Kshitij's Blog

Lessons from Let's Do This# I joined Let's Do This as a Software Engineer in September, 2022.

Introspecting Public Keys in ATProto# ATProto is a decentralised network for building social applications.

A Brief Introduction to the Model Context Protocol# Large Language Models (LLMs) do not have the ability to interact with external systems.

Backpressure in WebSockets using Web Streams# WebSockets allow bi-directional communication between two processes over a TCP connection.

Running Kubernetes# I recently decided it is time to learn Kubernetes.

Hello, Kubernetes# Hello.

Firebase Functions are a convenient wrapper around Google Cloud Functions.

I have published a few libraries on Jitpack.

The Node.js community has access to many data validation libraries like Ajv, Yup, class-validator, validate.js, and more.

Logging is invaluable in backend services.

Circular object references can be dangerous.

Full Text Search (FTS) is a powerful feature of SQLite, but its intricacies sometimes make it a footgun.

On a recent project, I got the opportunity to create a desktop application using Electron, React and Go.

The Reddit thread for my blog post on Exploiting Content Providers had an interesting comment: Almost four weeks later, the AndroidX Startup library was announced.

Update: 17/06/2020 A month after this blog post, the Jetpack team launched the App Startup library to replace usage of ContentProviders for running init logic at app startup.