Of course, I have to show some love to India 🇮🇳 Now the fastest growing developer population on the planet, India’s rise as a global tech titan is inexorable.

Iris Murdoch has this wonderful term - unselfing - to describe forging a deeper connection between yourself and, well, everything else, an awareness of the universe beyond your self For the most part, we're barely aware of the universe. There's some sense in which we almost

"Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.

Reality of Quantum Computing

When the first steam engines were introduced, the owners had a really hard time finding people to operate them who wouldn't get drunk in the middle of the day, fuck up, and wreck the machine.

"The unreliability of LLMs usually gets magnified in agentic workflows"

I'm sorry but this is like saying that smartphones with production-grade cameras will bring down the cost of film making to zero It is true, right? Today's cameras cost $10K+ 20 years ago. Anyone can make a video or movie Cost of making a standout cinema film still goes up!

In other #DigitalIndia news... Union Bank of India pays a shit ton of money to Infosys for their corebanking system but is forced to advertise Finacle e-Banking because of how shitty their integration is. #FAIL

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting

Essentially, the entire narrative of Yann LeCun over the past couple of years...

Recently I had to go on a massive quest just to find an electronic door lock that doesn’t have Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.

Bangalore bus supremacy is real Blr has the most buses per population. It comfortably beats Delhi and Chennai & far higher than BOM or AHD Yet comments in QT say stuff like go to other cities, visit AHD, visit BOM. Bias much? Still, 2x that is ideal Source: Cities of India

I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill In English words in the English version and in Hindi words in

In Bengaluru, 1 in 4 road deaths is a pedestrian. Encroached footpaths, missing crossings, illegal parking, speeding vehicles, poor enforcement. Pedestrians are pushed onto roads and pay with their lives.

Prasanna Viswanathan Bangalore Aviation GBA and each of the five corporations should appoint a dedicated pedestrian safety officer with staff. Leaving it to the engineers in charge of roads has not worked.

This is pathetic! Indian Immunologicals Ltd knew about the counterfeit Abhayrab in Jan 2025. The authorities knew it, but we came to know about in Dec 2025 because of the Australian advisory. On top of it, the Indian Immunologicals Ltd says the Australian advisory is

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The apprehensions I had voiced in the last week have proved right When the strength of the Lok Sabha is increased by 50% from 543 to 815, the strength of TN will seemingly increase from 39 to 58. But this is an illusion. When delimitation takes place, it will reduce to 46 Uttar

I try to stay apolitical, but this is hard to ignore. ​How can we justify punishing states for actually achieving development goals? This map shows a clear shift in power away from the regions that focussed on growth. #Delimitation

1. Why women's quota "now", just after the elections are announced? 2. Why use 2011 census which is already so, very old in terms of data? Answer in the Hindu editorial that exposes BJP's nefarious plans, of severely punishing the Southern states, in great detail.