Mohnish Thallavajhula

As an engineer, you need taste.

Finally, in May 2026, I got to travel to Europe.

At work, while working on a project, I open a million tabs on my Google Chrome and end up not closing them.

This year, the amount of time I spend in the terminal has gone significantly up thanks to Claude Code.

TL;DR – After paying a lot to GoDaddy and being extremely patient, I am now the proud owner of the domain STEALTHFACTORY.COM.

Is it just me or has the general quality of all the web apps collectively gone down?

Last year, I watched the Brad Pitt starrer F1 (movie) and liked it.

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health last month and I signed up for the waitlist.

This post is from July 2025, I had to update the TIOBE index image to make the post more up-to-date.

I was at the Oracle Park with my office colleagues watching a baseball game between SF Giants and some other team that I don’t remember.

Happy New Year, folks!

I’ve been on a KonMari Method spree lately and I’m enjoying it.

For the past 2 years, I’ve been contemplating updating (not upgrading) my daily use tech and I finally took the leap last month.

I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while now — TypeScript sucks.

AI is the new UI/UX.

Japan has always been No. 1 on the list of countries I wanted to visit.

I’ve been on sabbatical this June.

Got my Barca membership card in the mail today.

This was meant to be posted in April 2025.

I’ve thought about using my domains MT.CX and CX.MT for various purposes and after thinking long and hard about it, I’ve finally come to a conclusion.

Around 2007, I started building out a collection of RSS feeds to a lot of blogs that I followed.

Last week, Adobe celebrated the 35th anniversary of Adobe Photoshop.

Yesterday, I finally got the Shapes release on my reMarkable Paper Pro.

Programmatic usage of LLMs has gone up astronomically over the past 1 year.

After using Terminal.app for over a decade, I recently made the switch to Ghostty, a terminal emulator, and I love it.

Okay, I’m gonna spill the tea — last year, I picked up a new habit and it’s drinking Herbal Tea every night before going to bed.

I’ve drafted this post 2 days ahead of NYE; very unlike me.

Last week, I committed a code change that pretty much looked like this: if (expr1) { if (expr2) { // logic here } } My code reviewer pointed out that this could be changed to – if (expr1 && expr2) { // logic here } I read their comment and stared

I just finished watching Tesla’s event where they unveiled a bunch of things like the Robovan, Robotaxi, and bunch of other things.

Recently, I got back to frontend development after almost a year.