Nikhil's blog

I have been using Coding agents a bunch, particularly since Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 came out.

I’ve written a long tutorial exploring the user of Racket’s Concurrent ML (CML) inspired concurrency paradigm to write an API wrapping git-cat-file.

I currently work at Skydio.

Chris Krycho, a person I really respect, is learning Racket to build programming languages.

Gossip Glomers is a series of distributed systems programming challenges from Fly.io.

Here is a performance footgun I encountered at work in a more complicated form.

I often tack on notify-send at the end of a long running command to get a desktop notification when the command is done. 1.

I recently bought a Nuphy Air75 and ran into a weird issue on Linux.

I’ve been playing with Racket for the past few weeks.

I’ve been getting back into C++ at Skydio, and I’ve twice lost several hours to debugging weird code behavior because of an RAII footgun in the language.

Notes on using a Digital Ocean Droplet to copy Google Takeout data to Backblaze B2, for my own reference and in case they are useful to others.

I read a fair amount of books, but I’ve never kept track of them except in my brain because the friction to track books is just too high.

Hammerspoon is a macOS automation framework that allows you to hook into all sort of OS interfaces using Lua scripts.

I have credit freezes put on my credit records with all 3 US credit reporting companies.

In late August 2020 I read The Dream Machine and it is my favorite book of 2020.

There is this common refrain about how companies have data about you and could do bad things.

Hillel Wayne has a great newsletter, and one recent post had this observation: The abstract concept here is knowledge or skills that You are unlikely to discover on your own, neither through practice and reflection nor by observing others apply it.

This is a contribution to the Rust 2021 Roadmap Blogs request.

Bazel persistent workers are a cool feature that allow Bazel to start up “compiler” instances that can accept multiple build requests.

Introduction This is another blog post related to the Build Systems à la Carte paper.