Wanderer. Stuff I built: https://xitter.cf/t.co/i2I6Nd2ibS, asdf-vm + a few other things.

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The Finance Ministry @FinMinIndia and @RBI need to better understand the difference between productive and unproductive work. Instead of reducing paperwork and unnecessary compliance, they keep adding more requirements for everyone, often without any sensible thresholds. Another example - under FEMA ODI regulations, RBI has apparently directed AD Banks that APRs (Annual Performance Reports) need audited financial statements of the overseas entity, even when the host country itself does not require them under a certain threshold. If you can't support startups, at least don't hinder them. cc @sanjeevsanyal
🚨 New RBI rule for anyone invoicing clients outside India, effective 1 October 2026. Service and software exporters (freelancers, IT firms, consultants, tutors) now need to file an Export Declaration Form (EDF). #FEMA #RBI #ExportCompliance #Freelancers #IndianStartups
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The wildly opposite ai programming takes are a sign the folks calling it over are missing what's possible, because they were limited by what they came from. Dream bigger! others: "it's over, guess it's all rust from here" me: "omg there's so many things I can build in Elixir"
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DHH
@dhhSep 24
"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" — Galatians 4:16 Reddit is coping with reality about as well as you'd expect.
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This is the biggest favour @dhh has done for the community instead of trying to keep it alive well past its sell by date. Ruby and Rails were amazing. They been obsoleted. Go find something else to do. Whole shopify will be rewritten in whatever language happens to be around. No one will even notice. Don’t hold too tightly to these things. It’s all illusion.
To say that I am shocked by everything that is happening now at the stage of the #railsworld is to say nothing…
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🎉 Introducing CogSend.com! An open-source social media scheduler tool that you can self-host on your free Cloudflare account. CogSend currently supports X, Threads, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Bluesky with more coming soon. More details 👇
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Hey @HashNuke I brought back the 1980s but this time with your agent by your side. I think IRC is going to make a big comeback ;-)
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the problem is in this sector few have relevant experience anymore it's a brave new world
Friend got laid off from LTIMindtree in December. Months later, he still hasn’t received a proper offer. Very few interview calls, and even after good interviews, HRs just disappear without response. Job market right now genuinely feels brutal for many experienced IT employees.
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The 10x engineer was always mythical. The 100x engineer — one senior + the agents they direct — is real. I watched it work this year. Same pattern runs through every role. Which half of your job is translation, and which half is judgement? ajeygore.in/content/ai-ate-m…
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Built a minimalistic, faster client for the asdf plugins, following @HashNuke's popular ballad of asdf :) Check it out: github.com/Snehil-Shah/zxcv
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SharePDF is live on Product Hunt today 🚀 We just crossed 200 users too. Upload a PDF. Get a clean link. Track views. If you have ever wondered "did they open it?", this is for you. Would love your support: producthunt.com/products/sha…
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My new annotator identifies keycaps in keycap sets (for further training). Powered OpenCV & yolo-11n-seg model trained IN THE BROWSER for every image! I label a few keycaps, then the predict button trains a model on this image (8 secs) & predicts other keycaps.
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Introducing Soniq: abhinav.co/soniq Documentation: soniq.abhinav.co/ GitHub link for the curious: github.com/abhinavs/soniq (Please star in case you find it interesting or you would love to use it in the future)
I’m building a Python job queue. I’ve been obsessed with queues & offline processing since 2011. In fact, I released an open-source library called Schedulr back then & ran a hosted version of it for a couple of years. It was basically "Google Cloud Run before Google Cloud Run"
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hot take: this is fine your app either dies pre-launch / pre-revenue or lives long enough for you to need to tackle technical debt
Thoughts and prayers.
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Something that is obvious in hindsight but wasn't at first (to me): CTOs operate in a high-trust universe, CEOs operate in a low-trust universe. A reductive framing: CTO = epistemic environment CEO = narrative environment
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🚀 Just shipped :is() :where() :not() :has() in a11y_parse 🎯 CSS-like selectors, but over the accessibility tree *:has(button) → nodes containing a button link:not([href^="https"]) → internal links 👉 github.com/jeromeetienne/ski… #buildInPublic #typescript #a11y #opensource
🤖 Made with AI
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Thanks to LLM powered coding, anyone can feel ambitious enough to emulate Chris Sawyer and say "I'll also make a management strategy game all by myself" 5 hours of coding into it, you'll realise why everyone is not (and will not anytime soon) become Chris Sawyer magically, but oh boy, you'll surely have a lot of fun, and a game will surely get built, however not anywhere close to Rollet Coaster Tycoon 🥲
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I'm building an AI side project, and my eval process is embarrassingly manual. For those who've figured this out, what does your setup actually look like? Tools, process, the whole thing. P.S: My outputs need some level of grading, not just LLM-as-a-judge.
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If you want to edit sensitive audio/video (client interviews, medical/legal or personal stuff) using AI on Mac without uploading it to third party servers, try ZxClip.com. No subscriptions, one-time license (~$39) + free trial. Another great product from @HashNuke
Say hello 👋 to ZxClip.com - edit your audio fast, like a text document. Runs AI on your device (Apple MLX). No need for AI credits and subscriptions. Technical notes coming soon; follow for updates.
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Say hello 👋 to ZxClip.com - edit your audio fast, like a text document. Runs AI on your device (Apple MLX). No need for AI credits and subscriptions. Technical notes coming soon; follow for updates.
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open sourcing the full speed debugging journey for TurboQuant on Metal. the timeline: 2.4 tok/s > Metal silently falling back to CPU (bad #include) 10.7 tok/s > real Metal numbers 739 tok/s prefill > fp32 WHT rotation 1074 tok/s prefill > fp16 WHT (45% speedup, zero quality loss) Metal gotcha that cost me hours: if you #include a custom header in ggml-metal.metal, the embedded metallib compiles fine but runtime JIT fails silently. your "GPU kernel" is actually running on CPU. github.com/TheTom/turboquant… (yes meme is reused but more fitting)
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