Mandar Gokhale

I stayed for a few months in London, helping set up a new SRE team for work there.

It can be tempting to quickly approve LLM commands especially when under pressure to ship a new feature or quickly fix an issue.

This article is an engaging read.

When S3 Tables came out in December 2024, I was a little confused about what exactly the value proposition was over hosting your lake-style files in S3.

There’s this “It’s Always DNS” meme that often goes round the Interwebs, somewhat bolstered by the Twitter outages that occurred (DNS, of course) in late 2016.

A couple years ago, I got a WD MyNet N750 on sale and put OpenWRT on it, for use as my home wireless router (with the excellent Motorola SURFboard SB6141 serving as modem).

This post describes a rather intriguing Unix puzzle.

This post by Justin Duke reminded me of something unusual I have been doing recently.

This week, we were discussing ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) confusion at work – specifically in the context of the .om toplevel domain, which apparently is used for tricking people into visiting foo.co.om instead of foo.com.

This post should not be used as an actual implementation any longer.

Dr.

Type in what you think is the domain name for Google into your browser.

Steve Losh, whose (lately, rather silent) blog is one of my favourite reads on the Internet), wrote a great piece called Git Koans back in 2013.

Being a Linux user, I often end up automating small actions in OSX, and then completely forgetting the slightly idiosyncratic way of doing said automation.

While working on a chat bot that parses cat picture links on the interwebs, a co-worker found that a curl to [this URL](curl http://www.banyanops.com/blog/analyzing-docker-hub/) generated a bunch of gzip data, rather than the expected text. $ curl -sI htt…

Recently, a colleague of mine tracked down a bug which was, in essence, caused by the fact that one side of a comparison in Python was a string, and the other was an integer, which led to behaviour that was sometimes expected and sometimes not. >>> '45' >…

I became the proud owner of an iMac-esque blue rubber-and-plastic Nokia 3100 in twelfth standard / grade.

Roasted seaweed is a snack that I first ate in the US.

I often gather tons of links which I propose to read later, and never end up doing so.

The other day, a couple of co-workers and I were talking about whether it was reasonable to expect a user to know the maximum number represented by a 32-bit integer (2147483647 if it’s signed, 4294967295 if not).