Eshwar Nag
@eshwarnag.bsky.social
App Connoisseur | Creator @hyperquestx.bsky.social
Optimize your relationship for agency, not outcomes.
Outcomes improve only short-term.
Agency damage compounds long-term and is fatal.
Outcomes improve only short-term.
Agency damage compounds long-term and is fatal.
December 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Optimize your relationship for agency, not outcomes.
Outcomes improve only short-term.
Agency damage compounds long-term and is fatal.
Outcomes improve only short-term.
Agency damage compounds long-term and is fatal.
Watched Wake Up Dead Man and it is exquisite. Right up my alley.
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Watched Wake Up Dead Man and it is exquisite. Right up my alley.
Why it’s called a smoke test.
The term comes from electrical and hardware engineering.
When engineers powered on a new circuit or machine, they literally watched for smoke.
Smoke meant a real physical failure. Burnt components. Wrong wiring. Game over.
Software kept the same idea.
The term comes from electrical and hardware engineering.
When engineers powered on a new circuit or machine, they literally watched for smoke.
Smoke meant a real physical failure. Burnt components. Wrong wiring. Game over.
Software kept the same idea.
December 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Why it’s called a smoke test.
The term comes from electrical and hardware engineering.
When engineers powered on a new circuit or machine, they literally watched for smoke.
Smoke meant a real physical failure. Burnt components. Wrong wiring. Game over.
Software kept the same idea.
The term comes from electrical and hardware engineering.
When engineers powered on a new circuit or machine, they literally watched for smoke.
Smoke meant a real physical failure. Burnt components. Wrong wiring. Game over.
Software kept the same idea.
I recently watched Everything Everywhere All At Once and wrote about what stayed with me after watching it.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Everything Everywhere All At Once feels a lot like modern life, infinite perspectives, endless alternatives, and quiet restlessness. What stayed with me is that the film doesn’t just show the problem, it hints at how we can deal with it.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I recently watched Everything Everywhere All At Once and wrote about what stayed with me after watching it.
I love Becca Farsace’s videos.
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I love Becca Farsace’s videos.
Managing your time is essentially managing your choices.
December 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Managing your time is essentially managing your choices.
I feel like procrastination, perfectionism, and anxiety had a baby and the result was me.
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I feel like procrastination, perfectionism, and anxiety had a baby and the result was me.
The size of my backlog is irrelevant. The ambiguity inside it is what drains me. Once I define it, the weight disappears.
December 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The size of my backlog is irrelevant. The ambiguity inside it is what drains me. Once I define it, the weight disappears.
Motivation is cheap.
Stability is expensive.
Stability is expensive.
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Motivation is cheap.
Stability is expensive.
Stability is expensive.
People who swore they were done with Twitter seem to be slowly coming back, many tech journalists who announced their exit are tweeting again.
December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
People who swore they were done with Twitter seem to be slowly coming back, many tech journalists who announced their exit are tweeting again.
Do people on my TL not know that you can actually pay to remove the ads from Prime Video?
People don't realize how expensive it is to run a streaming service and how subsidised the cost of video and music streaming is in India.
People don't realize how expensive it is to run a streaming service and how subsidised the cost of video and music streaming is in India.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Do people on my TL not know that you can actually pay to remove the ads from Prime Video?
People don't realize how expensive it is to run a streaming service and how subsidised the cost of video and music streaming is in India.
People don't realize how expensive it is to run a streaming service and how subsidised the cost of video and music streaming is in India.
Sharpie is one of the worst names for a pen, and an entire country uses this word ubiquitously to mean permanent markers.
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Sharpie is one of the worst names for a pen, and an entire country uses this word ubiquitously to mean permanent markers.
Gmail should allow us to name the filters that we create like Fastmail does. Without that its so difficult to search for a specific filter.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Gmail should allow us to name the filters that we create like Fastmail does. Without that its so difficult to search for a specific filter.
I really have to say this.
Agents are not really AI, they are just orchestrators that use an LLM.
LLM is AI, Agent is not.
Agents are not really AI, they are just orchestrators that use an LLM.
LLM is AI, Agent is not.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I really have to say this.
Agents are not really AI, they are just orchestrators that use an LLM.
LLM is AI, Agent is not.
Agents are not really AI, they are just orchestrators that use an LLM.
LLM is AI, Agent is not.
Linux on the desktop has definitely gained a lot of momentum in 2025 and we can probably say that 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop. But with only one caveat, its mostly only used by developers and not across the industry.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Linux on the desktop has definitely gained a lot of momentum in 2025 and we can probably say that 2025 is the year of the Linux desktop. But with only one caveat, its mostly only used by developers and not across the industry.
After seeing how fast Hyprland setups are to work with and move around multiple windows, I am just getting so annoyed at how unbearably slow macOS is at this.
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
After seeing how fast Hyprland setups are to work with and move around multiple windows, I am just getting so annoyed at how unbearably slow macOS is at this.
Chromium for browsers.
VS Code for Code Editors.
VS Code for Code Editors.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Chromium for browsers.
VS Code for Code Editors.
VS Code for Code Editors.
Not a fan of Homebrew’s terminologies lil Bottles, Casks, Pouring, Cellar, and Formula. They add unnecessary noise and make the tool more confusing for new users.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Not a fan of Homebrew’s terminologies lil Bottles, Casks, Pouring, Cellar, and Formula. They add unnecessary noise and make the tool more confusing for new users.
Why is it called Antigravity? Doesn't mean much for the context.
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Why is it called Antigravity? Doesn't mean much for the context.
Did JetBrains give up on Fleet?
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Did JetBrains give up on Fleet?
Might be unpopular, but I’m finding it easier to talk through my thoughts with an AI than to do traditional journaling. I’d drifted from Day One to temporary chats in ChatGPT for that reason. Now Day One’s AI Chat offers exactly that.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Might be unpopular, but I’m finding it easier to talk through my thoughts with an AI than to do traditional journaling. I’d drifted from Day One to temporary chats in ChatGPT for that reason. Now Day One’s AI Chat offers exactly that.
After the latest updates, I’m really enjoying Dia. The experience feels delightful again, with the thoughtful touches Arc used to have. There’s still ground to cover to match the full Arc experience, but the trajectory is positive. The Browser Company knows how to build browsers.
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
After the latest updates, I’m really enjoying Dia. The experience feels delightful again, with the thoughtful touches Arc used to have. There’s still ground to cover to match the full Arc experience, but the trajectory is positive. The Browser Company knows how to build browsers.
Thanks OpenAI for the free chatGPT Go subscription!
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thanks OpenAI for the free chatGPT Go subscription!
If a role doesn’t involve systems programming, data structures and algorithms shouldn’t be the main focus of its interviews.
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If a role doesn’t involve systems programming, data structures and algorithms shouldn’t be the main focus of its interviews.