In my last post, I built a semantic map of 4 million Hacker News posts and dived deep into semantic search and AI embeddings. Continuing the fun research and hacking in this space, in this post, I'll deep dive into how vector search works with interactive visu…
See how 'is' simplifies discovering and comparing multiple versions of executables in your $PATH, with examples using bash, perl, and gopls.
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
When it comes to language models, we tend to look at benchmarks to decide which model is the best to use in our application. But benchmarks only tell half a story. Unless you're building an all-purpose chat application, what you should be actually looking at i…
A review of the June 12, 2025 GCP outage postmortem.
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? – The New York Times:
1. IntroductionIf you’ve taken an algorithms class, you have likely seen dynamic programming, specifically a technique called memoization. Memoization works to optimize recursive algorithms by caching the solutions to subproblems in a table, and when a subprob…
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.
I recently set up a phone line for my 9-year-old. Why? I liked the idea of her being able to connect with others in a way she has control over, but with some of the natural limitations built in to a traditional landline and without the distractions of a smartp…
Risk, shiny objects, speed, and ego: notes from the valley of a cultural divide
Portfolio of Balaji Arumugam - Senior Developer, Indie Hacker, and AI enthusiast
A while ago, a prominent Vercel employee (two, actually) posted to the tune of: Developers don’t get CDNs Exhibit A etc. It is often that random tweets somehow get me into a frenzy – somebody is wrong on the internet, yet again. But when I gave this a second t…
Neatnik Notes
Exploring a future of AAA game development focused around controlling diffusion models
Beyond Blind Trust
At Guesswork, we are a team of four engineers with no background in sales or marketing. So, we had to figure out a way to get customers without relying on any of those skills. That led us, through ...
In this article, I would like to discuss in more depth the topic of “zero-knowledge proofs”, an emerging technology still very much in prototyping stage, but becoming more and more accessible through projects and languages like Noir or Mina.
Claude Code has completely changed the way we develop our app, Chorus, so much so that we now consider it one of our employees.
I think ledgers are underutilized in software development today. Specifically, double-entry ledger modeling would be a better fit in a lot of systems than the ad-hoc ledger-ish things they currently have.
KV caches are one of the most critical techniques for efficient inference in LLMs in production. KV caches are an important component for compute-efficient L...
The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design.
Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
More people have been working on blocking whole ranges of IP numbers, since that catches hosting providers that give bots access to the whole range they control. The bots switch IP numbers all the time so a filter based on IP numbers won’t catch them. But if w…
I've been building a universal code formatter in Zig, and I recently discovered something humbling: my formatter will never be as fast as Ruff on large files. But here's the twist - it's actually faster on small files, and the journey to this realization taugh…
Keep the system state correct by any means necessary.
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:
Ever joined a GitHub Enterprise and thought, “Who organized this… chaos?” I created this post...
Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight) devel…
A suite of open-source, ad-free apps with customizable colors. - Fossify
People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat…
A C# tool for cleaning up resource groups. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Version 0.2.0 of the Chawan TUI browser has been released.
Recently Apple published a paper on LRMs (Large Reasoning Models) and how they found that “that LRMs have limitations in exact computation” and that “they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles.” I would consider this a death …
These are statements from the last couple of months that are true:
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...
Matthew Butterick
slow and steady makes things happen
Software development is a mess of bad leadership, useless meetings, broken agile rituals, and daily burnout. Here’s what really happens behind the JIRA tickets.
Varnan specializes in GTM strategies tailored for early-stage AI startups, ensuring your innovation reaches its full potential.
I'm betting on myself.
How I stay on top of the never-ending cycle of dependency updates for my projects.
Until recently, one of the easiest ways to get “into” Microsoft 365 was to go to Office.com. I’ll readily admit that I never spent any time on the page, mainly because most of my …
Nix with Flakes allows you to easily centralize project environments and setup right in your repository. Often, your README will tell the reader "get an API key for FOOSERVICE from a teammate"
The Homebrew package manager is nice. It's not perfect, it's not performant, but in my opinion, for developer machines, it's by far the easiest and most flexible package manager, especially for quickly distributing internal tools. The flexibility comes from tw…
A home for Jihad Esmail.
Pankaj Tanwar : A self-taught developer, writer & creator who loves to read, write and learn about tech.
16 Jun 2025
Those are the contents of a post I recently made, but really that and even the replies I made are not the full story Truth is, to get ri...
It's the start of a new fiscal year and that's always a time to look forward and define strategy: What are we gonna work on these next months. I've always handled the same structure in defining my strategy and I thought I'd share it here.
The rhetoric on web application testing frustrates me.
Any tasks you can delegate to a human assistant will be delegated to a Voice-controlled AI Agent.