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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Wow didn’t know you were in the Boston area. Would love to bump into you somewhere :)

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Jack of all trades, master of none

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

What's the workaround here? Not to feel? Isn't that counterintuitive to living a humane life? But that seems like the only option for now.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you have a task, and you spend so much as even a second to think about how it'd feel, if it doesn't feel great, you'll start coming up with excuses of not doing it, or postponing it to later.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I think sometimes the biggest blocker in productivity is the ability to feel. As humans, we are able to imagine what doing a particular task would feel like (that feeling might not even be true!) 👇🏻

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K8sContributors @kubernetes.dev · 29/03/2025

Catch Keith Mattix (Microsoft) & Lior Lieberman (Google) at #MaintainerSummitEU 2025 Kubernetes track, where they will present “Towards a Standardized Identity-based Authorization in Kubernetes.” 📣 View schedule: maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com 📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

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K8sContributors @kubernetes.dev · 29/03/2025

Join Sreeram Venkitesh (DigitalOcean) & Priyanka Saggu (SUSE) for “A Field Guide to Integrating CEL in the Kubernetes Codebase” at the #MaintainerSummitEU 2025 Kubernetes track! 📣 View full schedule: maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com 📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

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K8sContributors @kubernetes.dev · 28/03/2025

Check out the Kubernetes track at #MaintainerSummitEU 2025! Join Surya Seetharaman & Dan Winship from Red Hat for session “Redesigning Kubelet Probes”. 📣 View full schedule: maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com 📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Today’s thinking after spending a perfectly good day at the library

Photo of a person sitting in the library under a lamp and reading a book

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies experiencing different job markets with different incentives & different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Features implementation, check ✅ Onto the testing part now, let’s hope it works! Abstraction remains and that is a huge pain :’(

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I can feel the awkwardness… :)

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“Few topics offer a more powerful magnifying glass that helps explain why people behave the way they do, than money”.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 22/03/2025

I'm trying to built an AI agent using the various tools and frameworks available and I'm shocked at how bad everything from the libraries and documentation are. Maybe it's just early, but I'd expect a 2015 level of quality before promising the whole world is about to change.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

damn, it took 59 minutes to load the csv data into a mysql database i guess its time to batch load the data; i regret not doing it sooner imagine making an error in the next part now and having to re-load the entire data :'( happy saturday y'all!

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it’s time to implement new features to the calendar application: - add support for timezones - add functionality to create multiple cals - copy events from one cal to another - improved command set coding this in java is the real pain (or fun, depends) will complete it by this friday!

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Absolutely can’t ask for a better place for a nice morning jog 🥰

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It’s 4:30 am, trying to get back on schedule after spring break…

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What could have taken 30 minutes to an hour to explain is now compressed into a few words. So, note to self, look into design patterns, but remember: there's not just one way to implement them. It all depends on the problem at hand.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The real benefit of design patterns becomes clear when you start explaining your software in terms of design. You can summarize your code in a sentence or two using design terminology, and others will immediately get what you mean.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Reification means taking something abstract and making it concrete. There are many ways to reify a design pattern. A reified pattern is considered "good" if it aligns with the programmer's intent. But if they’re so flexible, why use them at all?

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Popular resources like Gang of Four present design patterns as one-size-fits-all solutions, but I don’t think these patterns are "implemented" — they’re "reified."

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A quick thought on Design Patterns: I had the chance to work with design patterns this semester in my academic setting, and they’re amazing! Naturally, I thought about reading more books on them. But here’s something I’ve realized:

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 19/03/2025

the length of tasks that AI agents can do is doubling every ~7 months straight lines on log scale graphs in thorough research papers are significantly more convincing to me than marketing speak — AI progress is real and it's happening fast, props to @metr.org for this new paper making sense of it

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

google calendar + a double pomodoro is my best productivity hack. and yet I still find myself looking for alternatives. do you HAVE a better alternative?

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

im working on a cli calendar application (like google calendar) in java and it is coming up pretty strong! have tested it, and it works so far! - create events, autoDecline them if conflicts - create single and recurring - edit properties, add desc, location, public/private - query event(s) & more

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

lets do this for all sides once more.... you must've figured by now that i'm not exactly an artist, but something like this. if you do this more times, it starts to resemble a snowflake. hence, the koch snowflake algorithm!

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

let's pick the bottom side and make another equi triangle from it (self-similar)

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

how would you approach it? let's understand through an example. let's take an equilateral triangle

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

the properties of self-similarity. that is, every part is self-similar to itself. there are many examples in nature where you'll observe this - snowflake being one of them.

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

have been reading up on the koch snowflake algorithm and it's interesting. if you see a snowflake closely, you'll notice how every 'branch' has more 'branches' sprawning from it that looks like itself. those are called fractals. fractals, briefly understood, are geometrical shapes that displays..->

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

And Lando Norris wins the Australian Grand Prix! Phew, what a race!

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Have been really intrigued with F1 recently and the first time watching a match live! Also, 1st lap and 3 crashes already 😶‍🌫️

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

for eg, here’s something for today. A quite peaceful walk around Boston 🥰

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I figure I should start posting more. I procrastinate since I thought I'll only share tech related content here, and sometimes, I go days without learning something new daily because of academia. I think I'll just post something, anything, every day and start from there...

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K8sContributors @kubernetes.dev · 15/02/2025

Hello, K8s community! We’re gearing up for the Maintainer Summit EU 2025 in London, and the Call for Designs is now open! If you love design & Kubernetes, this is your chance to contribute! 📅 Deadline: Feb 18, 23:59 GMT Check the email on k-dev for details. See you there! 🎉 #CNMaintainerSummit

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 18/01/2025

most vegans and linux users i know are chill though

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jordan @jdan.me · 18/01/2025

Day 141 of training myself to read QR codes with my eyes instead of my phone: Still no idea what any of these dots are

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Playing around with R - it's such a cool language!

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Found an old nugget. I created this notion page in Feb 2024, before hopping on a call with someone to ask them questions about contributing - which never happened btw ;) But I look back and I've got involved, contributed, & spoken at conferences. Random moments that show you how far you've come :)

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Arvind Parekh @arvindparekh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Was looking for something like this, thanks!

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