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Russ Cox @swtch.com · 03/04/2026

Partial blame to Microsoft and Zoom for normalizing the need to install new software just to make video calls, despite browsers being perfectly capable. They make it extra hard to even find the web-only links. simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 01/02/2026

I use Jujutsu, and `jj workspaces` . I'm telling you, `jj` is an insane unlock for agent driven programming. Spinning up workspaces and having different agents work on them is an amazing way to get a ton of work done while being completely immersed in flow state.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 12/11/2025

The coding with LLMs analogy that makes the most sense to me: "Code like a surgeon" by @geoffreylitt.x.com -- www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/c...

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Code like a surgeon

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 11/11/2025

My "go-to" for unsupervised agent runs is now sst/opencode with kimi-k2-thinking-turbo. Surprisingly fast and cheap. Runs great for most stuff I use it for. 3$ vs 30$ for the same API usage on Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 06/11/2025

When I have to debug Python is when I truly miss the elegance of Clojure.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 19/10/2025

This Diwali, burst less "rockets" and "atom bombs" and instead re-watch Rocket Boys on Sony Liv. Ignite passion for scientific excellence and competitiveness, alongside diyas and kandils. We once dreamt of global leadership and excellence. It all stems from Math and Science.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 14/10/2025

Note to self: Understanding comes from getting your hands dirty!

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 28/07/2025

Indian writing in English: the authors who write well lack the imagination to captivate the average reader (like me). And the folks who have the imagination write the most insipid 6th standard English. Where are the great Indian thrillers?

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atharva @atharvaraykar.com · 19/06/2025

I was seeing @karpathy.bsky.social's Software 3.0 talk, as one should. Surreal to see him recommend my writing to make a point on AI-assisted coding "Is that me on TV??" moment

Andrej Karpathy on the YCombinator startup school stage talking about my AI-assisted coding blog post

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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 09/06/2025

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

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The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that i...

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 04/06/2025

People like to be contrarian and say things like Langda is the best mango. Ignore them. Even if Hapus did not exist in this world, Kesar and Payari are both better. As is Banganpalle and Gulabkhas. Hapus is king. There, that's my spicy take for the day.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

It's interesting how the major LLM API vendors are converging on the following features: - Code execution: Python in a sandbox - Web search - like Anthropic, Mistral seem to use Brave - Document library aka hosted RAG - Image generation (FLUX for Mistral) - MCP MIstral today […]

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 20/04/2025

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now my goto architect model with Aider. Editor model remains Sonnet 3.7

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 15/04/2025

What an absolutely beautiful interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLF... - What is Science? - What is non-Science? - What is the difference between Science and Technology? - Fundamentalism and Science! Dr Raza is a treat to listen to.

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Are We 🇮🇳 Indians Scientific? | Nope ft. Gauhar Raza | Episode 001

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 11/04/2025

My Git story: the year was 2006. @jiteshs_.x.com and I were participating in a bunch of coding competitions. For PICT's OPUS, we built a file-splitting program based on Hamming codes, to move around large files on floppy disks. It was beautiful.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 04/04/2025

So, the "Career Growth and Open-source" is happening tomorrow at #PuneFOSS! I'll be moderating the discussion, and the Panel is @_svs_.x.com, @vishweshji.x.com, and @AmitaMirajkar.x.com! Send in all the tough Career questions that are plaguing you! No question is Taboo! [DM me!]

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 03/04/2025

I travel by Pune Metro regularly, and stand in queue like a sensible person. People crowd at the yellow line to jump into the train. They won't even let people get down from the train first. How hard is it to stand in line? Why are we like this?

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 02/04/2025

The Singapore trip was amazing. I've been to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok previously, and assumed that's what SG would be like. It was much better! As a friend put it: KL is ahead of Mumbai by a large distance. The distance between SG and KL is bigger than that.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 02/04/2025

Has anybody used Sprint Planning in a way that has worked for them? Where they felt -- "This has actually added value to my work!"? If yes, what did you do differently? Trying to keep my bias aside and learn.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 01/04/2025

Bluesky is so unbearably slow that only sheer hatred and contempt of X is keeping it alive.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 01/04/2025

Other than @ai4bharat.x.com, what are the great Indic language datasets? More importantly, how does one go about contributing to these language datasets? Curating the datasets and building projects around these are a great way for anyone to get started in AI projects!

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 25/03/2025

I'm loving all the "deep dive into MCP" posts on Twitter, Mastodon, Linkedin because they are solving the social issues around the legitimacy of MCP. Adoption is everything!

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 25/03/2025

Hi Bluesky! I'm going to be in Singapore over the weekend (29th, 30th March) If you are around, DM me and let's meet! If there is an AI meetup you think I should attend, please let me know!

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 25/03/2025

Love it! Just what I was looking for!

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 15/03/2025

🚀 Announcing mcp-clojure-sdk: A Clojure SDK for Model Context Protocol Servers! I'm excited to open-source our Clojure SDK for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers! github.com/unravel-team...

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GitHub - unravel-team/mcp-clojure-sdk: A Clojure SDK to create MCP servers (and eventually clients)

A Clojure SDK to create MCP servers (and eventually clients) - unravel-team/mcp-clojure-sdk

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 22/02/2025

#TiECon Pune today is all AI, AI, AI! Come find me. I'd love to learn from you! And show you some of the cool stuff we've been doing at Unravel. (I'm wearing a 'Come as you are' t-shirt)

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 21/02/2025

I'm attending #TiECon Pune today and tomorrow! If you see a guy in a t-shirt with legends from computer science printed on them, come say hi!

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2025

Quick TIL: if you have uv installed and you want to try out ANY Python package in an ipython REPL, you can do so just by running uvx --with llm --with sqlite-utils ipython Pass as many --with package options as you like I wrapped it in a shell script, "itry llm" […]

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 14/02/2025

#linux top command explained

The Linux comic humorously shows and explains how the Linux command "top" works. It displays running processes sorted by CPU usage. The penguins represent these processes, with the larger ones indicating higher resource consumption.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 14/02/2025

how tar.gz compression works illustrated ...

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 10/02/2025

Becoming a "better engineer with AI" isn't anything new -- it's what great engineering has always been about. LLMs just make the payoff instant! ⚡ Here are the fundamentals that haven't changed:

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 01/02/2025

🚀 Templates + LLMs = 🔥 (my secret productivity weapon)

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 30/01/2025

Coding with AI requires UNLEARNING. 🧠💥 Especially for grizzled bears like me. The crucial trick is understanding what **Iteration Speed** unlocks! 🚀 Let me explain why my old habits are holding me back 🧵 ↓

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 28/01/2025

Deepseek-R1 is simply the better product. Nothing else matters.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 25/01/2025

I only ever listen to music properly -- like albums end-to-end -- on long drives with my wife now. When I was younger, there were no podcasts, and music was my daily commute entertainment. Sometimes I miss those days :)

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 20/01/2025

Rants about my fragmented social media world. Obligatory "in my humble opinion" before all these statements, of course 🧵:

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 20/01/2025

Just wrapped up 2 months of exciting work at Unravel.tech, and our vision is getting clearer: We're going all-in on Agentic Systems! 🚀🧵

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 08/01/2025

Today marks 6 months from Unravel.tech's incorporation. 9 months ago it was just an idea. To celebrate and reflect, here are 6 things I learned about myself, and about the business 🧵:

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 07/01/2025

I do the books of our tiny, tiny company. Because it's so small, I can get away with using #ledgercli! What an absolute delight it is :D One hour every month, well spent! ledger-cli.org

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ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system - ledgerFork me on GitHub

Website and documentation for the open source command-line double-entry accounting system named ledger

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 07/01/2025

We published `effective-agents-clj` to showcase how much nicer the experience of interacting with LLMs in #clojure is. Using workflows and agents without a giant framework like LangGraph getting in the way is so freeing! github.com/unravel-team...

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GitHub - unravel-team/effective-agents-clj: A repository of various LLM workflows and agents.

A repository of various LLM workflows and agents. Contribute to unravel-team/effective-agents-clj development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 05/01/2025

The ABDM API Implementation team should keep the Robustness Principle in mind: "Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept".

The image shows a code snippet, Clojure, of a helper function called `make-abdm-json-body`. The function takes a map called `body` as an argument and converts it into a JSON string. The key feature is that it explicitly pretty-prints the JSON output.

The accompanying docstring (documentation comment) explains the function's purpose and expresses the developer's frustration with the API requiring pretty-printed JSON, despite it seeming unnecessary. It mentions the significant time it took to discover this requirement.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 04/01/2025

All my writing uses Prot's incredible #denote My website publishing process is: 1. `M-x org-publish-current-project` from inside the appropriate denote silo. 2. `make deploy` in my SSG. The first part of this process, `denote-publish`, is now at: github.com/vedang/denot...

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GitHub - vedang/denote-publish: Publish denote files to markdown, keeping front-matter intact

Publish denote files to markdown, keeping front-matter intact - vedang/denote-publish

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 03/01/2025

In the spirit of publishing work even if it's not complete, here is the #Makefile I use to drive all my #Clojure projects: github.com/unravel-team... I think Makefiles are a fantastic idea, and I'll write about why I still use them in a future post.

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GitHub - unravel-team/metaclj: Tooling configuration for brand new Clojure projects

Tooling configuration for brand new Clojure projects - unravel-team/metaclj

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Kevin Cunningham @dolearning.dev · 02/01/2025

I’m trying to pull together a list of devs (indie, casual, ft, whatever) building or interested in building local first applications. Is that you? Know someone?

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 02/01/2025

Setting up Llama3.2-1B and Llama3.2-3B models on Axon was ridiculously easy. Kudos to the Vicharak team for making this so simple! Surprisingly, 1B performs incredibly well and punches way above it's weight! 3B seems to ramble and get lost in the weeds.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 01/01/2025

In a delightful turn of events, I found myself compiling #Emacs from source on a brand new Ubuntu today. They say you should start the year doing the things you love! 😁 I've noted down the steps involved: vedang.me/compiling-em...

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Compiling Emacs Master Branch from source on Ubuntu

My corner on the Internet.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 29/12/2024

Write when the mood is upon you, code when the mood is upon you. If you are so lucky as to have the Muse smiling, drop everything else and sit down. The flow is the most important thing.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 28/12/2024

I’m not convinced this was a big enough problem for the size of hammer that has been used to “solve” it.

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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 26/12/2024

The best and brightest minds of India are settling abroad, only to be loudly told to go back home. We *need* to reverse this brain-drain, and now is a great time for our Government and Industry titans to speak up. What do we need to do? 🧵

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