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Front-end: - vercel.com - nginx load balanced next.js apps running on digital ocean Back-end: - fly.io - nginx load balanced python/node apps running on digital ocean

A bunch of them: grep/ag - text search instead of a big name startup. vim - for text editing. zsh/tmux - for terminal stuff. Google Keep (replace with text files) - for TODO and no…

All credits to: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Anoushk

Code on how to setup and properly clear an eventloop sidecar in python

Simple shell tricks to run commands on multiple hosts parallelly

I loved the combined view of reminders and email that 'Inbox by Gmail' used to provide, in the lack of a more sophisticated solution by GMail, I just email reminders and Snooze the…

Never split the difference by Chris Voss - so many practical tips to ensure that you get the better side of a bargain. Mythos by Stephen Fry - an irreverent take on Greek mythology…

The extensions. I would love meetings to be time-boxed. A meeting more than 30 minutes serves no purpose.

I maintain a list of tools that I find really useful at https://srijanshetty.in/almanac.html . Some of them are: - tmux, zsh, vi - fzf - zathura PDF reader - fasd - use frecency to…

This is probably the most authoritative list I've seen: https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/2014-08-09-distributed-...

The books that really shaped my understanding of CS are: - Theoretical CS: - Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (The Dragon Book) - Introduction to the Theory of Computat…

The interesting bit is that the original author's no longer feel that SICP is the right way to approach programming any more. In their words, we've moved to 'programming by poking'…

I'm currently trying out https://covve.com . It has some of the features that I need like reminders, deduplication and CRM-esque features. I don't like the UI much but it's not tha…

I use Anki at the moment. Anki makes it easy to search, recall and recollect all the details. I've toyed with GitHub, Evernote and markdown files but the greatest issues with all t…

For most CS related content I prefer reading up, but there are particular domains which can't be captured by reading for example - fitness, analysis of movies, learning to play an …

I was wondering about your rationale for not using another app like Anki. I'm a big fan of email and loved the integration of reminders with email of the like provided by Inbox (an…

I do the same but I also mix it up by running 10 miles every other day during which I reflect on the emptiness of the cosmos and our purpose as a tiny speck of imbued with consciou…

I completely agree, but we're constrained to two developers and won't hire anytime soon. So, monorep seems to be working great for us.

Office Space and to avoid the same we've been working out of cafes or piggybacking on the office space of other startups while we can (we hope to keep this culture going forward an…

I use the Kinesis Freestyle 2 keyboard which is a split mechanical keyboard and it has helped me keep my back ache in check as well. Apart from the above, I ensure that I'm going t…