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TLDR; Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)[1] is all the rage now.

Along came DeepSeek-R1[1] last week, an open-source large language model (LLM) reportedly rivaling OpenAI’s top offerings, sending shockwaves through the industry and generating much excitement in the tech world.

TLDR; A conceptual and technical framework for resource discovery on the WWW using decentralised, open, machine-readable indexes as the building block, free of eroding quality and gatekeeping by BigSearch™ and BigPlatform™, whose goals are not quality, but

The nth-order effects of the recent CrowdStrike fiasco [1][2][3] will unfold over time.

In an earlier post (2021) , I argued that much of the “powered by AI / ML” labelling and marketing out there was bogus and disingenuous.

It took me several seconds to parse the casual quip “But, aren’t you folks web2?”.

“It’s 2022.

IndiaFOSS 2.0[1], the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July.

A whole new way of seamlessly “hydrating” and building “reactive” webpages, proclaim the dozen new Javascript frameworks that offer slightly different ways of manipulating DOM; new stacks for generating static webpages from templates; new ways of deploying

I read this article (“Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco.

An email I had sent in response to a survey on the use of “AI / ML” and the “AI-first mindset” in our organisation and in the industry was shared on social media[1] [2] sparking surprising amounts of interest.

I have a small Vue 2 project (an admin UI for dictmaker) that I created with vue cli six months ago.

In the Indian startup circles, Atmanirbhar (self-reliance) is the word of the year.

AI is a contentious term whose mainstream interpretation refers to not one particular thing, but to a broad category encompassing a wide variety of concepts, techniques, and technologies—all eventually working towards the common goal of eliciting “intelli…

The Indian startup ecosystem has taken shape and exploded in the last few years, and so have the countless stories surrounding them.

A sci-fi short story inspired by Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question”.

കഴിഞ്ഞ മൂന്നു വര്‍ഷങ്ങളില്‍ എണ്ണം 80-ശതമാനത്തിലധികം കുറഞ്ഞ അണ്ണാരക്കണ്ണന്‍മാര്‍ ഇപ്പോള്‍ വംശനാശ ഭീഷണി നേരിടുകയാണ് (മാതൃഭൂമി, 15 ഓഗസ്റ്റ്).