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Ramana @vramana.dev · 14/02/2026

For my formatting in TS files in neovim, I used to use prettierd for formatting. Now I migrated oxfmt and it's fast enough that I don't need anything special.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 14/02/2026

Slowly crafting my agents.md file. Although I read the advice to incorporate what AI gets wrong back into the agents.md file several times, it took till now to act upon it.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 11/02/2026

Composer 1.5 - In: 3.5 Out: 17.5 Composer 1 - In: 1.25 Out: 10 GPT-5.3-Codex - In 1.75 Out: 14 Is composer really that good to charge 2x premium for input? Cursor themselves put out a tweet saying their engineers prefer GPT-5.3-Codex.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 09/02/2026

The most annoying thing about Claude Code is the time it takes to exit.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 07/02/2026

I tried Wispr Flow after a lot of reluctance, but it is amazing and great. Most of my reluctance is due to the fact that it is another subscription in my life. But I discovered that it's pretty cheap like $3/month in India.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 29/01/2026

> The winapp CLI is specifically tailored for cross-platform frameworks and developers working outside of Visual Studio or MSBuild. Really? Isn't the reality more like llms can go brrrr now? Nevertheless, still a welcome change. Also open-source 👏 blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

blogs.windows.com

Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI

We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 28/01/2026

agent-browser is a lot better compared using chrome mcp in claude code. @vercel.com Thank you folks!

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 26/01/2026

I debug a lot of my issues using logs in GCP. But the GCP interface for it was always the bottleneck. It's painful to multiple sets of corelated logs. I am always in comment/uncomment hell.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 24/01/2026

Learning about subagents is a big unlock for me. I am running a browser automation that has been running for 2+ hours now. Without using subagents, Opus went down random rabbit holes. Sonnet didn't work though. May be I gave it too much bad context.

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

GitHub Copilot now supports AGENTS.md for agent-specific instructions. Yay for everyone getting along and picking a filename! github.blog/changelog/2025-08-28-co…

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 23/08/2025

Codex CLI: If you prefer X over Y, say the word and I’ll fix the ordering rule. May be a bit too much trying to please me attitude. No thanks!

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 20/08/2025

Just reviewed and merged a PR from terminal. It feels so refreshing compared to using Github UI.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 05/08/2025

arstechnica.com/information-... This article from @arstechnica.com made me believe I can be software engineer even if I am not pursuing a CS degree. What a different time 2013 was!

arstechnica.com

With zero coding experience, artist building 180 webpages in 180 days

“Learning by doing” is taken to the extreme by novice programmer.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 05/08/2025

Raycast is super nice.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 04/08/2025

This podcast is great listen. Remove the hype out of AI and keeps it real. Some takeaways: - AI hallucinating interruptions - Programmer disengagement is a problem - Anthropic instrumented Zed to see how they use editors. @thdxr.com @adam.dev www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7p...

youtube.com

Adam Wolff from AnthropicAI - Tomorrow 139

YouTube video by TerminalDotShop

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 01/08/2025

I have 35GB of duckdb wal file. When I open duckdb cli, it's taking forever to open. Don't know how long it will take to open the file

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 01/08/2025

Metabase is awesome. Really easy to setup dashboards! Also extremely easy to deploy from Coolify!

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 20/07/2025

Finally setup my Photo Library on a 2 TB SSD after procastrinating for several years. Now I need to organize 4 years of photos. At least I have decent workflow.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 07/07/2025

I love hackmd to write documents when I am on a video call. It's so smooth. It feels much faster compared to writing on Google Docs.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 06/07/2025

I have to breakup with prisma in side project and switch to drizzle. prisma generate causes the VM to hang randomly. I don't have will power to investigate why CPU usage goes to 100% suddenly.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 03/07/2025

Me: Dear GCP, can you increase request quota for t2d instances from 0 to 1? GCP: Please contact through your account team or submit a request to sales team. Unless you are an enterprise, GCP doesn't want you.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 02/07/2025

Great to see @planetscale.com launch a Postgres offering. The best place to store any critical data.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 30/06/2025

Probably the nth time I got nerd sniped into thinking about running CI in spot VMs. It’s too much work for non-existential gain and also adds a bus factor in the context of my workplace. 😮‍💨

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 28/06/2025

I have side project which uses 200GB of bandwidth per month. I currently host this on AWS Lightsail. Images are probably 99% of this bandwidth used. I spent the day trying to optimize this at zero cost.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 24/06/2025

Setting up rules in iCloud mail box made a ton of difference.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 20/06/2025

I spent 3 hours fighting with a bug that occured after we migrated to latest version of vite/plugin-react. Turns out it's a issue with our CSP not allowing react-refresh inline script to be injected into index.html.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 13/06/2025

Last night was quite eventful. First the GCP outage till 3AM then my kid started crying at 4AM. Thankfully my wife took over. I was semi conscious but I was completely exhausted.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 12/06/2025

Seems like GCP outage has recovered. Our app has returned to it's normal status. Alert Policies are recovering slowly.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 12/06/2025

Google Cloud is taking a massive outage right now, globally. status.cloud.google.com Not to be outdone, so is CloudFlare. www.cloudflarestatus.com #hugops

status.cloud.google.com

Google Cloud Service Health

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 11/06/2025

Experienced a minor outage in production just as I reached the airport. That's a first.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 06/06/2025

I have been burned by Firebase Hosting rewrites for 2-3 months. I have just realized it. Long running requests fail with first byte timeout error. I was trying to figure out the issue everywhere else in GCP stack. Lost so many hours. 😭

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 29/05/2025

DuckLake by @duckdb.org seems so much better than Apache Iceberg. Always bet on DuckDB!

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 24/05/2025

As part of my investigation into duckdb, I am wrote little program to generate fake events. I started at roughly 40k events. Spent half an hour optimizing it, now it runs at 6x the speed. The biggest culprit was generating fake data. 1/3

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 24/05/2025

Experimenting with duckdb & parquet with Golang to replace our existing OLAP system.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 28/04/2025

Gave vibe coding another try. This time it's a success. I wanted to make a simple Todo app for MacOS using SwiftUI. The code is entirely generated by Cursor. The difference this was made Cursor write plan file first with detailed breakdown of tasks. I can then ask Cursor to implement.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 26/04/2025

Completed 9 chapters from the Swift book. These are relatively easy ones. 20 more to go. #SwiftLang

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 25/04/2025

I tried to vibe coding a native macOS app. It's a complete flop show. I am too software engineer pilled at this point that I will go back and learn Swift first.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 23/04/2025

I tried to implement a prototype #MCP server at work. I hooked it up to cursor to reason about relation between two models. On non-reasoning models, they won't even make tool calls. Gemini 2.5 Pro works the best but even it gets confused a lot.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 08/01/2025

www.seangoedecke.com/large-establ... Very nice article! One of the first thing I ask whenever I onboard someone on to my team is to pay attention to consistency for their changes with existing code.

seangoedecke.com

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

What I've learned from ten years working on projects like this

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 24/12/2024

I am going to bite the bullet and start using Cursor.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 23/12/2024

I had been using Plausible Analytics for over 2 year now. But the functionality is very basic. Not being able to track events was a deal breaker for me. Now I have switched to umami.is It offers a lot more features. Extremely simple to setup! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

umami.is

Umami

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.

Book cover: Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 13/12/2024

Truly a quote I need to repeat every single day! May be I should make a poster and hang it on a wall!

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 06/12/2024

Sent my kid to the day care for 2 days and he is down with fever with for 2 days 🤦 I console myself saying it's immunity development programme.

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Ramana @vramana.dev · 03/12/2024

Skaffold and GCP Cloud deploy don’t make any sense to me. May be because I don’t use them for kubernetes. Documentation is sparse. Dear GCP, Why is your CI/CD so hard?

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