I have started preparing a hybrid (pre-recorded + live sessions) course on practical system design that will be shipped on maven. The course is designed for engineers with at least 3 years of experience, & these are the expected learning outcomes:. TLDR; I want to teach the bulk

So much following, so little thinking from first principles. Drives me insane.

This is what the future of coding might look like. This is a concrete example of using the GitHub Copilot coding agent to fix a bug in the actions/cache action.

Experienced software engineers don't always come up with the best solutions!. This a counterintuitive truth in software engineering that many of us resist acknowledging. This isn't because they lack skill or intelligence. It's because experience, when wielded incorrectly, can

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Platform enabled software design. Every once and while Steve Yegge's rant about the Google Platform, from 2012, resurfaces and people reading the post use it as an argument to push for service oriented architectures, or microservices etc. But I do believe people are really

Analysis of the Google Cloud Platform incident on June 12th. This type of planet scale incidents is terrifying and could have easily spiraled out of control and extended the time to recovery!. Let's breakdown what happened, and what has possibly transpired behind the scenes.

10 inch and 10U 3d printable server rack is finally done!. I'm amazed at how this turned out to be honest 😄 I started this small project on a whim and it was a fantastic CAD design experience. It's a great reminder that designing for manufacturing requires much more than CAD

10inch 5U home server rack that I designed has been 3D printed and ready to mount my homelab hardware 😄. ✅ 1 out of 3 raspberry Pi 5 is mounted already. Remaining hardware to be mounted:. ☑️ MikroTik CRS310-8G 2S IN will in go next.☑️ Proxmox running on the Minisforum ms-01

Designing a modular & 3d printable 10" homelab rack is not a small feat 😅

Building your own version of Jarvis "seems" simple but it isn't. Near real-time audio transcription is simpler though. Here's how you can setup an audio transcription loop on your own machine.

I love how all the X employees post Elon have followers in the 6 digits. Nepo babies.

Printed with a couple of batteries inside

This 21700 INR battery pack I’m designing is turning out to be quite awesome 🤔

What a f*cking week.

RT @ashtom: We will always need human developers.

Enough with the communication theater. It’s much simpler than that.

How can a game be so beautiful & so horrifying at the same exact time?

Obsidian + VScode agent? Perfect combo!

We're gonna need an MCP server management utility for all these mcp servers running locally 😄 who's building that?.

Studio Ghibli is yesterday's news, this Cyberpunk Edgerunners style hits hard