Letting go of things and people

The real flex isn't a promotion. It's logging off at 5.30 PM and your work notifications staying off.

A bitcoin mine in Mongolia during the freezing winter kept overheating and shutting down until engineers installed cameras and found the reason was stray cats sleeping on the warm machines, blocking ventilation and forcing the mining rigs into automatic shutdown.

blog.king-11.dev/posts/partial-… Partial Git Clones a way to save on bandwidth, disk and time while cloning repositories.

Ngl, adult friendships require grace. People are very busy. People are healing. People are growing. People are taking time for self care just like you. Less communication isn't less love. Check in not out.

The reason I fell in love with San Francisco every time I come here is because walking around this city in parks, near the bay, between the sky scrappers is all so surreal and bustling with life.

The tiping system enforced by society in the US doesn't make sense. It's just a way that business owners are pushing the thing they need to do on consumers. The more tips we set as baseline the less they start paying. It used to be 15% last year it's 18% now what happened here??

I fell in love with this sentence: “Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.”

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have

I don't mind if we are going to let AI run over and write all the code but it should be maintainable, clean and verified. This still doesn't cure the problem where when escalations arrive no one will have the level of intimacy as hand written code.

Gitlab is way better than GitHub the biggest being you can see diffs on comments but with Jared Palmer back I feel GitHub is pushing back looking forward to the stack PRs feature hopefully it aligns with the daily developer requirements.

Last week I was messing with a lot of kubernetes api and it seems there are still no good ways to handle OOM kills of Java processes running as containers. C10k came out as related because we do thread per task in Java without virtual threads. Coroutines might help!! 🤞🏻

Getting into the flow state is one of the most amazing gifts anyone can give themselves. It's productive and addictive.

Docker can handle restarting containers on its own and boomer me was still thinking we needed compose for that 🥹

CRDTs are a very interesting piece of software. I want to pursue building a distributed system which needs consensus. Making anyone, humans or systems agree on something is always going to be a tough problem.

Reflecting on the past year Glean blog.king-11.dev/posts/one-year…

I ran the experiment thread per clte model for java, coroutines for kotlin and rust...the result came the same for all of them because memory usage came from spawned git processes. It isn't always about programming language

I've so far stayed away from commenting on BLR Airport's sudden decision to charge all commercial taxi operators ₹285 to enter T1 and pick-up passengers within 10 mins - every additional 5 mins is another ₹150. And even this spot is a 5 min walk from arrivals gate. The free

There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think. The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late. Don’t

imagine connecting so deeply with someone that your dates revolve around walking and talking for hours