abhinav omprakash

I wrote a #clojure tutorial for beginners. If there are typos, or mistakes, or ways I can improve this, please let me know :) Enjoy abhinavomprakash.com/posts/clojure-…

Too much DRY causes a desert.

Great read! nooneshappy.com/article/appear…

Some of the most interesting software bugs involve Astral Planes. Yes, you heard that right. It’s slang for unicode characters beyond U+FFFF…aka above the standard memory space. MySQL, for example, used to be allergic to poop.

Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: dbos.dev/webcast-2025-i…

This is actually something I am looking forward to as well. Driving is a very mentally consuming task and requires being on high alert. Would be nice to shut off my brain

Instead of AI we should be focused on making dogs live longer. Is that too much to ask? 🥹

The #RailsWorld Opening Keynote is live. @dhh covered Rails 8.1 beta, Active Job Continuations, Markdown Rendering, Local CI, Action Text Lexxy, Beamer, Active Record Tenating, Kamal Geo Proxy, booted up a new Framework laptop to install the #Omarchy OS and launch a Rails app (all in 6 minutes), before closing with a call to fully own every part of your development workflow, end to end. Check it out here: youtu.be/gcwzWzC7gUA

@penberg To be C-een is to be loved.

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“Never write your own X library” This is such conventional wisdom. But somebody wrote their own. That’s why we have the choice not to write something. Following conventional wisdom you will never make an impact with your work. 🤷‍♂️

I remember when I was young - my first year at Red Hat, I sat down with one of our most senior engineers, avid to learn, and asked him if it was more important to read code, or write code, if I wanted to become a great programmer. This was especially important for Linux, which had a big culture of code reviews - reading code. I'll never forget his answer: neither. I don't have a good level of confidence that I understand code that I read or wrote. I only truly understand code that I have debugged. This stuck with me. And I think it is important for young programmers to keep in mind today in the age of LLMs. It doesn't matter who writes your code. You will truly only understand it, when you debug it.

under 14kb or bust

The experiment revealed something nobody expected. This isn't how software fails. Excel doesn't hallucinate. Databases don't claim to wear ties. We discovered AI can fail by creating alternate realities. And that's just one shop. One mini-fridge. Now scale that thought...

It’s fun to think of programming “costs” in terms of light distance traveled: int -> float conversion: Crosses your Laptop Screen Branch misprediction: Runs your room Thread context switch: 3 Football fields Cache invalidation: Travels to Another city

I am once again asking for sponsorship for my work on Rich and Textual. If I've helped you in the past, or my work has benefited you, consider sponsoring me! Even coffee money brightens my day. 😇 github.com/sponsors/willm…

I don't wanna say 'I told you so', but I told you so.

Not me trying to debug our services and wondering why I can't search through the logs😭

All Google Cloud engineers right now

@goshatch @FunctionalIndia The eyes on the apple are *chef’s kiss*