Pivot
Late last weekend was a minor pivot. One of the core limbs of the erstwhile crisp app was a content extractor written in Javascript. A certain something that wasn’t exactly fast to my liking then, and much more so now …
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Halved
I run 19 instances of a C program that fetches RSS feeds on a 1vCPU VPS. Each run is short, but over time, the CPU profile felt off – spiky, higher than it should’ve been. Turns out, the fetch loop was subtly blocking. …
Visible
For nearly two decades in tech, I’ve quietly built things that mattered – writing bash scripts late after class, and later, quietly rebuilding Crisp’s infrastructure almost from scratch and at near-zero cost. But as a …
🚀 From Celeron Grit to Container Grit: An Indie CTO’s Pipeline Resurrection
A quick nod to my October 2024 post where I wrote about a resurrection; a spark of revival just a week before I joined my current role. After that, almost a year of quiet, no major moves, just the hum of the background. …
Phoenix
[tl; dr] I spent some time in the recent past weeks to pull crisp back up, to the extent possible and incrementally adding back more from its older avatar. All that’s below is a brain dump of whatever has encountered …
Kademlia - A ba dum tss
This evening has been a good one. A welcome break if I may, from a few weeks without enough to feed the brain. Of course, a minor detour existed with refreshing logarithms and some trigonometry. Cutting back, stumbled …
Low Code Well Bestowed
Found the image thanks to Abhishek Nayak on LinkedIn. This one did remind me of something that I’ve been pondering about for some time now. Some ramblings, on that note. – Developers’ apprehension for no/low-code tools: …
Increment
Made some incremental changes over the last couple of days. We have a new PM who I work with on our order APIs and there’s been some discussion we’ve had about making the system not just robust, but accountable and …
Track
After ages together, an update here. Not that there has not been enough to write about, but there has not been enough discipline to. Painful as it is, here goes. The last few months have been rather on and off with …
Improvise
And another fortnight passes, almost. A bunch of firefighting and a lot more that elevate the carpet later, some time to spend on things that keep the brain functional. Restarted work on separating our current order …