Scramblings

Normal human habits like swapped letters, fillers, shorthand, pasted IDs, boundary whitespace, and nearby word forms can change token count without changing intent much.

What looks like a motivation problem in software work is often the cost of entering the next step - context load, cross-system design, LLM drift, verification, and re-entry.

My experience comparing OpenAI Codex CLI vs a chat+files workflow, associated token usage, output quality comparisons, and a very real dip in motivation.

The Nature of Lisp article and thoughts on programming language power vs usability and code generation.

How to make your AppImage show up in your application menu (Launcher, Dash, Activities, etc.).

A nostalgic journey to pure, unfiltered honey in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, and a taste that brought back childhood memories.

A home espresso recipe for daily brews using the Gaggia Classic Pro and Baratza Virtuoso Plus.

A great spontaneous morning and associated thougths.

Different types of coffee bean varieties available in India, their flavour profiles, and associated processing.

Few great and free resources to learn about RAG and its usage in Generative AI.

Extracts from the Emotional design article

This post explores a markdown-based task management system designed for solo developers, balancing simplicity with effective project management.

Sharing my personal journey through the first month of using a sit-stand desk, detailing the challenges and benefits of transitioning to a more dynamic work environment.

Snippets for minor things in hugo like breadcrumbs, table of contents, copy file as markdown, quote

Create a header with language name and copy button on top of highlighted code blocks

A guide to integrating data tables into a hugo site

Integrating search in a Hugo-based static site using lunr.js

Process to copy assets like images/css or non-assets, such as source maps from node_modules, to output using Hugo Pipes.

Few great and free resources to learn about Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) and their usage for text/code inference.

An evolution in work related task management over the years, that has worked for me, and has personally shaped my professional life.

This blog post explores the challenges faced by blunt or direct communicators, particularly in the context of online communication, and proposes some effective strategies that have proven helpful.

How survival mode or life immediately after it affects one’s ability to do great work and what to adjust in the article for it.

Remembering my friend

A interaction with ChatGPT as a pair programmer for learning and using a new technology tool.

Learnings from the dynamoDB paper

General thought on architectural boundaries, levels and issues that need to be tackled at each level.

Personal experience about voraciousness, its decrease, corresponding issues and thoughts.

Initial dev setup for Ubuntu Linux.

Reading the paxos made simple paper and understanding it.

Docsify, YAML front-matter, mustache templates & tags and some quirks when using them.

Basic shortcuts, useful plugins, and sample settings file for VSCode.

Few git commands.

Generic references and points to consider when doing a memory analysis with go programming language.

Organizing a local storage based movie collection.

Great papers and references

Steps to set up a samba server on ubuntu 18.04.

Few ubuntu server setup issues and corresponding steps to debug them.

Generic references to get started with go programming language.

Basic docker commands.

Random collection of commands for Ubuntu Linux.

References, basic commands and sample rc file for GNU screen.

A script to chain multiple closures in python with example usage.

A script to cprofile a single function in python