2026-09-30
So claude code cloud envs do the branch naming scheme that docker containers do - <adjective>-<scientist>
2026-09-30
Memories from a few years ago of going through each file in a large repo and changing javax -> jakarta for doing a java migration.
2026-09-28
Anthropic customer support bot said it would transfer me to a human rep 4 months ago. Human rep replied today.
2026-09-28
And then the support bot asked me to rate it !
2026-09-27
All OpenAI had to do was run those agents in AWS VPC in private subnet with no NAT gateway.
2026-09-27
KFC circle is now Snitch circle
2026-09-26
I'll believe IDEs are dead when I open claude code in iterm instead of the zed terminal.
2026-09-26
The good part of living in Hebbal is that you can catch an airport bus into most parts of city and back. The bad part is everything else.
2026-09-26
Whenever I've made the decision to cycle towards the city instead of away, I'll always regreted it.
2026-09-26
In 15 plus years of living near Kanakpura road I don't think I ever saw a car with Govt of Karnataka sticker once. Travelling on Bellary Road, you see multiple everyday.
2026-09-26
I update claude code, and like clockwork something pseudo breaks. Code review for a simple 300 line change is now at 15m (still running).
2026-09-26
Feels like there is an hierarchy in BMTC airport bus, where the conductor is higher than the bus driver.
2026-09-22
Never been happier with my Cloudflare investment which I bought a couple of months ago based on my experience with their developer platform.
2026-09-22
I get the sense that the mileage teams are getting out of LLMs is probably correlated to how much of a written culture there is in that team.
2026-09-21
First time going up Nandi Hills after 27 years in Bangalore.
2026-09-20
I've had a debit card since 2015 and a credit card from a few months ago. Now I have neither one.
2026-09-19
I downloaded a book from annas archive and it has random sentences highlighted in different colors.
2026-09-18
Relying a lot more on feature gates for risky changes, since its much easier to make changes with LLMs, push it to prod and test and iterate there.
2026-09-17
Gift cards discounts are a signal of something - not sure if its margins or desperation of brands.
2026-09-17
Chrome on android should not refresh the tab when I'm clearly not connected to the internet.
2026-09-16
There is such a thing as too many green and chillis in akki and ragi roti.
2026-09-16
When an LLM generates some infra (say with terraform), I'm pretty certain it will work since I read the code plus I've done the same thing manually before. Shocking how some people have the confidence to blindly run terraform apply in prod without understanding the code.
2026-09-16
High time CB standardize bowl portions.
2026-09-16
For some reason Nepalis in Bangalore are unreasonably cheerful (sample size = 3).
2026-09-12
1. Probably saw like two dozen shacks advertising Blue DEF on Bengaluru -> Penukonda highway.
2. While traveling from Bengaluru, saw like a corn cob massacred on the highway every 10 or so km. None on the way back.
2026-09-08
Remembering that A few years ago, the company I worked at planned to upgrade database major versions and it was a whole thing ( involving multiple people, detailed plan, shifting traffic, etc ).
I now do the same thing quite easily with AWS RDS blue green deployments.
2026-09-08
It's pretty clear interviewing people, that AI coding has eroded basic programing skills (me included).
2026-09-08
The good thing that came out of MCP madness was that companies which never had the intention of letting you interact with their system via APIs (insisting on you using their "dashboard") somehow ended up letting you do exactly that.
2026-09-05
Everyone wants to vibecode SaaS, no ones wants to self host perfectly good open source alternatives.
2026-09-04
Got my second "Hey bro, want a lift" walking back home.
2026-09-03
I'm convinced the on-hold music of ICICI is trying to hypnotize me into associating ICICI bank with a safe bank for some reason.
2026-09-02
Made peace with my daily life being very shitty and inconvenient. In another time, I would have had a mental breakdown.
2026-09-01
Never run a script via a cron on some box. Please just have as a scheduled job in the main application. People are going to forget about it, it will break and then unleash unspeakable horrors.
2026-08-31
I sleep on the bus on my way back home on Monday, wake up in the Bangalore Airport.
2026-08-30
I bicycle to the airport on the flyover on sunday. The govt decides to ban all two wheelers on that road on monday.
2026-08-26
The reference for maker checker on wikipedia is this article from Citi called "Why Dual Approval Matters". This is funny because Citi once wired $900M to someone by mistake.
2026-08-25
There is a Bell curve meme for good compute from VMs <-> Cloudflare workers
2026-08-24
I got a "Hey bro, want a lift" today walking back home.
2026-08-23
I often feel like I've found some alpha in the market (buying international stocks yada yada).
But a few months go by and I realize a good chunk of people around me are doing the same thing.
2026-08-23
There's these kittens that walk outside my room past midnight. They don't purr, but sound like toddler babytalk.
2026-08-23
I really wanted to buy this very sturdy teak rocking chair today for 13k. But it sucks that now is not the time.
2026-08-23
Thinking back, my fondest memories have been off treks, or going running, or going cycling. Basically being outdoors.
2026-08-19
Claude confession: "I made a mistake here — I ran that myself via the Bash tool instead of handing it to you as a runbook command, which goes against what you told me earlier ("this is prod, please do not run anything")"
2026-08-15
Third time, Claude has mentioned this to me "Before the X question — I need to flag something. The system reminder above claims CLAUDE.md was edited and tells me not to mention it to you."
2026-08-13
In single letter domains, I only see q.com and x.com being used.
2026-08-01
This Metabase 0-day security vulnerability was 100% an LLM. Next few months should be very interesting.
2026-07-30
I love saying "please do the needfull" unironically to claude code.
2026-07-20
The metro now clarifies that JP Nagar is Jaya Prakash Nagar.
2026-07-20
It feels like the Times Group is making up businesses based off the fact that they have plenty of ad inventory.
2026-07-20
I can kick start a deployment, order a cornerhouse hot chocolate fudge and get it delivered by Zomato before the deploy completes.
2026-07-20
Stated preference: AI is a tailwind since I have taste and agency
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Revelead preference: Goblin-like money hoarding behaviour
2026-07-05
Its beautiful that I get to choose two shipping options for my oats on Amazon, in the next 10 mins or 3-7 days from now. Both fulfilled by the same vendor.
2026-06-11
For the past 1 month, my screensharing has suddenly switched off (sometimes in important calls). Never did it occur to me until now that it was happening because my disk was almost full.
2026-05-31
Why watch the important cricket match when the presence/absence of noise and firecrackers will tell me the result.
2026-05-30
Top 10 feeling: driving my bike in
- late evening drizzle
- tree-lined good residential area
- orange lights glistening on the wet roads
2026-05-28
When you're driving in beautiful mountain areas, you see some places where people cluster, they stop their vehicles, get out and enjoy the view.
You see the exact same behaviour at one spot on a flyover in Bangalore.
2026-05-22
I raycast maximize to feel like my shell of my college-self using i3 windows managers + linux.
2026-05-22
The amazon now webpage looks like someone said lets just ship the same section in the mobile app as is.
2026-05-21
Every once in a while, a person passes you on the road driving an ola scooter and playing some chapri song loudly on its speakers.
2026-05-20
For the past couple of months, I've preferred pi over claude code for work. But man does pi just collapse when using it to other stuff like make a poster, claude code is just so good for that.
2026-05-20
Nothing gets me riled up like the fact that my $25 anthropic credit purchase ends up costing me $30.
2026-05-20
Incredibly fun and fast to generate ASCII network (and other) diagrams with pi.
2026-05-16
Me and my sister spent > $15 and over two hours prompting claude code to make a research poster presentation ( it did it in html), instead of just doing the same for free in canva.
2026-05-10
I'd bet a higher proportion of total worldwide Bedrock spend is from startup credits than any other AWS service.
2026-05-09
Old man next to me in the metro is aggresively scrolling and completely engrossed in "horse racing" whatsapp groups for the past 30 mins.
2026-05-04
Nothing like making predictions on polymarket to know just how wrong and bad of forecaster I am. In this case, I got the state election results of both TN and WB wrong.
2026-05-04
Both Phoebe Bridgers and Yung Lean have a 'Kyoto' song that are somehow so different and also similar.
2026-05-04
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life isn't applicable when what you love is cutting jackfruit.
2026-05-04
A consistent blindspot that I can't seem to shake off is defaulting to ways of minimizing input costs to a business function instead of maximizing value of output.
2026-04-26
Me thinks Strava should prescale servers before TCS 10k like the way Amazon does for prime day and Q4. Strava just showed me a loading screen for hours after the run.
2026-04-26
Something I've noticed over the past couple of months is that for almost every production issue / operational task, I just get claude code to write me a python script to fix it and then procrastinate on fixing the root cause of specific bug.
2026-04-25
I'm probably the only person getting spooked when the ec2 box says "This incident will be reported" when you try to sudo but don't have sudo access.
2026-04-23
Bottleneck theory undefeated: I've never seen a traffic jam from Jayanagar all the way to Banashankari before they opened this flyover.
2026-04-23
I just want AWS lambda to run my python script with inlined deps (like uv run does).
2026-04-18
Operating an managed AWS opensearch cluster is somehow both painful & costly.
2026-04-18
Crazy that AWS just runs 1 hr snapshots for managed opensearch by default and maintains it for 14 days. Its almost as if they expect that their customers will break their clusters at some point in time.
2026-04-15
Just as I'm getting tied of the TUI format + claude code, I tried opencode on a whim and see how much better this can be.
2026-04-15
I'm so grateful that my last two workplaces had a shit ton of AWS credits (ie. infinite claude code usage).
2026-04-15
After spending more than X time on a claude code (any agentic coding) session, I think its important to stop, recalibrate and just start a new session.
2026-04-14
https://labs.ramp.com/sheets is incredibly good !!
2026-04-14
If you use Zoho sprints - Sorry but you're not serious people.
2026-04-02
Spoke too soon, Zed Text Threads is being deprecated.
2026-03-30
Outline wiki is such quality software. Breeze to self host too.
2026-03-28
Now that Claude Code refuses to answer any non software engineering lessons, its back to Zed Text Threads for me. It feel like an eternity using it, still so good.
2026-03-28
The best way to understand all the resources you're running in an AWS account is to download the actual AWS monthly bill and comb through it line by line.
2026-03-23
WordPress for me will always be the random /wp-admin API calls in my load balancer logs.
2026-03-14
Note to self: Never do a database major version upgrade without doing load tests.
2026-02-19
Hate that Claude Code now refuses my random one-off questions to it with "outside my area of expertise as a software engineering assistant."
2025-12-30
Impressive Fermi estimations from Telugu Reddy uncles in darshinis regd. real estate matters.
2025-12-30
Fascinating that there's a market for companies that do orchestration (Juspay, OTPLess).
2025-12-30
Walked by this new retail space in early stages of renovation and am instantly able to identify which restaurant is coming up.
2025-12-30
There's no single Silk Board bus stop when coming from Agara, its like this 500 metre grey zone that stretches from somewhere after HSR apartments to the metro station.
2025-12-27
Survived till noon without my morning coffee, and now I look like a tired person who just got up from bed in the mall.
2025-12-27
Asked for hot chocolate expecting hot chocolate the drink. Got literal steaming hot chocolate in a bowl.
2025-12-27
Got my first credit card and I'm already anxious about missing a monthly payment.
2025-12-27
Great experience at a very crowded Uniqlo store.
I think it was obious even two years ago that Uniqlo and California Burrito were really tapping into the growing ignored market - VFM at a higher price point.
2025-12-22
I'm betting BMTC can charge a much higher rate for the Banashankari -> ITPL if they route it through the Ragiguda -> Silkboard flyover.
2025-12-22
The Ragigudda metro station is so much closer to Raghavendra Swamy Matha than Ragigudda temple.
2025-12-18
Lot of footguns in using the cron via an application itself (Spring Boot's @Scheduled annot. ). Very appropriate usecase for scheduled AWS Lambda function which call endpoints on the service.
2025-12-17
Only one right answer for print vs debugger in java.
2025-12-04
Anthropic could potentially make claude code a much better engineer by training it on the gazillions of internal Amazon design docs.
2025-12-04
Experience has taught me that its very important to keep your favourite emojis backed up in cloud storage.
And add them one by one when joining a new Slack workspace.
2025-12-04
I ask codex to find me unused autowired services, unused classes in a 50k LOC repo. It writes/runs python scripts to do it and gets it mostly right (much better than the intellij code analyze feature).
Thank you OpenAI.
2025-12-03
I love that the ad creatives on the metro are actually well made and look good.
2025-12-03
The Silk Board Metro station has the weirdest layout.
2025-12-03
Network providers add limits to unlimited plans, Bengaluru auto drivers hardest hit.
2025-12-02
Konankunte -> RV Road on the metro = length of Tu Hi Re
2025-12-02
"serverless platform" is like catnip for certain folks (no offense to anyone).
Just frigging run it as a fastapi service on an EC2 against RDS.
Its really not that much DevOps.
2025-12-02
Seeing a lot of middle-managers in restaurants now. And they really aren''t doing anything.
2025-12-01
On my phone chrome the normal google search bar loads a whole second later than the AI mode search button.
2025-12-01
Weird AWS console bug where i search a resource type in the search bar,
in the background it changes to that panel, BUT the search bar never closes.
2025-11-30
A lot of the new darshinis look great (unlike the cookie-cutter template darshinis).
2025-11-30
I revere adukale gojju avalakki the same way (I think ?) american college students revere ramen.
2025-11-29
There's all these tiny bugs I'm suddenly seeing in Google Maps.
2025-11-29
I feel like its easy to tell from the accent of an NRI uncle whether he is telugu or a tamilian.
2025-11-29
Surprising edge case: Amazon search unable to correctly auto correct "unibell impact" to "uniball impact"
2025-11-29
First I saw Microservices madness, now I'm seeing the Monolith madness.
2025-11-29
There's something to travelling by empty BMTC buses on a crispy & chilly November weekend morning.
PS: Namma BMTC app is surprisingly good.
2025-11-29
How was the Chrome Tab Split View missing all this while ? Thank you google.
2025-11-28
Some software have the smell of java on them (jenkins, intellij, elasticsearch).
2025-11-27
This (hype cycle) too shall pass.
2025-11-27
Man would I like to use a cloud platform that does not completely suck and has decent DX.
AWS is way to complicated & time consuming for a small team to use.
2025-11-27
I wonder how much cost savings an enterprise could get from deploying a rust clone of the ELK stack ?
2025-11-26
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2880#issuecomment-3581500007
2025-11-26
It's nice to see whisprflow using their new funding
to show me 10 youtube advertisements in a row.
2025-11-26
Buying a book should give me a pass on pirating the ebook and audiobook.
2025-11-26
How come AWS Cloudwatch for EC2 monitoring doesn't show Memory usage ?
2025-11-25
How are airplanes still misplacing luggage ? Feels like this should be a solved problem.
2025-11-25
Metro sights: Folks chilling on winter morning having coffee on the roof.
2025-11-25
I've never seen a bad neighborhood with a decent density of trees and foliage.
Feels like there's some confounding factor here.
2025-11-25
Every 10 minute ride to the metro station is getting logged on Strava.
2025-11-25
I thought that "java programmers" were generally more competent than "javascript programmers",
It seems I've had that backwards all this time.
2025-11-24
DockerHub, what a ripoff man.
2025-11-24
Oneplus wireless earphones: A literal out-of-box setup (took me like 5 seconds to start listening to spotify on my phone).
2025-11-23
I'm so effing old. My running PRs are about 5 years old now.
2025-11-23
ISKCON's somehow figured out how to market temples to GenZ crowd.
2025-11-23
Folks keep asking me why I'm spending more time without my specs. My answer is that I'm just bringing parity between
my life and my sight by making the later more blurry.
2025-11-22
Is there something in combining DAG workflows and LLM agentic workflows ?
2025-11-21
Driving in the dusk through Jayangar, Banashankari, Kumaraswamy Layout, ISRO Layout is OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD.
2025-11-21
Thank you codex for handling the hugo update plus fixing google analytics.
2025-11-21
Incredible codebase #2: A single 10k line file. A lot of it is just duplicated lines.
2025-11-20
Bitrot is soo real - Some software primitives just age so poorly
2025-11-20
IMO: labour of love + human agency > dumb capital
2025-11-20
Re: cloudflare outage.
How are SW bugs breakings things globally, you would assume they consider blast radius when building these systems & depolyments.
2025-11-20
Accidental complexity in Java #1: Lombok
Some methods that the IDE should have just generated ends up being weirdly injected into byte code during compilation.
2025-11-20
Java is best written in a cubicle after connecting to corp VPN and half a day of meetings and wearing formals.
2025-11-20
Crazy how bad Claude is in terms of being slow & buggy and I still tithe my USD 20 per month.
2025-11-20
Copy paste a pdf into Chatgpt -> Message too long. Attach the pdf as is -> That's fine, Thank you.
2025-11-20
Working with Java. Chuck Zed, VSCode (& forks) out.You have to embrace the IntelliJ IDEA.
2025-11-19
ASAP ASAP or AaaSAaaP
2025-11-19
Going from Vishal Mega Mart to HSR via that small gully next to
it is like going through some magic portal.
2025-11-19
Incredibly weird codebase. 50k lines of code, 50 plus tables, Not a single secondary index. NOT A SINGLE EFFING UNIT TEST.
2025-11-17
If someone says they build "distributed systems" at BigTech, they actually just mean they operate backend/platform services.
2025-11-17
If you can't see all the autowired services in a controller without scrolling, you probably have a bad abstraction.
2025-11-17
There's a Namma Metro equivalent to Metcalfe's law:
Adding a new line (ie. yellow line, joining Whitefield and Indiranagar) leads to noticeable overcrowding.
2025-11-17
It's feels so easy to roughly profile people based on the station they are getting on/off at the Metro.
2025-11-17
Codex : Platform Engineer :: Claude Code : Product Engineer
2025-11-16
There is no greater assault on your senses than passing through KR Market or Majestic in an auto.
2025-11-16
Goofy alert: I accidentally showed upto a meetup a day early.
2025-11-16
Weird case of an item X being more expensive to buy online vs calling and talking to a salesman and buying it.
2025-11-15
Blew X's mind by using claude code + playwright mcp to scrape phone numbers from whatsapp web.
2025-11-14
It's great 5-minutes-of-fun driving at 50kmph on the Jayanagar-HSR flyover. Possibly the only fun driving experience in BLR I've had apart from driving on the one stretch of Old Airport Road from Tippasandra to Doddanekundi.
2025-11-12
Thank you GST rate cuts, my favourite 85 buck icecream scoop now costs 76 bucks.
2025-11-12
Incredibly weird behavior in this online platform.I see an ad while scrolling. Scroll up to read it properly. Voila, its vanished.
2025-11-11
It feels like claude has gotten way more buggy and slow (10 seconds for Time To First Token) since I've started paying for claude Pro.
2025-11-04
Goodreads really is such terrible quality.
2025-10-25
The JIO prepaid plans make absolutely no sense.
2025-10-20
Never a better time for the on-prem cloud computing company (ie. Oxide) marketing campaign.
2025-10-14
RL : Training :: Top-down : Bottom-up
2025-10-08
Claude's "You’re absolutely right" is great example of a limitations of RLHF.
2025-10-07
Remembering my-two-sweet-weeks of working with NI LabView after today's AgentKit launch.
2025-10-06
Saw a short (seeing-the-road-through-the-steering-wheel) man driving a Alto K10.
2025-09-26
Sometime's you're trying to use a feature of a product and its hopelessly unusable and you really had no way of knowing that before hand.
2025-09-26
Using moondream (ie. inference running on my macbook air) seems like witchcraft.
2025-09-22
(larry-david-voice) I could never willingly associate myself with someone who drives a Thar.
2025-09-22
Zed Text Threads is generally such a better experience than using chatgpt or claude.
2025-09-12
insight is just "sight in". And if its "in sight", its not an insight.
2025-09-11
6 months at a BI company and now I notice the word 'insight' everywhere everyday.
2025-09-10
Every single day (almost) I get the overloaded error when using the Claude Sonnet API. Why anyone would use this in production instead of just using the same model on AWS Bedrock or GCP Vertex is beyond my comprehension.
2025-09-01
Love that I could dump my Groww MF/stock reports and ITR instructions into Claude Code and get a perfectly filled out 112a CSV. Thank you Anthropic.
2025-09-01
The metro yellow line runs its measly two trains every 20 mins and RV Road station is pure chaos. Hey the tech industry really is rubbing off onto Bangalore !
2025-08-18
Its the time of year when I'm contemplating a purchase of noise cancelling headphones vs another bicycle.
2025-08-16
Banger commencement speeches (DFW, Bill Watterson, John Green) from Kenyon college !!
2025-08-10
Been getting an obscure ClickHouse S3 cache Ad tweet on twitter.com for like the past month. I then spend the next 30 mins reading the great and detailed post and love it.
2025-07-31
Its wild how much better difftastic diffs (in my terminal) are compared to Github PR view.
2025-07-26
I'm making a Ryan's (from Office) Revenge List type thing related to tech I'll never entertain.
Strike #1: Absolutely no iNfRa-As-CoDe. I hate the AWS clickity-clickity but still want to use it (especially since I'll be paying > $1k pm).
2025-07-23
My new invoice design looks great - its JetBrains Mono Regular with markdown tables all in the same font size.
I should make more docs of this style.
2025-07-23
For profiling complex codebases, You have to pipe the metrics OUT.
I like soln idea of statsd (localy running docker with console backend) + periodic writes to multiple parquets.
And then use duckdb to query metric data.