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Sync engines are fascinating way to build modern apps. I think they will become the norm soon, here's what we have so far: https://shivekkhurana.com/blog/sync-engines/

I have gotten into the habit of keeping the Codex app open on my laptop, and using the ChatGPT app on my phone as a remote. Maybe hosting is the way to go!

Slightly related: Amazon’s bedrock has better privacy guarantees. This seems to be skills that can be added to Desktop app, which can connect to Bedrock for inference.

My home country of Bharat is a major textile producer and exporter. I can find anything here.

Two reasons: 1. My thighs are bigger than usual for my waist size, so I adapted. 2. Indians (Bharat) have a culture of wearing lose clothes, and I also like lose clothes. They are …

Hello fellow Clojurist, I sent you an email.

No classes. I was probably hyper aware of how my body reacts to clothing. For example, the waist of almost every pant became uncomfortable when I sat down after eating food. The ar…

Would love to talk. My goals are not anchored around sustainability, but I optimise against synthetic fibres. My website is shivekkhurana.com. My email is on my github.

No. I expected 5 people to show up, but there were almost 50. I took care of the stage but couldn’t manage operations.

https://shivekkhurana.com/about . 3/4 photos are my custom made clothes.

I do make clothes for close friends and family, but I don’t intend to make money of it. Playing this game for the game sake.

Fast fashion forces you to dress for the masses. Loose shirts, baggy pants and shallow pockets is not fashion, its cost optimisation for brands. I didn't want to dress up like a bo…

I started designing my own clothes. The insight was that I spend 80% money on suits that I wear 2 times a year, and the rest was low quality clothing I actually wore. I flipped it,…

I have been writing Clojure since 2017. Unlike every other language that helps you achieve a task, Clojure helped me think. Clojure for me is a rich vocabulary to talk interact wit…

This blog post could have been a 4 hour in person event.

The TTS/STT models are actually good and aggressively priced. I personally built a voice-mode ai assistant. STT time to first token is ~300ms. ~20 second audio takes less than 1 se…

A singleton pattern for coordinating rate limits across distributed Workers