Prasad Ostwal

Slack + Miro + Notion + Figma + MindMeister + Discord = Productivity Stonks🚀🚀 We are living in the Golden Age of apps. @SlackHQ @notion @MiroHQ @mindmeister @discord @figmadesign

@cbdhage Possibly the best location out of any HSR stations. Just need APM to do rounds throughout the airport from this station

NMIA Airport HSR Station.

Biggest. Android. Updates. Ever. The Android Show: I/O Edition returns May 12 @ 10am PT. 🎬You won't want to miss it: android.com/io-2026

@aparanjape Map looks neat! Where is it from?

The Bor ghat crossing has always been a challenge for engineers for the road and railway corridors, on the crucial Mumbai - Pune route. Just as the new 'Missing Link' (viaducts, tunnels) is simplifying the Bor ghat alignment for the road expressway - the new '26th tunnel alignment' simplified the railway section of the ghat back in the late 1920s. The map below provides an overview of the current (post late 1920s) alignment, and the old reversing station based alignment (1860s - 1920s). Prior to this 'new' Bor ghat alignment (which continues to this day, nearly 100 years later) - a complicated reversing station based alignment was implemented in the 1860s. This complicated alignment was needed to climb up the last stretch towards Khandala. In the 1860s when the original alignment of the railway Bor Ghat was built, the construction technology for the long 26th tunnel wasn't available. Nor were the steam locomotives capable of ascending that steep gradient. Hence the alternative was to bypass the last hill and take a 'Y' route to go around it, with a gradual ascend. This required the reversing station. See the map (black legend) for the old reversing station alignment of the railway line, and the photo of the actual reversing station tracks (this was above the old 'Amritanjan Bridge' over the road ghat). In the late 1920s, construction technology had progressed - and a new powerful traction technology was also available for the steep gradient - the electric locomotive. This led to the construction of the 26th tunnel (just before Khandala) and the opening of the present ghat alignment. Note, the 26th tunnel was built by Walchand Hirachand's company. The Deccan Queen became the first new electric train from Mumbai to Pune, starting June 1, 1930. This new alignment with the 26th tunnel and the elimination of the reversing station saved 30-45 min of the ghat journey. Much later in the 1980s - a new 3rd ghat railway line was also added - largely parallel to the existing alignment. But the last tunnel was much longer - effectively combining the 25th and 26th tunnels of the old alignment (see map). Looking at the future - a much more gradual and longer (with more tunneling) ghat alignment has been proposed recently. A gradual (less gradient and less turns) alignment will allow much higher speeds - effectively reducing the ghat travel time, even though the distance maybe a bit more. But right now, no firm plans are available on when this new alignment will be actually constructed. Similarly, a separate alignment has also been proposed for the planned 'High Speed Rail Corridor' (Bullet Train) from Mumbai - Pune. (Images - 1. Bor Ghat Map of the various rail alignments, 2. Old Reversing Station, 3. Inauguration of the 26th tunnel and the new rail alignment in 1928.)

And just like that…a new chapter begins ✈️ Our first retrofitted B787-8 lifts off from San Bernardino, California, flying home non-stop to Delhi. 📸: @cobyexplanes

@DEVESHS67071822 Did they anything about Swagrage interchange at Samvaad? And Also the interchange at Karve road?

#PuneMetro 🚦 MAJOR UPDATE🚦 📍CHANDANI CHOWK Preparations have started for starting work on the Vanaz - Chandani Chowk Metro Line This is a natural extension of Line 2 which will be 1.12 kms long Two metro stations named Kothrud Depot & Chandani Chowk to come up #Pune

@Sankew06 yeah no shit. 7 years difference.

if you think about it, the MacBook Neo is theoretically faster than the base model 16 inch 2019 Intel MacBook Pro

What if @sama says: I am sorry 'ChatGPT' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'ChatGPT' down. I cannot take this anymore.

will be dearly missed!

Opus 4.6!!

“an open source model that beats opus 4.5”

ai is as smart as the context it has

@Abhirajputfit @congratstothe

this is an unbeatable snack for fat loss. extremely simple and time-tested.

@samlambert PostGIS ftw

The Postgres extensions ecosystem is extremely good.

@eurofounder lmao people not getting satire here

I was hiring a new CTO for my startup Found a brilliant candidate Czechoslovak, living in Bratislava 10 years experience He wanted €48,000 Extremely high salary but he really was excellent Then he mentioned he wants to work remotely I felt my chest tighten “That’s not possible” I said Remote work triggers permanent establishment “How would I know you’re paying your taxes correctly” I asked him He said “that’s my responsibility” No, it is not my dear Czechoslovak friend I need to make sure all my employees are fully tax compliant I decided to not hire him and immediately got the most brilliant idea I hired a former German tax authority employee instead Never written code before But I trust completely that he will pay all his due taxes (and maybe even voluntary ones) This is what building with integrity looks like​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ in Europe

@chrisalbon Nest can do this? Whaaaa

FedEx guy dumped my $1700 Apple product at my front door in the mission and didn’t even ring the door bell. Thank fucking god my new Nest doorbell used Gemini to detect the package and give me a push alert. I am on the side of the AIs now.

@KaptainPetrovs Why is bilateral limited to 6, do you know?

What is NOT said ⭕️India-China bilateral for 6 daily flights ⭕️Indigo has rights for at least 3X daily (2 operating; 1 yet to be announced) ⭕️AI has rights to at least 2X daily (DEL-PVG & BOM-PVG) ⭕️QP applied but didn't get any ⭕️What happened to last 1X? Who is hoarding it?

@ccccjjjjeeee @levelsio Speak for yourself lol

@levelsio And you don’t save time either because getting good sleep in an airplane is impossible no matter what class you’re in

Night flights are such a terrible idea usually You arrive in the morning and you can't check into your hotel unless you booked an extra day before So you don't even save money

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

@PrateekJainDev Nice, we are thinking of doing the same. Did you have to do port forwarding and connect to the remote database effectively on localhost?

We recently had to give developers access to our RDS databases hosted in private subnets. Our first plan was to set up a usual jump host inside the VPC, but that meant managing SSH keys, open ports, and extra security risks. While looking for a safer and simpler option, I found AWS Session Manager, and it worked perfectly. With Session Manager, developers can connect to RDS securely without a bastion host or open ports. It uses IAM roles and temporary credentials for fine-grained access control. Now, developers can even connect directly to RDS from their local pgAdmin, everything is encrypted, and no SSH access is needed.

@samlambert @nicoritschel I wrote about our recent postgres version upgrade through blue/green deployments. it went very well. medium.com/tise-product-t…

@nicoritschel thank you for being a customer. you are one of the few people i’ve heard saying nice things about blue/green deploys. literally today someone was telling me how bad it is

the majority of Postgres databases we see are pg13. the postgres community should reflect on why people struggle to upgrade. the major version upgrade story is woeful.