Ayaan's Blog

One morning a bot went quiet.

Anthropic recently open sourced their performance engineering take-home challenge.

There’s a phrase in Hindi, chalta hai.

2025 was the year of finding my rhythm.

Last weekend I took the Delhi-Meerut RRTS to visit a close friend in Meerut.

Claude Code ships with a --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, affectionately dubbed “YOLO mode.”

In 2022 I hacked together a hybrid setup for @SuperSeriousBot: keep GitHub’s managed x86 runners, bolt on my own arm64 box over SSH, and let buildx juggle them both.

TL;DR: Users reported issues, two Cloudflare proxied hostnames would just hang.

I maintain the PG GOTM site, which handles Game of the Month voting for a Discord server.

The PatientGamers Discord server has, over the years, become my favorite space to discuss games.

I live quite close to an airport and see planes flying overhead all the time.

2024 was a year of new experiences and milestones.

Before anything, go ahead and install Bun: curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash Note: I haven’t really even benchmarked the performance of Bun’s HTTP server vs. remix-server (with Node.js) but Bun’s dependency management is just so fast I couldn’t res…

As someone who has had intense motion sickness when reading in a moving vehicle, I immediately turned this feature on as soon as I saw the /r/apple Reddit post about it.

But why?

I regularly transfer large files between two servers and need their directories to be synchronized.

It has been a good 600 days since I last wrote about deploying @SuperSeriousBot .

In 2023, among many other things I: Bought a nice wallet to hold my 9 (!)

Data pulled from the Algolia HN API Sentiment analysis using distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english (shown on the right) Top 250 comments shown, get the parsed data dump here.

It’s been increasingly difficult finding a taxi for my commute in Hyderabad.

Moved out in 2022, marking the beginning of my professional career.

Update, September 2026: GitHub now offers hosted arm64 runners.

With v3.215.0 of the @aws-sdk/cloudfront-signer package, adding a response-content-disposition query parameter to the URL being sent to the getSignedUrl function changes the URL after signing it.

Prevalent Wisdom Perusing some threads while designing the schema for $CURRENT_JOB, I came across a common refrain that one should never use UUIDs as primary keys.

Introduction I often get asked about what the “best” way to deploy a Python Telegram bot is.

Lately I’ve been playing around with Oracle’s free-tier of Ampere VM.Standard.A1.Flex machines.

With this document, I plan to record my progress in learning French.

The Problem While building the image processing pipelines at Uplause, I came across sharp which claims to be a “High performance Node.js image processing” package and is typically 4x-5x faster than using the quickest ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick setting…

This is a living, ambitious (perhaps too much), and certainly incomplete list. ✨ Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway from Tokyo to London.

mon ciel préféré de 2021 I’m in my final year (and semester) of university now.

A while ago, my Dad bought a really large aquarium.

Problem At Vume, the majority of our backend is written in Clojure.

Time Tracking 2020

Workflow configuration import and validation for AliECS ALICE Gopher Mentored By: Teo Mrnjavac Links Google Summer of Code Page GitHub Project Page PR#171 General Overview The ALICE Experiment Control System (AliECS) is a distributed system based on state…

Being Selected GSoC 2020 Acceptance Letter I was confident, yet nervous.

GSoC is a fantastic way to learn about open-source from one of the best engineers in the world.

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is : A global program that matches students up with open source, free software and technology-related organizations to write code and get paid to do it!

Introduction Why?

How I spent my year (so far) I’ve been time tracking every single hour of my year so far in 2019.

Final Result This stack of images was shot on the 4th of June.