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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Deep in 3Blue1Brown's neural network series and it's wrecking every mental model I had of "black box AI." Weights and biases, backpropogation... finally starts to make sense when you see them animated instead of just algebra on a page. Absolute gold! #AI #LLM www.3blue1brown.com?topic=neural...

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3Blue1Brown

Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some albums you listen to. Some albums listen to you. 🎧 Wrote this for a prompt from underline.center/categories, an album that got me through a hard time. ashwiniag.com/some-albums-listen-to-you/

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Some Albums Listen to You

This post is a response to a writing prompt from Underline Center: "Write about an album that got you through a hard time." It would be an injustice to pick just one album! Hard times have a tendency...

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Back from life's trenches. And looking forward to my present world. Lots of work ahead, back to building. 🖖

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

explaining CPU soft-lock to stakeholder in incident review Imagine a chef in a kitchen. Normally: take order → cook → serve → repeat. A soft-lock is when the chef gets stuck obsessively checking one ingredient. Forever. They're not dead but technically "working" and nothing is getting served #sre

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Curiosity and excitement are the highest forms of aliveness. They only appear when the nervous system finally exhales. Finding them again after an extremely long time, is its own kind of homecoming.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Go has no native Set. map[key]bool vs map[key]struct{} are not same If you're storing millions of event IDs in map[int]bool instead of map[int]struct{}, you're wasting millions of bytes unnecessarily. At that scale it can tip pods over the memory limit & major incident #golang #sre #buildinpublic

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

One thing that took me a while to internalize in Go: make([]string, n) is is a declaration of intent You're telling the runtime: I know exactly how much space I need, give it to me now. Skip it and index directly → panic Small thing but expensive mistake in a hot path. #golang #sre #buildinpublic

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 26/05/2026

I've been doing Linux for a long time. This is the first time I heard of Martian Packets I know what they are, I just didn't know they were called that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian...

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Took a team from 450 alerts/week to 10. Cut security tooling cost from $10K to $420/year.Built RBAC that made a SOC audit a non-event Opening a few consulting spots. If your engineers are firefighting instead of shipping, let's talk. ashwiniag.com/consulting/ #SRE #Consulting #PlatformEngineering

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Consulting

Available for consulting. Specializing in reliability architecture, release engineering, security automation, and infra for B2B SaaS startups

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Policies built on the assumption that inequality is"not that bad" may actually be making things worse. IMO this is something to be looked at seriously. Incredible work done by economics professors & bringing data to light. 🙌 www-thehindu-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theh... #india #inequality

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I want to make something that moves people. And I want to be fully alive while making it.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🧵 "pattern recognition" is the real output of learning, not information retention. #EngineeringMindset #sre #SystemsThinking

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Good engineers are the ones who have asked why more times and sat with the discomfort of not knowing until they genuinely figured it out. #buildinpublic

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Friendship doesn't exempt people from accountability. In fact it requires more of it and not less.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The ability to regulate emotions independently is a valuable skill, not a character flaw.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Intentions live inside the person who acts. Impact lives inside the person who receives.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Clean cruelty is easier to walk away from than inconsistent love. The grief is the proof of how much you tried. #boundaries #healing #selfworth

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The hardest part is not dealing with emotionally immature people. It's the grief of accepting that someone you genuinely love doesn't have the capacity to meet you where you are. That grief is real. That's a specific kind of loss. And it's okay to grieve it. #mentalhealth #boundaries #selfworth

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We use to have visionary leaders, now we just have capitalists riding all.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I love comprehending concepts through simplest analogies and not a fan of big words. If you've been confused by interfaces in Go, this one's for you. An old post, but it sure breaks the complexity with a silly analogy. Enjoy: ashwiniag.com/interfaces-i... #golang #go #programming #learninpublic

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🧵 took up a new challenge building "Distributed Services with Go" by @travisjeffery.bsky.social following the book, writing as I learn and sharing what my curious mind finds along the way... pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-go/ #golang #distributedsystems #learninpublic #sre

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Distributed Services with Go

Master the techniques, tools, and tricks that skilled Go programmers use every day.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

was working on a string problem in Go and hit this quietly len("café") returns 5, not 4. len() counts bytes, not characters. é is 2 bytes in UTF-8. use len([]rune(s)) when you actually want character count. the small things that matter in prod. #golang #go #learninpublic

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

wrote about the slice gotcha that bites every engineer in production. b := a doesn't copy your data, it copies the header. your original slice WILL be affected. ashwiniag.com/arrays-vs-sl... #golang #go

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Arrays vs Slices in Go

Array: fixed, value type arr := [3]int{10, 20, 30} // size is part of the type * Fixed size, decided at compile time. [3]int and [4]int are different types. * Value semantics when you assign or p...

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

And half of them think sarcasm counts as a personality. 😌

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Mahak @mahakmakharia.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

new day new art

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hunter-gatherer logic is a lazy excuse for modern inequality. 🤷‍♀️ #Anthropology #SystemicInequality

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🧵 Last night I had a long discussion about gender, power, and systems with a friend. And somewhere in that conversation I realised something important about "how we talk and fail to talk" about inequality. #GenderEquality #MindsetShift #SystemsThinking #SexistSocialisation #Privilege #MenRights

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 02/03/2026

Every tech CEO right now: "We need to move fast and break things" The thing they're breaking: their own terms of service The thing they're moving fast toward: a government contract

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🧵 The Rebuttal Series: I’m turning every "small-minded" rebuttal from my stakeholder gigs into a gift of content. A devaluing discussion is usually a symptom of a deeper failure: in the architecture, the business model, or the fundamental understanding of the person in the room. #RebuttalSeries

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A lot of people confuse what "experience" actually earns you. It isn't just about years of experience or knowing a specific tool. It’s the ability to walk into chaos, triage the noise, and build the one system that eliminates 80% of the team's recurring manual labor. #PlatformEngineering #SRE

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I see a lot of DevOps|SRE roles that are really just 'Support' roles in disguise. If your infra isn't self-serve, automated, & architected for the long term, you’re not building a platform, you’re managing tickets. A Good Engineers build foundations. Everyone else just manages the cracks. #devops

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If change is the only constant, why are we so resistant to it? Across products, teams, industries and even our own lives, what are we really protecting?

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🌻 Unlearning the lessons that made me afraid to grow: When someone mentors you or vouches for you, especially when you’re new there’s a quiet fear in the chest: - What if I fail badly? - What if I disappoint them? - What if I become their wrong choice? 1/8 #unlearning #mentorship #growth

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

You know what happened today?! I was sick and hungry. Ordered from #swiggy. A woman delivered my food and she said, “ye lo beta.” 😭 It felt soo loving and motherly. 🫶

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

In my tech journey, I made/make plenty of mistakes, and was my harshest critic. Somewhere along the way, I stopped networking.Lately, I’ve been pushing myself to reach out, write more, and be seen again. This piece snapped things back into perspective+untangle a lots: addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Currently I find the entire world confusing and no idea where it is headed.

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Today I realised the rate at which I buy books, the rate at which I read those books and permanent storage of these books are three different hobbies. 🥲🤭

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Someone once comforted me saying "If you don’t feel like the phoenix today, it’s okay. Even the ashes take time to cool." And to this day it comforts when in need. Passing it forward to whoever needs it

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Picked up #StupidGuyGoesToIndia thinking it’d be a casual read… girrrl, I’m HOWLING. This book feels like watching a chaotic documentary where the author has no idea what he’s doing but somehow makes a masterpiece anyway! I thought to myself: aren’t we'll are? Isn’t that exactly how life works? 😭

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Went browsing my next gigs on Upwork today and saw a client yelling in bold: “NO AI ANSWERS. DO NOT USE AI!” Fair Enough. I opened their project details… …and it was written "entirely by AI, in full AI-tone including emoticons". I actually cackled. Peak 2025 energy. 💀🤦🏻‍♀️

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 24/11/2025

Missed my chat with Dragonfly's CEO on why single-threaded design "doesn't cut it anymore"? You're probably still using one. We discussed how they rebuilt Redis from the ground up. Watch the "sharp takes" replay. youtu.be/w2o1WseYblc #InMemoryDatabase #Redis #DragonflyDB

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In-Memory Data Reimagined: Breaking the Limits of In-Memory Data Stores

Learn more about Dragonfly ▶ https://www.dragonflydb.io/ Dragonfly Cloud sign up for free ▶ https://dragonflydb.cloud/ Duckbill’s Corey Quinn had a candid conversation with Dragonfly CEO and…

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Everything and everywhere is starting to be AI now. Cafés: Order with AI. People: I’ll just ask AI what to feel and what to say. Meanwhile I’m over here like: cool… can someone be humans again or is that out of fashion? Feels like we’re capitalising loneliness instead of actually connecting.

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SadServers @sadservers.com · 29/10/2025

New SadServers scenario Kilifi, a Medium-Hard Helm and Kubernetes challenge sadservers.com/scenario/kil... Test your K8s knowledge and troubleshooting skills in this practical lab, free for a limited time!

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SadServers - Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Interviews

Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE

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Paras Chopra @paraschopra.com · 07/07/2025

I wrote a manifesto on how to do good science in AI! Read it below 👇

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I finally sat down and sketched how DNS resolution really happens—stub vs recursive, /etc/resolv.conf, and a semi comic-style flow you can scan in one glance. Dive in here → ashwiniag.com/blogs/dns-flow #dns #linux #devops #networking

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ashwiniag @ashwiniag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Friends sending me Instagram reels on WhatsApp. Told them it's more like *Insta-garam* — all it does is instantly overheat your brain for nothing. Count me out. :P

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