Arun

> be me > always wanted to work with fast moving teams > finally join one > realise i am the slow one

@levelsio big fan of the things you post/work you do!

@Darktrident99 @caleb_friesen Aisa nhi hona chahiye. Stop normalising corruption.

@caleb_friesen You are in India bro. Yaha aise ho hota h.

I had never seen shameless corruption before. I didn’t even know how to identity it. Nobody had ever given me "the look" before. That smug, subtle grin that cuts through all the bureaucracy and says, "Give me your money, I want it for myself." I had never seen an authority figure, someone entrusted with the responsibility to do "God's work" exploit my vulnerability and use their position to withhold something I was entitled to unless I paid. Note: I have no proof of the story I'm about to tell, so I have been intentionally vague. This was many years ago. I needed a crucial document from someone in power but the name on my rental agreement didn’t match my ID. The middle name was missing. The person in power said, "Go get another rental agreement where your name is properly written." This wasn't an option (bad landlord), so I said, "I can't do that. This is the only rental agreement I have." "Ok, then you will need to pay a fee." At the time, I didn’t realise you can simply pay to have a new agreement drafted and your landlord doesn't need to be present, they can use an entirely different signature because nobody will bother to check or contact your landlord. So I asked, "How much is the fee?" He replied, "How much can you give?" I was very confused. Today if this had happened I would know exactly what that meant, but at that time I was naive so I said, "No, I mean… how much is the fee? What is the penalty amount?" He must have thought I was quite stupid. But also, what an opportunity! He had someone in his clutches who had no clue how to navigate a situation like this. It would be like taking candy from a baby. "See, if my supervisor checks and gets to know that I approved this without the middle name, it won’t be good for me. So there is a fee. I am taking a risk for you." Slowly it dawned on me. "Ok… so what do people normally pay?" "…you can do 5,000?" "Uh… yeah. Ok. 5,000. Now? GPay?" I didn’t bargain because I suddenly felt scared. This did not feel casual. This was someone with power. It might seem silly to someone who navigates situations like this often, but I was shaking. I felt a mix of fear and stifled outrage. I had a sense that I needed to accept whatever he said, otherwise he could do anything he wanted. If he was bold enough to ask for 5,000, what else would he be bold enough to do? He said, "Cash. No GPay, only cash." "Ok… I’ll go to the ATM." Obviously there was no receipt when I gave him "the fee" for solving this middle name problem. My whole life I was taught to trust and respect authority, and that behaviour felt justified because authority figures had always treated me with dignity. They had never (not ever - I know, hard to believe) taken advantage of me. In many places in the world, this is the way it is. Bad actors are few. The system largely works, and corruption is dealt with swiftly when it rears its ugly head. I hope the same thing will happen here. In fact, I choose to believe that it will. I believe that this is a success story, and no success story is complete without plenty of obstacles. A victory isn't meaningful unless it's hard-won, right? Look at Singapore. What an incredible success story the leaders of that country have written. I choose to believe the same thing will happen here.

@rauchg Triangle man reaches new lows

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷 Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead. We spoke about AI empowering everyone to build software and the importance of ensuring it serves quality and progress. Optimistic for peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbors.

Linkin Park playing In The End (and jumping on beds) on Kai Cenat stream❤️

@kosa12m @FrameworkPuter

reminder that the patent has expired

With all this tech drama lately, isn't it the perfect moment for a Silicon Valley reboot? The market feels ripe for a new era.

@YTKDIndia We need an update on when the fine is paid as well

UPDATE! Please Start Raising Your Voice 🙏

@budapp Credits ?

First time I’m seeing Indian government web UX with a sense of humour 😭

@dok2001 Triangle man 😂

Triangle Man is a decent front end designer, but he knows nothing about networks. He keeps having to make this point because he has built Vercel on top of AWS which charges him for bandwidth so he has to pass that cost onto his customers or he'll go bankrupt. Cloudflare, on the other hand, built our own network so bandwidth is largely free for us. The best judge of the 'quality' of bandwidth is how peered an organization is. Here's a list of the most peered networks in the world: #_participants" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bgp.he.net/report/exchang…. Amazon is very good with about 600 networks it peers with, but Cloudflare has more than twice that number. That means that the default bandwidth you get for free from Cloudflare is actually more likely to be fast and reliable than the Amazon bandwidth you pay for from Vercel

a new movie called Humans in the Loop is releasing on 5th september. it's about an adivasi woman who begins interacting with AI while working at a data labelling centre in remote Jharkhand. only releasing in Delhi and Mumbai (not in BLR)

Almost tearing up seeing this! Government of India is working towards standardizing the UX across its services and has even a Figma design system out.

This VPN Chrome Extension takes screenshots of every website you visit. It has over 100,000 downloads. Google's response? Give them a verified badge to let you know that "these guys look legit, you can trust them".

i've stumbled into a scary idea

@malukasdavid IPL

No IndyCar, no PL, no F1. What do I watch this weekend

@gnukeith Everybody starts at the bottom, keep learning

This is your competition.

@63grussell63 Everybody liked that

imagine crashing during the formation lap of your first race and your hero’s dad is there comforting you there is no way

@brrrake @wearetherace @KymIllman

Want to know how fucked the cost cap in Formula 1 is? People in the sport don't talk about this because they can't. So I will :) Just had a loose conversation with a recruiter about a F1 race engineer gig. Their MAXIMUM salary was less than I was making last year as a part-time performance engineer in WEC on a LMDh team. Why aren't the team bosses advocating harder for increased cost cap to accommodate increased cost of living and inflation? Oh yeah... because the teams that are profitable, it's likely the bosses and shareholders can pocket a chunk of whatever they don't spend. Tag your favorite F1 journalist and try to get them to put this question forward in the next press conference - I am sure they can phrase it better than I just did.