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NO. ०३०
March 01, 2026

Recruitment in the Time of War

It is a testament to the voyeuristic nature of man, that wherever war breaks out we get this urge to 'monitor the situation'. And that is precisely what happened until the wee hour…

NO. ०२९
February 15, 2026

Read More (Science) Fiction

The Dark Factory Last week someone at StrongDM published a manifesto. Their AI agents write all the code now. Their AI agents review all the code. Humans are banned from both activ…

NO. ०२८
February 01, 2026

Openclaw and all the rest

Many years ago, in a sea far far away, there was born a little lobster named Clawd. Normally, it would have taken years for such a lobster to be born, but such are the times that t…

NO. ०२७
January 25, 2026

The Agents Are On The Hunt

For many years now, smart programmers have known that it is a great idea to be 'findable'. Actually no, that's a cynical take. Great engineers have always known that they are vying…

NO. ०२६
January 11, 2026

The Stack is Dead. Long Live the Stack

In our universe, an organism can only eat something simpler than itself. You consume complexity below you to fuel your rise to the next level. This is how single-celled organisms b…

NO. ०२५
October 20, 2025

Happy Diwali

To all readers of this newsletter, a very Happy Diwali to you and along with that a big thank you to all of you for being here. This is my second Diwali newsletter, which means thi…

NO. ०२४
September 28, 2025

Go to meetups!

Yesterday was such an amazing day! First of all, a huge shoutout to my friends at Invideo for putting together the first edition of Bombay.ex, the Mumbai Elixir users meetup. The t…

NO. ०२३
September 21, 2025

To H1B or Not?

Events of this week reminded me of the time my brother in law got laid off. He expected me to commisserate when he told me the news and was surprised when I said "good. you'd never…

NO. ०२२
August 31, 2025

Rumors of the death of Rails have been highly exaggerated

I first started programming in Ruby back in 2008, and when I finally understood what Rails was, I felt genuinely cheated. You see, I had been trying to build something similar in P…