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 the 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.