Ravigopal Kesari

🦀 Rust India 2026 is over, but the conversations aren’t. Missed it? Watch the livestream's recording and hear what it takes to ship Rust in production: youtube.com/live/xPWuTPfI6… JetBrains was proud to support the stream and help the global Rust community get a seat at the table. Big thanks to @rvgpl for the photo.

@nileshgr I went full frame, Sony A7C II

@rvgpl which new camera?

Attended Rust India 2026 🦀🇮🇳 Learned how teams are using Rust in production + where it’s headed next. Met some familiar faces and new folks from the community. Also volunteered as a photographer for the event, to practice with my new camera 😅📸 Great experience overall!

At Rust India 2026 conference

Built simple tap based games for my kid, use vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS, Web Audio API for sounds, svgs and css animations for the visuals. You can try them out here tinygames.ravigopal.com

Built a local first photo search engine, using YOLOv8 + SmolVLM + streamlit for UI. Now I can easily query my travel photos and find photos I want to show instead of endless scrolling.

@sandeepssrin I use 120cm one from TheSleepCompany, been using it for an year, pretty good and sturdy. Used a Ikea manual one earlier, which used to wobble and didn't like it that much.

Dear desi twitter, which electric standing desk ? Want a small (100-120cm one). I've been liking the way that Intellidesk folks are selling theirs. Not sure what others are using

@_swanand I have a shortcut to enable and disable them. Use Spotlight to trigger the shortcut or use a keyboard modifier to run it. Check it out, icloud.com/shortcuts/b384…

The one OS setting my kid hates when using my laptop, and I can't do without: Hot Corners

Other parents who saw were impressed and I ended up setting it up on their phones also. 😃

Created an automation on iPhone to change my wallpaper to a QR code one when I'm at my kids school for drop off and pickup at specific times. While other parents were fumbling for app etc, I just scan my lockscreen, felt really cool 😎

Dropped by BLR Hubba in the afternoon. Saw a lot of urban city sketches displayed, sketchbooks laid out, and also ended up attended a sketch journaling workshop. Spent some quality time flipping through sketchbooks and mentally stealing ideas.

@mehulved @ayushagarwal @garGoel91 @dodopayments Thank you for kind words. Yes, Nextjs is good for that requirement back then but if it is just a marketing site then astro + CF workers would work amazingly well.

@ayushagarwal @garGoel91 @dodopayments I know that it can be done in nextjs but also needs a strong lead. @rvgpl used to do a fantastic job of that when we were working together.

We are migrating @dodopayments website from Framer to code - what's the best framework to get 100/100 performance and SEO score?

Setting up my journal for 2026!

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The Joy of Programming: Lost in Autocomplete Have we lost the joy of programming? I don’t mean the joy of getting Copilot to spit out 200 lines of perfect code while you nod wisely as if you wrote it. I mean the original joy: the sweaty, frustrating, near-spiritual process of staring at a blank screen for hours until your brain suddenly whispers, “Oh wait, maybe a for-loop will do it.” Once upon a time, programming was less “type prompt, get magic” and more “debug till dawn.” You didn’t learn by watching tutorials, but you learnt by breaking things, fixing them, breaking them again, and then pretending the first version was your plan all along. You’d start with a big, scary problem and chip away at it slowly, logically, heroically until something worked. And when it finally did, you’d announce to the room (and your plants), “It runs!” That was your standing ovation. Now, Copilot kindly completes your half-formed thoughts. “Ah,” it says, “you meant to implement a recursive backtracking algorithm with memoization, didn’t you?” Yes, Copilot, I meant to do that. Totally. It’s efficient, accurate, and sometimes even fixes your spelling. But it’s also like watching someone else solve your cryptic crossword.Satisfying in theory, hollow in practice. It’s not just programming. Copilot’s done to coding what the electric vegetable chopper did to cooking. Once, chopping onions was a test of patience, tears, and self-worth. Now it’s a matter of pushing a button no drama, no learning, no pride. Same with calculators. Once, we multiplied 37 × 46 on paper and felt like mathematicians. Now, one dead battery and we can’t even split the restaurant bill. We’ve become a generation of people who know how to press buttons, not why those buttons exist. Don’t get me wrong, I am all of Copilots, calculators, choppers etc . Of course, tools are good. They all save time which we wisely reinvest in scrolling. But should they replace learning the basics? Imagine Picasso learning to paint with Photoshop filters. Or R.K. Narayan writing Malgudi Days with Grammarly fixing his “Indianisms.” Art loses its charm when the machine starts doing the struggling for you. Programming, like art or cooking, has its own beautiful rhythm: confusion → curiosity → caffeine → clarity. That “aha!” moment, when your logic finally clicks, is worth every hour of hair-pulling. That’s the joy we risk losing when AI jumps in too early. So by all means, use Copilot. But once in a while, switch it off. Write your own function. Name your own variables (badly). Get stuck. Get unstuck. And when it finally works, raise your mug of cold coffee or beer and shout, “It runs!” Because no matter how clever AI gets, it’ll never understand the ancient programmer’s emotion that follows: “It runs… but I don’t know why.” - Thoughts from an old school programmer

Why Indians have ZERO civic sense. Great video, I see that zerodha is out to get cancelled. youtu.be/bq0HeSP_U68?si…

Correcting a LLM response multiple times, giving up and coding it yourself is vibe coding? Asking for a friend.

some people just get it. you throw ideas in the air, they catch them, toss them back, stretch them, remix them. they understand that thinking is a live process, not a checklist. every conversation feels like a high bandwidth exploration, open-ended, dynamic, fun. my friends are in this category. then there are the ones who default to critique. the ones who immediately point out flaws, who force you to preface everything with disclaimers like “this is just a thought experiment, let’s see where it goes man.” they treat every idea like a proposal up for review instead of a stepping stone to something interesting. the first group is amazing. the second is mostly careerist employees, trained to evaluate rather than create, like a quarterly performance review.

One of those `this is fine` type days at work. Sigh.

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