pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 08/10/2026Received a thoughtful, nicely worded outreach from a recruiter. Could be AI but it was so well written that I almost wrote back to thank them for making a genuine effort. 020
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 04/10/2026@obsidianent.bsky.social @xbox.com outer worlds 2 is one of the best games Ive ever played its a damn shame the franchise won’t continue 😭 010
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 23/09/2026Kinda miss old social media that was primarily just sharing your life with your friends and family. 001
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 20/09/2026TIL that the concept of langar originated in the Sufi tradition and was later adopted and institutionalized by sikhism 001
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 01/09/2026@github.com the gh stack cli is freaking awesome. I didn’t know yall still could build great products. More of this please! 000
Reposted by pratikProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.propublica.orgListen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ... 487109566250
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 28/08/2026@chickfila.bsky.social institute a timeout at the drive thru lane. If you take more than a minute to order, refuse to serve. This will solve ur traffic issues + increase sales by a lot. 020
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 20/08/2026The datacenter ppl could have poured money into solar, wind and batteries; subsidized residential power to build goodwill etc. but they decided not to just because. The biggest fumble ever. 010
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 25/07/2026how the fuck did @vox.com fumble their early lead in video explainers? Seems like they don’t put much of that content anymore, while others like @bloomberg.com have stepped up 100
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 02/07/2026One of the biggest scams in America is that the only way to improve your sleep is by getting a new mattress… no bob, get a sleep study, you probably have sleep apnea. 010
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 06/06/2026Love the physical @wired.com copies that I get; first the reporting on tech in china, now the one on AI. There’s something about the experience of holding and reading a physical magazine that just isn’t replicated by digital media. Love it. Thanks for keeping this alive team wired! 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 03/06/2026steam deck is a genuinely great device for indie games and older games or platformers. The only issue is its terrible battery life. Even so, glad that I got one before the price hike 😬. Doesn’t really seem worth at that price unless they upgrade the hardware. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 03/06/2026wifi in the bedroom was spotty so i went with google nest pro; got two of them to get decent coverage. Incredibly easy setup, and now have blazing internet all around the house. Amazing. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 22/05/2026You either die a bollywood superstar or live long enough to go on Desi Bling 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 06/05/2026Had a difficult oncall shift (software, not healthcare). My go to stress reliever has been to cook. So after my shift ended, made a mean chicken curry and gobbled it with some rice. Life is good. 030
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 02/05/2026Software engineering today is just sitting around in an incident zoom talking shit about all the saas vendors that are hard down but won’t admit it in their status page. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 17/04/2026It seems like the Konkani people have managed to share enough recipes online that ai agents have been trained with this knowledge, preserving forever some truly delicious recipes for eternity. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 16/04/2026My hot take is that Newsom will quickly drop off in popularity once he’s no longer CA Governor. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 11/04/2026Having used both claude code and cursor, I don’t see how Cursor can possibly survive. CC is such a great product and does everything I wanted from cursor. I started off with cursor and moved to CC and have never looked back. 110
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 23/03/2026Pretty endearing that the last ruling members of both the Mughal and Ottoman empires were more interested in arts than in statecraft. 000
Reposted by pratikMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student. 240134564885
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 04/03/2026@nytimes.com last time I checked, you’re the “mainstream” not “independent journalists”. 100
Reposted by pratikderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/02/2026seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing? 51910094749
Reposted by pratikProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.socialpropublica.orgSeized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their StoriesDetainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls. 31957993529
Reposted by pratikKayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Ask for a ride from the train station. Offer to drop off medicine when a friend says they're sick. You're wasting money and opportunities to build relationships with people by outsourcing everything to apps. 1125649
Reposted by pratikKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale. These are mostly children. This is where Liam Ramos is being held. They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions. These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages 8527581193
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 08/01/2026don’t think Ive ever been shamed as much by anything as I have been by duolingo, and I grew up in a south asian household. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 04/01/2026@us.theguardian.com Jordan is a Member of the house and not the Senate. Please correct + proofread better in the future. 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 25/12/2025The timing of this is looking rather good. Only regret is not getting 64gb ram; I haven’t had any use for that much ram though so probably gonna be fine for a while. 010
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 22/12/2025@steampowered.com is steam cloud down? Getting sync errors trying to start games : ( 000
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 15/12/2025I don’t get the concept of a part time legislature? Are matters of state not important enough to have peoples representatives around full time? Especially in a state the size of Texas? 030
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 05/12/2025cloudflare burning reputation build over decades over a few weeks. #hugops to all the operation folks everywhere dealing with the fallout (including at cloudflare) 031
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 02/12/2025It was about time for a Kamath to blow up spectacularly after what Vijay did to clan Mallya. 010
Reposted by pratikAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Back on my soapbox: Mandatory return-to-office 5 days a week is the kind of policy you implement to cover up for leadership skills issues (& to recoup real estate costs.) 938461
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 25/11/2025My opinion on star wars franchise is that Foundation Apple TV series is much better than all, except Andor, which comes close 020
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 17/11/2025Tragically funny that US automakers had ONE CHANCE to actually compete with Toyota and WIN BIG but let it slide because they’re incapable of planning for the long term. 100
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 03/11/2025@christianpaz.bsky.social typo in article: “Have you been surprised by the level of Islamophobic vitriol directed at Zoran Momani in these closing weeks?” Momani -> Mamdani 110
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 28/10/2025Youtube has gone the same way as google search. The front page is littered with ads, videos that look like ads, shorts (I don’t want shorts?!). Complete garbage. 020
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 30/09/2025Genuinely thought that “Riyadh Comedy Festival” was an elaborate prank/AI slop 030
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 30/09/2025I find it difficult to understand why Governments/Public agencies continue to provide important public information on Twitter but not Bluesky/Mastodon, since the former requires an account to even view info. 030
pratik @pratik.mallya.dev · 30/09/2025Got a GE induction range installed and OMG it boils water so fast! Also, no more burning noxious gas in the kitchen 🌎⚡️ 020
