abhishek

It was fun building @martian_wallet for over 3 years from 0 installs to over 2 million installs it’s been a great journey overall. Met some amazing people while building martian like @sidj_in (one of the most amazing guy imo), Utkarsh, @shilpi_jc, @ayush_tom and many more.

@sidj_in 😂😂

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congrats, AI detection just lost its strongest signal

exactly

some things require core ML concepts instead of LLM prompting… those are fun to solve and really make the product more refined

I was reading Cloudflare’s incident report, and it’s insane how a single assumption can cause a global outage

In our mythology, Lakshmi never stays where there is chaos. She gravitates toward spaces of order, discipline, and creative energy — a poetic way of expressing a scientific truth: prosperity is concentrated, directed energy. Economies grow when a society learns to channel energy into structure — trust, institutions, craft, innovation. They decline when energy scatters and disorder spreads — when entropy takes over. Mahalakshmi isn’t just a symbol of wealth; she is the reminder that prosperity appears wherever human energy aligns, compounds, and resists entropy. And she quietly leaves where everything collapses into noise. Physics, economics, and mythology might speak different languages, but they describe the same principle: to create wealth is to keep entropy at bay. (Random morning musings edited with help of ChatGPT)

Anything long-term demands time and attention. Yet we live in a world that kills both. No wonder wealth, health, relationships, and businesses feel harder to build than ever.

Life’s a high-risk game with a 0% survival rate.

Memorizing trick programming questions and answering interviews flawlessly as you may know isn’t productive. Coming up with your own solution on the fly, no matter how inefficient or bad you think it is 100 times better. You will flawlessly one day build up to a better solution brick by brick. For those are your bricks. Not somebody else’s.

this is true, anything with community/ecosystem will survive the future

aws outage reminds us why every engineer should know how to host services locally (in your pc/laptops/anything with ip), scale them globally, and understand at least the basics of dns

There is always a single point of failure

If you can build an application using DynamoDB without ever struggling later on, congratulations, you’re a good engineer. DynamoDB forces you to think through all your access patterns, both current and future, unlike traditional databases where you can simply dump data and rely on inefficient queries to retrieve it.

yep

very hard to wrap my head around this as an engineer, but it’s true. we’re living in a time where things can be built in hours, and the only real currency left is mindshare and, of course, the value your product provides

I re-interview our best performers. I set time aside to understand why they ramp faster, ship faster, understand customers better. Recently I got one of the best compliments about our organization. This engineer came from a really good startup. He joined when they were 20 people and left when they were 50. But he said that at Vercel, despite being over 10x the size, *he can ship faster than at the smaller startup*. Better infrastructure (dogfooding @vercel) and less bureaucracy, especially around picking up projects and marketing your work. I think this should be the norm moving forward. Companies can only grow headcount proportional to provable velocity increase. Big companies that move slow are not good for the world.

A week is too long for startups. A week is too short for big tech. "Oh, the release is a week away. Chill." "Oh f**k... the release is only a week away."

this started happening folks, atleast in b2b fintech industry

this repo github.com/anderspitman/a… contains many great open-source tunneling projects

you can save a lot of infra costs without compromising scalability if you plan your architecture correctly using tunnels

Over 10 years ago, we open-sourced React. And now, we’re excited to announce the next chapter: React & React Native are transitioning to the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Meta is committing $3M+ and a 5-year partnership to support this next chapter of innovation. Learn more: engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/ope…