Shiveen Pandita

This has been sitting in my drafts since June this year, and I have had little energy to finish it, as I feel like I had nothing more to add than what's been said already a million times over.

It's clear that software engineering is changing.

Sometime around the end of 2025, I took stock of my reading habits.

📨 Mail Client: Gmail (web and iOS) with ImprovMX for domain routing 📮 Mail Server: Gmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian ✅ To-Do: TickTick 📷 Phone Photo Shooting: Default iOS Camera App 🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom or Google Photos 📆 Calendar: Fantastical with Google…

I use Lightroom for all my edits.

I currently have 4 different tiers of computing devices, listed in no particular preference order: An iPhone 16 Pro An iPad Pro 11" An iPad Mini A Macbook Pro 14" M4 Pro On the outset, it seems like too many devices.

Let's get a few things straight first.

It’s been a while since I have posted here, so today I wanted to share a bit about one of my favourite past time: productivity apps.

The core problem with VC funding model is that they want you to pay for the failures of their 10 other ventures.

I have been thinking about a sapling of an idea for a while now.

In today’s fast-paced world, we often find ourselves juggling multiple tasks and responsibilities, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

I recently jumped on the bandwagon (again) for Arc, as I'm really not feeling Chrome's changes to shovel more ads down users throats.

Context # Sometimes git gets confused and uppercases the branch names.

One of the main things I have been chewing on over the last few weeks is the quality of technical decisions made by different people working on a shared codebase.

I have been thinking a lot about code reviews lately and the impact it can have on delivery for teams.

Update 2023 I have settled back on Bear as I kept coming back to it and the new Bear 2.0 looks amazing 🤩 I have always been a bit of a bike shedder regarding productivity apps, and note-taking apps are probably the most bike-shedded.

Ever since the pandemic threw the world in chaos, I have been consciously thinking about my work and life and how interconnected they have become, partly due to WFH, partly because I am growing old.

Too often I see people building software and doing changes in an existing piece of code as if they're texting one...excruciating...line...at...a...time.

This is a small blog post on equality checks in Kotlin when one of the objects may contain arbitrary data.

This is just a collection of things that required some google searches to resolve while working with DynamoDB at work recently.

Background # In this post, I’ll walk through two new exciting things that have happened in the spring ecosystem recently.

If you’ve been spring boot for a while, you’re probably familiar with Spring’s bootJar functionality that lets you create a new executable “fat jar” with all its dependencies pre defined.

Background # Recently I found myself with some extra development time on hand.

Background # For the past year or so, I have been working extensively with spring, especially spring webflux; building scalable reactive micro services for our customers.

Recently on my usual #githunt prowl I came across a new promising http library called http4k.

Background # Recently I faced an interesting problem at work.