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Where the word bit came from The likely source of the modern term is Claude Shannon’s 1948 paper, A Mathematical Theory of Communication.

I recently watched Michael Knyszek’s GopherCon 2025 talk, Advancing Go Garbage Collection with Green Tea.

Context engineering and management is a hard problem and is the highest priority even before a single line of code is written.

CI dropped from 37 minutes to 9, at 35% lower cost.

If your own company is a tenant in your own product, it should be the hardest one to access, not the easiest.

The hard part about software design is state.

Picture this: You’re debugging an issue that spans your React frontend, Django backend, and Terraform infrastructure.

We moved our entire Postman collection to Bruno over a weekend and let Claude Code chew on the new files by Monday morning.

In this post you would learn how pghistory.context works and some of its gotchas that we faced at Diversio(thanks to Amal Raj B R who identified this) and how we adjusted our approach to avoid saving context metadata that is not relevant to the current bu…

Before listening to How to Take Over the World’s episode on Benjamin Franklin, my impression of him was limited to “kite, key, electricity.”

Risk is often overestimated; opportunity is often underestimated.

Week 1 Assign a buddy or mentor but avoid using a direct manager for this, as the person won’t be that open and comfortable with their manager.

uv and PEP 723 I have recently started using uv a lot, specially for quick standalone scripts, most of these scripts are generated by various LLMs for different tasks.

Table of Contents Introduction & Evolution at Diversio How We Used to Do It (Pre-ChatGPT) Resume Screening Take Home Exercises Zoom Interview Interviewing in 2025 Posting the Job Ad Filtering Resumes Screening Round Coding Round Final Round Introduction &…

ZSH installation Starting with Catalina the default shell was changed to zsh.

This is an explanatory article related to my talk at MUPy  —  Become a pdb power-user.

str.format_map was introduced in Python 3.2, it allows users to a pass a dictionary instead of individual keyword arguments.