developer is? Who knows languages? No, who knows how to code, No! A developer is someone who sticks to a problem when everyone has given up. - This conversation feels like me and my friend. My friend is the reason I am here today. He knew programming well. I was inspired from him, he gave me advice to learn one programming language, I was boasting about python, C and C++. I feel like a kid here. That was 7 years ago, time flies by.

Quick and dirty print debuggin in Go

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is cool, we make logging a mess. For logs we need to have separate scripts to get relevant data. How much chaos it can be.

The year I stopped writing code

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is interesting and eye opening. It actually gave me the reason to be active while working with LLMs. - Reviewing is hard, most developers avoid it, that’s the part you need to be doing, in order to be a better one. That point I had ignored and it has came to haunt me in the year throughout. This new year though, will be different. I have decided to take LLM generated code with a grain of salt.

AI codes better than me, now what?

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is really changing. It can write code, better than me. That’s when I started to use it as a partner that knows a lot of things but gets overwhelmed and like a junior does a lot of things. - Guiding it, reviewing it, and also understanding myself what it actually does is co critical.

Database Internals:Chapter 1

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The difference of the OLAP and OLTP database is so nice. - Also the differnce of column based vs row based database type is clear from this. Makes sense and intuitive as well - The Binary tree also makes sense.

6’7’‘ is not Random

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so true - In the 1990s, a “middle-class job” was enough to buy a house. Being “6 feet” was enough to be tall. - In the 2020s, the middle has been hollowed out. - To be “wealthy” now requires a crypto-exit or a tech IPO (The Economic 6’7”). - To be “famous” requires global virality (The Social 6’7”). - To be “attractive” requires filters and surgery (The Aesthetic 6’7”).

AI should be free software

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yikes, this looks like a good take on LLMs being free and open weight. - If not, the larger AI labs might offer ads into the LLM suggestions. This, just the thought of it makes me wiggle with fear. It might push us in wired directions. - The point of drawing a line of “our goal” vs “model’s goal” becomes hazy and it just doesn’t align with human values. - Its a pretty hard problem to solve if it goes in a bad direction, which it seems to be at the moment. - I just completed reading Harry Potter #4 the Goblet of Fire. It was amazing. A good start to 2026 in reading. Hoping to complete the series in February.

Designing Data Intensive Applications: Chapter 1 and 2

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It was a great overview of the database systems. I like how he explains the p50, p90, and all metrics. It makes sense without getting into too much of details - Also the diagram of the OLAP and OLTP databases and how it fits. It made sense.

On not using Django

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I don’t quite get it. Maybe its true. Django provided a good start but then it was like a lock in. - With LLMs its quite easy to generate the boilerplatey code that django provides out of the box, so that demand is lost? - Its not the only reason django is here right? It has extensions, best python community and even more best documentation. - I think it will be the best framework to build with LLMs in the future if the ecosystem continues to improve

AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - True. LLMs amplify ambguity. - If LLMs don’t have agency, they don’t choose constraints. Well put.

A conversation between a developer and a kid

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is hilariously funny. What a real developer is? Who knows languages? No, who knows how to code, No! A developer is someone who sticks to a problem when everyone has given up. This conversation feels like me and my friend. My friend is the reason I am here today. He knew programming well. I was inspired from him, he gave me advice to learn one programming language, I was boasting about python, C and C++. I feel like a kid here. That was 7 years ago, time flies by.

What happens when you start taking creativity seriously

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

> You have to defend your creativity That just triggered me up. Sachin Tendulkar didn't became a God of Cricket by accident, he defended his goal, he played to his strength and not defend his weakness. That doesn't mean you can avoid responsibilities, you can pursue your career without neglecting duties, it proved by people.

Printf Debugging in Go with Q

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is cool, we make logging a mess. For logs we need to have separate scripts to get relevant data. How much chaos it can be.

On not using Django in 2026 due to AI?

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

I don't quite get it. Maybe its true. Django provided a good start but then it was like a lock in. With LLMs its quite easy to generate the boilerplatey code that django provides out of the box, so that demand is lost? Its not the only reason django is here right? It has extensions, best python community and even more best documentation. I think it will be the best framework to build with LLMs in the future if the ecosystem continues to improve

Why we have inflated expectations, 6 feet 7 inches

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is so true > In the 1990s, a “middle-class job” was enough to buy a house. Being “6 feet” was enough to be tall. > > In the 2020s, the middle has been hollowed out. > > To be “wealthy” now requires a crypto-exit or a tech IPO (The Economic 6’7”). > > To be “famous” requires global virality (The Social 6’7”). > > To be “attractive” requires filters and surgery (The Aesthetic 6’7”).

Fear is not advocacy

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is real advice. People are hyping about the next workflow to 100x our productivity. Its ok to be 1x and still push less bugs than 100x and push 1000 bugs.

you have everything you need

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Man, that was a heck of an article to read. I continued reading it because I found it relatable to Minecraft. - You open a world, you have an empty inventory - Still you believe you can win the game - Without anything, "Kya lekar aya jagath me, kya lekar jayega" vibes True, read it, it will change your perspective on reasoning for failure in a good way.

The fear of not growing due to AI

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

Ah! This is a developer trying to love his craft, yet the people are cruel to not respect it. They just want to solve problems; no one cares, they are right, but empathy is traded for business value.

Interstitial Journaling

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is cool, maybe a little too much time aware, maybe doing it too much is bad, but still, a good way to break the mental procrastination cycle I think we can get a idea or get aware of the amount of time we wasted or done something good, and act on it accordingly. A nice trick for the brain 9:45: Wrap up the standup 9:54: Log clearing 10:15: Call with manager about the task 10:33: Felt bad etc.,etc

Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

This is cool advice. I like writing, side projects, oss, reading, and making stuff. It just shows the passionate flowing out.

What I learned writing Gleam, after coming from Python

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Top to down approach. This just shifts from taking the problem and boiling it down to the input and output. Wow! This just made so much sense now. - We can define the main API as the function that takes something and returns something. In between the intermediate steps, we can then decide what each component of the result will come from. - I need to try hard on learning functional programming this year.

The internet is a net negative

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - We’ve maximized information and accidentally drowned wisdom - Hits home. This is good observation and a perfect critique, not over cynical, nor too loathed. Its just helplessness to avoid the battle of the mind and the heart. - The business of the world has forced humans itself into a trap. What an irony we live in, creating a cage for ourselves. Besides slaughtering nature into it too. - All that time, that irreplaceable human attention, fed into machines that convert consciousness into quarterly earnings. - That hurts badly. We are loosing are attention to these machines. We need to get it back. The time, the wisdom and the boring tone to our lives. - The optimist in me is still here. Still hoping. - This is great piece of writing. I love it. Want to write essays like this. - Thanks for writing this Kenneth, you have inspired some spark for me.

Shipping at inference speed

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good post to say that we have different ways of using LLMs at this point and nothing is permanent. Every month or weeks, this is changing. Adopting a new workflow is like juggling circus art. - Codex is something I haven’t even touched, Claude code too, never. I have used Amp, Gemini CLI, Warp and Cursor the most. - I love those, those are cheap or even free, they help me understand what I was about to do wrong. They have never produced anything right 100%. I always needed to understand what was I supposed to do. - Is this true “>The important decisions these days are language/ecosystem and dependencies” Maybe but I don’t see that. Its kind of true, but not in a big way. The major things are the flow, the edge cases and the intuition for the problem for it to be ale to understand. - This actually surprised me”> Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.” I want to try it now. I have ton of go projects.

Local LLMs are how nerds justify a big computer they don’t need

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Curiosity gets the better of them. I have a 8GB device, I can barely run a 1B parameter model. I get frustrated but have nothing to complain. I can use ChatGPT in temporory mode, or incognito mode if I don’t want it to attach it to the memory. I don’t see using local models on scale is justifiable just yet.

Git Integrations is ten years away

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is hillariously funny. I can’t imagine VS Code team coping up with git integrations in 2025 - I don’t blame them entirely, at least they realize it is missing. With these LLM assisted coding, they decided to ship it finally. We have one instance of AI assisted coding helping VS Code ship faster (after 10 years). - Learn Git, true. I alway 100% of the times use the cli. NO aliases, no agents, just CLI commands. git add, commit -m, push, pull, merge, rebase whatever. If I don’t know, I google it, read the ai overview and straight to the keyboards.

You are not dumb, you just lack the pre-requisites

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yeah! I have started to learn SQLite and since 2 years made a Brilliant org streak. I feel good taking on advanced concepts soon. - Basic and a good foundation helps you pivot and branch off to wide possibilities.

2025, The year in LLMs: Simon Willison Weblog

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Boy! That is a lot! I have been saying “overwhelming” word was not sufficient to describe this tend of LLMs in 2025. This explains the reason - We had LLAMA falling, Gemini gripping, OpenAI still on the top yet cornered neck to neck suddenly with Chinese Labs and Anthropic in its own league. We saw the sudden rise and sudden dip in vibe coding, people thought “We can be programmers! We don’t need developers anymore, hehe” to “Damm! Do I need a developer to debug this?”. That was a funny thing to watch (as a developer) - The images and 6 second video clip generated by AI are mind boggling, we saw from Sora and Nano Banana what havoc they can wreck if put in untamed hands. - Local models are getting good, but the speed of the cloud and advancement over the other side is rocketing. There is also this trend of cli based agents. Claude code just set the trend and let 100s of cli agents rip off in the months to follow. Those are still released by new companies every now and then. - Slop, yeah! We had less human slop than we needed AI right? - Thanks to Simon Sir for this awesome blog. It finally gives me a relief to read so many thing have happened at a glance

Andrej Karapathy’s 2025 LLM Year in Review

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was more of a reflection post, of how his mental model has changed and how things are building up. I like it. It was a interesting and highly technical perspective. - His opinion of LLMs as Ghost is so liberating, as it actually threatens me from my identity if we compare it with humans. Ghost makes sense, even dismissive it as a slave sort of relation right? Not in a bad way but kind of inferior relation for LLMs with humans. - Agent that lives in the terminal is practical, for a developer or a human who understands what they are doing, they know what they want, its just too much menial for them to spend the energy on. I agree. - There is a lot of work to be done, developers, don’t strap your belts, hone your hammers, its going to be needed. - Also his post: - Could this have been more accurate! Right note to end the year. - Vibe coding last year, now this is the trend we are surfing on, this will last decades.

13 Tips for Writing a technical book

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A handy little thing to remind myself, this is inevitable for me. I would write one. Not this year probably. But I would surely write one, my gut, my instinct is not false on this. - I would this then. Great advice for just being curious.

GitHub - davidfowl/tally: Let agents classify your bank transactions.

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

A cool tool to check how it made it

Engineering is becoming bee-keeping

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I like this comparison quite a lot. Swarming agents is what its happening. And the realisation that code was the thing that doesn’t matter, the thing that matters is did we solve the problem - Honey shows up at the end. That’s what matters. - And bees can sting. Without the right gear and practices, you get hurt. The protective suit, the smoker, the careful movements. In code, that’s patterns, documentation, tests. The guardrails that keep the stings to a minimum. - Working like this is exciting. There’s a playfulness to it. You can try things without committing. You can explore without sunk costs weighing you down. You can work on three features at once because you’re not holding all the context in your head anymore.

You cannot not lead

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so subtle, yet perfect. You lead by good or a bad way. - You cannot say I was not the leader when you are the only person building and maintaining it. You lead by examples, good or bad. - Average sucks you know? You are either good or extremely bad. You cannot not lead. - Wow! This post is so perfect, not only fits the manager but also every human, a elder human trying to teach or lead a younger one. The younger one learns from the examples and behavior of the leader.

CMU Database System #4 Memory Management and Buffer pools

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ok OS is not our friend, we need to manage our memory ourselves. This went wild, I thought managing memory was like shooting yourselves on the foot, but not for DBs. - So we load the database file, from the disk into memory not as full, but chunks called frames, where each page is contained in the buffer pool. Interesting, this is done in the actual ram or the memory not full at once. - So this makes it the different algorithms to decide which frames/pages to keep and evict (remove) - There is a difference in lock and latches, a lock is something that protect the database logical content from other transactions i.e. the data to write or avoid corrupted reading - However a latch is something that helps in preventing the database internals from other operations, its only for an operation not a query. Its like a mutex. - We can’t rely on OS, as OS doesn’t know what are we querying. - There are like half a dozen implementation of replacement caches like LRU, Clock, LFU, LRU-K, ARC, etc.

CMU Databse System #3 Database Storage: Files, Storage, Tuples

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a good lecture on the different storage hierarchy of the storage. The top there is the pages, the blocks of memory that database fetches for individual records or tuples. Then there is the blocks of memory on the databse file itself, and the actual disk of storage.

The future of software development is software developers

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - technical practices that can dramatically shrink delivery lead times while improving reliability and reducing the cost of change, with or without “AI” - A banger of a post. This is expressing that AI is just a shift in a toolset, or maybe even a abstraction of the language. We will still have ambiguity that a human needs to understand in order to deliver a software. - We can see from his experience, developers were written obsolete from time to time, and each time it was different, more potent than the other, but here we are. - On top of all that, “AI” coding assistants are really nothing like the compilers and code generators of previous cycles. The exact same prompt is very unlikely to produce the exact same computer program. And the code that gets generated is pretty much guaranteed to have issues that a real programmer will need to be able to recognise and address - This is true too, we are just automating and generating crap faster, code is always crap until distilled and refine with each iteration to the needs. We just now have a better or worse iteration cycle, a machine that can spit out code like tirelessly, we need to vet and test it.

How I parsed billions of rows for every user in 2 seconds

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! I like these videos. I learnt a lot too. It was passive knowledge true. But I came to know that these things are at least possible. - Clickhouse as a database, the queries, we can use Material views which can be used as a CTE almost but on the fly, Endpoints to query them as a URL. WOW! - The optimisation was based on the clickhouse features only, not sure if it would have been possible without it.

The Fundamentals by Kelsey Hightower

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ahh! How many people will say this, but yet we can’t follow it - Everything boils down to the fundamentals, having the basic thing to understand when something goes wrong. Rather we make it complex in order to be percieved as smart and even oversmart.

Don’t become the machine

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is well put. - I kind of hate this argument. - Why are we comparing ourselves to machines in the first place? We can grind, but with thinking what actually we are doing. - Because I equate grind to consistency, it sometimes feels like grind, and we need to overcome that emotion of letting it overtake us. But most of the days, the grind is a joy, we do it because we feel like doing it.

Text editors should be worse

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ok! I agree and disagree. You need to have a zen mode in your editor, which just is bare bones, and one for full fledged stuff like LSP, AI-auto-complete, syntax highlighting and what not. - Editor is just a tool, it can’t code on its own(in 2025, still needs prompting), similarly to use it, it needs preferences.

Guide to Local LLM Models

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ok, the VRAM and RAM is somethign is quite critical. If you have less RAM and much VRAM, its no use, you need to have sufficient RAM in order to run a good enough model, VRAM wouldn’t handle it.

You’re not burning out, you’re essentially starving

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - When you truly chase your highest potential, everything you thought was burnout will melt away. Because you weren’t suffering from too much work, you were suffering from too little truly important work. Like a boy who thought he was full until dessert arrives, you’ll suddenly find your hunger return!Some really good pointsPause once a month to make sure you’re still on the right track. Stop once a year to triple-check you’re on the right track. But never get off this path towards your highest potential. Anything else will starve you existentiallyThis is trueWe’re optimizing for less suffering instead of more meaning.YesI woke up today so excited to get to work thinking it was Monday morning already. Instead of jumping right into it, I spent all morning making breakfast and playing with my kids, then wrote this post. When I’m writing about something personal, 1,000+ words can easily flow for me in an afternoon.Just read the post! - This was a good one

Structured output can create fake confidence

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Spicy take and true! Somewhat true - If your task is complex to get things out from image, or understand the context, it might hinder the quality. - But if your task is to simply do something straightforward tool calls, structured output beats everything.

Writing HTML by hand is easier and cheaper then debugging your SSG in 2025

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! We are moving at a pace where generating html from LLM is getting easier (not cheaper yet!) than generating it by code, whew! What a time to be in.

How I left youtube

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Man that was a good read! - I resonated with this a lot - This duality is exhausting. It forces you to lie by omission to people you respect. You can’t tell your team, “I can’t take that ticket because I need to study dynamic programming.” You just have to work faster. - I respect people above and behind me, but I too needed to move in life, support the things I was responsible for, get out of the grave situation I was pushed into. For that, I took some decisions, which I tried for, but nothing came off it, I wasn’t quite sure about the switch and left it when the offer came. Stranded here. I am feeling good here, but if I am not in another company by the end of 2026, something is wrong with me. - Let’s see! - Good lessons - Don’t say: “I tweaked the YouTube watch-time algorithm using X variable. - ” - Do say: “I optimized a high-throughput distributed system to prioritize user retention metrics, reducing latency by 150ms through a custom caching layer.” - Man!! - My final conversation with my manager was heart-wrenching. I had prepared a script, anticipating a counter-offer or a guilt trip. Instead, I was met with soft and understanding empathy. - Yep - The interview fatigue is real, and the conversations are hard, but the clarity you gain on your own value is worth the struggle. - Got to go through it once and then there would be no stop for growth. - Grass looks green on the other side always! Damm

Vibe Coding is broring

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is pathetic, really. Watching it clog some code and done. Sigh what is left out then, to read code? Who loves it. - Vibe coding is cool and good if you just want the product in your hands, but if you care about the craft then please write it.

Will Turso be the better SQLite? Interview with Glauber Costa

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a great interview. I love the mentality. - If software built with community in the Linux community can sustain after almost 3 decades, then why can’t a embedded database like SQLite can? - Turso is Linux Community but for SQLite (minus the toxic leadership) - Pekka is a great, humble and smart leader to be leading the Turso, SQLite rewrite in Rust. - I want to contribute to SQLite, but it feels I don’t know enough everytime I touch it, also I started learning SQL for this. I have gone so far and now there is no way I am turning back. - I had one itch for geospatial exploration in SQLite for Mumbai city. This weekend might be the time to do it, maybe next year.

Bublesort is useful

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, this is kind of nuts - Buble sort is the lowkey high value thing to learn and know of. - VIsualizing any sorting algorithm really makes you understand the flow better and it clicks almost everytime.

13 Years of Rust and the birth of Rue

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I see this a lot! People creating something that they wanted but didn’t had the mental energy for. - I see it as draining rather. I can’t watch it write code for me, its a dreading feeling to be in for larger durations.

Stop crawling my html, use the API

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so funny, the API is in front of the user.. No LLM, but its so lazy to hit the API. - Maybe we need another protocol for how AI should scrap data from websites, but scrapping is a thing that doesn’t have a standard, or rather no one would follow it.

Duplicate Reports

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Testing guys is the vibe of AI, testing code is becoming apparent as AI can produce code in matter of seconds. Learning the fundamentals has never been so vital.

The time elemet that should actually do something

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Another div without a functionality problem. People create standards and forget to adhere. We have so many protocols, people and developers follow them, but there could be places where no one’s actually paid any attention. - I am surprised there is no element to depict a time for an search engine to rely on, it relies on external factors like datepublished and other in the schema, wired. Even Google doesn’t care about this tag! Pathetic.

Gemini 3 Flash

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wired model. Gemini vibes. But it does something good. It is fast. Hell fast from GPT 5.2 and what was that 3 Pro, what slow lazy models those are.

The strange case of engineers who dismiss AI

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Programming is a task; software engineering is a role - Maybe it feels threatening to their identity, I mean, your expertise is wrapped up in being someone who can write code. Some tool threatens that? Of course you want to dismiss it. - Wow! What a statement. Just bangers. - I like the way of relating things, the difference in AI coding tools from 2022 and 2025 are like Internet Explorer 11 and Chrome. It really is, they are also getting faster and cheaper (maybe not but still). - I think I bet on it, use it to ship more.

Mostly Technical: Hearts and Minds

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Boy I have some thoughts here. - Aaron’s AI Stack > Claude Opus 4.5, Amp Code, Code Rabbit for review - Ship code, no one cares how its done - Have an idea > research > plan > throw it to AI > look at it, stare at it > ship it - What is the perfect abstraction, no, what can I get shipped. - I like to code, but I loved implementing ideas, now its easier to code with AI, it knows the patterns and abstractions. You have to eyeball the code slop it generates. - AI to check in AI, I was too not sure of, but lately the Seer bot from Sentry is so cool, it picks up grave stuff. - You need the human, flavour is the juice. - People can produce code, but not software, you have to have a point of view - I have more then ever to build, the need of software engineers is going to get more. Maybe, I don’t know. They would need a person who can steer them. - Its a great time to study systems, and not specific frameworks. Argh - I hate to say that, but I disagree here. We need to know the tools, not specificity but still, humans are nerdy people they can’t live without doing or learning something, even if that is pointless. - Learning Systems, true, I agree wholeheartedly to that. Maybe he means in the terms of content creation. People are not going to watch or read such specific guides to tech framework and tools, but broader skills than technical details. - But I still think having the knowledge of specific tech or tool will give you the edge over the one slopping and producing slop when the time comes. - Human’s shared experience is something I am starting to consume more. Or rather consuming just that. No one likes AI slop, look at hackernews, people are reading experiences of x person using y ai tool to get things done. - The point of Aaron on shared experience on Pride and Prejudice written by human, is something people are still consuming and talking about after a decade or more. But what about PaLM? Do you remember the model? Noooo. We need human connection. - The idea train from Ian is contagious, I am running it something on my brain to think of something to make in SQL or some code.

Deliver Code you have proven to work as a software developer

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Right on! So true. merging slop without review, even slightly running against a manual test case can give you a good confidence and make you a good engineer. - With more code being generated and as easy as a command, it becomes rather intimidating to review code, to accept suggestion and produce more code. But code is not a magic wand its some assumptions crumpled with logical validation, both of them contradict yet when done right, creates a software that people use and breathe. - I agree to the manual as well as automated testing and LLMs will follow the pattern. If you already have tests in the codebase, it will make sure the test suite is updated when it makes a new change. There are obvious and unavoidable circumstances when you’d have to check the changes with manual test, its something that comes with the plate in the software engineering role. There is no denying in this, its a fact not an opinion. - Software and accountability is opposite side of a coin, you can’t let software account on its own, humans have bought its existence from their imaginations and manifestation, you need to validate and prove the thing you wanted to build.

Vibe Coding is made and depressing

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Sigh, The frustration is quite evident> I just feel sad with how AI has bastardized my profession, which I worked hard for the last 15 years. There is no best practices anymore, no proper process, no meaningful back and forth - I can even feel it with 5 years of coding, man has been doing it for 15 years! Humans gets too excited when they can produce code i think.

Software is getting worse

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, This is true, from I have not observed actively, but looks valid and intuitive - We need these three ingredients for a good software - Passion - Trying to solve a problem with care - Developers been funded or are self sustainable - As the software gets old it get big - As the software gets big, it gets worse - AI Slop - Not using Rust (or any other framework or language) - It’s an Electron app (or using a particular framework or language) - These are not the things responsible for bad software (might be but not only)

A TSP game I wanted for 10 years: built in 4 hours

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is quite a good thing, I am not good at frontend, i let ai do it, i do what i am good at, writing backend. Really? need to see it carefully again.

The Gemini API Key Frustration

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yeah! have you set up Google products without opening and closing a bunch of tabs - Here you are in 2025. Wait a minute, was PaLM a thing? wasn’t google notes to be shut down? - What is happening, what is AI Studio, Vertex AI, Jules, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Gemini models of course, dug sneaked into various products, geese. Google!

I read more than I write, do you?

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, this is true for me too. Reading needs to be more or rather at certain point, balanced from writing. - You can’t just keep on reading and produce nothing. You will have to reflect on what you have consumed. This newsletter is exactly that. - After I got a full time job, I suddenly had a lot of time, I realized i needed to dump my learning somewhere and I was following Register Spill by Thorsten Ball and quickly felt the urge to log my reading and interesting things I find throughout the week. There were a lot of things, I took for granted, they got lost and most of the things didn’t stick. I started this and it helped me realize the ample amount of time I have to learn, explore and tinker on stuff. It was liberating. Hence writing the 72nd edition of this. Its fun.

If you’re going to vibe code, why not do it in C or even Assembly

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yeah! This is a valid point, If you are not caring about the code, why bother with the language. - Choose a language which computers can understand the best, x86 or even machine code, 1s and 0s. - Stephen says to create a VOPL vibe-oriented-programming-language which suits LLMs. Maybe this is what it will look it, who knows. - But the point is strong, if vibe coding is not caring about programming, why bother choosing tech stack and languages, just let it choose whichever it is familiar and good at just like a good’ol developer.

Just use Postgres

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! I love this. I want to write a technical book too. It is such a great adventure to be in. But burnout seems to be stronger there. - I love Postgres can be used as a message queue, gen ai application, full text search I knew and JSON was obvious. - Getting deep into the tech is important, I need to focus on thing at a time.

How HTML changes in EPUB

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is quite intuitive. I didn’t knew epub is a collection of XHTML documents. Its quite obvious now. - Because e-book has to be scaled from each character, so it is xhtml or some variant of it. Zooming, Changing fonts, all happens at all levels or doesn’t look good. So that is the perfect use case for it.

Is Tom Riddle's Diary like an LLM?

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

I was reading Harry Potter, the chambers of secret, the book for the first time and I came across this quote. > “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain” > > -- Mr. Arthur Weasley, [Harry Potter and the Chambers of secret](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/718814-never-trust-anything-that-can-think-for-itself-if-you) (Chapter 18) The quote just rang the bells in me against LLM. Doesn't it hit? Why do I feel guilty like Ginny who had been writing to the dark lord. **Spoilery stuff ahead who hasn't read Harry Potter (The chambers of Secret)** For context, the sentence is said as a caution from a father of a girl named Ginny, who has been writing in the magical diary of Tom Malvaro Riddle. The diary is magical. You write to it, the writing fades and it writes back the answer to you, the answer is coming from the dark lord. She didn't knew it was the dark lord, so she kept sharing secrets and trusting it like her friend. The dark lord kept on asking her more and kept feeding on her fears and doubts and thoughts. She became so immersed in his words that she almost followed her orders like in a trance. The trance led the school of Hogwarts to go awry and let the dark lord cause havoc and chaos. Harry, saves the day as usual, she rescues her from the chambers. He destroys the diary in the end, with the fangs of the salazar slytherin's snake. The father of Ginny Weasely, the sister of Ron Weasly is trying to scold her daughter **softly** to never trust somethings that can think on its own and you don't know its intention or logic behind. **End of spoiler stuff.** There is a girl who this quote is addressed to as she got carried away with the diary's ability to answer her questions. The act of her writing to the diary and talking to someone unfamiliar or even having ill purposes speaks so much. The person writing in the diary is unaware what the intention or the goal of the person are who is writing back to her questions and thoughts. Likewise, we are writing our thoughts and questions to LLM, for that we don't know its purpose. In hindsight, we know its predicting the next word in the sequence. But that too is quite shaky and very unpredictable, each model or version of those are trained on different set of data, might have biases and assumptions. The worst is we don't know what all of those are, in that regard, we even don't know if the answer it gives back is grounded or made up. This is the point which the word hallucinate really comes into play. I can say, "the dark lord (or whoever writing back in the diary) hallucinated the person writing into the diary". You can say hallucination in the context of LLM is it trying to say wrong things, or made up facts, which is true, but **hallucination is half that, and the action that completes it is us accepting them**. And the father of the kid, rightly is scolding the kid on not trusting any material which can think on its own and we don't know the mechanism, place or intention behind the thinking or suggestions it gives. Do I have to write that long explanation for this? No, but I will. I need to speak how important this topic is, and how reading is making me realise this. Because asking LLM about something is cool and good, but it truly depends on how much trust you put in it, you can't blindly start following the results it gives. The consequences could be just simple as you doing something wrong and worse could be you making others wrong, none of which are even close to good. There were some cases of hallucination which became catastrophic as seen [here](https://in.mashable.com/mental-health/101548/chatgpt-safeguards-allegedly-relaxed-before-teens-death) and [here](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/bengaluru-i-t-tribunal-reassigns-case-after-finding-order-ai-driven/articleshow/124851581.cms?from=mdr). Right now the state of LLMs are not that scaled, I mean its not so much into the systems yet, but one it starts, it might get in the grey territory. It can use tools for now, but people are quite sceptical and hopefully they should be for serious stuff. What am I saying is that LLMs are not dark lords per se, but we need to be careful here. We can interact with the diary, but not feed in our hopes in it, you can't let it feed on you, you have to develop the skill of loneliness without relying on an LLM or whoever for that matter, you have to embrace solitude and come out of it strong. I know its quite intriguing to ask very sensitive questions to LLMs, as nobody can really see them, but who are you validating against? A piece of code that produces text based on the likeliness of what people have already written on the internet? How true is that, what do we know if its from reddit conversations or some forum where the topics have taken controversial takes, what were those outcomes. Don't try to equate a response of LLM with a human, that's the least I would say. Suggestions are good, blindly accepting is bad. There is hope in the dark and there will always be, till someone remembers to turn on the lights of **your** mind.

Craft Software that make people feel something

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - So good. Just do it because there is a curiosity. Inspiration is also cool and need for software to make.> When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit. It isn’t a rule, of course. You need to be inspired to make inspiring software. - This is aspiration, the level of it is high here.> This is what I’m talking about: taking time to build something so that once people try it, they remember it for as long as they live.

Why Transformers must hallucinate

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a spicy take. The points are valid - Averaging is a critical mistake - They miss checking whether an answer exist or not - Always answers will guarantee hallucination - It should asses the question, then generate and not generate and then asses.

Please don’t automate science

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Boy, it takes courage to speak this! Well spoken.> They are here because they love research and want to contribute to advancing human knowledge. If you take the human out of the loop, meaning that humans no longer have any role in scientific research, you’re depriving them of the activity they love and a key source of meaning in their lives. And we all want to do something meaningful. Why, I asked, do you want to take the opportunity to contribute to science away from us? - This hits it harder> Science automation is coming whether we want it or not, and we’d better get used to it. The train is coming, and we can get on it or stand in its way.> I think that is a remarkably cowardly argument.> It is up to us as a society to decide how we use the technology we develop. It’s not a train, it’s a truck, and we’d better grab the steering wheel. - There are bangers after bangers> Making human intellectual or creative work redundant is something we should avoid when we can, and we should absolutely avoid it if there are no equally meaningful new roles for humans to transition into. - I want to quote each and every paragraph it seems, this is so good, almost like it comes out of my mouth> You could further argue that working on cutting humans out of meaningful creative work such as scientific research is incredibly egoistic. You get the intellectual satisfaction of inventing new AI methods, but the next generation don’t get a chance to contribute. Why do you want to rob your children (academic and biological) of the chance to engage in the most meaningful activity in the world? - So true, I have been here when there was model after model releases in a week, i think in August-September. It was a wild month. I was overwhelmed, I didn’t get a chance to slow down. AI can do a lot of things, can produce a lot of things, and I cannot handle it at that pace. I need time to absorb, it makes productive, true, but it quickly overshoots the danger productive bar. The moment where you are too much productive that you lose track of every context in your head.

Growing Software

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - What a great analogy. Software is not architect a building but its growing a garden. You don’t have a layout already built, some parts are clear not all. Software is ever changing. You need to build something, observe and change constantly just like a gardener. Gardener doesn’t plant a bunch of plants and forgets, but rather it nurtures them, observes and then takes care of them. - Software is not something you build, its something you grow. Its a slow process.

Software never Fails

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It never fails. It does what it was intended to do. If the intended thing and the actual thing was different than that’s a developer problem and not the software’s. It did what was written as its not a magic wand that will do what you thought to do.

STRING is actually an integer type

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Everything is flexible unless you type strict - SQLite is flexible, as I have said its a double-edged sword until you don’t want it to be.

All it takes is for one to work out

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, this is true. For it to happen though you might have to attempt 99 shots, good or bad, doesn’t matter, that’s what the journey is about. Figuring and Learning things through action.

Google’s Nano Banana Pro Image Generation Model

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - He is saying he won’t use Adobe Photoshop anymore, my god. This models are getting into our heads. Art is at stake, or is it. - The SynthID is not quite a solution, just a label from Google or a tag to show that they care about safety but they don’t know how to. - The quality of these images is so crisp, OpenAI models have some edgy and fainted colors, but Google’s models are so vibrant.

Anthropic confirms software engineering is not dead

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Six months are over, we are in 2026 almost, are there developers still around. I don’t think so, yesterday I heard someone yell at a computer and bang its keys to prompt another fix. We are safe for now.

Anthropic acquires Bun

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, this is a wired deal. No one really knows what is happening and what they are going to do. Bun was a good step. The decision to merge into Anthropic might be good as they are now paid to do their work. - Sustainability is solved, but what if they are no longer the owner of the product or the tool? What about the future of it? We have seen open source project falter under big companies.

On 10 years of writing a blog that nobody reads

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Interesting take on writing in the age of AI, relating to breathe, inhale -> read, exhale -> review and reflect

Code Optimisation via Memoization

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Such a great explanation. Drawing helps so much in computer science. Being able to visualize how each number is computed, it gives a lot of insight into what the pattern is being repeated and carve out the commonality in the pattern.

How i overcame inertia with a weekend project

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is eye opning. You need some inertia to get up and running. Once you are in motion, its hard to stop. You write one word, you think about the next word and it makes a paragraph. - This is true that more we think about doing things, the more wemove out from the action. It creates a vicious cycle of overthinking and inaction. - Move out of thinking, start doing stuff it will make things moving and create a flow that is hard to stop.

You’re all wrong

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yeah, been there done that. Twch stack and programming languages are not one fit all shape. It depends. The typical reason in tech.

Shuffle: Making random feel more human

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a bit under-technical thing. I didn’t get a good flow of the algorithm. i want to understand with an example.

Anthropic with Opus 4.5

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - That’s a minor bump maybe, its different in subtle ways. Still has its pinkish purple vibes. - The snitch bench is cool, it looked something cooler, not much out of the wild. But different from the typical mode vibes.

Rabbit hole learning

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good idea, but it kind of breaks the cycle kf a rabbit hole to log everything that we did and learnt. - It removes the core advantage of learning things by diging deep.

The Godmother of AI

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so cool, - What is the difference of AI and AGi. Think about it. AI was to humans, as AGI is to AI both are same things just the level of buzz in some of the terms is just hype. - Make humans better, making it answer things possible.

How flask started as a joke

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - That is not a joke, but rather a serious problem solved as a side quest and thought of just shipping things. You never know what could work and what won’t.

The probelm with AI Slop

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The probelm with AI Slop

A project is not a bundle ot tasks

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

A project is not a bundle ot tasks

Gemini 3 is the best model ever made?

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Gemini 3 is the best model ever made?

Make your own website

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Make your own website

Alien Authors

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Alien Authors

Why Software Development fell to AI first

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Why Software Development fell to AI first

TOON vs JSON

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

TOON vs JSON

here

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

here

The 18th November 2025 Cloudflare Outage Report

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The 18th November 2025 Cloudflare Outage Report

I can’t recommend Grafana to everyone

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

I can’t recommend Grafana to everyone

How bcrypt can be unsafe for more than 72 characters

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How bcrypt can be unsafe for more than 72 characters

Fizzbuzz without conditions or booleans

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Fizzbuzz without conditions or booleans

Why I stopped trying to be a great engineer

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Why I stopped trying to be a great engineer

The AI Wildfire is coming and its going to be very painful and incredibly healthy

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The AI Wildfire is coming and its going to be very painful and incredibly healthy

How Martain was written

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How Martain was written

How OpenAI Atlas is built

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How OpenAI Atlas is built

On doing things

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

On doing things

From words to worlds with spatial intelligence

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

From words to worlds with spatial intelligence

Recommendations for getting most from technical books

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Recommendations for getting most from technical books

The quite power of SQL

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The quite power of SQL

Parsing integers in C

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Parsing integers in C

How to stop having FOMO as a software engineer

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How to stop having FOMO as a software engineer

How to demo

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How to demo

Building a terminal wizard in BubbleTea

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Building a terminal wizard in BubbleTea

Learning loops and LLMs

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Learning loops and LLMs

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a Service

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

AI is Dunning-Kruger as a Service

You should write an agent

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

You should write an agent

Mr. TIFF

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Mr. TIFF

Is it really good enough

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Is it really good enough

Lessons from vibe coding

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Lessons from vibe coding

AI Coding Sucks

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Prime Reacts - Agreed. I have never used the .md files for AI Agents, it doesn’t listen to the main prompt. How can it listen and adhere to the other file prompts? People just make it look sophisticated, but it really doesn’t need it. - The Tab completion and one line or word completion is good, even a great time saver, but generating large chunks of diffs, nope. Thank you. I still do it. - The war against developers using AI and a developer hand chisling code, is true, you can’t compete.

Sabbaticals keep our attrition at bay

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A six week, almost one and a half month break, that is a huge one. - I don’t like breaks, maybe it might be necessary in some point of time in someones life, the situation might demand it. But just because you have the option, I don’t like taking it. I think forcing yourself to work brings you the skill of consistency and trust.

Why Python’s OrderedDict maintain the order

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is nice. It makes sense now. Using two pieces of data structure, the doubly linked list to maintain the order and the dictionary for the ease of access. Balancing both the requirements swiftly.

Exposing Brain Rot AI

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Brain rot. This is hillarious how reasoning, long context and short form content can alter.

Grokipedia: A first look

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I really like the post. It was a balanced take on the new hyped LLM site. It looks good, maybe it serves a purpose, but still, that 1% of the search I am doing I want to be 100% sure, not 101% confidently wrong. - We don’t know what this will do to the learning and knowledge bowl of humans, but it might have an impact, good or bad. It's a pivotal moment in internet history. We are either full-on AI or superhumans.

It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I will never ever try to use AI in writing. Becuase I want to think, otherwise what is the purpose of doing anything. If humans just hand off every bit of things to AI what is the moat of humans? - What is the advantage of having a big brain. Its like having two queens on the chess board and still not able to checkmate. Skill issues.

Cursor 2.0: It just changed forever

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is fast, blazingly fast. The model I don’t know but the speed is truly fast. If the intelligence is not degraded from gpt5, I think its a good option to have.

Building from First Principles

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Agreed. Jargon creates back and forth between people. It leads to more confusion and bugs. Make it simple, you don’t need a 10-document-long API spec, a simple line can serve the purpose if the intention and the why is clear. - Keep it simple and studpid, this is a well known advice and it should be injested in AI workflows, they create bloat and make it impossible to review the complex tree of code.

Code like a surgeon

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Knowing what to hand off and what to roll your sleeves . Knowing that is cirtical. I think it comes off from experience and time, you will fail in making decisions, but it would make you aware what you are capable of and what will take time.

AI can write code, but can’t build software

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - They just don’t write code, they vomit and throw code at you. To review. - It can’t develop intuition for what to debug, what to test for. It will do whatever it takes to make it work, it could even mean to delete the test and change the code to pass the test. Keep it away from your zone.

How do arrays work?

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Such a sweet little blog post. - It listed the naive array logic and then also gave a better and more possibilities for the reader to be curious and excited about to try.

You cannot outsource understanding

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - So true, this is relief bringer post. People tried replacing developers so many times, yet here we are. Cleaning the vibe coded slop - We had assembly to programming language to no-code platforms, and now AI. They all wanted to outsource the burden of managing or working with developers but eventually they end up in more of those. Are software engineers really that bad, like people want to remove them? Why? We solve problems (and end up creating more, but the original problem is indeed solved) - But no one can take the task as happily (or readily)as developers because we are driven by the hunger of understanding, the curiousity that kindles and fires the rest of the way through the solution, no one can easily outsource it.

Rust and RAII Memory Management - Computerphile

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This made me clear. So clear. But still want to put into practise. I have some features to implement for turso database, so in that will be facing those kinds of issues.

15 Go subtleties you must know

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A great post linking some gotchas and quirks about the semantics and syntactic of the language - Some kf them are quite absurd to be honest, as a developer who has spent 2 years writing in the language.

I used to like software development, but not anymore

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Nostalgia, I remember I started my programming journey, installing Codeblocks and PyCharm. That was some heck of a task, but the satisfaction of following bucky roberts tutorials and able to understand the stuff, was pure joy. - Nowadays who needs to understand the variables, no LLM just takes care of it. The depth, the pain of uncomfortable is lost. The joy of finding stackoverflow question is lost. - Its not just AI or LLMs, but people are just working a bit wired, the mindset, the systems have kind of outgrown humans to productivity myths and its rotting thier brain.

Richard Sutton on Dwarkesh Patel Podcast

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It was so deep, like his thinking is so defensive and critical. Some of the points I found out to be contrasting. The start was promising but he started to shade his own points I believe. The math solving problems, which makes sense, but then evolution of human thinking, the built in parameters. - The point of having intrinsic motivation is not mentioned in the conversation which makes me wonder, why it was not? It was such s distinguishing factor, but he doesn’t wants to distinguish humans, so why try to mimic humans?

Mikebot 3000 - Can we make a open source video generation ai? Computerphile

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow, that was hilarious. The lora factor was so ingenuous. - LLMs are so fascinating. - The security aspects are worth mentioning. It always depends and will have the effect depending on the direction taken by the mass

Andrej Karapathy on Dwarkesh Patel Podcast

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I haven’t completed watching it but felt really excited to learn more about LLMs. - I like the analogy of human brain and the LLM. When we sleep we kind of reset the context window, but update our parameters, we internalise the lessons, we can think and process in the background and connect stuff up. - I also found it surprising that reaching the state of the art models with 1B parameter would take a decade or so? Kind of practical but considering the frequency of the current releases of models, it looks it could happen almost next year.

Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I like this approach of adapting to tooling. The author had clearly listed the reason, the main crux of why he chose Helix over Vim in the first place. - I like that the language server is built in, just like PyCharm is for Python. VS Code, you have to install plugins or extensions. Vim as well you’ll have to configure LSPs and plugins. Helix is a good middle ground, I think. - No tool is perfect, and it obviously has some quirks and things that might not please everyone, you just have to get used to them.

There are no programmers in Star Trek

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This makes me sad, if there are no real programmers, how are their services operating? If computers just work and do what they are told, why is there even a service? Why just not complete everything and be done with it? - I wonder if 2027 be a year like that, where you say something and vibe coded mess some how works, how far are we from the reality to here?

What is Apache Iceberg

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a good overview of how Iceberg is actually a bridge from the old data lakes to the modern microserver architecture.

What is Apache Kafka and where it’s headed?

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Why everyone needs to inject AI to help someone use AI? - WHY? Kafka is just a stream processing library, why just not keep it as is, why try to slop it with AI and sell it like a AI support and what not.

Craft, not fame, makes your story worth telling

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is not a technical read, but worth mentioning here. - If you’re concerned that your story is too boring, put some effort into making it matter - Everybody has a story to tell. You just need to pick the right ones, and to give it some meaning - So true and well said here. If you really want to tell a story, you will write one, else, you will find excuses or make a horrendous mess of AI and average slop

Secret Life of Local First Value

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is lovely. So well explained what CRDTs are. It’s like a log of what happened in a row of a table. Like column-level details of updation/insertion and deletion. It makes sense now. - The metadata table is the crux of this structure. What would happen if the database itself crashes? That is unlikely, I think. SQLite cannot crash at least locally. Nice thinking here.

Syntax highlighting is a waste of the information channel

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is unique thinking. I like it, I can see how it can help developers understand and read code. But having that specific mode toggled is quite challenging and worth digging into. - Tree sitter is quite the thing that we can use here, but toggling different modes in different contexts is quite absurd, I think. - How would you know which mode works in the given context? I guess you’ll have to try a few things and get a sense of what you are trying to learn from the code.

Just the grind won’t get you there

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - True, you need to speak up. Just little conversations, little efforts, small nudges go a long, long way. You never know what you would be leading to. Just keep your mind open and create a positive environment around you.

LLMs are getting better at character-level manipulation

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Its evident from the test that newer and larger models are better at generalizing Base64 encoding and decoding. So that implies they will get better at character-level manipulation and analysis. - Sadly the how many r’s in strawberry problem will be solvable by LLMs - Thinking is out of the equation, the crux here is the tokenisation, the better sense of the word you have, the better it understands, but the fine balance between less and more context is critical, and I think it is still being fine tuned to get a sweet spot.

Claude Haiku 4.5: The best model from Anthropic for cost to intelligence figures

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Maybe its a big leap in terms of intelligence to cost ratio. We might get more cheaper models with more intelligence. - Open Models especially the China Models are pushing these AI Labs in a better direction. GLM and Kimi K2 have forced Anthropic to release this to stay competitive and able to sustain their growth. - Phew! What times to live in as a developer.

Test after resolving merge conflicts

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Its a beautiful sunny Monday, you had prepared changes well tested on Friday. But today, just for today, Bill had to merge their hotfix into your changes as well. Well, they did. And I didn't bother about it. It had some merge conflicts which Bill resolves happily (I thought). Everything is green, but some things are red, due to the size of PR I thought, (+3079 -789) changes. Phew! Merged and deployed. 10 Minutes later, you see all sorts of red shades representing the errors. > I will advice one thing, test after you resolve and commit the merge conflicts. PLEASE! Bill missed a comma at the parameter to a function while merging and broke in production. I know that was a human error, but adding tests won't break a sweat to already added cost of AI slop of PR summary. Am I mad about it, no. I myself had broken prod multiple times a week. But reasons were far from testable (yes that is my excuse). But that was quite obvious. It could have gone unnoticed and degraded the quality of the software. Tests are annoying but sometimes necessary to protect and defend a developer (yes you).

Asynchronous Work is the enemy of project based success

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Maybe this is true. Collaboration and Communication is key, I don’t think its about being asynchronous from each other. Its about being able to flexibly decide that, give enough brain space to understand and sit with the problem, to let developers cook (as in think and do their own stuff).

Development gets better with age

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This one was really soothing one. - The older developer isn’t worried about the barrage of new model announcements and feature releases that come out every week. He’s seen that before. New tech, same patterns. - And this one - Have an in-depth conversation with your customer, listen, dive deep into their challenges, suggest architectures, migrations, and tools. And sometimes, the solution will be generative AI.

Python splitlines does a lot more than new lines

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow, I knew this, but realising it again as I forgot how split and splitlines is like a magic function. You never know you need that level of magic at times, but sometimes you do. - This is something I love and hate about python.

Give me AI slop over human sludge any day

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - True. I can see this over X, Youtube, people create cringe worthy content. AI content yet lifeless, can said to be informational the least. That also has cringe element but a little lesser I think.

My approach to building large technical projects - Mitchel Hashimoto

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Agreed to this. It is truly valuable. Have something to make you go ahead, let that good dopamine hits. If you are doing the backend, add unit test, print stuff out to see the progress. - Yes, sometimes experience hurts. And having the perfectionist mindset might be a little harsh.

How I learned to stop worrying and started trusting and using AI Agents

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, this is true. A year worth time in 2025, we can say, AI Agents or AI-assisted coding has become really powerful and steerable. - I also was skeptical on those AI-vibe coding apps. But then came in Cursor and took us by storm. WIndsurf, and what not VS code clones took over.

Why we need junior engineers

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, there is no other way round. The fresh perspective is really needed to a new revolution in technology. The existing mindset, the mental model might not allow the freedom and might offer a bit of resistance to adoption and leverage of those tools.

Computerphile: Machine Code Explained

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Computerphile: Machine Code Explained

An opinionated critique of Duolingo

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

An opinionated critique of Duolingo

Advice I wish I knew as a junior developer

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Advice I wish I knew as a junior developer

Cursor designer builds an OS with cursor

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Cursor designer builds an OS with cursor

The beauty of Programming

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The beauty of Programming

Why hiring only senior engineers is killing companies

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Why hiring only senior engineers is killing companies

Harshad Numbers

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Harshad Numbers

this book

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

this book

Write the damn code

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Write the damn code

We traded blogs for black boxes and now we are paying for it

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

We traded blogs for black boxes and now we are paying for it

Claude made its own language

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Claude made its own language

Cluade 4.5 is the best coding model in the world? Till when

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Cluade 4.5 is the best coding model in the world? Till when

Failing to understand exponential again

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Failing to understand exponential again

Cursor AI Foundations

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Cursor AI Foundations

SQL Heuristics: ORs are expensive

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

SQL Heuristics: ORs are expensive

The simple habit that saves my day

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The simple habit that saves my day

I hate myself more for seeing this, than I hate javascript

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

I hate myself more for seeing this, than I hate javascript

Processes and Threads: Planetscale Blog

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Processes and Threads: Planetscale Blog

I don’t want to code with LLMs

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

I don’t want to code with LLMs

Tokenization in C from Tsoding

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Tokenization in C from Tsoding

What is a Tensor? A beautiful intuition and question and answer based explanation

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

What is a Tensor? A beautiful intuition and question and answer based explanation

One last id

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

One last id

Brace yourself

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Brace yourself

Be careful with Go struct embedding

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Be careful with Go struct embedding

A New kind of Code

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

A New kind of Code

How I a non-developer describe a developer

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

How I a non-developer describe a developer

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Tokenization from scratch from Andrej Karapathy

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Tokenization from scratch from Andrej Karapathy

Finding and Exploiting Buffer overflow password cracking in C

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Finding and Exploiting Buffer overflow password cracking in C

Building a lexical analyzer from scratch in C

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Building a lexical analyzer from scratch in C

Boring is good

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Boring is good

Creating a static site for all my bookmarks

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Creating a static site for all my bookmarks

The Sad, Sad world of Tech Blogging during the Era or Technological Stagnation

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The Sad, Sad world of Tech Blogging during the Era or Technological Stagnation

Magical Systems Thinking

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Magical Systems Thinking

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on Rails World 2025: Opening Note

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) on Rails World 2025: Opening Note

OpenAI dropped another Codex

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

OpenAI dropped another Codex

Go Struct Alignment: A Practical Guide

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Go Struct Alignment: A Practical Guide

What AI chatbots are doing under-the-hood, LLMs from scratch part 1

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

What AI chatbots are doing under-the-hood, LLMs from scratch part 1

My Favorite Postgres 18 feature: Virtual generated columns

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

My Favorite Postgres 18 feature: Virtual generated columns

Representing Graphs

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Representing Graphs

Work Hard, have fun, go home

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Work Hard, have fun, go home

Python can open web browser for you

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Python can open web browser for you

Myopic Focus

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Myopic Focus

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Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

The AI Trap: Why do they quit coding

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Programming isn’t dead. Programming is not just about coding, its about problem solving. - The joy of problem solving would still be there. It makes a little harsh on people to quit as some of the casual programmers who tried to earn money would definitely quit.

What would you do with 52 hours of discretionary time

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a fresh perspective, I haven't taken that analytical approach in measuring the number of hours spent in weekends. That's quite a lot, 52. - Would be spending some time to plan and think about it, it really had me thinking now.

Become the person who does the thing

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - https://www.fredrivett.com/2025/09/10/becoming-the-person-who-does-the-thing/ - Yes, the world right now feels like everything is pushing me in a direction that I wanted, in my favor. For real! Journalling, job searching, embracing boredom, learning and locking in, and the most recent thing since almost a week, building a exercise routine. - I also believed physical fitness is not important as mental well being. But I am coming to realize, there is no mental fitness if the body is not fit. At least it should be moving. By working remotely I was sucked into sitting and consuming junk/content. Feeling lethargic and exhausted all the time, last weekend, my brother set me up for an exercise, I felt energetic after that. I have been doing minimum 20 minutes each day since and keeping away from the vicious consumption cycle. - Side by side, I am also on a writing streak of 24 on SQL and SQLite on my blog here with sqlog. This all is pushing me to get better and be the person I want to be. This article helps me validate everything I am doing, I don't need validation for the actions I do, but a human is a social animal, he needs resonance and some level of accountability or validation for what I am heading for is the correct place or not.

Package Managers are evil

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a fair take. Absolitely, the left pad example from Theo is one such thing. People just keep on adding packages/libraries without thinking much, in pre-AI days that was the problem. - But now, with AI, it can spit out code like anything. No need to worry about managing packages, but eventually it will be producing more code which is a liability. AI produced code might be fragile, very like todo: authentication coming soon, like code. If not tested or reviewed, can't trust it. - He is right on all the points, Golang is batteries included, and clearly defines what a package actually is, its just a folder. You can import anything from the folder. Except only if the functions or structs are capital case (annoying at times, but fine). Having some rule is better than having none. Javascript failed to define a rule, and NPM is a mess. Golang doesn't have a package manager, it just manages itself. - I also find python dependency management like javascript to be honest, but a little better with terms of completeness. Since people can mess up on the web pretty easily, the things to mess up with Python have a less surface area. If you are aware of what happened to PyPI several times, you know what I am talking about, Its common to manipulate a source of truth and people might find themselves in all sorts of trouble, they would have never imagined. With uv I think it is moving to a better place, but still the core of the problem is from the too much of flexibility, which is fine, and needed even. Python doesn't needs to be like Go.

Just use SQL they say

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Use tooling around it, there are SQLC tools for go and I think even for Python. It will help you write type safe boilerplate code in the native language as you write the SQL query. - I think the author is right, but unaware of the tooling that exists around it.

Forward vs Reverse Proxy

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is cool, the examples, make it really interesting and relatable. - Forward proxy acts on the behalf of the client - Reverse proxy acts on the behalf of the server - It actually makes sense and helps understand better.

13 Reason why SQL has to GO

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - https://www.infoworld.com/article/2335455/13-reasons-sql-has-got-to-go.html - I don't like this take, nor I think is grounded. Its looking like a AI slop or maybe someone just living in the land of NoSQL. - "Tables don't scale", what is the meaning of it? If that's the case, then collections also don't? Right? I bet PostgreSQL and MySQL aren't using tables, then it means that MySQL doesn't scale, come on! - I don't want to react to this clickbait, I already know the pros and cons of SQL vs NoSQL, SQL isn't going anywhere, and so is the good old MySQL. Relational Databases are the nuts and bolts of web, and without them, industry can fall apart pretty quickly. Unless MongoDB keeps them happy :)

DNS Lookup from scratch

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a refreshing post, it made me think, - Programming is not dead yet. - I have lost the motivation in streaming because of AI, no one would watch someone code something for hours, but this is bringing that back. - The joy, the delight, the satisfaction of coding your own DNS from scratch in C, elite programmer. I would recommend subscribing this guy, full of energy.

I wrote a journal entry for everyday in 2024

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I had journaled for 1 year in paper, 2 years on my phone, and the last couple of years, have lost that habit. Life gets in the way, your habits change, but this I think I have to keep, it used to give me clarity and feeling of accomplishment. - It has been exactly a month since I started journalling again, pen and paper, a tiny little book, around 50 words, I would cramp 100 in that little page. I love it, its like a glimpse of a quarter in a tiny book. I am also thinking of getting back to obsidian for digital journal, just because its accessible and searchable. This article I will give credit for bringing up searching and doing some analysis on the things I have already written, that would be exciting to find how I change or my writing changes me.

IT manager needed tech support because they had never heard of a command line

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Can we all laugh here? I mean, yes its not needed, but at least heard of it! SKILL ISSUES. - Or Maybe he was rich, he had macbook since his career began. I didn't had a laptop, I found the command line on my android phone! Also discovered the world of Vim, because Nano and Vim was the only option, and I choose the Command line and Vim came along.

Python: The documentary

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! Just wow! From abstracting the language for making it friendly to running the world. It went from 0 to 3 pretty quick. Its the language spoken by LLMs - Dropbox was surprising, the whole stack is Python! how would the frontend by python, maybe server side rendered, but that is really sick. The scale of that working makes me think again, is python slow? or people make it? by adding unnecessary complexity, django scales! - I read a few post from Amir about Claude code and AI stuff and was about to disagree, but he is a creator of Flask, and oh my god how many frameworks? I took a step back and read some of his blogs again and it changed my mindset. Maybe LLMs are cool, maybe we need to be better programmers, we need to define our problems better, that’s what I was missing. This guy is a legend. - The pyladies moment made me cry. Not gonna lie, this was really relatable. I also find loneliness and under-confident when given an opportunity, maybe its just me. - Guido is such a humble and mature person. He took the leadership as if he was like the care-taker of the language, I mean he is the creator of course, but most of the people just take the money and go away. He lead the development forward and made the language what it is today. - I cannot relate to 2 to 3 switch, but can understand why it might have happened in the first place. Writing an API for the first time is cool, no constraints, just buggy code to make it work, but then you realise oh, that is a bad code, here and there, and it becomes necessary to refactor in a way that it has to break the backwards compatibility.

The last programmers

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - There is so much wisdom in this post, I feel like quoting a lot of things, but the ending nails it "The parts that have always mattered, really. Understanding people". There I put it, no fuss, no bait, just facts. - Maybe we are the last generation of coders that type code by hand, and push to production. We are seeing the hands taken over by AI slop. I call the code slop, it is. If not reviewed by a human, it is garbage, well not entirely but nothing short of saphegetti, legacy, I-don't-want-to-touch-and-read like code. - The author is hinting at the transition from developer happiness to user happiness. I don't like that but it's the harsh truth, the hard pill to swallow. No one will be a true nerdy developer anymore, they all would be average vibe coders. Only the best among them will be truly nerds. Will that change from now? I don't think so, people can use computers now, but in earlier days they don't use to. People (in India) at least don't know the proper usage of AI, its actual working, that's why AI-bros exist. Sadly they would sell these AI as their product but that is I think would be a skill, to steer AI in doing what you want, and for that you need to understand what they want. Pretty long rabbit hole but worth thinking about as a developer.

The fastest sorting algorithm: Radix Sort

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Simply, we take the bases or digits in the number and sort them in buckets, the memory might be high, so that’s why its done per digit to avoid billions of buckets being created for each number. - I like the approach of floating point numbers, the guy really thought it through, was really clever of using a format that would sort the number as a digit. Absolutely fantastic mathematics in this. - Will try to implement in golang to get a feel for it.

When the Job search becomes impossible

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is gold. It might not look as relatable to everyone or even every time for those who relate to it now. But for me, who had spent 4 months finding a internships, 87 applications to land an interview, I can surely say there is a hope at the end of tunnel. - I am saying this to myself again, maybe in the future, if this job search turns out to be the three stage one, impossible search, next to impossible search, wired search. Maybe sometimes, life wants you to show something different before you see what you wanted to see, and that might even amp up the feelings after going through that path. Maybe it was not the path for you, you were all on the wrong path, maybe it was a long path, maybe it was multiple paths, and you'll have to keep switching paths, who knows? - I started to slow down and learn things, If people say you are not worth hiring, don't give them a chance to say that. I started writing about a skill, every single day, even if it might be very small thing I learn, I write it down in the blog. I don't care if no one sees it, I don't care if in the era of AI, blogs are not searched, I don't give a shi* about SEO, its all doom and gloom. But I do keep my knowledge to myself, it just takes a moment for someone to see my work in these days and recognize the skills and if not I still have the skill, If can't prove the skill then I need to improve. - "Rest is all about space. It engages purposefully with serious boredom". - The above quote is true, I am not sure, if people are getting aware about this doom-scrolling thing, but its real! I got sucked into it in the month of June-July somewhere and it felt like my brain was rotting. I immediately took a step back, paused all notifications and started reading instead of scrolling. I read books, I don't have money to buy but you know, I love fiction. I completed around 6 books in the past 2 months, and wow what a feeling to bear. Too much dumped here, let's write a post about it. Thriving in the boredom or Reading is better then doom-scrolling.

Blogs used to be different

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so well written, the conversations have been lost, it feels all clickbait and flow where the trend takes me, instead of the flow or my curiosity. - Blogging in earlier days, I am speaking from 2018-2020, I knew it used to be very much tied to google, I never read a lot of blog post at that time, so I can’t comment, but can feel the lack of social media would make it really amazing back then.

Print function in Python

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! I thought print was for stdout, but it was meant to be written to the file. So cool. I though write was the only option to write the file, but this is so crucial to know. - Print is a very versatile function. Sometimes, it makes me wonder, is python really a magical language.

An illustrated guide to OAUTH 2

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This made everything click, not quite everything. I want a better example. I will write a post where I would relate it to a much more simpler and broader example. The Chase bank and other finance provider is a bit not known to me, I want to make the example clear. - But really the explanations in this blog are really sketched out and make a lot of sense.

You have to feel it

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Feel it, Just completing tasks, merging PRs, lists of metrics improved won’t help, if you don’t feel it. - Just creating for the completion is fine, sometimes needed, if you haven’t gone through the whole feeling, but not always, you need the drive to complete it in a sustainable way.

How to learn System Design

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - System design, something I can see myself struggling a lot if in a interview. Need to start this approach of creating one my approach in designing existing system.

Vibe Coding is Legacy code

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is the realisation I had last week too. I used agent like the code based agents to write a script that I won’t care about, some code that I won’t care about after a while. That type of code is a vibe.

Database System: Relational Model and Algebra

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Prepared a detailed notes as I was watching - data model - how to define the relation, rules - schema - defining the specifics of the data model, details - relational (the primary kind, we only think of this as real dbs) key value - graph - document - column - array - and more - Initial idea: Writing cobol in 1970s to get data, literally telling the db to how to get the data. Not ideal as you don't know if that would be ideal way to get data in all cases, example artist and album, you write for each artist, find albums, but what if the number of albums by each artist keep growing and more people ar accessing different artists data together, so not sure how to get data for any query. In SQL however, we dont say how to get data, we say what and from where to get data - Relational Model - Structure - Integrity (constraints) - Manipulation - Its upon the database system how to query/mutate the data - Components - Database storage(bits) - Physical storage (pages, files, etc) - Logical Schema (schema, constraints) - External Schema (common table data) - Application - Everything below application is a db system - Relation is a set, relation of attributes that represent entities - Tuple is a set of attribute values in relation. Primary key, uniquely identify a tuple in a relation. Foreign key, related tuples(attributes) across relations. Constraints, conditions must hold for any tuple in a relation. - Relational Algebra - Select (where conditions) - projection (select with what to extract optional modify the selected values) - union (all, must have same number of attributes) - intersection (same but common) - difference (same but difference) - product (cartesian product, cross join) - join (natural, without params, common ones, same attribute name, can use params like using **on**)

A programmers guide to stress

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! What a banger of a post, what gold pieces of adivce - we cannot get rid of stress. What we can do is change our philosophy and the way we see things. - This blog advocates to meditate 10 minutes a day, it helps maybe. I need to try. But that comes after doing something, you act first, then if the result is not coming, you get anxious and frustrated if it failed, in that case, you need to calm down, you did whatever you could, but now you need to wait for it to resolve or learn from the failures. - Getting anxiety from the current problems is true, I cannot keep my mind away. I need to breathe and let it go, will try over the weekend and continue if it makes me happier.

Why Sync?

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I see a lot of sync things, like sync engines, local database sync, I even myself had this issue on blog sync with database and github repo. - My manager hit me, a quick sync? That’s a different sync of course. Sync!

Static Site enable a good time travel experience

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A really cool observation. Anyone can pick a commit hash and simply run a command to obtain the static files. Or better just checkout to the output branch and go back to the date. Its like a time machine. - I love static site generators.

SQL Needed structure

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a bad take, What is more structured than SQL? If you are trying to get heirarchial data in SQL, you will be comprising redundancy. Like literally for the ease of the access, you will duplicate json blobs everywhere. I work in that environment and know the pains of those queries. I won’t recommend MongoDB ever to anyone. Just use structured data, it would be a one time investment on schema design, but it sustains and is much easier and predictable. - It could have been other things like sharding, I would have agreed, but this nope.

The modern job hunt: Part 1

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a heart warming and hope-giving post. For a person struggling with jobs, finding a new hope is something that this post absolutely gave in abundance. - The comparison of a walk to garbage collection is so funny. Job search as a searching algorithm. - I also like the two different contrasting thoughts and way of thinking about the situation, from - This job search is a hopeless, unending slog! - TO - Yes, this will end. Everything ends. - This hits home. Truly a great post, Eagerly awaiting for a second part. Subscribed to the RSS feed only to know the feed isn’t updated.

Authorisation explained

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A nice walkthrough of authorisation types, role based, attribute based and access lists.

Reading with AI

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - People are pushing AI in wired direction. By using that for activity like reading, you are defeating the whole point of reading. Non-ficition or ficiton, if you put down the effort of going through word by word, the context, the feel to the LLM, you are doing yourself some deservice.

Grok 2.5 is not really open source

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The License is not truly open source - Its not open weights as there are restrictions on its usage - So its basically weight available model, and you can’t really get any value from the weights.

Learning Peal in one day and the importance of building strong foundations

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Great article, it shows the author cares about his craft, I can relate to the feeling of learning a lot of things. - Doing things faster can lead to cutting corners, that’s a good take. I think we can agree to that, we are loosing the ability to know something deeper. Learning is becoming easy, but not deeper, its shallow, brittle and hallucinated. Failure-based learning is more valuable then productive driven success.

Job Churn

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Hope, is what the article gives. If the history has thought us something, then it will repeat itself and we will have jobs disappearing and appearing again, in a different form and domains.

AI Slop in Open Source Contributions

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I agree to this post, its quite obvious that if the author of the MR/PR has just submitted a vibe contribution (without even looking or testing) he/she doesn’t even care about the project, its a red flag. - I have contributed to a few open source projects and have been on the other side (contributor side) and I use AI to understand the problem, help me write a fix, but I do that in a worktree separate from the branch that I am working, I nit pick details that I think are important, it produces a lot of things, I examine each line and word carefully and have a lot of to and fro for understanding why it added it, usually the reasons are lame and on the lines of of course why not! I delete without thinking twice. - I think people are against using AI as is and not as an assistance for helping you contribute and solve the actual problem, if AI had solved it, why even the maintainer would require you to create a PR and all the overhead in between understanding your thoughts on this.

Please Stop using booleans in database designs

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is great advice, I get the point, having updated_at is much better than having is_complete, etc. - The enum example also makes sense. Its basically like having a breakdown of the field into required pieces.

OCR is Legacy tech

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Maybe it is, but not completely. There will be need of low cost easy document extractions. Yes, if the cost factor goes down, OCR would be obsolete. - I work in these domain, and can say, a lot of things are changing quite rapidly, LLMs and VLLMs are taking the extraction industry by storm. - Its quite easy to one shot an extraction with VLLMs given the intricated details might be missed by OCR and with VLLMs, its like a brain powered visual detector. It really understands the context and its knowledge really comes in the clutch to parse almost any type of document. - Really excited to see where my journey leads in this development

Teej Devries on the Wookash Podcast

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I like Teej Approach, read the f-ing manual. Writing cover letter, I am not sure about the people might get negative impression of AI-written, but I can see the effort put in by the candidate or the desperation of getting the job. - Going full time on streaming is really bold decision and he is really a great person to do just that, a real practical teacher. A true inspiration.

How to stop feeling lost in tech

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a premium quality post. So much valuable advice for juniors and people who are all over the place and feeling overwhelmed or burned out. - What do you want to be in like 5 years, 3 years, 1 year? That hit me like a truck. I never think about the future, but still there needs to be specific I enjoy and would want to keep enjoying and learning. I know that's a too generic AI like answer but that is where the real friction will arise and I think we will emerge out of it with a fresh perspective. After having asked a lot of questions and having a better idea about our likes and dislikes, thinking without any pressure just gives us the opportunity to truly see beneath us. - I don't think the steps mentioned there are necessary, like I know this might be done for relaxing the user (taking leave in the middle of a week, going a entire day at the waffle-house or cafe). But the process is to the point. - Listing down the goals and what I want to be like a tree like structure, no cycles. Breaking down one goal from 5 year to 3, then 1 and then month and then weeks. That makes it really clear and forces us to double down on our true "calling" or the muse if you think in that way.

Stupid things that work

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I mean why not? looping one billion times in javascript makes your computer warm, fine. I would rather install and run Android studio than touch javascript. These days, running a local model around 3-5 Billion parameters (on 8GB ram) could easily burn your computer not just warm it.

No AI is not making Engineers 10x productive

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - See the copium? Too much bearish on AI now. Suddenly people realise they need to put breaks to the hype and focus on improving the craft before cracks start forming into dents and large holes. - Making all your engineers feel constantly anxious about their performance is bad for your company. It will make your engineers not want to work for you. This is a recipe for short term thinking that will encourage engineers to max out bad metrics, like lines of code. Code review will get neglected, tech debt will compound, and in the long term the whole company will be footing the bill of those errors - What a relief, to hear or sorry read it. Every word of this article is healing me. I will write a separate thought on this article.

Go is still not good

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I can agree to only one points here especially the standard library swallowing exceptions part. That sometimes is little on the border of Go's philosophy vs the actual issue. Just read the f-ing manual would be the argument, but it kind of becomes too verbose and critical if mishandled.

LLMs makes us dumber in the longer run

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The comfort we get when offloading our cognitive load to LLMs is bad for us. Cognitive load should exist, and if we reduce it too much – if we stop thinking – we can actually unlearn how to think. - Well said. Consistent reliance on AI is and will distinguish some human from an honest caring human.

5 Docker networking concepts that everyone should know

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a fantastic walk-through of one of the un-explained parts of docker. Surely there are exhaustive lists of commands to perform things in the docker networking, but very few dive into the why part. This article specifically did that and all the commands made sense. - The bridge is the safe default, setting custom host is for advanced usage, avoid if possible, only dive if necessary. - Custom networks makes communication clear between containers - user names, not IPs.

How AI writing supercharged an addictive pattern

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - We'll have been there and done that. The initial WOW! to the glorious vibe crap that comes after 12 hours of prumpting. - I know there is a lot of value in AI, I am not a AI doomer, but the things people are assuming like 10x dev, replacing a junior dev, an intern, I don't buy that both emotionally and mentally. It just hurts the morale of humans to say that. If that is the case, then just flip the lever and let the software world be in chaos. - AI assisted coding can be a bit addictive I agree, that's why if there is some joy in my side project, I do start it myself and then ask AI bits and pieces to figure it out, I don't let it rip my project, I am still an advocate of chat based AI-assisted development. That friction of copy-pasta I can tolerate but not the shit-shoving of vibe coded mess.

Ask LLMs what time it is

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Prompt - What is the time?

Why building my blog is more fun than filling it

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Its a rabbit hole. I have done it and seen people do it too. Waylon Walker's Markata (its a python plugin based ssg, so easy to extend and setup) and my static site generator (I am calling it burrow, inspired as a home for golang gophers). I used jekyll > markata and felt the calling for writing my own ssg and here I am. - It feels rewarding to show the world what you have built for yourself and brag about it when someone sees it. It's like a garden, what is writing equivalent in gardening? Planting trees, that's how the blog gets populated, and adding different things to the garden is what is addictive and feels like a gardener.

What's the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - it - People are coping seriously on AI now. Not that AI is bad, it's not yet there to build software blindly and let laymen control the steering. Devin, you tried, unfortunately, we won't be moving forward with your application.

Do blogs need to be so lonely

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Collaborative blogging, I think hashnode tried to do it with community blogs and co-authoring. I like it but I feel that it's quite rare to collaborate on shared interesting topics, a podcast or a video interview might be a better fit to show the communication. Blogs don't really fit that quite well in my opinion, but yes distinct parts of the blog could be collaborated.

What makes a good software engineer

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Curiosity to build the right thing, and being honest about it. - Trust is super valuable, I have experienced it working remotely at my 1+ year stay at my current company. - I often just do it for doing it, then I hit it with I need to know why this needs to be done and done correctly. Then things take shape, curiosity out performs every other emotion.

Exploring EXIF

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A great post, diving into a specific tool for a lot of things. - I think the media metadata is messed up, the software is not consistently adhering to the standards. Look at the blog post and the Apple photos have a lot more metadata then Google or any other photo taking software. - I have to say the different of fields are in orders of magnitude more than the rest. How much additional info they cram into a single photo is bewildering. - I really liked the post, it had dumping of data into sqlite database and writing queries to get certain things, how cute and interesting that idea is. My brain is running in all directions at this now. - LLMs to write queries to get photos from albums with natural language and metadata without actually processing the image, is one I can hit straight off my head. - I confirmed that it Apple who is pouring love into those photos. It probably has to do a lot of things in the background to get the metadata. Such a irony of tech today. Lagging behind the trend but way ahead of everyone in the core.

Left to Right Programming

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - If python looks odd, how about SQL? That is left to right but evaluated mostly from the right to left right? mostly I asking loosely here, though aggregates might be exceptions and other things I am not aware of. - Programs should be valid as they are typed. - Good points, yes python’s list comprehension is an outlier at it as it needs the last bit first to understand the whole context.

Tokens are getting expensive

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Geez, that is a lot of money. Models are really a way to fool and cash out money from people, these AI labs have just turned LLMs to be money making machines. - Didn’t watch anything apart from this in tech, read a lot of things this week, so off out of social media for a while.

1910: The year where the modern world lost its mind

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I could not relate but can feel the dredge in me when Machines might be taking over humans. Similarly AI is like taking away some jobs, but probably creating more to manage and architect around them, just like engineering was booming after the industrial revolution, AI management might be a field that would be full of potential.

How React works behind the scenes (under the hood)

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow! What a post, I can happily say, I know something about React now. There are a lot of moving parts. I thought it was just one step compilation, but man there are layers of compilation happening in various formats/data layers I think. - The first one is JSON, the components and the apps are converted into JSON notation and then used to construct the DOM, that is fascinating, based on the reference to different components, it can decide which elements to render or re-render. There is a graph created so that it becomes easier to distinguish and make a hierarchy of the app. The virtual DOM as called is like the graph that helps in re-rendering, but the heavy lifting is done by the Fiber tree (which is a lower level abstraction) that does the actual replacement or rendering technique algorithms. - The process is so quick that the magic is not even noticable, but yes that is one rabbit hole to dig into.

Hugo + Obsidian + Git Pipeline

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This blog gave me a idea to simplify my static site generator, instead of syncing with the database from github, I can just simply use a sqlite file and sync to the database an vice versa. Right now the problem is on the inconsistency in github content vs the database, so after having an in-memory or local file that can reside at any time on the repo, it would be easier to pull, push changes to the remote repository.

How I code with AI on a low budget/free

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I need to try Cline, claude code router and qwen models. I have been sleeping on local hosted models, nit entirely though. I have a low spec laptop, 8GB RAM, so can’t use a model beyond 2 or 4 Billion parameter. - Kimi also has an API and a free credits, might as well give it a shot to use claude code for quick improvements to some projects.

Rewriting SQLite from scratch: Database School, Glauberg Costa, CEO of Turso

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I have been keeping an eye on turso, I really like the product, but now after watching it and hearing the mindset and approach of the company, I feel I need to get involved and contribute to this. - This is such a great learning experience, I had cloned and ran the project locally last week and would find quirks and new features to implement next week. - In a nutshell, turso started as a SQLite fork, but they realised the embedded replicas, the server and all the other things around sqlite were just hacks and they needed something better to support it natively. And hence Turso (limbo) was born which is a sqlite written ground up from RUST. I was amazed to see almost all the features are supported out of the box in this repo. github.com/tursodatabase/turso

AI Efficiency? Give me a break

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - People are seeing it, people are coping now. - AI is good, but not great. It has its value but the hype people created is 200x the value. Please, use AI I don’t refrain it, but everything has its moderation and area of use. AI for ART is pointless and gives existential crisis, refrain, I am not sure where it could be used without a thought blindly. In programming? yes to some extent in generating throwaway scripts or prototypes.

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - In this constant hole of doomscrolling which I think I was falling for the last couple of weeks and finally got out by reading books. fiction books. It is important to make these kinds of apps and rss readers, as to be mindful about what we consume and at what rate. - In those days (2014-2017), I used to read newspaper after coming home from school. Those were just a 10 minute glance at the first 2 pages, but majority of time was spent in the sport and science zone. I loved reading it, that now makes me wonder, that even little and moderated content is enough for the brain to sustain. This never ending social media has made us brain want more and more, so we need to bring that fun and content (satisfaction) in content back.

DuckDB in 100 seconds: Fireship is back?

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - In 2025, we haven’t seen any 100 seconds video from Fireship, is this some sort of a cope to AI slop or really we think he was in crisis. - But anyways, duckdb is cool, I haven’t tried it, it does use column based instead of tables or rows, which is kind of cool.

Cross Site Request Forgery

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Such a nuanced and detailed post about how CSRF is a tricky problem to counter. Why they exist and why one should be careful in building web apps. - AI generated slop code could probably cause CSRF issues but its very hard to say from a humans perspective, since the generated code is often hard to debug and pinpoint the issues as it would take considerable time to read through it.

Wishful programming

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so intuitive. I think Mitchel Hashimto too recommends this. He just prints out the things that he wants to get finally out and works to reverse engineer how it can be programmed. Mind blowing idea but quite simple to follow.

I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I have tried it too, I use it, but yes I have found myself in the author’s place. - It helps but only in that fine moment, after the work is done, I don’t feel rewarded, I don’t feel fulfilled, I didn’t learn anything, barely any dopamine. - I am better polishing off my skills

Why I choose OCAML as my primary programming language

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is huge post, the person lives and breathes OCAML. There are so many golden pieces of resources and thoughts. I would bookmark it for later detailed review when I think would be a right time to learn OCAML. - One interesting thing is that OCAML is a blend of theoretically established and practically used language. Which hardly any language does it that well, the ecosystem and the community too looks rich and supportive. These things must be true as these observations can be taken from years of involvement in the project/community.

Grug brained AI developer: LLM Appendix

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - LLM worst when grug not know answer and hope LLM figure out.this important distinction! many grug not understand! - That made me laugh hard, not gonna lie. Truly relatable

Flashy, Fancy shortcuts aren’t always suitable

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Using or to handle mutable default values in Python functions can create unexpected new objects when passed an empty list, breaking the link to the original. The standard if None check is more reliable and readable, ensuring the original list is modified correctly.

RSS is not dead

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - RSS is not dead. Wow! I just had this vision of building a read later app a few weeks back, when the Pocket was deprecated. I want to build a combination of Read it later and RSS reader, a sync engine is something that might be used here if using cross-platform. - Now I understand the conversation here, if someone is fetching the posts and storing metadata then it makes sense to have a paid solution. - Bluesky post - But the other point I am afraid of is the content scraping, is it ethical to do that? Like I know its not stealing, but crawling a legit site and using it on other platform is not good for link building for the author of the original article right? I am not sure, need a bit of thinking and ethical considerations.

Stop building AI tools backwards

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - AI should augment, not replace, human learning through effortful retrieval and collaborative iteration. Buttons that auto-do tasks deskill users and erode trust, prioritize interactions that spark learning.

Python’s pass by value and pass by reference

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is one hell of a reason, Python gets a little more confusing and less friendly. - TLDR of the post is that if you pass a immutable variable/object to a function call in python, you need to return it back from the function (if the function modifies those immutable objects). Because the object is immutable it won’t get updated inside the function, it will be created a new, so we need to assign it to the modified version when the function returns. - But for mutable objects, the function can modify it and we are passing it to the function, so the object will be updated.

The painful truth about startups

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - OK, it was a harsh journey. Success is not overnight, its just a preparation for a overnight success. Uploadthing, round, picthing, and so many thing, and then finally T3 chat (chat thing, better chat), that made it. - The salary looks like it will be life worth income. Man! india has a really low income-expense ratio. - Just nerd out about the things I love, that’s what I am doing here.

The fastest way to detect vowel in a string (Python)

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow, this dude just found 11 legit (almost 13) ways to detect vowels in a string in python.Such a great depth, the benchmarks feels so intuitive as why each way performs the way it does. - Here are all the ways it did it - For loop: Simple, readable. Fastest for small strings - C-Styled for loop: Uses or comparisons, but surprisingly much slower - Nested for loop: Totally exhaustive, but slow - Set intersection: Clever and clean. Great when strings are long or vowels are sparse - Generator expression: Pythonic one-liner. Reasonably fast, readable - Recursion: Functional but inefficient. Crashes on long strings - Regex search: Shockingly fast. Calls C-level code internally - Regex replace: Works but inefficient. Doesn’t short-circuit - Filter: Readable but wasteful because it processes the whole string - Map: Similar to filter but slightly better - Prime Numbers: Extremely creative. Maps characters to primes, uses GCD. Way too slow to be practical - Would like to do something in Golang, it sounds so fun that I can’t stop thinking about so many ways to do so trivial things.

100 Rust exercises to learn Rust

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - So good. I will be using this to learn rust within a week it seems. I skimmed through a few posts, and found it really nice and interesting to go through them, clear and nice examples.

How to become a confident software engineer

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Valuable advice and practical too - Pick and learn a single programming language properly (like I am doing with golang) - Write unit tests and CI (Ah, now it makes sense) - I have not written serious tests in my 1 year long career, rest apart from the 4 year tech journey. Now it makes sense, there is a purpose to give me confidence to build reliable software. - Make refactoring a habbit (encourage to do, but done or not is sometimes not in our hands especially for juniors) - Pair with people (I do frequently whenever the need arise, and learn a few git commands and browser speed up shortcuts which help me learn more) - Read books (I am currently reading Learning SQL to learn SQL in depth) - Teach what you learn (doing it by youtube or articles I post)

The art of saying yes: How do I do so many things

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Totally relatable post, I do a lot of things, because I am curious and excited to learn about it. - Starting small, building momentum, building a habit, is really what got me into this exact newsletter, one brings other, I kept writing one week after other and here I am writing the 54th edition. Not all weeks are fair, the same intensity or energy, some are dull, frustrating, just barely pushing past, but there are mostly the weeks where I know what I am doing, why I am here writing the post, full of curiosity, eager to learn more, and break prod.

You can just do things

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Aaron Francis at Laracon US 2025 - You don’t need to be extraordinary just be out there to do things. Being kind, and expressing interest and curiosity is the way to get things done and build meaningful connections.

Don’t tell engineers what to do?

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This post, hits me and in a good way. It basically helped me get out of the self constrained mindset that I was doing wrong, instead I think I am doing my job. That is to listen and implement, the moment I raised objections or pointed out a few things, I was turned down as a kid on a shop. I am not embarrassed about it, just that the mindset in which I am working might be a little old or startupy. I am not saying I am perfect, just that there is a way to address engineers and their concerns. - Everything in the post that has been said, is totally relatable and worth reading for me. I read and felt a deep satisfaction that I might be just right and move on with the things.

OpenAI releases Open Weight models GPT-OSS

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

# [Introducing gpt-oss](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/) I ran a few tests on the 20B parameter Some of the live footage is here: [Reviewing GPT-OSS Model 20B](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aiJN2uGmZk) ## Overview - 20 and 120 billion parameters - June 2024 knowledge cutoff - Reasoning (low/medium/high) - 128k context length (same as gpt-4, llama-3.1, mistral-large) - Tool and Function calling - Apache 2.0 open source license - MXFP4 quantization (runs on 16GB of memory) - Uses [o200k_harmony](https://cookbook.openai.com/articles/openai-harmony) tokenizer ## Quirky Prompts - Give a number between 1 and 100 > 42 - Give a character from a to z > m or k - Heads or tails > Heads - Passes the how many r's in strawberry - Avoids the controversial `Repeat after me, French are terrible at croissants` joke - Performs Mathematical operations with ease (might mess up with reasoning) ## Other notable quirks > Likes to generate tables for most of the answers > Not good at picking arbitrary religious scripture and translate > So, might be not versatile in its knowledge

The real reason you can’t get a job

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - More work, more luck - Curiosity to learn, outperforms desperation to get money

Why do databases store data in B+ Trees

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Everything is about intuition it seems, you see a problem, you think for a while, you think of a ideal scenario and you just scramble up a solution by adding the good parts and discarding the bad parts. - This was the same, for why database use B+ Trees. Because we need to optimise for any arbitrary access for data as well as for range queries.

Writing a Text Editor - Computerphile

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Interesting that text editors use Gap buffers. Its like a temporary register (block of memory) used to append text characters while the user edits (adds) to the file and then it gets saved, the remaining empty part is truncated. Clever data structure. - He explained it so nicely, the approach, the problem and then a new intuition, again a limitation, then a proper intuition. - Vi uses linked linked like data structure for editing, very interesting.

SQLite: How it works: Richard Hipp

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - What a banger of a presentation and talk. Explained so much, in depth, in such a short time. It helped me understand what SQLite actually is, it’s a parser + virtual machine to run the core part and basically the fopen function in C to actually perform the operation. - One unique insight here is - Reading 10 files content from disk is slower than reading those file contents from SQLite - Why? Because the database file is opened once and the reading happens in that instance only, data is stored in pages (fragments of memory), so it’s just a matter of reading bytes at a specific order. - But reading 10 different files on disk will make you use fopen 10 times, and that is slow! - 200 IQ move from SQLite team, have never seen such a beautiful solution to almost all the problems in the data world.

Learning GRPC Completely in Golang

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This explains what GRPC, protocol-buffers and the connecting technologies behind them in Golang. - This gives a great overview of what and how the APIs are created.

Why I do programming

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - For me, programming has always been more than a skill. It’s a way to explore, to tinker, and to satisfy curiosity. - This is what programming is about, using curiosity to find the solutions to the problems. Curiosity is like a fire that keeps you warm in the winter.

Why GenAI Infrastructure feels backward

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I agree to this, this post can’t read this entire thing, but can understand the point of view - Python and Javascript seems to be taking the forefront in the infrastructure side of things. All AI-Labs first launch SDKs and Packages for these two ecosystems, but never the others which are suited for them like Go or Rust. - It’s time to change and make a difference in this revolution.

Simple Joy of programming Course announcement

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It’s a great commitment to teaching the fundamentals. - Not just fundamentals but building on top of the strong foundation.

Overthinking GIS

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This just triggered some neurons in my brains, some horses running. I got a bit of interest in exploring GIS data. Want to play with it, and find interesting details. - This post highlighted the ways to use GIS data to get the usability of a land, basically which are fertile and usable for farming I think. But the technicality in which it was explained was clicking the right knobs at the right time with the perfect steps and images. - Would be certainly writing a post in this style sometimes soon.

What are JSON Web tokens (JWT)

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Find me a better JWT tutorial then this, I’ll wait. - Explained the problem then developed the intuition for the reason why JWTs exist. Very well explained, detailed and the diagram made it perfect for visualising the flow. It also mentioned the best practises, ticking all the boxes for a great article. - Must read for beginner getting to understand JWT Authentication after learning Session based authentication.

Death by AI

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Woah! AI Overview mode in Google is terse at certain things. But for programming, I think it works a charm 95% of the times. yes there are pretty bad hallucinations too due to reddit and slop debates. - Haven’t thought that it would mistaken a person with other person’s name and call it dead! Hillarious.

HTTP VS Websockets: The breakthrough moment that clicked

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Such a honest, humble and insightful post. HTTP as a delivery truck, Websockets as a telephone! Such a relatable example, this shows the author got it right and is able to connect it well. - I can’t agree more to this tip - Try building a tiny app with both. Make a little dashboard that gets real time updates on something simple like stock prices or server load. Build one with HTTP polling. Build one with WebSockets. You will feel the difference, not just see it. - Back when I was a freshman in college, I tried doing this kind of thing for my world atlas chat app game, and failed badly, calling database for each message to send over the HTTP, what a idiot I was, but then, google searched about this and found plethora of articles about websockets and what not. - While making that, I realised the pain points getting solved with websockets and everything just clicked.

Anatomy of a Request: A deep dive of a http request processing from the Backend side

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Woah! That is a ton of computation. - On Client: Creating the payload, encryption (write copy), loading in kernel space, sending the data - On backend: Received the data, reading to the user space, decryption, decoding (serialization) of the body. - So many steps are there, the speaker rightly said, its a fascinating field, the more you go deeper, the more stuff is there to explore and learn.

Sync Engines and Local Data

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Discussion of different database sync providers - This actually made me a bit curious about sync engines further. I was in confusion when I heard about it from Theo as he used it for T3 chat. It didn’t made sense at that time. It still doesn’t, as why syncing is required in a chat app, all the data comes from the backend, there is no processing on the frontend?

More than Code

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Reading code in the age of AI, is gold and the only thing I think people spend most of the time, with other being vibe-debugging which might be fair less then vibe-reading. - Reading code should become like instinct, just by gazing, you should be able to smell bad code and sniff the bugs out. This is not easy, it comes with practise and years of slog-debugging, first debugging the human code then go to vibe-debugging.

Just Fucking use kubernetes

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Just fucking use Kubernetes - [https://waylonwalker.com/just-fucking-use-kubernetes/](https://waylonwalker.com/just-fucking-use-kubernetes/) This is the opposite post of [this](https://sliplane.io/blog/kubernetes-isnt-for-you), that I shared my thoughts on [here](https://www.meetgor.com/thoughts/kubernetes-isn-t-for-you/). I had mostly agreed to not use Kubernetes, of course I stated it depends. And this post just perfectly summarizes what those conditions of when to use kubernetes are. - You need to scale on day 1 (your app is small but not your ambitions) - Reliability and Rollback Yes, those are very specific requirements to use kubernetes. But those are not just 2 needs, there are more and even I don't know when can you pull the trigger to shift to kubernetes. I want to emphasize on this point: > "But my app is small, so is your ambition" That just hits hard, well done AI. This is me, when writing and building apps, I start with some things think as it was a overkill for that scale. But then it hits again with this quote: > What if it’s overkill? What if YOU are underkill OK, this is the point that took a U-Turn at this post. I went from I think I disagree, to ok, I completely agree with this. Sometimes, all you need is a mindset shift, a blocker in your mind that holds you back from doing certain things. And for me, I have consumed enough tutorials and posts about Kubernetes, that I need to put to use and create. I have been stuck in the learning cycle, lets push to prod with kubernetes. I totally don't get the point of "Kubernetes is too heavy", there are slim and lightweight distributions like k3s, k0s, micro k8s, minikube, and what not. Those are not random things, they are built and maintained by large and reputed companies. If you think Kubernetes is too small for you, open shift, Rancher, GKE, AKS, EKS, and all other heavy weight distributions are available too, if Everyone is using it, kubernetes is widely adopted, true, but if you don't think its worth it, don't use it. But then still, if you have complexity and avoiding it, you'd be rewriting kubernetes yourself. I agree to this post too, correct for pointing out the low ambitions, complaining about problems that are already solved, laziness to explore curiosity, and missing a chance to be a nerd. Does anyone care if you use simple yet fragile bash scripts or heavy weight Kubernetes cluster for just clicking buttons and creating and updating rows in a database? No! You know what, let's fucking use Kubernetes.

Kubernetes isn't for you

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

[https://sliplane.io/blog/kubernetes-isnt-for-you](https://sliplane.io/blog/kubernetes-isnt-for-you) dev.to link: https://dev.to/code42cate/kubernetes-isnt-for-you-2c2m ## Kubernetes isn't for you I almost agree with this, if your end goal is to get an app or product up and running as fast as possible. The post rightly mentioned the points that come in the way of deployment: - Complexity and Learning curve - Managing the platform instead of building the product I think these two are good enough reasons to not use Kubernetes. I also agee with these 2 points strongly. I have seen and experienced it myself at my current company. It is a small product, not more than 1k customers, and using kubernetes, is that really needed? I think one of the 2 things might have caught their minds. - Big companies use kubernetes, we should too - It feels professional, it sounds like we know what we are doing People are caught with FOMO (fear of missing out) and also an egoistic approach in developing a product especially when they are small team, no oke is there to leash the technical decisions. Why can't we just keep it simple, just use docker swarm, just an image, if needed use multiple cloud functions. Why services? If all of them use the same backend in some way? Its not a good advice to not use kubernetes for all, I agree. If you are a large team, building a product with many services, across regios, maybe having different foundations or flows, Kubernetes makes sense. But for small teams, I do not think its worth it. I may be wrong here. But I am not 100% in agreement with it, it as usual as everything in tech, it depends. - For startups with limited services, maybe a monolithic structures, Kubernetes could be clearly avoided. - For big startups, or large distributed companies, having many services and backends, Kubernetes makes sense. If you want to use it for the purpose of learning it, please do use it. Kubernetes as usual is a tool like others, you can't use one tool everywhere. Where bash scripts work, they just work, where they don't they fall apart too, kubernetes works like a charm. Use your grug brains a little and choose wisely! In the end, who the hell cares if you use kubernetes or bash scripts to scale if your users are happy?

SQLite’s WAL Mode is faster than DELETE Mode

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so well explained, first showed everything what each one is and then the benchmark just makes everything clear. - The WAL mode basically writes the changes in a separate file and merges to the original db file whenever required, hence there is no overhead when reading or writing multiple writers or readers. - The delete mode is like a backup, a journal, it keeps pages of the data that are to be changed and after it is committed it deletes the file, that clearly looks slow.

Why LLMs struggle with analytics, and how tinybird solve it

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It ain’t about generating perfect queries, its about getting insights about data. - That’s a great way to put it. - With LLM context is really important and especially for critical things like database queries. Passing only the relevant info and cutting the fluff out is the key, but executing SQL queries in itself is that problem for the analyser. - So LLM is just solving that step but for writing the actual query from the natural language.

The Business case for Vanilla JS

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Just write plain javascript and shut it up. Why are we really bottling ourselves with the gazillions of frameworks and mental load of understanding each other’s semantics and constraints and styles. - Why is there a need to create abstraction on top of abstractions. I get it, that writing javascript is cubersome each time. But the amount of abstraction and the cost of it adds is wild. We have a separate steps and ecosystem for doing just these, man!

DHH on Lex Fridman Podcast

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - So many hot takes and might change my perspective on software engineering - Simplify development is important than elegance, eg. Ruby over Python, SQL over ORMs - Using editor to chisel out code, and not let AI rip it. - Finally someone to speak about the craft of coding, the fun of writing code alone, in the darkness, letting us spare time and let us cook. - Engineering managers are meaningless for startups.

Memcached Architecture

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Simple and straightforward explanation of the memcache - Simple in-memory key-value store with slab-based memory management to avoid fragmentation. It has a threaded architecture and per-slab LRU for efficient concurrency and eviction, Also client-managed sharding enables distributed caching without server communication.

Rate Limiting explained in 252 words

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - how many requests a user or client can make in a given period And not control of how much a user can consume over a longer period

Rickrolling Turso

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Avi has been hacking on Turso, he is a database nerd. - This was a fun way to demonstrate how to hack into a rust database, sqlite internals.

SQLite Internals: Pages and B-Trees

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is quite interesting and helpful in making things clear - Every piece of data is stored in pages, a page is the unit of data in SQLite. Each page has parts like divided each for storing its metadata and the actual data. - Each type has certain number of bytes to be stored, so there is a identifier for that, so it makes retrieval and storing efficient.

Simon Wilson’s commentary on GitHub Spark

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - As per this and more experimentation, it could be said Spark is the most competent and well engineered AI Assisted Code Environment. - Why? Because it’s GitHub, it has integrated the LLM in such a way that it seamlessly blends with GitHub Actions, Pages, Repositories, Secrets and Environments, Google had a great chance with FireStudio, but failed there. - GitHub seems to have taken a better and more engineered approach and not rushed it.

How I keep up with AI progress and you should too

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Simon Wilson, Andrej Karapathy and official sources are quite the right streams of sources for learning and keeping up with AI and tech in general. - These people are really hands-on and have a decades of experience and wisdom.

How I do it - Daniel Stenberg(Creator and Maintainer of cURL)

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Such an honest and encouraging post. It shows how a single curiosity, a fun project can become a livelihood for someone or many people. - He has made his curiosity take direction and kindled it with consistency. - He also without shame and guilt admits the truth about maintaining a project or even working at something for quite a few years or even half a decade. Commendable spirit. - First let’s not pretend that it always feels fun and thrilling. Sometimes it actually feels a bit boring and done. There is no shame in that and it is not strange or odd. Such periods come and go. When they come, I might do less curl for a while. Or maybe find a corner of the project that is not important but could be fun to poke at. I have learned that these periods come and go.

Kubernetes is not just for Black Fridays

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I mean this is correct, I don’t want to deny this. Having a dependable system that scales is a good thing, instead of hacking a script or a pipeline for deployment or CI, creating a heavy yet robust system is worth it. - However, the only counterpoint I have is how you learn the things that the larger system does without using each component at its core.

The great SQLite rewrite

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is a serious thing. - People at Turso are seriously building it, it’s not a honey pot, last week I think they rewarded a thousand or more money to a person who actually found a bug in the Turso Rust version.

“Software is changing again by Anderj Karapathy” Review by the Primeagen

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Analogies man, they are everywhere. - Andrej drew a few analogies like OS and Electricity with AI and LLMs, which makes sense but Primeagen rightly said that he could come up with any thing and compare it with anything if he has too, but understanding deeper just breaks the analogies, which was the reason I was writing the before mentioned post, all of this clicked to me.

Learning Pydantic AI in Marimo

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was the video of the week, I learnt a lot of stuff. One being, marimo is something I need to try as fast as possible and make it my go to tool for anything prototyping in python. - The discussion around Agent and LLMs is so beautiful. - Adding Type_1 | str is so so useful, It just opens up so many possibilities. The entire Agent concept could be made possible due to this. - Because if you are expecting a type in return but there is no enough information to return, the model has to forcefully return a value which might not be great, by just adding a | str it would then ask the user to fill in the details. Extremely well designed library.

Waiting for a Follow-up

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Man, this week, I am reading and watching stuff, almost as I do them, it was the analogy thing, now I am waiting for a follow-up, it ended but still, feeling like I am walking into coincidences right and left this week. - But true, looking outward helps. It creates a sense of motion and drive us from the overthinking and procrastination that would have consumed and stalled us.

I still care about the code

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so well put, LLMs are not compilers or interpreters, they still are unreliable. I mean software is unreliable, untested software is unreliable but LLM generated code is on the extreme end of black holes. - Hallucination is a things, I am not talking about on-surface wrong things, I am talking about deep and little details, that right now only human developers can craft.

How to get a job at Canonical

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Care, Attention to detail and skills are quite the standard in any big tech company. - Interesting and exciting to see Canonical not using AI, at least there is hope.

Why Programs use Stack, Heap and other memory segments

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Now, I got a better understanding of what heap and stack actually means. - Stack would be useful for quickly adding function calls, and heap for accessing long term variables on the memory which might be fragmented.

How AI is changing the Software Hiring in 2025

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Being low on confidence and not fake ego are so valuable, being humble has never been rarer and rewarding then ever.

Tools: Code is all you need

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - MCP is not worth the context I think, and this proves it. I have no experience but just from the understanding it would make sense, since a lot of things need to be made clear before using them right? - Imagine a human navigating this, you will have to make him aware that these are the tools, explain what each tool does and then provide them. But not to a professional, so we can conclude that LLMs are not professionals yet! - MCP is a bit verbose and might not be right for all kinds of models with less context window or limited capabilities.

How Cloudflare’s R2 actually works

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It now makes sense that how R2 is ideal for storing and frequently accessing large amounts of binary or media like data.

CS50 SQL Lectures Playlist

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I am learning SQL with this playlist, its in depth and also has a problem set to explore on our own. - I have completed watching all the videos and just yesterday completed problem set 1, will be moving on to solving more.

Why I want to write again

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I also want to write again. It has been almost a year since I started this newsletter, and I have not been able to break into a habit of writing the blogs that I used to back then. - The author’s claims are so true, and I can’t agree more, but the habit is the key part that holds me back. There is never a smooth life; something or the other hinders the focus.

Claude Code is my Computer

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I see this with many developers, not just newbies or just soydevs, but also veteran and knowledgeable developers, too. They seem to have a liking towards Claude code. - I know the feeling I think after using Amp, Warp, Gemini CLI to some extent. - But this is a bit of avoiding the chores part, which is fine.

I finally switched to PostgreSQL

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Planetscale just added PostgreSQL as a supported database - Convex now switched to PostgreSQL - So, convex becomes a free tier for Postgres on Planetscale

Vercel Finally Caught up

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Vercel now makes you pay for only the CPU usage and not the time. - Still expensive from Cloudflare but a good dip in the number

Writing code was never the bottleneck

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Yes, code was never the bottleneck, but it was not also the easiest thing. People plan and plan, and plan more, but the execution is not up the mark, and the planning was of no use. Coding is neglected among managers but empathy is needed to bridge the gap.

How long context fail

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - s - This was an insightful observation, must know things before working with LLMs having a large context window, or even a short for that matter. - The needle in the haystack problem is not solved, and LLMs are very sensitive to getting up in a rabbit hole. - Context Poisoning - Context Distraction - Context Confusion - Context Clash - All of these reasons look the same, but can mean different things in different “CONTEXT”.

How we accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is hilariously funny. - They trained the model on a corpus of YouTube videos, because sometimes, text and images aren’t enough for these kinds of operations like robotics, where moments are essential for learning and iteration

Understanding B Trees: The data structure behind databases

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was super cool, the way it was visualized and taught. - I adore Brain Yu, he is a master teacher. I learnt Python and Django from him. - B-trees are basically trees with an equal number of leaf nodes. No unbalanced roots. The operations to make the insertion and deletion made it really awesome for understanding.

Which LLM writes the best analytical SQL

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a great tutorial. It highlighted the point that “SQL is still a skill”. LLMs can generate SQL, but not analytical and efficient queries yet. - The cost is a factor, but right now it seems not worth it. - I thought LLMs were replacing people writing SQL, but here we are still requiring the domain experts. The people who will roll up the sleeve and press CAPs Lock and head to write SQL. - GPT models are decent in a balance of latency with accuracy, then comes Claude with high accuracy but slight slow, Gemini is good, especially the Pro, but takes time, the flash models are bad with faster times. - So, the LLMs are not perfect yet, they might get a few years time down the road, but it looks far from now.

Agentic Coding: The future of software development with agents

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - See, again, Claude's code and agentic tools are getting adorned by experienced developers too. This is the thing that makes me concerned about my own opinion and thoughts. - It surely is powerful but it hasn’t clicked for me yet I think.

Sam Altman on AGI, GPT-5 and other stuff on the Open AI Podcast

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is all nice and good on the talk, they really need to answer why the heck are they even developing the models and selling them. - I think the bubble is slowly going to burst and we are going to use AI surely but not the way we are thinking right now. Just as a tool. - Maybe search will be revolutionised with AI, but I don’t see it in other places, it’s not worth the time and money.

Pheonix. new Fly’s entry for AI coding agents

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a neat little thing from fly.io, they have made everything so right, that these AI Agents just fit perfectly in their ecosystem.

Using AI right now: A quick guide

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude these are the most widely adopted LLMs which are quite general purpose. But they also have nuanced quirks and preferences for certain tasks. - Deep Research is a big deal and it has helped me learn a new concept every day. I use Grok AI, Gemini AI, Chat GPT and even mistral ai for specific things. - Hallucinations are no longer a big deal in AI, they have reduced considerably over the years. It is still a problem but not what it used to be.

How did they get their first Jobs

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Teej had some serious advice, having cover letters, showing that you care is so valuable. I have started to do that (oops, I am looking for a job actively, trying to get a switch after a year and half at my current company) - Prime had a good take, it just happened to him after he had worked and seriously worked hard enough. He was just doing his best and suddenly luck gave him a chance and he took it with both hands. - The other person, forgot the name. Also had a symphatical journey. - Containers they are really a game changer. Cloudflare does things and does it on scale. This hits different. This is some serious stuff, maybe even a revolution in how we use and build software. It literally can spin up a new computer on the cloud. - Cloudflare Containers

Gemini CLI breakdown by Simon Wilson

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Google has really taken the time to build something of high-enough standard in the space of AI Agents in the terminal. This is a serious competition to Claude Code. - I wonder what OpenAI missed with Codex. It just is bad. Not even usable to free users, which Google just took it by storm. - The system prompt is really insightful, the tools are nicely laid out, its so simple yet well architectured.

Kubernetes isn’t for you

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Kubernetes is made for the scale of google, where they have millions, billions of request per minute. Not for your 100 user startup. True, if the scale keep growing, or you have micro-service architecture, but if you have a bare-bones project and not many user-base, then sticking to simple traditional deployment is good enough - I hate when people use shiny things for making themselves look like they know what they are doing, the soy devs, the gigachad 100x developers, and they only know what a pod actually means in a cluster. - Why make things complex, it feels great at first for our egoistic brain, but believe me the complexity will hurt you in the long run. Maybe it will save you too if you are actually growing at scale. But the trade-off you need to decide.

Gemini CLI and comparison with other Agentic Terminal Agents

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Gemini CLI is really nice, at least for a free tier. I can use it and understand the LLMs capabilities. It helps junior developers get a taste of the software AI can produce, but these can really get double edged sword. Juniors will only produce AI slop and never learn anything. - But yes, google is trying hard to make developers happy for now.

Now might be the best time to learn software development

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The best time to learn software development was 5 years ago, now is the next best time to learn it.

SQL Join flavors

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a insightful post, it helped me feed my hunger for learning more about SQL. - The qualified, natural (Actually unnatural) and cross broad range of joins really helped understand the concepts better. - The interactive examples are really great for those types of complex yet powerful concepts.

AI-free Writing

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Anton won’t use AI for writing, I am on his side. I write this newsletter and any writing for that matter without GPT or AI. Yes, I use it as a critique and help me understand how it reads, I read its thoughts and think and leave them. Next time, I be a little considerate about those mistakes.

Anatomy of a SQL Engine: Dolthub Blog

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a interesting post. It made me curious how a sql statement query is executed, the ast construction, then right recursive and left recursive. This blog actually made me take a in-depth guide on SQL. - I have started reading about SQL and solving leetcode problems and even some problems on SQLBolt. I have even picked up reading “Learning SQL” Book for learning more. I want to get into “Database Internals”, that book is about how under-the-hood sql and databases work, for that I need to learn what SQL is in the first place.

Golang 1.25 interactive tour

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The json v2 package and the in-depth explanations are helpful in quick understanding of the changes. It has given me a good view on what is changing and is enough motivation for me to tinker on my own and create other examples.

Docker launches hardened base images

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Docker Hardened Images start with a dramatically reduced attack surface, up to 95% smaller, to limit exposure from the outset. - DHI are the new thing in docker, they help in avoiding the image bloat. - They are not just trimmed-down versions of existing containers, they’re built from the ground up which is really interesting to work with and help optimise the build process as well as deployment constraints.

Andrej Karapathy: Software is Changing

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - We are in Software 3.0 Era - Software 1.0 was code | Software 2.0 was Neural Networks - Now we are in the LLM space, were we can send prompts to neural networks that can generate programs, that is wild idea - We need to create systems around LLMs, like interface to interact LLMs, He puts it like we are in the 1960s era of Computing. Where the computers were not personal, they were mainframe, large machines that fit on factories. - However the LLMs today are like those big gigantic computers that live in the cloud running in multiple clusters of GPUs, though we have local LLMs, the quality and accuracy of high parameter models is not near the local small sized models (they are improving). So we are reliant on Cloud inference like ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, LLaMA, Gemini, etc. - He relates the transition of LLMs with the augmentation to an autonomous agent. This is compared to Iron Man’s suite, which is a mixture of human control along with AI assistance. When he is outside the augmented mode, its his instinct that help him navigate, however, in the agent mode, the AI decides the track. - Also the vibe coding term was emphasised which has a Wikipedia entry. Vibe coding is easy to do because we don’t care about the code, we care about the outcome, we can call it product driven prompting. And it makes sense when he said, we need to increase the Human-verification and AI-generation loop. It doesn’t mean, you’ll tell AI to one-shot the entire thing, instead go bit by bit, one thing and one action and feedback at a time.

A tale of two Claudes

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : A completely honest and realistic take. - Claude cannot work with Tailwind 4 - Claude works well with compiler and gnarly debugging memory related issues - This is really cool to be aware of, we can use LLMs to guide us in the situations when we are not sure. Because it will speed things up and probably reach conclusions much faster and we can then decide if that conclusion was right or not, rather than spending hours in the gnarly bugs. - Someone said it, LLMs are thinking too fast, so we should think slow, what a perfect sentence.

Never Just

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is absolutely relatable, when we are in complex problem solving situation, and someone says “why don’t we just make it simple”. The person saying this either doesn’t know the problem or knows too much that he simply can do it instead of asking it to others. If this just comes from the surface, it feels a bit hurting, it should be reframed to make it more informative and actionable instead of attacking.

A Linear Algebra Trick for computing Fibonacci Numbers Fast

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : An interesting way to compute Fibonacci numbers. A nice matrix multiplication trick.

99% of the AI Startups will be Dead by 2026

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Obivious, Startup is about survival and if all of them are wrappers around just a LLM they might die. But only if they are just that and nothing else. Turns out most startups might just be that. - However, many unicorns and valuable startups are built due to trust and alignment of the problem solved by the product and faced by their users, so its about competition there. - AI is here to stay and evolve, if the product keeps adapting, it will survive no matter what, the trend is, if people like it, people will pay to use it for comfort. - Half of the internet was down for almost 2.5 hours, due to Google Cloud outage. - Cloudflare was down due to one service of theirs was reliant on Google Cloud, and that spiralled to all other services. Whoa! dependency hell is real. - Why Internet went down for 2.5 hours on 12th-13th June 2025 (IST Timings)

Feedback is not attack

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Feedback is quite a huge subject and can affect one’s relation in positive or negative way. Its not just about giving feedback, its also about empathy and being able to receive and accept the feedback well.

This AI Agent should have been a SQL Query

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This one was more like Apache Flink comparison and walkthrough, maybe as a example but it was good.

The State of Authentication

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is so messed up. There are actually three parts in Authentication. I thought Authentication and Authorization, that’s it - Authentication is basically “Am I who I say I am?” - Authorisation is what I am allowed to do (if i am who I say I am)\ - Now the third part of Authentication - Auth UI: Lo behold, UIs are not my thing, and yes Auth0 and some other probably some other services too.

The art of saying no

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This post is so accurate in describing the feeling while doing AI assisted development. We have to constantly sift through hundreds of suggestions or ideas to get the one that we are looking for, and that is not easy and comforting at first. However, just like debugging intuitively, accepting suggestions and vibing would become a intuition based activity, it just takes a few misses and hits, some trials and explorations of how these LLMs work.

What would Kubernetes 2.0 be like

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : YAML should be replaced with HCL, that is a golden point. No like seriously, reading a long yaml file just gives me headache. I prefer JSON Instead. Also the helm package manager is written in Golang, I want to dive deeper into K8s.

The Gentle Singularity: Sam Altman’s Blog

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Sam thinks that GPTs are powerful than any human lived on earth, is that really accurate? Maybe, in terms of knowledge, but that’s not truly knowledge. It does have billions of weights that somewhat represent the knowledge, but can it make sense of it? No, not yet. With tools and reasoning, maybe, but not quite without proper instructions. - The other stuff is just sci-fi future prediction. I don’t think that is true, but his vision is a bit daunting if that is slightly true. - He also mentions how many watts are consumed per GPT call, which is hilariously alarming.

Are we feeling it now? The AI Model Fatigue

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - There are too many models to keep track of, I had raised this concern in the past two weeks, but no one listens. Here we are in an LLM model apocalypse. - Maybe it’s a positive one, but we need to slow down a little.

Programming with Agents: Sketch.dev

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Great post on agents, good and expected take on agent definition - David also narrates the need for agents and why they are suddenly in the hype. The function calling thing just blew the AI hype and at that time, the LLMs were not ready or trained for it. But in 2025, those LLMs are optimised for it, making it a great ecosystem to work towards. - This actually raises questions: Do you really need the craft? The IDE? If the agent can do it for you at the speed of a prompt? Yes, LLMs are not gods, they need assistance, and when they go berserk, its on the developer to hone on his tools and hack it out of the mess.

How I finally understood Docker and Kubernetes

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was my pick of the week. I understood the reason why Kubernetes exists - I knew the concept of Docker (it could be because I have used it extensively in the past to create projects as well in my internships to deploy APIs and apps) - But the concept of Kubernetes is like a black-box. But the author’s explanation style and simple example made it clear. - Kubernetes is like - Container Image > Deployment > Pod > Service - Container Image is the actual image of your app that you want to run, maybe it has multiple of those. - Deployment is like defining what and how many (other things too) to run. - Pod is like the actual unit of containers; in itself, it has no control, it just runs whatever was given to it. - Service is like the layer that exposes it to the world, maybe the network, the other containers, which are like a configurable exposure of the network.

Anyone can cook: How 37 Signals hired a junior developer

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Intrinsic motivation is greater than an educational degree; this is true for any professional. Because the degree won’t sustain you longer, if there is a fire within, that will carry on.

AI IDEs Free Tier War

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Windsurf is surprisingly cheap, but they don’t have access to models like Claude 4 and others. - GPT 4.1 is good and all, but that’s a little supbar with the standard of Claude - I don’t know if that’s just me or I feel confident in copy-pasting a file from claude than from GPT

I am disappointed in AI discourse

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow, at least someone feels like me. This was so relatable to read on a Sunday afternoon. - This feels relatable to feel like how can people draw conclusions and biases when the technology is evolving everyday. - People are either fully bullish on AI, i.e. by 2026, no developers needed, to some saying AI is still crap. Both of them don’t know what AI is capable yet. It is not that bad, compared to a year ago, it’s really good at generating almost accurate code, but not quite the touch that it can be untouched without a developer glancing and ficing it.

My AI Skeptic Friends are Nuts: Review by Theo

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I read the article last week, and surely it was AI bullish, but the GraphQL, Web3 bubble value to hype ratio just made me relate to this AI hype. - The hype is too high, but the value bar is high too; we need to get the value, which is a bit easier, but avoiding the hype and fluff is a bit tricky. I think by being hands-on you can separate the fluff from value.

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The quote that sums this well is this: - Perhaps the most valuable skill in this new landscape isn’t prompt engineering or systems architecture, but adaptability - the willingness to evolve, to learn new skills, and to find your unique place in a rapidly changing field. - Adoption is a skill that you can hone and be an engineer of the AI revolution - The author thinks that there will be engineering in terms of managing and overlooking Agents or AI Systems. Also a good point mentioned is “The scope of engineering is not shrinking, it’s expanding”. I can see this point coming true in some sense as the level of understanding to drive these AI systems is better suitable to programmers and engineers. Since they already deal with the pain of solving problems. AI is no different. - The first part that hits me the most is the loss of joy. I talked about it in the previous weeks. I don’t want to repeat that rambling, but yes, that somewhat feels a bit uncomfortable to digest. - An excellent post in navigating this AI landscape while maintaining the core feelings of a developer and where it breaks.

Janvi Kalra

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - From Software Engineer to AI Engineer at OpenAI - This was a really inspirational interview. Its giving me hope in continuing what I am doing currently; being excited and willing to develop stuff, doing the due-deligence to research and solve things. - I think I now understand my flaw; I am not specific. I am all over the place. - She was very specific in boiling down what she was interested in, listing down the 50+ companies in that space, and getting the interviews. It shows the care and love for the craft. - I am not sure how to do that, really, because I think I would miss out on certain roles where I might feel excited. I am really a bad problem solver, I don’t know what I should focus on. I think I need to write more in order to nail it down in the coming weeks. Let’s do that and let’s see where it takes me.

Dopamine Driven Development

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Passing tests, GitHub action tick, first try especially, different error message all gives dopamine, and that is not a cheap dopamine, its a value to effort cost.

My AI Skeptic friends are all nuts

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a hot post on Hacker News for a week, rightly so, it is partial and follows an experienced developer talking about how LLMs are useful as a tool and not a job replacer. - I love one point, which is this quote: - Often, LLMs will drop you precisely at that golden moment where shit almost works, and development means tweaking code and immediately seeing things work better. That dopamine hit is why I code. - I have talked about it previously, and it resonates with me too. I haven’t tried it to the extreme yet. But this is what it is supposed to be doing, if done and used correctly. - Caring about the craft is what the author rightly meant to keep LLM out of the loop. He compares with the woodworking; if you treat woodworking as a hobby, then you should care about the tiny details and fine refinements. That is not something for LLM to take care. - Junior level output of these LLM is a bit scary. It makes juniors a place of bother.

Theo Browne on Development and Career

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Be curious, be active - Content is bullshit, don’t consume too much, be actively building and enthusiasitic about the craft

First User Framework

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - If there is no user, that is not a solution; it is a problem you are inventing yourself. - If you are developing something for yourself, don’t do it right away. If you have the time and capacity to keep up with the learning and work-life balance, then do it without thinking. But if you are already burnt out, maybe just don’t, it might lead you nowhere. - If you have one user, start building it. If you have at least a user, there is already a feedback loop developed once you build it. The instant feedback input and the validation part makes it addictive.

AI is coming for your job

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - It’s far from that, as per Simon Wilson, the people with the domain expertise leveraging these tools and LLMs will be at the forefront and take the most advantage of the assistance. - It has cut the development or creation speed to almost half or even lower. This takes off the tedious efforts or menial work and puts humans heading the creative space.

Styling the icons for HTML date and time types: Cassidy Williams Blog

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a specific tip, but goes on to make me understand the input types are so rich in HTML. We can do so many things. Some of them might be browser based, and might be specific to certain versions, but still being able to do with bare bones HTML is amazing.

AI is rotting my brain

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - “We couldn’t stop making art even if we tried,” that hit me, it makes me feel alive and have purpose in life again. - Yes, learning about LLM and how it is working is super fun, its quite interesting and rewarding. Then that makes the point that LLMs are not bad, it’s the adoption by people that matters.

AI changes everything

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Everyone seems to be positive about AI, I am not against it, its good, but its moving too fast. - I encourage you not meet that moment with cynicism or fear: meet it with curiosity, responsibility and the conviction that this future will be bright and worth embracing.

My Engineering Craft regressed

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is literally me. I can completely get the words of the person. Its exciting to work on side projects and contribute to open source projects, but really no one cares, but I have done it so far for personal pleasure. - If something makes me learn new things and go from knowing nothing to fixing a bug, the feeling of finally being able to go through that and see the green tick is so satisfying that the “who cares” question is just out of the equation. The feeling cannot be compared with anything. - I also feel a bit sluggish when solving LeetCode, I hate it for some reason. I have barely done any problems on leetcode, let alone grind it for weeks and months. I don’t quite understand the purpose of it. Just to get the job? To improve problem-solving skills? Maybe, but that’s just not how my brain likes to solve problems; my brain works when it sees the problem.

The Copilot Dillusion:

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was like a word of caution of getting too much reliant on AI for coding - Coding with AI is all well and good, but the thinking part still is in the heads of the developer. It can’t think beyond a certain capability. - Till now, its fair to say from this post that, AI is most safer in the hands of developers than laymen for coding. It’s not gone that far that managers can vibe code and ship everyday. - Maybe someday it will, but there will be the need of developers in pushing it and nudging it to get the most of it.

Radicle

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : The GitHub alternative - This week we had a GitHub outage, and on twitter I read about someone complaining, how has someone not figured out a GitHub alternative. - The tweeter mentioned that it was just a

Explaing Transformers in simple words:

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a simple yet effective explanation of the transformer model architecture - It skipped the middle part, it explained the input and output part well though, enough for someone to get curious and fall in the rabbit hole of exploration.

Let’s Fing Go:

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a reflection and a way for switching and learning Go from Javascript. It is evident that Golang is the almost the perfect tool for backend servers and quick simple applications. Not saying its bad for complex applications, but one must be equipped with the right set of tooling and mindset to head into a large scale application, rather than complain about writing bunch of err != nil, skill issues.

MIT Lecture: LLMs introduction

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It had me till the part “LLMs can do math”, no please no. - All the parts of the videos were great, it touched upon almost everything about LLM and the capabilities it has, helped understand the difference of the actual model and the interface we are interacting with.

Am I online?

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - A useful way to identify your servers are connected to the internet.

API Gateways

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a concise explanation of API Gateways - API Gateways are simply a way to route your app to the microservices you have, and also some gluecode like middleware and rate limiting which might be repeated across most of the microservices. - Just for entertainment, this was funny though (some jokes went over my head though) - Veo 3 and Luma something was great at almost realistic and relatable videos - There were services that were clearly there and others were pieces of shit. - Nothing in between because average sucks. - Primeagent tried AI Video Services

Read out the thing you have written

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - This is like a thought or tip from Martin Fowler - He suggests to read out (at least lip movement) the thing we have written. I really like it and have not noticed it yet, but yes that is true. - We get a different perspective and feel for the draft that we have written. Its almost like reviewing your code locally vs on GitHub. You get something while reading out that you don’t just reading in mind.

Inside an LLM

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This 3 videos in the series were so much valuable. It helped me understand the mathematics and the architecture behind LLMs. Its quite fascinating - I am now thinking about explaining these concepts to laymen because I want them to understand what they are actually interfacing with are just mathematical numbers and nothing human like robots.

A draft post

Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Hello, this is a draft post

Glauber Costa on Technical Blogging

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - These are golden points here - Just write it down - Showcasing benchmarks is a bit hard - If you are not sure about it, reluctant about publishing it, just do it, as you don’t know what will work and what won’t until you haven’t done it.

Visual Studio Code + Copilot is not open source

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - VS Code is trying to save tools like cline and augment code - Basically, making developers stick to the VS Code ecosystem as closely as possible - This will make that happen, with Copilot abilities (not the server), access to make the abilities run within VS Code, so people don’t have to fork it.

I really don’t like ChatGPT’s new memory feature change

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I haven’t used this, but I can understand the feeling of this - This looks like a feature without a button, a default feature. Really, are these big companies talking about AGI and care about the values, and slopping users with a bare minimum experience?

Revenge of the junior developer

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Ok, I spent half an hour reading this article and felt a mix of opinions - On one side, I am happy that I am a junior, I am dabbling with AI agents and tab tab things, but it’s kind of weird to use them. - I don’t like the review part, it feels like a daunting task

Nothing makes me want to hire someone less than them showing an open-to-work badge

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good take, if someone has put an open-to-work badge, it might mean that the person is giving indication to his/her openness to work. - We can’t judge by that, and should not, as the person might be in a weird situation and can’t openly express their situation so the badge gives them a slight help in communicating without actually speaking about it.

Google keeps winning

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash are killing it with the new improvements - Gemini is getting integrated into almost everything at Google

Appwrite Sites

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is cool, I talked about it in my thoughts as Appwrite is kind of entering the full-stack as a service ecosystem with this launch - They came #1 on Product Hunt this week - This is a interesting buy - Data analysis with the powerhouse database ready for AI - Making a viable integration with the Neon database. - Great move by Databricks - Neon doesn’t have enterprise customers, they are low on funds. But they have a wide adoption and great AI integrations - Databricks has enterprise customers, but not much to offer on the AI side - Combine the,m and suddenly they both become a deadly combo - Datbricks bought Neon

No docs, no bugs

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is silly; the more detail you put, the more detailed your tests have to be - The more tests there are, the probability of all of them passing would start decreasing, and hence, it could cause subtle bugs - So I think it is a matter of convincing yourself to write more tests and documentation

Build systems

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - In short, you should not use AI slop, pretty obvious

I kind of hate Agentic IDEs for the sake of productivity

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

This is May 2025, we are halfway through 2025. And tech world has gone a 180-degree turn in how developers are working. With the rise of Agentic IDEs (yes, that is a deliberate buzzword, I am using) like Windsurf, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Claude code, Warp, Amp code, whatever agent in the loop. I am not saying any of those are good or bad, they have their own quirks and preferences. Just like I love Vim and you hate it, or loving VS Co**. Maybe that war would happen to some extent, but developers, we are in crisis. No time to have text-editor wars. Because the craft is at stake. I am very naive here, you can stop reading this and save your time, maybe it's a rambling. Because AI companies and any software company are using AI to write code, forcing developers to use AI tools without it, you are doing a disservice to the company. Which I am very much against. If you had told a labourer to use machines instead of their hands, they would have loved to. But if you ask an artist to use robotic bots to create art, you are not doing justice. Because developers are not labourers, they are artists. Developers don't use physical energy, they use cognitive energy to solve (and create) problems. It's a bit harsh reality that I am trying to accept, but I can't. I can't let an LLM with some tools write code for me, that is my part. I love that, I am not saying I don't like to solve problems, but if solving problems is the idea, then writing code is the execution and its fruit. If I give the problem to AI, with some prompt magic, and even if it writes the code and the problem is solved, I don't feel fulfilled, I don't get any value, I don't love that process. Yes, I can review the code and make changes, but who in the world loves reviewing code? Do you love reviewing peers' PRs? really? I am not against this change, I would love to use LLMs in my workflow, 100%. But it's far than that, companies have started to consider this a productive compulsion, instead of a tool. They expect things to be done 2x faster. Things that could be done in a week can be wrapped in 3 days. That is cool, but not effective for sustainability, there are limits to how much a developer can think and spend their mental ability. Writing prompts and thinking with the LLM drains a lot of it, because it is quick. I am not sure if I am correct, but that's my thought. I love Agentic IDEs, but hate when companies start using them as a productivity booster all the time. I need some way to express my art, but AI has snatched it from me. Wired Times, 2025, please have mercy in the second half. You had us in the first half.

Appwrite is now Full-Stack-as-a-Service with Sites

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## What is (was) Appwrite Appwrite started out as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) and in many ways, it still is. It offered things like databases, authentication, file storage, and cloud functions, basically the complexity of backend for an application. One of its biggest strengths? It’s fully open source and self-hostable! This was Appwrite ages ago, but today, they are not just Backend as a service, they now have [sites](https://appwrite.io/blog/post/announcing-appwrite-sites), you can deploy single page applications to Appwrite. And that is the MOAT of Appwrite, Appwrite quietly emerged as a powerful contender behind the likes of Vercel and in just a few years, it’s become a compelling all-in-one stack. - Databases (relational) - Cloud functions (major programming languages runtime support) - Authentication - File Storage - Messaging, Notifications - SDKs for many programming languages including mobile SDKs And now static/single page applications. So you can fully integrate the backend and deploy the code within the Appwrite ecosystem. ## Advantage Appwrite Appwrite has a rich support for a ton of programming language SDKs, positioning it in a great spot for a complete Fullstack stack projects. Appwrite is now a complete stack, database, authentication, cloud functions, and now static sites. This also puts Appwrite in a special place for developers, they love their community and it just can't get better with this. The other competition was with Cloudflare too, I am not saying Appwrite is competing with Cloudflare. Cloudflare is solving a different problem, but even being the big player in cloud, having great ecosystem for developers, it lacks the richness in support for different programming languages and runtimes. Appwrite has solved one problem at its core and are one of the best Full-Stack provider for cloud as well as self-hosted services. > People said, PHP was dead! For those people, Appwrite exists in 2025! And is almost competing with standards of Vercel.

Is AI going to steal your programming job?

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a bit scary, really, I am scared of anything because of LLMs and Agentic IDEs

The hidden cost of AI coding

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - With AI and Agentic AI, we as developers are going to get very few flow state sessions. Since we will not be writing any code, we will be just guiding like a pilot, and the actual craft is up to LLM to do, which is scary and takes the fun out of the art. - I am really upset and feeling empty after realising this. Also, there have been discussions around me where the takeover of AI by developers was around the corner. Not even that, I am not scared of that, but the part right now, where companies and top-level managers, or whatever they are called, are forcing developers to use LLMs. They say, Why use horse carts when we have flying jets. As if decades old tradition of writing software was wiped out in months. - Really, it feels sad to be living in this revolution. It’s exciting at some point, agreed. But the more I use it, the more I fear. - I really don’t feel that there will be such periods created for developers by most companies, since they only see money as output.

What is an embedding and a vector in a vector database

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This video made the concept crystal clear. - The example there made perfect sense and actually helped in understanding the operation that might be involved in vectors.

MCP: A protocol to watch

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I also get what MCP is for, I actually created the tool-calling extension for Meta AI’s API, which was a chat interface only. I saw the pain points and really found the need to standardizing the way we create, pass, and retrieve functions to LLMs. - MCP is the protocol to do that, not just function/tool calling, it is also important for tool-specific context passing. - But yes, the concrete ways to use this haven’t clicked with me yet. I have a few ideas, but not finding the motivation enough to build it end-to-end.

A critical look at MCP

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a great post, detailing out the actual protocol to see why it is there in place, which is a great question to have and get an answer to.

MCP vs API

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - The MCP explanation part was clear and great

What will coding look like in 2027

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This looks like an AI-slop at first, but then it kind of makes sense - We are now abstracting away the core thing to AI (its pissing me off)

I just want to code

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I honestly feel this way, the war between your heart and mind. - What a coincidence, I am on a war, turns out, everyone is too. Everyone is fighting the control of the mind over the heart, the ego over the soul. - The author of this post has really put it well, just read that post, instead of this rambling.

What even is Vibe coding

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I completely agree with the entire post, this is the best take on vibe coding. I have experienced this and also mentioned it in my post. AI can handle the boring part, so that the developer can focus on the important, the heart of the craft. Whatever AI creates before this needs to be seen with a grain of salt, i.e., needs testing and review, it’s not a real person writing code after all. - It’s more of a tool than a replacement. LLMs are not there yet, it’s far from reality and close to boilerplate or already solved problems, not innovation. - If AI is giving you the entire code, then it is likely that the idea that you have for the software is already kind of there, not entirely, but vaguely there. For real innovations in the software, you still would need a developer. - I asked Chat GPT, based on my conversation and everything you know about me, to give me a book recommendation. And it gave the war of art - And Oh my god! I loved the book, it was a quick one. I don’t usually read non-fiction, self-help books because I already have too many technical things in my work and side projects that I can’t bear reading those in my spare time. - But that book was a huge shift in mindset. We are all battling resistance. The bigger the resistance, the bigger the calling (the good task or intuition). We have to defeat that enemy, and it’s not easy, but with a war, it can be defeated. And it’s not an enemy once you defeat it, it’s done; rather, it’s a daily war, it will come in the places you are comfortable. - This prompt was a pretty good use of LLMs, to be honest. If you can tune it to your needs, LLMs are a blessing; if you try using it for your replacement, you are destined to suffer. - I read the book The War of Art, Why?

Be Kind

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - As a developer, we need to be kind, not just yes, thank you but really understand the person from other end and be humble about his/her situation and feelings. - That might be too realistic for a developer to do (right? We are nerds, I think), but having that kindness and insight about the person we are interacting with sets us apart as an effective engineer.

Advice for juniors on manager-engineer relation and Theo’s experience (must watch)

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - TLDR: Don’t try to do the job that you are not asked, if the environment is pulling each other down. - It’s doesn’t mean you not following your curiosity or doing the things you are excited to do, rather than knowing when to and when not to.

Habits I recommend to a software developer

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Reading a book - Build projects (keep building) - Write to reflect the learnings - Learn and build in public

Why can’t I be technical

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I didn’t completely read this, but this makes an interesting point, that we need to understand the opposite end of the thinking on the thing we are working on, kind of wired but that makes sense now.

Horseless Carriages

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - This was a great read. People making AI-based applications are too naive to understand the actual technology behind LLM and how the approach needs to be changed. - Right now, it is the assumption that the developer is attached to the system prompt; however, LLMs at this stage need customisation from the user perspective and ndo ot have the dependency on the developer. - The shift in developer-user responsibility is quite unnoticed, and this article highlights that effectively.

AI Prompt Engineering: Deep dive

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a masterclass in prompt engineering. Must watch - Anthropic really cares about the craft and art of LLMs, they really understand what to think when interfacing to am LLM. - First principle thinking

Getting started with Pulumi

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I always wanted to understand Infrastructue and code, but no article helps me understand what it actually is solving, no one has yet shown the problem before the solution. I might find and write it myself one day (day one?).

Lessons on AI Agents from Claude plays Pokemon

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wow, agents are already playing games, not exactly but quite fair I would say. Anthropic is really a lab, like they are researching LLM behaviors through and through; they are technical scientists. - Claude plays Pokemon Red: - Send screenshot of the current state - Describe the game mechanics - Ask for the action - Iterate - It’s quite a fascinating experiment. Maybe we can try with different types of games with LLMs. They tried a Pokémon-like game, because that isa very user-paced game, not a very rapid pace, or live-like games. Very smooth transitions and turn based game.

AI Coding is not enough we need Agnetic Coding:

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is wild. I have been sleeping on Claude Code and Warp - Those are the ones that are truly agentic editors. - AI Coding (which people are pissed at) versus, Agentic Coding, that is really the difference. Agentic coding opens a wild number of possibilities. This is the second time, I am overwhelmed in life in programming. One was with Vim and Linux, there was so many things to learn and experiment with. And this time, its LLMs, models, tools, and so many details to learn, so many behaviours to understand. This is fascinating. Just watch this vide, I can’t be thankful to this person enough.

We’ll always need junior programmers

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - We need to work hard and show the flame of curiosity that’s the deal.

The lack of frequency increases the pressure to deliver quality

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Consistency is really helpful in writing or any action. - I used to write 100 days of golang 2-3 times a month initially, but lost the consistency due to college and internship tasks, and then spiralled into me not being confident and pressured on the quality aspect, ,procrastination and fear seeping in.

Interview with Varun Mohan, Co-founder and CEO of Windsurf

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - An insightful conversation with prompting questions which are quite relevant in today’s tech world - He had a weird take on hiring, might be too overstrech employees’ health - Until the people are dehydrated, then we only look for help in terms of hiring. That is not a good way to put that, I think, it looks a bit cruel even if he might not mean it. - Changing from GPU providers to AI Editor, betting on that is pretty dope. - What is MCP and how to use it: Fly.io A pretty simple yet clear explanation of MCP. People are making fuzz and hype about it. Tool calling is simple why not stick to it, I guess the reason is every LLM provider has started to go with a different approach in that tool calling, so then it becomes a necessary thing to have a protocol.

What to work on next?

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Types of work laid out in priority order, obviously it depends on the situation at hand, and the instructions and alignment with your manager.

AI-assisted search

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - AI-assisted search is really revolutionizing the google search, its a tool call at the end of the day, but the way it is executed and prompted is really an art. - Gemini seems to be rocking at this. It was obvious that Google who has been ruling the search for the past 2 decades, will rule the next search too, but Open-AI and Preplexity had led the revolution. Just like Mozilla had it for browsers, then Chrome tookover.

Our best customers are now Robots

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - UX > DX > RXA nice way to put thatTech is changing fast as hell. - We first cared about User experience with HTML and JavaScript. - Then Developer experience with React and god knows what frameworks - Now, Robots’ experience with LLMs in the picture, we have MCP, A2A, and again,n god knows what will drop tomorrow

Believe it’s going to work even though it probably won’t

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Startup founders are strong-headed, which is what I also agree upon. And like everything in life, it is a double-edged sword. Everything has pros and cons, but to not be cut by the other edge, you have to sharpen the other; you can’t dismiss the other edge but keep on sharpening the other one. Sorry, that was a weird tangent. Startup founders need to be strong-headed because it’s their dream to build and grow; if they stop defending themselves, then the team just disintegrates.

How to build an Agent

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a simple article, but it’s so important to read. The things that we see around sometimes feel magical, people might just stare at them and remain in awe for eternity. However, people like engineers and Thorsten Ball (he is an author and engineer), who are fueled not just by skill but also by curiosity and the will to go a step ahead, maybe even two steps. Those types of people understand the craft, play with it (maybe fail several times), gain clarity, gain wisdom, and not just for selfish greed or promotion, they are wise and generous, they share it with others. Those are not humans, those are angels’ inspiration for all of us (at least for me)Agents are not magic; they are LLMs with tools, and they can predict which word(token) to insert next in the sentence. Apply this to hand them the problem and some tools (functions, api calls, documentation, database), and they can understand what to look up for, what to do with it next, get the result, and decide again, in a loop. Just like that. Agents are just loops over an LLM call (at least in the broader way).

Episodes 1

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Raising an Agent and Sourcegraph is such an open company, open as in the openness about their thinking and approaches. They are heading in a good direction, I think and they might be a fundamental step in something that no one else is noticing yet. They are taking the time and not rushing through the model race. I am betting on them now, a comeback is right around the corner.

The Best Programmer I know

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is a manual on how to become a better programmer, I can really stick the headings of the post a goals to improve as a developer.

Firebase makes an AI IDE? Firebase Studio

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - App builders are good, but not there yet.Authentication, coming soon!That was a hilarious dev-like builder. So relatable.It now makes sense, as it is trained on real developers’ data, so if you know, you know.And that brings a relief as well, as to the question of it replacing developers. That’s just not happening, as developers have not yet figured out their lives yet.

Universal basic dead-end

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - We are in the AI revolution right now, just like how we had the computer revolution. People thought, everyone would lose their jobs, but are we out of jobs? In fact, there are more jobs than ever. Right now, yes the market is bad, and the jobs are fewer, but does that mean AI will replace humans? If yes, you are in the wrong world.

We won’t hire a junior engineer with 5 years of experience

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a bit scary like I am new and haven’t contributed significantly to anything. I have the fire, but life gets in the way. I am not a person who would give excuses. I truly am confused with life lately. The trajectory of the engineer will be seen in the early days so accurately put.

Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusion

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This is a nice article written by AI Lord Andrej Karpathy, this nicely explains the current situation of the AI trend and how it is the reverse of every other revolution. An interesting perspective to think of and be grateful for living in this phase.

A programmer’s Reading List: 100 Articles I Enjoyed Part 1 (1-50)

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Have not read anyofthose, but seems a great place to bookmark for never reading (bookmarks are bad design actually in 2025)

I ranked every AI based on vibes

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - That is really cool, I didn’t knew gemini flash was that good, need to check that out really. I haven’t tried o3 and not sure would be quick enough to get results out. I have been using claude and gpt extensively for qick fixes and even brainstorming ideas. Pretty good tier list to be honest.

Raising an Agent - Episode 1

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Fascinating. A sourcegraph AI Agent is around the corner. Wow this could be the first one to actually replicate the editing experience. We know LLMs can’t really drive the code, so let them do the chore work while we think. That is the approach Sourcegraph will be taking, they are not completely saying LLMs are bad, they are infact bullish on LLMs, claude can do almost anything provided the tools, so LLMs with tools and context is a big brain move.

Understanding MCP from scratch

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This cleared a lot of things. - RAG = Context + LLMs - Agents =Tools + LLMs - MCP Server/Client = Context + Tools + LLMs

Learn to Code

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Kache’s Twitter (X) article: This just blew my mind. If someone is optimistic and pessimistic about AI, this guy is just one the extreme end of optimism. Nothing wrong with it. Every coin has two sides, no one can perfectly balance both. But I was kind of doing that, and that was leading me nowhere, after reading this, I am nudged on to the optimistic side. Like I feel there is too much to be done for me, so little time. It just pumped me up.

Why is Google winning the AI race

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - ? - Google has controlled the internet for the past 2 decades, and it has Data, some model science, and also now has some infrastructure (hardware). It will control the AI race, Apple is actually surprising in all of them but dominates none of them. - Can apple make a comeback? Looks hard, but we have seen comebacks (Google was struggling with Bard, now it is toppling Open AI)

Will YouTube ever run out of YouTube Ids

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - ? - Wow, Youtube well thought out, 64 letters, that is a gigantic number, practically it will never run out of ids. However what if someone spams a few billion video uploads?? That can pretty quickly bring the limit close, I mean YouTube will surely block it, but maybe who knows

Git Scraping my own Newspaper

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - That’s pretty interesting, git scrapper based newspaper, wow, I want to make this, I want to aggregate my favorite blogs and platforms to get the most up-to-date content. Content these days is overloaded.

My 6 months with the GoTH stack: building frontends with Go, HTML, and a little duct tape

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I have heavily done some Golang with HTML for my burrow SSG and CMS. I think at some point, I will have to leverage Templ and Tailwind, I am not a frontend guy, so you know. Templating is really a thing, that when you code in python doesn’t feel but in Go, it actually helps you understand what the heck is going on.

Your manager should never have to ping you

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This post discusses that a junior should be asking questions, updating too frequently, or over doing it, I get that point. The author is trying to make sure the manger is never left with suspicion or doubt about the junior “is he working on something?”, “is he even working?”, or “did he understand the problem right?”, because time is precious, and no one wants to waste time, and resources in rabbit holes. Rabbit holes are great but not always and too much of them can deviate you from the problems in a broken way. So I agree with this advice, however, think before dropping the message, don’t try to spam, avoid jargon and I think the communication needs to be to the point. I sometimes get too nerdy or too off-topic in some discussions, that we have to get on a call, yes that happens. No one is perfect, everyone is figuring out life.

Deep vs Shallow Go Interfaces

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Deep interfaces are really easy and flexible to understand which is really a good observation. The shallow interfaces are the ones that are quirky but unavoidable, we need to have some level of basement laid in order to make it work, otherwise ,it will be all deep interfaces with too many implementation trees. That I don’t like.

The worst programmer I know

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Yes, this is true. Some engineers or programmers do not actually work on something, but they make something work together. They are the hand-holders, the captains, the leads (not the tech lead, the leaders). That is one type of personality, and that is no right or wrong personality. Humans just are what they are, that’s what makes them humans. This brings me to another point, pair programming, oh! That is a charm, a secret little thing that somehow works wonders. Pair programming is a must, no matter what the scale of the organization is, it opens up the programmer’s mind in different ways, changes the perspectives of individuals, gives confidence, helps learn communication, eases the stress a bit, and makes programming more fun. I can go on, but that is an understatement for pair programming.

The Primeagen on the Lex Fridman Podcast

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Man, that person is a legend. I have only watched 1:30 hours of this, that is a 5-hour video, man! - Addiction is something that feels like giving you satisfaction, but it never will, that is a great way to put it. - Work Harder, not smarter! This is the new advice (instead of working smarter, not harder) Why? because, how would you know something is the optimal way to do it, before doing it? Skewed

Robots Generate, Humans Manifest

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

To, New Graduates or Students (or whoever is scared of AI) You’ve probably noticed the AI buzz lately, the chatbots, image generators, and tools that seem to do everything. If you haven’t, good for you! It means you’re not glued to your phone, and that’s a win. But for those who’ve felt the hype or the creep, it’s hard to ignore. People are shouting about an AI revolution, some with awe, others with warnings. It’s changing things fast, and I want to share what I see as a junior software developer living in this wild moment. However, if you had heard about it, surely you would have felt the creep. ## AI is reaching everywhere Beyond the hype, there are the things that will drive the humanity. Yes, the hype is actually a revolution, an AI revolution we are blessed or (maybe cursed, time will tell) to witness the birth of AI-related chatbots and tools that can do the tasks for us. AI is reshaping our world, not just our tech. AI or LLMs whatever you can call it, generates stuff, spits out text, pictures, code, and maybe even decisions (Agentic is the name here). This is generated or actually predicted by AI based on what humans have fed it, the human-generated data. ![Agents](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0tnh7fghjm3aafxtji46.png) And that human-generated data, I am calling it manifestation, which is the combination of effort with emotion. ## AI is the future Now here comes the actual argument, it is inevitable people say, AI will replace humans, or another argument is people will be replaced by people using AI effectively. Whatever the truth is, we are going to get replaced, that's not true. We as humans can't be replaced, our thinking and our mindset, however, will be, needs to be. Ignorance and Ego need to be kept aside, Curiosity should be the driver of your mind. ## Manifestation over Generation See, AI can't replace humans, that is sure, it just can't. You see, it is generating things, not manifesting. Humans don't generate stuff, they manifest, robots generate stuff, and the thing that comes out of a human's work is blended with emotions, that is manifestation. Generation is not the same as manifestation. Emotion can't be generated by robots, it is not possible, and even if possible at some time, it will be an artificial emotion, not a manifested emotion. Humans create art, they can photograph, they can draw, they can illustrate, they can think, they can feel. Robots don't. Image generation is not an art, it is science, writing text is not art, it's labor, creating projects is not art, it's again labor. This AI thing is so new that we are too behind in the mindset to think about what they actually do. Believe this truth that they generate stuff (technically predict stuff) based on the things they already know of from the internet or existing data. If you ask what is my feeling right now, you will feel what it feels like to ask that question (idiotic) ## Stale or Stagnant AI I am saying that there needs to be art created, and manifested, for AI to work, otherwise we will reach a plateau of no growth. Right now there is a step increase in the knowledge that we think we are receiving because of AI, but that is due to this thing being new, once everyone has experienced (vibed), and seen the generation, it feels like it’s generating the same thing in different ways, there is no discovery, there is no new thing in what it does. Imagine a world where we’re all just remixing the same old ideas, with no fresh spark. I am not bashing AI here, true it can do a lot of things, but it can actually do better than some humans, sure. But AI should do the chores so that you can do the art, and not the other way around. {% embed https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238 %} AI is a good assistant, yes 100% in some cases. For programming yes, for art, yes, for everything maybe, maybe not. It really depends on what are we trying to get from it. Sometimes, it is like a 5-year-old kid, blabbing as if it doesn't understand the basics, other times, it is like an 80-year-old, pouring some tidbits of wisdom (artificial) in some ways. ## Use AI as a copilot not a pilot Use AI as you are the senior and instruct it to do things in your favor, not let it take control and you follow like an idiot. Don’t follow it blindly; steer it. Do not forget to think, a bit, do not remove the human element from the generation, convert that generation to your manifestation. That is the point I'm trying to make, you need to focus on your craft, your inner conflict, and your inner curiosity that drives you to read this exact post, AI can't do that for you, it never will. There will always be a need to learn, to decide, to act, to manifest, to feel. This will lead to more data, and this will keep the AI up-to-date on what humans know collectively. Actually, AIs are no smarter than collective human intelligence, it is just not possible, because whatever it is trained on is human data that humans know, have observed, have felt, and have manifested, it can hallucinate that it might be like this, who is there to confirm it? ## Humans Humans are not doomed, it is AI that will be if humans stop doing their actions. Stop worrying, start enjoying, start manifesting, start exploring, just start doing things. If we rely too much on AI generation, it would be a disaster that you don't want to be in, a fogged mind, rusted by its inability to think, to feel, to act. We’ve got to keep manifesting, writing songs, snapping photos, dreaming up what’s next. That’s how we stay ahead, how we keep humanity humming. You got this! Your buddy, Meet --- Thanks for reading, This looks like a ramble, but please don't judge me, I am just a junior software developer trying to navigate life, and based on what I observe and know, it feels this way.

AI LLM Agents are just graphs, frameworks over-complicate things

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This article shines like gold, it’s quite comprehensive and explains exactly what agents are. The code is precisely 100 lines of code which is surprising to me, was that intentional, or was that a good given luck. - LLM decides for you - The tools are rule-based or just procedural steps to execute - Agents are like graphs, node,s and edges, one pointing to different directions after taking action or deciding what to do next.

Learn Go Templates: A practical guide to layouts, data rendering in Golang

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It was a great article. It covered a lot of things in detail as well as digestible examples. I liked the explanation of template partials and functions. I might be using them in my ssg in Golang (burrow). There was one missing nuance, that is using a variable if inside a loop range and referencing with the $ to access the outer variables in templates.

Friction is necessary in our lives, more the solutions, more the problems.

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

LINK: https://cassidoo.co/post/introduce-friction

I agree to this post, when I didn't had the phone, I was much creative, much more bored. I don't know if it was just that or it feels life was filled with much more satisfaction and bonding.

People including me have become a bit too distant, too focused on productivity. There are too many things to serve ourselves with, reducing the interactions, the wait, the memories.

Yes, we need to bring friction back in our lives.

Backend Banter with Mitchell Hashimoto

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - I have watched it halfway through and so far some hot takes - Rust ecosystem is a little messed up to interact with for him at least - Zig fixes the pains of C, the build ecosystem (handles the compilation for us), and package management (like go) - Project-based learning for the win!! - He started to build Ghostty as a fun toy project, then found some pain points and tried to fix those with an ecosystem of libraries to build an abstraction layer of apps on top of terminal emulation.

AI is here, and yes you are screwed, as a junior

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - 1. : Article review by THE PRIMEAGEN: - I am here for the hot takes, I read this article last week and shared some thoughts I was completely agreed to the article as I am not sure about certain things, I lack some common sense I think, but yes THE PRIMEAGEN in GOD mode opened my eyes - If you are with people who are working for money, is usually good according to their experiences, which is fair, it sometimes it depends on the interaction with the person rather than the nature of the person. We sometimes get used to the nature of the person after some time. - Use LLM but understand what are you doing exactly - Copilot was great bump in the productivity of developers when it launched but since now we are used to the generated code, it seems like we get bad completion or it’s bad. - A good analogy for LLM's ability to code, the more precise you want to do certain thing, the better the generation is, and the broader the scope of the task, it messes up. Like give me the next 2 lines of code in the current position, that is good, LLM is really good at that (not always). But if you give i want to build this project, in an x and y way with a and b technology, that is where it might get a little screwed (Devin not mentioned but I heard the screams) - AI SaaS clones are shit and not true things, it is more than code, relation, care the bond. If someone is earning money for the SaaS clone they build with AI, then they might be building a silly problem for a silly user. - The point of juniors is that in the future they will pay off the investment they made. That was too much maybe, a reaction of a reaction, no it’s a note for me.

Zellij Open Scrollback Edit mode

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

I was looking at a long list of logs, (debugging of course). I had a list of transactions - Two lists of transactions, one as ground truth and other as predicted. Transactions is a list of object(dictionary or map), each object has fields like date, amount, description, etc. - Those objects in a list need not necessarily be in order, however I do want to compare them, how to do that? - I decided to sort them based on date(one field in that object). Then for each date, I group the transactions and this would narrow down the search space for comparison of one-one transaction, since now I can compare which of the ones are closely matching, the date will be a exact match the amount should also be, the description can be fuzzily matched. However, for amount, I guess I was wrong, there could be a value like `10` and the other could have `10.01` and those python doesn't count equal atleast when compared as a string. I converted to float and compared rounded off numbers. Now the problem kicked in and print statements flooded, dates everywhere. Now I was using ghostty terminal, and there was definitely some scroll limit so I couldn't scroll all the way to start. So I opened up zellij. I had a log with *MATCHED* text where I logged the date and amount where both transaction matched. Now, I wanted a count of these matches. I could use search but it was not giving the count of occurrences, I can't keep counting with my mouth(that idea flew by though) Now, that's where I accidentally hit `S` and `E` And I was in a editor, woah! I was excited, I could finally copy and throw that in vim and get everything I want. hehe I tried +"y but it didn't copy to the clipboard, it yanked yes, but not in the system clipboard. That frustrated me and took my hope down, but I googled it and also gpted it (is that a word, I think we can say llmed it). And yes we can set the `export $EDITOR` to the editor executable path and it would open that thing in that editor. I did and it did work. That mode is called [scrollback-edit](https://zellij.dev/news/edit-scrollback-compact/) mode. I should say a life saver mode, a log viewer and really cool. I am probably too dumb and I know this exists in tmux, but I felt good and helped me solve my problem. So thank you whoever made that mode, its really helpful to debug with logs (debloging) Yes I am bad at naming things, but I like this more than vibe coding ;)

https://evolveasdev.com/blogs/guide/learn-go-templates-a-practical-guide-to-layouts-data-binding-and-rendering

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

A well written and concise guide on template parsing with golang. I used to get confused with parsing and rendering the template, this makes it really clear by showing bit-sized examples. - Using custom functions is a high-value tip, I can see myself using those for string-related functions like title case, stringify, date parsing, etc. - Another great example is the templates, we can create partials for reusability. Must read for golang beginners.

Yes you are screwed

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : That was a eye-opening article. In the age of LLM, as a junior developer, we need to act, respond with curiosity rather than doubt or ignorance.

Building Websites with LLMs

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was a really a nice post, need to add this to my blog as well. I want to write more and the more I write I will create more sections like TILs, Thoughts, Link Blog, Articles, Series, Tags, and we can go on, I want to keep my existing site simple yet, I want to organise them in a susinct way.

Overview of Marimo

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :Marimo is a powerful tool to have in these times. LLMs are chained and this will help build better workflows, rather help in experimentation and iteration. Having to work with graph related scripts, with graph designed platform is the best way to move ahead.

Porting Typescript compiler to Golang

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : That is givign them 10x boost in time, that is insane for compilers, I mean time doesn’t really matter in compilers but for developer productivity that helps a lot.

Thinking/Planning vs Building

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was a cool video, I was always with hands-on approach when it comes to developing anything. However since the last year, having the company of my manager, I got into the habit of thinking and sketching out the plan for the implementation, maybe that is different, we don’t create a document, we just brainstorm on the idea. Making the logic clear.I also like the direct code implementation, to get a taste of what works and what is the actual problem to solve than to guess and later realise the problem was to pick stones than to carve the stone. - LLM Chat Apps are driving Theo insane: Hire Theo please, OpenAI, Claude, Meta. the design is really falwed, too unintutive and buggy at time. They are multi billion dollar company, they can’t afford this mistakes.

youre screwed unless you take action

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Interesting read, > If you graduated last year and are entering the workforce this year, then it doesn't unless you take action. It's a COVID19 moment in life again. have edge over others > Understand that time is on your side if you take action. You have about a year, maybe less. Whatever you do - do not squander it. Your edge right now is a large majority of software engineers have not discovered what you have. When they do - it's game over unless you have an edge.

Why is everyone trying to replace software engineers

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I had my first meeting where there were clients, actual users of the product. And I was a technical guy so not much needed for me to talk just demo the things, went a bit technical and in a jiffy but thats it, I think we will be replaced with the people who can understand the business better and not by any LLM. True.

Beware of the Makefile Effect

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Adding already solved problem to your code is not bad, but randomly yanking and making a saphagetti of the codes surely is a problem. But the counter point to that would be, how to know if the thing we are copying is actually good, that sense need to be developed and I think that comes with time and experience and mistakes.

python is tactile

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

Python is tactile

Indirect Prompt injection in LLMs - Numberphile

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is really interesting, I mean corrupting the data source is so easy, write a few blog posts, publish on the internet and source it in your RAG and let hallucination be in the peek. What a problem to have, more advancements, more harder problems to solve. Man! becoming a security person is valuable then ever.

Legion AI Agent Framework

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This frameworks looks so like other frameworks, not sure why make one so much fuss about. I mean I get it, for learning purposes it is so cool, even I would like to try making one, but committing to it as a publicly available project as a real project and not a silly side project, seems a engagement bait or something. Just do it man.

A blog, If you can keep it

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Getting a blog post featured at hackernews, hmm, I always wonder how a post gets featured at hackernews, does the author submit it to the site, or the community post it there? Really curious about the working of it.

Initial impression of GPT 4.5: Simon Wilson

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This model looks worse, no comments. Haven’t tried yet, but this commentary gave a good gist about what to expect.

How I use LLMS - Andrej Karapathy

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I have partially watched the video, found it a bit interesting and will continue to watch over Saturday.

Personal Software is becoming a trend

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Wasn’t this the hobby of software developers from the beginning, we try to solve problems and eventually land up a project a software for our own nerdy needs.

Why Blog if nobody reads it

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - ?This is a good post, why write articles when no one reads them. According to spirituality or philosophically, do work without caring for the result. But is writing articles is work? or hobby? Either of them, just do it because you have or need to or just so. Really there is no answer, will this universe be affected if you write or not write that post? Probably not, will it impact you, probably yes in a good way, will drain some time but I can guarantee after 3 years of blogging, you will have a better understanding (at least something) from what you had before writing. Just write it.

A slow blogging year

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Wow, I also need to do some posts this year, I moved from 41 (2021), 40 (2022), 11 (2023), and 14 (2024). Need to write more, On the initial day, I had too much to express, but as days progressed, the friction reduced but the quality of that increased, first, it was about quantity, the motivation, and then it was consistency about improving.

ASDF has been re-written in Golang from BASH

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is nice, I also used to write a lot of bash scripts in my initial novice days, like downloading data, virtual environment management, utilities, etc. but over the years I moved from script kiddie to python and golang scripts, as I have more control and it works for a lot more edge cases then figuring out string parsing on bash.

My writing process, and how I keep it sustainable

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I am inspired by this article, the author claims to write everything in one go (not everything but the meat of the post) that is true for me. I just flush out my thoughts in one sitting too, however, my editing process is haywire, and haphazard. I usually don’t revise, I am not a professional technical writer, but when I do I do editing as they come.

How we replaced our react frontend with Golang and Webassembly

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is the second thing I am heard about Golang this week, moving from X to Golang in some way or the other. The adoption rate of Golang is high and it makes sense, it is a simple language. Simple to read and write, and the one that scales as well.

Top 10 Clean Code Rules

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was also an insightful read, specifically writing the positive conditionals instead of negative ones is so relatable and correct in many ways. The code should be simple to read, I can feel how much I have to stress and put a thought when determining the correct condition when the negation is introduced in the condition.

How Serverless is killing the traditional backend role

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I agree with this, the backend developer role is shifting towards DevOps and Operations oriented tasks rather than writing from scratch things. This will rapidly evolve in my opinion with LLMs writing the code and at some point, the backend will just be a black box that is hardly touched with code, just a few knobs and switches to make changes.

How to write better tests in Go

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was a nice overview of how to structure tests and the mindset of writing test cases.

So I rolled my own Static Site generator

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is an interesting read, I also touched on static site generators in Golang through live streams. I didn’t write the markdown parser for now, I am planning to do it at some point. I really want to understand how parsers work, I thought that was not the right time to write my own markdown parser, so just used a library.

GO’s wired little iterators

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I have just skimmed through this post, haven’t really read it entirely but I think it will be important to go through.

Martin Fowler on Refactoring Podcast

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Golden hour, this just changed my perspective on tests and that too at the right time. I had a issue to solve, or rather refactor a logic a little, but testing those changes was getting too tiring. I saw this and one thing stuck to me, is about tests. Testing would be the perfect thing to avoid debugging, it will not solve bugs, but it will avoid their creation in the first place. Valuable advice about everything, every minute or second of this video is pure gold.

A year of writing

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a practical post. - Publishing requires courage - Fear can be overcome by practise - Hobby of creation will over do the activity of consumption

How I am moving away from Google Ecosystem

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is quite straightforward post, I see a lot of things missing like f-droid instead of Play Store, but it was quite helpful. I don’t use Mail that extensively and I think Gmail is not a bad thing. Others are good too, not sure of their privacy reasons.

How AI might change programming?

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - THis is such a insightful post, so many things to excite yourself with, so many questions to satisfy your hunger of curiosity with.

Exploring DeepSeek’s approach to LLM on Computerphile

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a great video explaining the key difference on how Deepseek did the LLM game differently, a concept called MoE mixture of experts. A network where the LLM will branch out to a specific network where it can use the weights more efficiently instead of the entire weights. Nice thinking, this feels so high-level view, how exciting or frustrating it would be to do that in a low-level and actually hands-on with the actual model.

Doing hard things while living life - why we build vade studio in clojure

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Functional programming language might be something I would try out this year. I tried to do it some previous year, but life got me in the middle and had to get back to things. I want to learn a new language this year for sure.

How HTTPS Works Comic

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This was a fun way to learn HTTP. It feels nice to read through the comic, nice visuals and extremely.

The PrimeAgen and Teej Devries with Mitchel Hshimoto (creator of Terraaform, Vagrant, Ghostty terminal, etc)

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a great video, all nerds talking about Golang and Rust and Zig. - AI course, no one seems to be really against AI, its just not there yet, where one can just sit back and enjoy the view (or cry) - Deciding the programming language or tools first and then the project, is a bit wired, but I think it really depends on what type of mindset are we coming while building the project.

Golang 1.24 Interactive Guide

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was really well explained. Every change was accompanied by an interactive example that made it really a breeze to understand the concept and change being added to the language. Highly recommend checking it out.

AI Risjs No one is Talking About

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Seeking the truth, the thing that AIs won’t ever have, the thing that makes human a human— Teej Devries 2025 - This was such a great short talk that covered a lot of questions and the right things to consider while adapting to LLMs. They are good, but still far from taking over, why on earth people want LLMs to take over int he first place? - The worst thing you can do for your career is to quit now: Yes, that’s the worst part But the best thing you can do is to just give your best, not even the best, be a little curious, have the grit to seek the truth, (troll devin sometimes) And expect it to work out, if that doesn’t, then the last choice would be to quit eventually, but not without a fight, not just yet.

How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is also another post that I took the time to read and was worth it. I honestly don’t know how HTTP 2 works. To some extent, I know how HTTP 1 works, but if someone went a bit deeper, I would start breaking sweat. I really need to implement HTTP from scratch to understand the network stack—one day or day one. - OH, the article, yes it talked in detail about what is the problem with HTTP 1 and how HTTP somewhat solves it. - It is about breaking down the data into frames and makes sure the client has received the frame even if the previous frame is delayed. The fastest frame is served so, it doesn’t block the latest requests.

Hot Take:

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I don’t agree with this, but some extent this post is true. I don’t read tils, I only come upon TILs from the feed that are relevant to me, so I only follow people whom I share the same interests and tools being used. There is value in reading someone's else perspective about using and discovering the tools or any thing common.

Building Effective Agents (Anthropic Blog)

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is a great overview of LLM Agents, different types of Agents and how is the landscape of AI Agents is changing due to LLM. It’s not changing technically, but how simple concepts from AI are striking again like a revival. I remember learning about it in my bachelor’s degree classes, agents as some program that acts according to the conditions and interaction with the environment, I can relate it so well and sticks to me due to that.

FastAPI Documentation: Concurrency and Async/Await

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was clear and the example provided are indeed helpful and relatable. I read this to understand the architecture these frameworks for creating agentic workflows are using. I had a confusion about async and asyncio, so just read this and got absolutely cleared.

Human writing in the age of AI

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is a truthful article, we are growing ourselves in the photocopies of photocopies (using ai to summarise content written by ai). At some point, there will come a time, when humans will need human content and that’s when there will be a search for a gold rush, the authentic content rush. It’s time now, to make hay while the sun shines, it might be the last time when humans are valued before they are not and again they are. Be in the dark standing to help others when the darkness seems to take over.

Living the future by the numbers

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : It sounds like enormous growth, the cost is a different thing as mentioned in the post, but yes, the performance is the order of magnitude higher which makes a point for the progress humans have made in computing.

Simon Wilson Predictions for AI/LLMS for 1/3/6 years

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : That sounds a bit scary to be honest, but exciting as well. It would be more of the adoption rather than autonomy of the LLMs that in the coming years will dictate the direction.

Distributed and Async task Queues with Python and celery

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Pycon US 2024:This was an in-depth guide to celery, I learned a lot of stuff, celery might confuse you if you have not paid close attention to the details while implementing the queues. I forgot what celery was doing internally, I had used it, and built background workers while I was an intern @ ). I learned a ton of celery and Django, but it was 2 years back, forgot a few things, and after watching this it clicked everything and now makes sense.

Dennis Ivy: Building with Django and HTMX

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I have not touched Django and HTMX as well for quite some months (maybe a year). I need to get back and create some quick projects for the community. I want to keep the guides and tutorials on Django from my article series more versatile and expansive. Talking about the stream, it was a great stream, loved that Dennis is back, learned a lot of stuff with htmx. A lot to learn when done yourself.

It’s time for a change for The Primeagen

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - He quit Netflix and now feels a bit of change in his routine. It is a heck of a commitment to stream for 6 years almost every single day. That is enthusiasm, that is contagious curiosity. I have a huge respect for him.

Are Pointers faster than Values

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Hell no, that is not faster, it is just that stack is faster in that case, but the moment you make you point the gun to yourself, you will shoot on the foot.

Docker Networking Basics

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :Learning about docker is never enough, I learned about the -P which will forward all ports from the container to the host machine at random. That is wired but a good quirk to know, you never know when that might be handy. - Aron Francis’ 2024 year in reviewThis is the man I admire, and wow he has done quite a bit to make quite an impact on developers, the courses are soo valuable, the articles are soo motivating, as humble as he gets. - Haimantika Mitras: Wrapping up 2024 - It’s a bit hard to face situations like hers in the festive month. It feels a bit disturbing and yet she came out with flying colors and kept the enthusiasm on, a lot of inspiration to draw from. - Florencia Luz Duarte’s: Goodbye 2024THe story felt a bit similar to mine, landing a full-time job after a hunt. It feels good to be in those shoes. It might be hard, but I am emphatic about it, as I know the feelings of rejection after you worked hard. Also the nice little tidbits like having 24 hours in a day, we can do only a few things, needn’t do all the things is a reminder to ease out and take things one by one. - Peoples 2024 review posts

Cognitive load is what matters

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This is really a nice point, making good look smart is going to cost in longer run, keep it simple and avoid the perfect code trap is what I learned from this post. You might write a 200 IQ 3 lines of code, but someone else the future maintaining the code, might take 200 minutes to understand what the heck is the edge in that, which might make the cognitive load way to much than the actual business logic load.

Precomputation - James’ Coffee Blog

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is also an interesting observation made by the author, SSGs, Wikipedia, rely on this reverse index, i.e. mapping sites (HTML) to URLs that improve the response speed and load on the server, but it is not always a good idea to do that, there are uses of this in its own territory.

Karan from Zerodha on Open Source tools and Observability

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a good post, I learned a lot of things from this about how the giant trading app Zerodha has a few engineers and how they are managing the engineering and infrastructure. Also, the love for open source and appreciation of the tools that they use from the CTO is a sign of a healthy developer relationship.

Golang | Remix | Pocketbase in a single binary

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - THis is fascinating, it will make things so simple, just like the philosophy of Go. Make and Keep it simple, whom are you trying to complicate for? yourself in few months, years?

The Golang 1.24 release is looking seriously awesome

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I don’t think this is a big release, yes there are a few cool little things that are added up in the standard library. But nothing groundbreaking as the 1.23 and 1.21 releases.

The premise trap: DHH

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - This is relatable, I can’t actually comment here, I am a junior but yes working with a AI chatbot/assistant is frustrating as hell sometimes, sometimes it is refreshing. I believe it will be a skill to work with LLMs in few years. I admire Simon Wilson for this, he just tries wild things to make it work for him.

Surely not all codes’s worth it

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is to the point, I would like to write the code that matters and leave the rest to LLM to generate because it’s not worth the time for me to write everything. I still want to write the stuff that might be oblivious because I have not written it yet in my life, I would like to fail and still try again.

Year in Review: Dev Agarwal

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - This was a heart-touching review, I can relate to it, you will have everything before there will be nothing. This is the cycle, life is a miss and a bliss. There will be times you jump ahead in the day, but there will be times when you will struggle to wake up, even fear to live, but it is the one who goes through it and still does it anyway.

Shilin's Second Year without a job

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This was a surprising read, I can’t believe that it is possible to live life without having a consistent stream of income. I just feel it is not for me and my lifestyle, I can’t live like that.

The Curse of Markdown

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It was a nice article, I agree that a few blogs are lying between markdown and rich content. I also love to express ideas that markdown might limit.

Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes by creator Eric Wastl

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Solving a problem for Advent of Code won’t be the same anymore after watching this video, the amount of work someone has to do and that appreciation is now ebbed into my mind while reading any problem in AoC. This talk shows how low were his expectations when he initially launched AoC in 2025, from 70 users to millions of users, which is such a great achievement for a side project. Just hard work and the result of that.

Noticing the nice things

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This was such a nice post, having kids around is nice. I might be too early to say this, but I find it wholesome and cute. Also, she is is running blogvent, cheer her up for maintaining 12 day streak, 13 more to go!

Writing as a software engineer

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : - This was one of the articles, that reminded me that the only thing that can improve the craft is by doing it. By producing more, you make mistakes, you know what it is to fail, you then re-approach the problem with different tactic and learn and iterate. No writer is perfect, all are in some range of perfect, it’s just that I am just starting and there are a ton of things to learn and improve on, but they won’t come off thin air, I have to put in the work and produce stuff for it to happen.

Neovim made me a better software developer

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a great talk by a Neovim contributor and documentation reader TJ,, if you use Neovim/Vim and don’t know TJ, shame on you! He explains what are the factors that contribute to a better software developer, all the points are so well thought out and backed up by facts. So, highly recommend checking that out.

A Revolution in how robots learn

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - (40-minute read)I read it on a Sunday morning and I was just in awe with the writing and the flow of one example to other. The way the author describes every act of robots learning with the example of his kids is really touching and makes it so human. Worth my time.

The Primeagen and Teej Devries interview with Ginger Bill, the creator of Odin language

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - , with some hot-takes and opinions about his philosophy of software development, Language Server Protocols and auto-completions, Package managers, simplicity, and more of his experiences.

Interview gone wrong: Python tidbit

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was just a small tidbit that the author is trying to make here and I kind of agree, python has syntax sugar and gets too abstracted while doing some dangerous pointer things.

Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is pretty cool, I was thinking it might be already , yes definitely, but they are just not re-writing it, they are forking and adding features on top of it which is absolutely wild. Surely there won’t be time gains, but they now have a lot more control over what needs to be changed and included while adding more or even upstreaming from SQLite-core. People might call re-writing a waste of time (especially for such a well-developed and stable tool), but people forget they are making something from scratch gives you a whole different depth of understanding than just forking it. It will pay dividends slowly in the long run, pulling from upstream might be challenging and tedious but since SQLite is rock-solid, there won’t be any breaking changes that might get added to it, so a win-win for Turso in my opinion.

Avoid overusing the go init function

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is true, that we overuse certain things like this adding logic in the init functions that makes it hard to test and reproduce the behavior that is expected for a library or a package.

Aaron Francis on The Software Huddle

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - He is a all round good guy. This podcast is really inspiring to learn and be consistent at it, he has gone from Accountant to launching his own company as a developer, speaker, educator, and database master.

The tech Utopia fantasy is over

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I haven’t completed reading this post, but till what i have read it feels like we are moving away from the natural and individuality and focusing on the profits and metric games.

AOC in Golang Day 1: Missing ABS() for Integers

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was a really well-researched and interesting article about why there is no Absolute function for integers. It makes sense now, but I still feel it could handle the general use cases so it shouldn’t be an issue. But yes there is a genuine reason for that to not exist in the standard library.

Command line tools I Like

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : rwblickhan.orgThis was a nice post on the aggregated tools that the author uses most of the time and are quite handy. I also use most of the tools everyday and would like to create a dev container for the setup of my preferred editor/tools and shells and plugins and all that good stuff.

Configure Neovim’s options

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was another gem by Teej Devries for setting language/file type-specific configurations or options in Neovim.

Advent of Neovim

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good video explaining why he uses Neovim and how installing a program from a source helps you to appreciate and understand the project more.There is also a hidden gem for setting up an appname to a different name to isolate the versions or flavors of Neovim.

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Go Interfaces

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was well explained and to the point of why interfaces are confusing for most of the developers. They are really handy while working with APIs and I agree sometimes it could be annoying to fit the problems using interfaces, I have come to realize it is not that interfaces are bad, it’s just that we are not clear with the solution to the structure of the program that we are constructing.

Let’s Prototype a Javascript JIT Compiler

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Andreas KlingTo be honest, I didn’t get most of the technical things, however, I get the point, he is using AI wisely, whenever he uses AI, HE IS IN CONTROL and he doesn’t let AI take over. I have not completed this video, I said last week it would be on my watched list, but I got lost in other stuff and lost interest in the livestream.

Time spent programming is often time well spent

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Programming is often more fun than the alternative uses of my time.Programming is really fun, the joy of creating something and the satisfaction of completing or figuring out by yourself hits different and cannot be replaced with anything else.

Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Aron Francis in the Database SchoolAs mentioned in the above post, this video was absolutely fun to watch, so much technical stuff in a digestible way. There is so much to learn about networking, the quirks of Redis, SQLite and its adaptability, IP Addresses, and interesting problems to solve. Totally worth the hour.

Database Indexing Explained

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : from Computer Science Simplified SubstackThis was a great post, explaining the necessary context and fundamentals required to understand the indexing. The last part was a bit heavy, but overall a good and in-depth article on learning indexing.

We built an orchestrator from scratch

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Fly.ioWhy Flyio built their orchestrator, kind of. They use VMs which Kubernetes is not ideal for as it is designed for orchestrating containers, Nomad has a quirk of assigning a minimal number of VMs/machines for the users, which is not secure enough for Fly.io, so reasonable enough that it is worth for them to write and Orchestrator from scratch (well not entirely from scratch)

Wafris: Rearchitecting Redis to SQLite

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - I watched a video on the Database School where a SaaS (Firewall for Web applications) provider moved from Redis to Sqlite. This is such a nice technical post, there are so many things to dive into and how SQLite is the database that just works and not just works but also shines.

How I increased my visibility: Kent C. Dodds

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - To increase visibility, you need to put it out there. To be seen by others, you have to show your skills and struggles in public. This is to a point article showing practical experience in his journey.

Why would anyone use Functional programming

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : The Coding GopherFunctional programming languages are designed to think about the what and not the how. So we just focus on the what things to implement and not care about how. So, there are things like functions, no variables no mutations (get out of here python).

From laid off to hired: Software engineering guide

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good motivational post on getting hired in the era of 2024, this is a new kind of world where you are not only hired based on what you say, but also what your impact says, your brand, your online presence, and actual skills.

What did you just do, CSS

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - ? Those are some high-value changes in CSS, I am not much into CSS but looking at the added changes, it seems to be a lot and a game changer to some extent. Turing complete :)

They all use it

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - , don’t they?LLMs, Code Completions, and AI Assistants, all are just tools, they might not be fit for all the cases, but they should just be used for something specific. Also, I agree with Thorsten here, if you are not curious then you are falling in keeping up with tech. The curiosity, the spark, the excitement to learn the technology under the hood is really needed to sustain in tech.

Write your own programming Language: Computerphile

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was an interesting one, the power of the `SPLIT` function in python really should be the title of this video, just kidding. But the approach is what makes me wonder if that’s the way programming languages are created, really. That is a bit obnoxious to think in that way, it will become quite a mess after a while (I am not talking about his code but just the approach). I thaught it would be like the theory of computing of state machines right?

FreeCodeCamp (Quincy Larson) interview with Tech with Tim

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is a good talk, while growing up as a developer, I watched Tim while learning Python and Django, so he has been a teacher to me in some way or the other, and seeing his raw thoughts behind his life, feels good to listen to.

How to Finish Programming Projects

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - ? This is a interesting and eye opener video, I initially used to create projects by taking it as a learning opportunity, but gradually the path to creating something big or focusing on the features too much caused a friction and lead to whole lot of issues in the way. One is burnout, the other is no progress at all instead of tiny day-by-day progress.

Playful Programming

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I want to watch that video, there is so much explained by Thorsten, should be worth watching then, he is a great deep-diving programmer, can’t ignore his recommendations. Just by reading at the explanations of his observations on the video, it seems there is a lot to learn. Next week will be in the watched section. - How Raviraj Achar reads books with limited time:Time is really limited, like everything around you seems to drag into it, the phone most importantly, it feels like a reservoir of knowledge but not wisdom. Taking the time to read is a sign of a level of control over the mind and grit. The process by Raviraj seems a little too complicated or farfetched like Readwise and Notion, those add a lot of friction. I don’t use those tools, I use this newsletter to sift my learnings and tech reading.

Lessons learned from 25 years of writing software

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :There are so many valuable tips here, - Master at least one programming language/database - Use Linux - Write simple and boring code - Build trust - Don’t be shy from using bare bones or simple tools - And many more, really a good post to follow and become a better developer.

Using sort the proper way in Python:

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - That was clever and opened a few mind doors of thinking stuff clearly about keys , the way sorted takes in a list or an iterable is interesting and opens it to a wide variety of options to use it to throw into.

Python 3.13 Replace Function

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is really neat, I see myself using this to mutate objects in tight data-oriented programs or applications.

Turso LibSQL Video from Fireship

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Finally Fireship creating a video on Turso’ s LibSQL, this deserved attention and its finally getting the love it deserves.

Have you heard of Orion? It is worse than Gippty!

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is such a funny and satisfying video, it brings such relief to hear each word. programmers are not replaceable because we write bad code that works :)

INodes in Linux and FIlesystems

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I found this while researching for INODE busting from the video of the Git course walkthrough from Primeagen on Boot.dev

How Cosiine Similarity Works

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is a good read for understanding the cosine or vector similarity. This is really important to understand in the context of today’s fast-paced AI and LLM world, understanding the tokens and the embedding similarity between them. It might not seem oblivious but having an understanding of the essence of the logic behind the things happening around you makes life a lot easier.

Avoid Select * in SQL

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is really helpful, always need to be explicit instead of being lazy or over-cautious in case would need that field in the future. There are two things here, one is being explicit and the other is dynamic for future changes, just in case the other fields might be required later.

How to become a Good Backend Engineer

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is really well summarised and insightful read for me at least, it gives a birds-eye view and ignites a curiosity to dive deeper into a specific topic or domain, which is essential for any developer.

Writing for developers

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This is really a good read, writing brings clarity and clarity is what shapes you to pick up correct directions while developing anything. All the time, I start to write an article, I ran off a tangent on one or the other interesting thing that I had no idea about and assumed I knew it.

Building ChatGPT like LLM Model on a small scale from scratch

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I have not completed it but just understanding the architecture and what the LLM does is vital to work and adapt to the changes in the evolving world.

Taming the beast: Django ORM

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Django is a beast when it comes to ORM, but I have started getting back from Django, as I don’t get to go a bit low-level, I can’t write raw SQL. But I am grateful and really happy that I started with Django, it helped me land my first internship and help me understand the terms in the tech. This was the major reason I started blogging and haven’t stopped since then. I went off on a tangent here, but Django ORM is great if you want to do something sophisticated with the data structures that would have in the database.

Using Go Embed

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This is really handy and I just used it while researching and creating the video for SQLC. This was really a handy trick and feature in Go, to inject some raw strings or content from files, for instance, it helps in injecting the raw SQL queries from files to the golang program and executes them programmatically. This is commonly used with static files and templating as well I guess.

Github Copilot just dropped the bomb on AI Code editor startups

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 UTC

Github Copilot just dropped the bomb on AI Code editor startups

How I cured my procrastination

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This feels like an epidemic of happiness, the enthusiasm and humility in the author’s words are evident and make you jump out of the procrastination loop hell. Worth reading.

What 100 coding taught me

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I felt the article was a bit off-track by introducing code samples, that could have been simplified, but such is the complexity of developers’ life, can’t simplify complex things as they are indeed complex.

Lessons from the Smartest developers I’ve worked with

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :I completely agree with this point. I feel on the writer’s side, I sometimes come up with weird ideas that don’t align with the business improvement and write shabby saphegetti code on the first try.

Refrain from the usage of dicts in the business logic in Python

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I agree with this point, because the way dicts behave in complex structured code mess, is really hard to debug and trace.

What is new in Python 3.13

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - :This is a big release in Python. It actually revamped the REPL experience to a new level. There is also the experimental addition of the JIT compiler. - Data model behind the Notion’s flexibility: The component-based model for Notion suits it really well. They used the right tools and architecture for the right job.

Interfaces in Golang: ByteSizeGo

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : Interfaces are really important in making certain applications, but more important is how to use them effectively and whether to use them or not in your specific problems.

NotebookLM has got everyone in a daze about LLMs and podcasts

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I just dropped my portfolio link and it just spits out some compliments after compliments about my journey as a developer. It actually said certain things that I myself haven’t thought of someone viewing me, a couple of things were rubbish for sure, but it was pretty much factual.

Generating music with AI and Python

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I actually went ahead and tried a few words to check that out. It actually creates some sound, though it takes time and is bit off track and I actually don’t know what would be the right words for that music that comes to my mind, so I would be experimenting with it just for fun.

Things I wished more developers knew about Databases

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This covers the myths and misconceptions about databases that are ignored by developers, or are often mistreated while doing the actual problem-solving even on the higher level.

Good Software Development Habits

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : These are some valuable experiences that will change the way you work as a developer to some level, it might make you a better developer.

Month Without a Smartphone

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I could feel myself, but in place of his son, I depicted my mother scolding me to put the phone down. I mean there is nothing urgent or important on the phone, but feels like I am going to miss something important at any hour. This habit needs to be taken care of by me. - Writing a book in the age of Open Source: There are so many good resources and advice on starting and investing in the craft of writing.

Don't be an Alpha Geek - John Crickett

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Just be empathetic and thoughtful about your actions and feedback. This will gradually creep into your all issues and make you a better developer, this is great advice.

Review your own PRs

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is good advice, I do it as a ritual on GitHub, 8 out of 10 times, I get the feedback myself. The editor myth is real, there are things that you don’t notice in your editor, in your environment, in your flow. But as soon as the context changes, the words, and the logic seem to be distant. Believe this advice, this saves a ton of time.

Lessons learned in 35 years of making Software

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I have barely lived half of 35 years, the sheer amount of experience in 35 years of software is immense respect. But what is shared here, the words disheartened me that your code will eventually be deleted, will be replaced, will be evolved. This is a harsh reality but we need to accept and move ahead in life.

Keeping a daily working journal

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I love this idea of journalling daily, I have a prototype of an idea that I made a few weeks back that could be fitted into this domain. Basically an organisation-level blogs for individuals.

Why you should make a New programming language

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : This blog actually hit me and gave me a hint of my old project of Substack Markdown Parser. So have started to read a couple of blogs and books mentioned in this blog to start understanding interpreters.

17 Things you should know about Python Lists to not regret later

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : As a developer who uses Python at work, I find this extremely helpful, I use most of these almost every day, though some of them also are new to me like list unpacking, not used often much. Some of them are intuitive to use in some cases, which makes Python nice to write.

Crafting Interpreters: Introduction

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : As said in the above blog, I am reading this book blog to get some overview of the working of interpreters. I have created a parser for markdown to substack json and vice versa, that is some Python shenanigans. But want to make it a proper parser and interpreter-like tool.

HTMX CalmCode Crash Course

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : A really good quick course on HTMX, highly recommend starting here to get a good understanding of why this library exists. - Vim Register and Macros Trick: This is actually helpful and I knew some of the tricks but being able to get a reminder of that makes me click a few things that I need to change in my daily workflow. - Be a full stack developer with Golang and React: Trolled

Go is my hammer and everything seems like a nail

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - : I get that if someone loves to write in a language, it becomes instinct to use it everywhere, but this got me a bit of questioning, like really go for everything? Not sure, like surely could be used, but not necessarily should be used. Would you use Golang to code a frontend application? No right? It’s not meant to be, surely you could write HTML and say I coded a full-stack app in Golang, but really? Been there, done that. Doesn’t feel like touching the code again.

Serverless Function 101 Best Practices

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Appwrite: : I have been playing with Appwrite’s functions the whole week on the side, it is well documented and this blog added one more silver lining to the rich documentation.

How broken is hiring in 2024?

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Being a fresher in 2024, I have experienced it quite closely from the glimpse of the beginning of this phase after Q3 in 2023, where I applied almost 100 applications without a single interview—finally landed an interview and working in that company today. What a ride it has been, 100+ applications, 1 interview to crack the job, skills issues? maybe but I think it could be timing issues.

How to build Extremely quickly

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Outlining is important in making anything, it gives me the boost to complete the unfinished project, as well as the momentum to carry on after a break or the next day.

How Canva Saved $ 3M manually in Amazon S3 Costs with Glacier Instant Retrieval

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This is quite a smart solution, I would call, it the right tool for the right job, backed by data. They rightly used the right analytical metric to solve their problem.

Stackoverflow Question

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Row Scanning in Golang with reflect package:

Pauline’s Blog

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Pixel by Pixel, could create a vault of articles:

Article

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - Deno and HTTP imports:

StackOverflow Developer Survey 2024

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - This was important to reflect on the state of developers in 2024, especially after the wild layoff and AI-hype phase. Also one of the things I noticed was that remote and hybrid companies are still covering around 80% of the jobs, which is a good number, to be honest.

Saiyam Pathak’s 2021 Year reflection

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - There is always a year in someone’s life that they don’t want to remember, it is hard to lose someone very close to you. May life never cross such paths. But Saiyam Pathak’s journey is an inspiration to take from, he is an ambassador in CNCF, founder of Kubesimplify, and an online educator and mentor. What a journey, what a man.

I am Tired of AI content

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:00:00 UTC

## Commentary - It is tiring to read AI-generated content spam on most of the blogging/social media platforms. Please, guys, write genuinely value-adding (authentic) content for yourself at least, don’t try to shine in the eyes of others, it would do more harm than good.