Karan Sharma
@mrkaran.bsky.social
Software Engineer @zerodha.com
Interested in all things backend, infra and self hosting.
https://mrkaran.dev/
Love to discover new indie music. Plays Badminton semi frequently. Weekend chef. Long drives are therapy.
Interested in all things backend, infra and self hosting.
https://mrkaran.dev/
Love to discover new indie music. Plays Badminton semi frequently. Weekend chef. Long drives are therapy.
April 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Wrote a short initial impressions post on trying out NixOS in my homelab
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/trying-nixos/
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/trying-nixos/
March 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Wrote a short initial impressions post on trying out NixOS in my homelab
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/trying-nixos/
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/trying-nixos/
Reposted by Karan Sharma
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Asked cursor w Claude 3.7 to fix type issues in my Go code and it went on to fix unrelated TS errors on the front end instead.
Back to 3.5 for now.
Back to 3.5 for now.
March 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Asked cursor w Claude 3.7 to fix type issues in my Go code and it went on to fix unrelated TS errors on the front end instead.
Back to 3.5 for now.
Back to 3.5 for now.
This is a pretty neat summary of people looking for alternatives to Firefox: https://boilingsteam.com/poll-trust-in-firefox-mozilla-is-gone/
(I’m personally using Zen and quite liking the new look of my browser!)
(I’m personally using Zen and quite liking the new look of my browser!)
March 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is a pretty neat summary of people looking for alternatives to Firefox: https://boilingsteam.com/poll-trust-in-firefox-mozilla-is-gone/
(I’m personally using Zen and quite liking the new look of my browser!)
(I’m personally using Zen and quite liking the new look of my browser!)
After several years of having carb heavy breakfasts - I’m finally fixing that with adding more protein to start off the day!
February 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
After several years of having carb heavy breakfasts - I’m finally fixing that with adding more protein to start off the day!
2024: Year in Review mrkaran.dev/posts/2024/
2024: A Year In Review
Highlights from 2024 - life, travel and tech
mrkaran.dev
December 23, 2024 at 8:18 AM
2024: Year in Review mrkaran.dev/posts/2024/
A very small and early sneak peak of a side project I’m busy with these days: Log analytics app (powered by Clickhouse). Designed to be schemaless, fast and easy to scale.
Tonnes of more features in the pipeline and I’m really enjoying working on this.
Tonnes of more features in the pipeline and I’m really enjoying working on this.
December 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
A very small and early sneak peak of a side project I’m busy with these days: Log analytics app (powered by Clickhouse). Designed to be schemaless, fast and easy to scale.
Tonnes of more features in the pipeline and I’m really enjoying working on this.
Tonnes of more features in the pipeline and I’m really enjoying working on this.