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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's a JS library with every function in the world. Ish... DWIM asks Gemini Nano to hallucinate the implementation, then runs it in your browser. DWIM.reverse('hi'); I thought I was overdue for some grr's from @feross.bsky.social and @shriram.bsky.social .... jasvir.github.io/dwim/

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DWIM — your API probably exists

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can almost smell the hot dogs and feel the tension in the crowd when I read "Casey at the Bat." Even knowing how it ends, the final line still catches me out. Poem 16 of Two Dozen Poems. www.recursiverhymes.com/p/casey-at-t...

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“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Two Dozen Poems · Entry 16 of 24 · American comic verse

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apple watch said my sleep score last night was "Very High" - this is a first in a while. It's ridiculous how happy that made me AND psychologically makes me feel as if I must have slept well!

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Poe carried the idea behind "A Dream Within a Dream" for more than twenty years. What stayed with me was simpler: the helplessness of holding tighter as the grains of sand continue slipping into the waves. www.recursiverhymes.com/p/a-dream-wi...

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“A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe

Two Dozen Poems · Entry 11 of 24 · American English

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Recursive Rhymes on Reason @recursiverhymes.com · 19/09/2026

Small paper boats, each carrying a boy's name, blown along a current beyond his control. Tagore's English version preserves the hope, but the fuller Bengali poem made the loneliness clearer to me. www.recursiverhymes.com/p/paper-boat...

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“Paper Boats” by Rabindranath Tagore

Two Dozen Poems · Entry 10 of 24 · Bengali

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was working on a project today and what should sneak up on me but the absolute need...absolute need!... to solve the problem requires virtualizing the DOM. Again. It's only been half a decade since my last go to look into this abyss & witness the darkness of the soul.

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Recursive Rhymes on Reason @recursiverhymes.com · 09/09/2026

I recorded a short video about the first week of Two Dozen Poems, ending with a reading of Hilaire Belloc's "Tarantella." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTI...

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"Tarantella" by Hilaire Belloc — Read Aloud | Two Dozen Poems

YouTube video by Recursive Rhymes

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's 746pm - Mum would have been proud of the full use of value for money. I can't understand why it was so satisfying seeing it flick down to 1% minutes before it bounced back up to 100% with the query still going. I know what i'll be doing on Sunday evenings now.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Where should PII or a secret token go in an HTTP request? URLs reach history & logs. Bodies reach error reports. Headers miss redaction. Even fragments can remain visible to browser APIs. I tried putting together a practical guide to the trade-offs: 🦭 jasvir.github.io/secretseal/

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secretseal

Documents places where PII & secret tokens accidentally leak

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This one has stayed with me since I was a teenager. It changed what I thought poems were—not dead words on a page, but words with life, meant to be read aloud. heh - I may read it in tomorrow’s first weekly video.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Day 1 of Two Dozen Poems: Bashō’s "Old Pond." Before reading a translation, I tried saying the Japanese aloud and wrote down the pond I pictured. Then I learned how much can change when English chooses one frog - or many. www.recursiverhymes.com/p/old-pond-m...

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“Old Pond” — Matsuo Bashō

Two Dozen Poems · Entry 01 of 24 · Japanese

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hand written manuscripts used to be worth more than a house before the printing press and kept chained in dark cool rooms... just like programmers, before AI.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Funny seeing insights rediscovered. The second most interesting insight I had building at Google (this with the awesome Claudio) was if your fuzzer finds far fewer bugs but with executable, replayable test cases - more bugs got fixed. AI will get there too. Eventually.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Slightly late for April Fools - it's marinated a while. A while back I joked with @isaacevans.bsky.social and Daghan about a terrible idea: structural code search, but with CSS? Unfortunately I built it. CSSemgrep: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cssemg... A cursed tiny tribute to Semgrep.

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CSSemgrep – Grep but CSS

This really is an April Fools experiment. I built it for my Dad's 80th birthday.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I keep waiting for someone to dispute this result and keep going back to reread it even though it bugs me so much.... ... before realizing I'm confirming the result. www.science.org/content/arti...

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People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts

Human mind may be wired to find inner reflection unbearable

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I used to chase the "Vienna coffeehouse" version of university: small tables, big ideas, ok coffee. Mostly failed. But one night, someone asked: "So... what’s special about meat?" And we accidentally speedran today's AI debate years before LLMs. Part 1: www.linkedin.com/pulse/g%C3%B...

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Gödel, Escher, Me — Part 1: The Coffeehouse I Tried to Host

I had this romantic idea of university. The version in my head looked like a Vienna coffeehouse — the late 19th-century “Vienna 1900” scene through the interwar years, roughly the 1880s–1910s and then...

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So I like HP. A lot. I think about Hogwarts as a security thingy & honestly it holds up alarmingly well: Polyjuice breaks auth, the Trace is noisy telemetry, and the Fidelius Charm is basically ocaps with some extra drama. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hogwar...

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Hogwarts: Names & Delegation

If part one was the theory, this one is wizardry. And yes: this post is going to be very Hogwarts-focused, partly because Hogwarts is weirdly good for threat modeling, and partly because I am a fan of...

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I think about names a lot. Names aren’t labels...they’re handles. Human names are messy & relational, myths treat true names as power, and ocap security makes it literal: hold the handle (key/token/secret URL) → you have power. www.linkedin.com/pulse/names-...

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Names Are Handles

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. This old joke highlights that naming stuff is notoriously tricky — and not just for progra...

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Quines say "say me" Inequ say "see me" Self-recognizing programs that read program text & ask: "Is that… me?" Starts as byte checks & spirals into mirror tests, regex narcissism & CS slamming an UNDECIDABLE stamp on dreams. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-u... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

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I Am Not U

or I ≠ U The sequel to Quines Previously, we have played with Quines: programs that print their own source code. Self-reproduction.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I translated Ezra Pound’s 14-word metro poem into a Perl one-liner with Unicode emoji—and it literally prints trees: a tiny experiment in what translation really preserves (spoiler: not the words). www.linkedin.com/pulse/ezra-p... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

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Ezra Pounds Forests

In a Station of the Metro with Perl and Unicode Last week I argued that translation isn’t moving words from one language to another — it’s swapping interpreters, and admitting you can’t keep everythin...

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I didn't realize today is National Nothing Day. Unfortunately, I didn't celebrate it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

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National Nothing Day - Wikipedia

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I translated a nursery rhyme into JS & learnt with translating poems, you gotta choose what is load-bearing. From nonsense poems to haiku constraints to code-poetry... Translation: It's staged word magic + citations. Enjoy! www.linkedin.com/pulse/untran... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

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Untranslatable

Lessons from what it means to translate a nursery rhyme into JavaScript “Poetry is what gets lost in translation” — Robert Frost This quote is widely attributed to Robert Frost but the attribution its...

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Fun with JS const _=new Proxy([],{get:(b,k)=>k=="_"?(console.log(b.join` `),b.length=0,_):(b.push(k),_)}) _.Humpty.Dumpty.sat.on.a.wall._ _.Humpty.Dumpty.had.a.great.fall._ _.All.the.kings.horses.and.all.the.kings.men._ _.could.not.put.Humpty.Dumpty.together.again._ jsfiddle.net/jnagra/vg79m...

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Humpty Dumpty - JSFiddle - Code Playground

JSFiddle - Test your JavaScript, CSS, HTML or CoffeeScript online with JSFiddle.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Sometimes we don’t know yet, sometimes the answer doesn’t fit in the universe & sometimes we can’t ever know. Chaos, quantum dice, uncomputable monsters, Gödel’s ceiling - knowledge has weirdly beautiful limits. I wrote on things we cannot know: medium.com/@jasvir/know... Enjoy!

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Know It All: A Tour of Knowledge’s Limits

There are questions we don’t know yet, questions we can’t know ever, and questions where the answer literally can’t fit inside the…

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Do you think Pavlov's dogs like pavlova? Or are they just conditioned to think they do?

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Ok this meteor shower is gorgeous. I find it oddly romantic that a comet exploded around this part of the solar system ages ago and now once a year in December as earth blazes through it, we get shiny pretty things in the sky. #GeminidMeteorShower

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A joke for vexillologists - Is the US nervous about China because it's a red flag? 🚩

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The sky is solid uniform white today! It's like they forgot to finish rendering the screen in a game.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Soooo... I had a weird dream about a silly made up puzzle then woke at 5am trying to think of ways to solve it. And have now spent 4hrs on it. How's your Saturday?

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Thanksgiving feels like a good day to think about Dining Philosophers.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I think watching the World Cup Chess this year is the first time I've remembered the passionate enthusiasm sports fans have about about whatever their game is since maybe the 1990 rugby 7s. It's so crazy all over the place. So fun!

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

What's the fastest thing humans' have ever made? Is it Voyager? It's moving at such a small fraction of the speed of light. I guess we've made torches that make photons ...that move at the speed of light. But that feels like cheating.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

BABA IS YOU AND UNREASONABLE

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Why are so many world leaders so friggin cartoonishly evil? And not even in a fun Pinky and the Brain way. Just slimey evil. It might be reflecting our revealed preferences.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Are you telling me the one friggin night that I, a resident of the desert that always has clear skys, has a solar flare and the northern lights in the sky happens to happen - I also have clouds and rain?!? Universe - you're an ass.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

You know we just don’t talk enough about the positive aspects of pollution. Like pretty sunsets. 😛

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Nothing i have is planned. And a lot is coming. Things are going to be messy. I mean they've always been messy but I know it now.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Ok yes since I got apparently recognized - I was at IIW tonight. That still doesn't make Identity cool.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Every time I think I have a handle on how awesome @racket-lang.org is, I accidentally come across something they did a lustrum ago that is even more awesome. I think it's going to take all evening to digest how cool this is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ha...

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(sixth RacketCon): Stephen Chang and Alex Knauth -- Type Systems as Macros

YouTube video by Racket

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I wonder how many people knew Dumbledore liked candy enough to choose it for his passwords. Near as I can tell there's ~150 candy mentioned in @harrypotter.social - that's about 8 bits. Dumbledore talks about far fewer - about 3bits. Dumbledore - more like dumbledumb amirite?

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I wish there was a post from Google that would explain to me, a mildly technical person, why they wrecked chromecast - was it a legal issue that forced their hand, some technical problem, incompetence - I expected it from Google but am sad to have been so right.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Every once in a while you have to ask yourself, given the nonsense, why am I here and not there.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I worry I'm just contrarian. I worried about AGI a decade ago & now find myself groaning internally about *how* people complain about it. Reminds me adults complaining "there's data" that "comics & calculators are making kids dumber". At least I've learnt to be mostly quiet.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I am going to hate MCP when I look at it, aren't I? I mean - I haven't and I will. But I just know I will hate it. I hope I'm wrong.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I was promised a storm. I got merely wet...as an islander, SF's understanding of a "downpour" continues to surprise me two decades in. It's too wet to be outside. But it's also not wet enough to be outside.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yeah it hallucinates. But instead of complaining, what if realized that was a feature and find use cases when a little hallucination is not merely desirable but phenomenal?

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I miss the simplicity of old Browsershots - "here's a url, give me a grid of screenshots". I had a tiny template which changed bgcolor of the page based on pass/fail. You could eyeball 100s of browser/version/OS at a glance. New "dashboards" comparatively suck. What do you use?

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A tshirt has 4 holes - when I turn it inside out, I sometimes pause in wonderment that no matter which one I use, the outcome is the same When you turn a tshirt inside out, which one do you use most? * Any (why think about it?) * Bottom (I'm normal!) * Neck (I'm a rebel!) * Only sleeves (my peeps!)

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's hard to convey how frustrating it is seeing people take away the wrong lesson from the npm worm & knowing it'll harden (heh) the wrong approach to addressing issues like it. And to anyone wanting to ask me what I am doing about it - sadly nothing - I'm busy elsewhere.

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Jasvir Nagra @jasvir.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The number of times I hear about a soon to be amazingly successful company who "merely" recreated anycast & DNS but badly is too damn high. It would be fine if all they did was give it some much needed UX sugar but when they break its nice properties is when it hurts my soul.

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