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Kudos! What do you think are some good resources to learn/get better at elixir?

By playing around with the app, I can totally see that this supersedes Google Sheets and Apps Script by a long way. Yes, the UI layer and the API accesses. In the backend, I feel a…

More often we think there's a grand unified "catch-all" task one can do to have a clear mind, but in reality it's the reverse. Try to form small habits throughout the day. Check ou…

movnorth.com has some links that can help you get started.

India has a provision for previous citizens to apply to, called the OCI. You can reside in India, but you give up the right to vote and own agriculture land.

I use the larger iPad pro - I understand it's quite expensive but that's the only Apple device we have for our home and me and my wife use it for our own purposes and we find it to…

I'm at the juncture of my career where I want to focus more on Distributed Systems and specialize more in it. Short of reading seminal papers, understanding existing data systems l…

Really slick! Could you throw some insight about the techstack, architectural decisions etc.? Would love to understand more about those.

This is not as trivial as it sounds. One of the main drivers for using a 32 bit internet address is word length of registers. Back in those days, 32-bit word lengths were pretty co…

This is precisely what I was looking for :)

This is an interesting idea. I've used tools that have autocompletion and also on vim with a plugin that I use to type notes. But the annoying thing is this is something that I'll …

I have briefly studied Pitman Shorthand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitman_shorthand) in the past and I've wondered how easy it is to concisely represent a lot of information in…

This is totally worth it. :) Plus reading about Chanakya Neeti is good.

I had some good insights from Work Rules! by Lazlo Bock - https://www.workrules.net

I've been a fairly voracious reader but over the last 4-5 years, I've noticed that I skim-read a lot (which has apparently become the norm - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr…

This is very very important IMO. It doesn't matter if you're a junior developer or a senior developer, it always pays to be around people who know more than you and at the same tim…

Intelligent algorithms can run smartgrids with power efficiency towards renewable sources of power. AI can help reduce resource wastage Please don't use JS or npm. Downloading the …

I'm looking for relatively fast-paced companies that work on high scale, distributed systems other than the ones that make business through ads/social media/entertainment. That rul…

I read this post yesterday and I couldn't really sleep much and kept thinking about this. This resonates with me so much - the job part, wanting to work on something much cooler, s…

Your wiki looks good and inspiring! :)

Another sentence I tried - "I wasn't that interested in working on my project today and hence I preferred to stay at home and watch Netflix in spite of the multitude of issues repo…

Can't help but notice that this line - "If you see a red highlight, your sentence is so dense and complicated that your readers will get lost trying to follow its meandering, split…

Well played, Google! Well played!

JWTs are a good approach. I've also seen folks using mTLS with gRPC.