Blog Archive

Temporal anti-pattern: Don't treat expected failures as exceptions

Trajectory shapes

Checking my model vibes against SWE-Bench Pro

Feature Platforms: The Underrated Infrastructure Layer Behind Fast ML Teams

Engineering Maturity is all you need

Weird system prompt artefacts

How System Prompts Reveal Model Biases

Codex CLI vs Claude Code on autonomy

How System Prompts Define Agent Behavior

Reinforcement Learning with GRPO

How the Lobsters front page works

Minimum Viable Benchmark

How to work with Product: Taste and Adjust

How to work with Product: To What Port Do You Sail?

How to work with Product: At the Tea Table

A Short Lesson in Simpler Prompts

Fight context rot with context observability

Artisanal shims for the bitter lesson age

What are popular AI coding benchmarks actually measuring?

The common sense unit of work

The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

My Quarterly System Health Check-in

Why Does AI Feel So Different?

How I keep up with AI progress

AI-assisted coding for teams that can't get away with vibes

Experimenting with Self-Hosted LLMs for Text-to-SQL

Exploring RAG based approaches for Text-to-SQL

MCP explained without hype or fluff

A database optimisation story

Tiny Models, Local Throttles: Exploring My Local AI Dev Setup

Text-to-SQL with GenAI: A Practical Exploration

My GenAI workflow for building a voice assistant

I built an AI prototype that can participate in our internal meetings

A ‘systems thinking’ approach to saving lives from heart attacks and strokes

Thoughts on tldraw computer

Good enough data

A caution against ephemeralization

We, the Citizens and Systems Thinking

Leaky Bucket Rate Limiting

Spreadsheets and Small Software

A Software Analogy

FOSSMeet 2023: The brazen indifference for Free Software, because people think Something Else is more important.

small-stalk: Beanstalkd in Clojure

Everyday Recipes for Cooking Noobs

Offline-first apps are appropriate for many clinical environments

Training, the Simple way

From wings to cups

India has a Three-Body Problem

Fast Sudoku Solver in Haskell #3: Picking the Right Data Structures

Fast Sudoku Solver in Haskell #2: A 200x Faster Solution

Fast Sudoku Solver in Haskell #1: A Simple Solution

Finances in an Employee-Owned Technology Co-operative

Designing for Open Source Software

Writing a Simple REST Web Service in PureScript - Part 2

Writing a Simple REST Web Service in PureScript - Part 1

Gunak — Designing with the Indian Government

Designing for Rural India — Part 1

Black Mirror*, or a review of the review process at a software co-operative

nilenso policies: by the people, for the people

"I have cramps."

Threading macros in clojure

Suggestions: Conferences and festivals

HOWTO: Bicycle Commute in Bangalore

How do Vipassana centres in India differ?

Bangalore 2030

How to Co-op: Salaries & Reviews

Patient Charts

Emergent-Continuous Design

How To Recycle

Drugs, meditation, warnings.

Huh? A software cooperative?

Welcome, gratitude.

Functional Programming 101 - With Haskell

How to Disable the Google Hangouts Menu Bar Icon on OS X

Octopress, Planet.rb and the Nilenso Blog

gimp tito

Android Development - Harnessing powers of MVP

You probably shouldn't be nesting your CSS

Building an offline survey tool for Rural India

Encrypt Your Emails on OS X

Pow Over HTTPS

Using RoboGuice to Inject Views Into a POJO

Recursive Postgres Queries

Turning Your Local Git Repo Into a Remote

Writing Custom RSpec Matchers

YAML Serialization for Delayed Job

Changing the Server Timeout on EngineYard

Use Lambdas for Date-based Rails Scopes

Using Swipe.js to swipe between pages of a web app

An Atheist's Glimpse of God

zero to emacs in under 5 minutes

GSoC - 1 & 2

GSoC 2011 - 0

"Open Containing Folder" for EoG and gedit

Tech Leaderisms.

The C# expatriate: Tips for settling in Java.

Rock the shortcuts.

Outdone.

Devcamp Bangalore, Barcamp Pune!

Testing strange web applications using Selenium? Take note.

How to be succinct.