Abhirama’s Blog

Once you get the hang of talking to a computer instead of typing, there is no going back.

You are reading this blog on a static site hosted on Cloudflare and built with Hugo.

I spent last weekend automating a task that would take me five minutes once a week.

I was listening to 90s Bollywood music.

Codex recently coded a browser from scratch.

Reimagining an XKCD classic for the AI era.

Speed is a feature.

I came across a discussion on Hacker News about John Carmack’s tweet on variable mutability and immutability in programming languages.

I was browsing through a travel booking site.

If you are a curious person, it is impossible not to come across Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

I came across this quote from Seneca, the stoic philosopher: Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.

Recently, we visited Jantar Mantar in Jaipur—a scientific marvel built centuries ago, with life-sized instruments designed to measure time, months, seasons, and other celestial phenomena.

In Nepal, a “mobocracy” led to the government’s overthrow, largely through Gen Z mobilization.

I use AntennaPod to listen to podcasts.

In the 1980s, political scientist Robert Axelrod ran a series of computer-based tournaments to identify the best strategy in an iterated prisoner’s dilemma scenario.

I read something quite a while back that stayed with me: a fit body and a wise mind are the real status symbols.

I’m not a content creator.

It has been some time since Elon Musk’s dramatic takeover of Twitter and the aftermath.

As usual, I opened Hacker News to get my daily fix on the tech world and the esoteric.

As you age, you become a skeptic.

Whenever we hear a life story packed with wisdom, our reaction oscillates between two extremes.

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You have to write a document.

All startups are dysfunctional.

There is an expectation in startups that once a leader joins them; they should have a big win in the first 90 days.

There is no one best way to learn.

In a startup, there is an emphasis on creators and builders.

W hat is a store of value?

Tips and tricks to write resilient batch jobs.

How to proliferate best practices in an organization without slowing down the pace of doing things?

Three things that first-time managers wrestle with.

The software world is moving away from specialist roles to generalist roles.

What is your edge?

When you read the history of humankind, you can see that our advancements have come from exploring(and conquering and inhabiting) novel lands and exploiting (the newly found) natural resources.

What can you learn from Bitcoin, GameStop, and Tesla stock?

Simple yet powerful product development framework.

Tips to get into the habit of writing regularly.

How to think while designing the architecture of an application.

An effective way to coach and give feedback.

I love listening to podcasts.

During pre-historic times, when going to the office was a thing, there used to be a traffic policeman in my commute route.

Sobering take on the future of work.

Practical tips for identifying when you are over-engineering.

Tips and tricks gained from experience to scale your tech stack really, really fast.

Pet projects that I worked on over the years.

Giving everyone their due There are charismatic people in your team.

Cocksure: confident in an excessive or arrogant way.

This post is not about F1.

When someone explains the CAP theorem, they do it in the context of distributed data stores.