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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

I love reading "code like X" posts because it gives me a window into how other folks think, and helps me clarify my own thoughts. Here is another post that I loved! "Code like a home-cook" (unrelated to AI): www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

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An app can be a home-cooked meal

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

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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

I want to read more books like Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar -- a rare and riveting exception that's unputdownable from start to finish. Please recommend thrillers (Indian) to me!

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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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Vedang Manerikar @bsky.vedang.me · 19/06/2025

Atharva, this is unbelievably, incredibly cool! Also, I totally agree with that post!

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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

YouTube video by Kunal Kamra

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

The amount I learned in this process made me a complete Git convert, and possibly set me up with a lifetime's love for tooling. I love Git. Happy 20th birthday you magnificent beast!

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

In 2008, I joined Symantec. My team used CVS. After a full year of using Git, i wasn't going to go back. So I spent nights and weekends working to setup the git-cvs bridge on cygwin. The team would continue using CVS, and I would continue using Git, and none would be the wiser!

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

Early 2007, we were lucky enough to get @kedarsovani.x.com as a mentor (Go Dreamz group!) He introduced us to git. We had no idea this was a "hot new thing". We didn't know what DVCS meant. We just absolutely loved what it unlocked for us. Forever grateful to Kedar for this.

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

But we didn't know anything about version control and would write code in folders "opus_final", "opus_latest", "opus_final_final" and so on. Inevitably, we took the wrong version with us to the competition and failed. That's when we knew we needed to get serious about version control.

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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

Questions that made me cackle : - "How much money should companies contribute per-dev to OSS?" - "How are Indian devs perceived in the OSS world? How to fix this?" - "How much of your technical success has genuinely been about merit versus who you knew or pure luck?" Ouch!

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

Some bangers coming my way, for the panel: - "Does HR care, or even understand, when the candidate has strong open-source contributions?" - "In today's AI-enabled world, what key skills would you focus on that most CS grads are ignoring?" Send more!

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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

Sure. I haven't logged into Slack in a while, and don't have it at work. Let me message you on clojurians Slack once I'm back home.

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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 · 01/04/2025

I would absolutely love to discuss it informally with the group! In fact, I'd love feedback and some general brainstorming. Let me know how!

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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

Wow, there is an incredible vLLM meet happening in Singapore on 3rd April! www.sginnovate.com/event/limite... It's their first Asia Developer Day. I wish I'd known about this event when planning my trip. vLLM is a super cool project!

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[Limited Availability: Evening Slots Remaining] Inaugural vLLM Asia Developer Day | SGInnovate

Course Description & Learning OutcomesTarget audience: Software Developers, Data Scientists, AI Engineers and AI Enthusiasts focused on high-performance computing and model deployment. Also, particul...

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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

The documentation is shitty, but there are working examples in the `examples` folder -- I actually use the Vega-lite mcp server a lot. And a giant TODO file for all the work that's still pending. If you are a Clojure programmer, please jump in!

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

MCP has been blowing up these last few days. I've been using it for a while and am convinced that it's super powerful. With this SDK, I can now easily create MCP servers in Clojure.

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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

Nail these practices, and you’re 60% of the way to generating everything automatically. The trick is knowing that this was ALWAYS what separated good engineers from great ones. Tl;Dr AI doesn’t replace craftsmanship. It **rewards** it.

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

Basically, it's a simple, but incredibly effective trick: Documentation! 📝 We’ve all paid lip service to it in the past -- future rewards felt too abstract. But LLMs make the payoff immediate!

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

✅ Patterns & Conventions -- Standardize them and document them for everyone to find ✅ End-to-End Testing -- Build clean test harnesses and automate rigorously ✅ Composable Modules -- Build small, focused tools; always remember the Unix Philosophy

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

✅ Contracts & Interfaces -- Document behavior, inputs, and outputs. ✅ Schema Design -- Define data structures carefully ✅ Architecture Decisions -- Record the "why" behind systems.

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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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