Blog Archive

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.