Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanCockroachDB @cockroachdb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They say cockroaches will outlast us all. We'd settle for outlasting your database problems. New look, same resilience: distinct parts, adapting together, make the whole stronger. 021 2
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/09/2026seeing the astra demos just took all the joy out of this for me smh 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 08/09/2026Hot Take: homeöwner should be spelled with a dieresis @newyorker.com back me up gang 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 02/09/2026I was convinced that my microphone was dead, turns out I just had the bitchass pad button turned on on my interface 000 0
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 24/08/2026Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice. 8175281947 7.5K
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/08/2026I wonder whatever happened to GANs for image generation? I remember them being all the rage in 2019 (HyperGAN, StyleGAN etc). Somehow, the GAN’s output to me seems way more realistic that anything a diffusion model has produced Case in point: thispersondoesnotexist.comthispersondoesnotexist.comThis Person Does Not Exist 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/08/2026TreeFrog is underrated as hell. I used it a few years ago and remember it felt like writing Qt C++ but without Qt. I think it’s maintained by a lone maintainer. Really happy to see it’s still getting new releases. 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/08/2026Started watching another blender tutorial playlist today. Maybe the 20th time’s the charm? 020 2
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 29/07/2026I’m scrubbing the same frying pan for the 5th time today. I really hope I atleast get some Mr. Miyagi “wax on wax off” effect out of it. 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/07/2026I made dinner in my new apartment today Midway through making dinner, I realized I didn’t have a knife to cut the paneer with and had to use a fork as a makeshift knife #AlanisMorissette moment 100 1
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanGhostConvert @ghostconvert.cc · 13/07/2026Right framing. It's not 320 vs lossless in one pass, it's generation loss. Lossy->lossy (mp3->aac over BT) is the real killer: each codec drops different bands, so cymbals & reverb tails smear. Keep lossless as the master, transcode at playout, never store the transcode. 011 1
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanLuci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I love his cute little chunky bod especially when he’s snoozing like this. 50183061 1.8K
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 01/07/2026I just didn’t realize how much I missed this style of musicyoutu.beAfter - Outbound (Official Music Video)YouTube video by afterthebandVEVO 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 29/06/2026“Trendy DIY treatment” The best kind of treatment, what could possibly go wrong amirite folks? 130 3
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/06/2026ok this one got me 21112862437 11.3K
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 27/06/2026I’ll never understand why the currency symbol has to go BEFORE the number unlike idk every other unit in history? You even have to pronounce ₹100 as 100 rupees so why not just write it after the number? 020 2
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 27/06/2026This is really great advice. I really should be writing stuff down more. God only knows how many worthwhile ideas I’ve lost this way. 010 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 19/06/2026Today's NYT connections lists "The Entertainer" as a beginner piano piece. Sorry WHAT??? #NYTconnections #Piano 010 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 16/06/2026Bumping this absolute classic tonight. No skips. #blink182 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 18/05/2026I love LibreOffice but why did they have to name their spreadsheet software "Calc"? Everytime I try to open the calculator from drun, I end up opening "Calc" instead 🤦♂️ #linux #libreofficemedia.tenor.coma man in a space suit with the words this little maneuver 's gonna cost us 51 years above himAlt: a man in a space suit with the words this little maneuver 's gonna cost us 51 years above him 010 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 17/05/2026Hosting a search engine is the second fastest way to get your IP blacklisted (second to running your own email service) The problem is that the data changes so rapidly that you need to scrape the entire web daily just to have a usable search engine 100 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 12/05/2026What a graph. I didn't know it was this bad. monthly StackOverflow questions over time: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo... #StackOverflow 010 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/05/2026got this mythical youtube algorithm pull today www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DT...youtube.com[MASHUP] Sugar, We're Goin Down Kung-Fu FightingYouTube video by THiNGYBOBinc 000 0
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553882982 5.4K
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 07/05/2026This essay by Richard Stallman on why schools should only use libre software is one of my favourites. I think everyone should read it. www.gnu.org/education/ed...gnu.orgWhy Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation 030 3
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 05/05/2026TIL sheepshank does not mean "to stab a sheep" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheepsh... 100 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 02/05/2026RIP Jeeves 💔 www.ask.com #AskJeevesask.comA Farewell to Ask.com | 25 Years of Curiosity 000 0
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanAnisota @anisota.net · 30/04/2026Anisota is pro-goblin. We are also in favor of other critters such as gremlins, raccoons, and pigeons. We promise never to suppress creatures and cryptids, unless one begins to scare away all the moths. 014815 148
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 30/04/2026The author is trying to write a heavy academic critique and language policing, but they lack the basic phonetic vocabulary to describe the sounds they're complaining about. What is a 'nasal "na"' and a 'flat "na"'? In Marathi, BOTH न (n dental) and ण (ṇ retroflex) are nasal consonants. 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 19/04/2026Just pulled my first image from space Image of India from 825km up. Image from Meteor M2-3 LRPT (72k) received using an RTL-SDR v4 over Hyderabad Decoded on Fedora using SatDump. #SDR #Space #MeteorM2 #SatDump #LRPT #India 1150 15
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 14/04/2026I connected my Fedora 43 laptop to the college WiFi and my laptop audio instantly went out. PipeWire had discovered like 50 macbook audio sinks and it was so busy creating and managing outputs for those random devices that my on device speakers weren't working lol #linux #fedora #pipewirereddit.comFrom the Fedora community on RedditExplore this post and more from the Fedora community 010 1
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 10/04/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/k...en.wikipedia.orgBouba/kiki effect - Wikipedia 020 2
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/04/2026Wiering’s style is unmistakable. I could tell immediately just looking at the tiles 020 2
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanMichelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here." 30511788782 11.8K
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 09/04/2026Does anyone know why all these badass defense contractors have these Law Firm -esque double-barrel names? - Northrop-Grumman - McDonnell-Douglas - Fisher-Price - Lockheed-Martin etc 000 0
Reposted by Shriram RavindranathanV @vmc54.bsky.social · 07/04/2026A gorgeous blue sky and this beautiful blossoming tree stopped me dead in my tracks on my walk to work yesterday morning. #ColorADay #BlueTue Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 1837833 378
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 05/04/2026The W^X (Writable XOR Executable) policy states that a memory page is either writable or executable, but never both Since 0^0=0, It technically also prohibits a memory page from being neither writable nor executable (i.e; readonly) I’m filing non-compliance reports against every major OS, brb #OSen.wikipedia.orgW^X - Wikipedia 000 0
Shriram Ravindranathan @s20n.dev · 01/04/2026Everytime I hear “Physically Based Rendering” it sounds like a mistranslation to me shouldn’t it be “Physics-based rendering”? #ComputerGraphics #renderingen.wikipedia.orgPhysically based rendering - Wikipedia 010 1