Sam Khawasé
@samkhawase.com
Engineering leader @Cloudflare.social
GirlDad, Taleb’s Surgeon, Ex-Farmboy 🌾
Writings: https://open.substack.com/pub/sevenseas
Web: https://samkhawase.com
Location: Berlin 🧸
GirlDad, Taleb’s Surgeon, Ex-Farmboy 🌾
Writings: https://open.substack.com/pub/sevenseas
Web: https://samkhawase.com
Location: Berlin 🧸
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Sam Khawasé
@samkhawase.com
· Oct 25
Saurabh "Sam" Khawase
About Me
samkhawase.com
Hi Folks 👋
I’m a classically trained CS Engineer and I work as an Engineering Manager.
I’m a polyglot engineer with expertise in Backend, DevOps, Mobile etc.
I speak ~6 languages, lived on 3½ continents, love running, swimming, and trekking.
More about me at: samkhawase.com
#introduction
I’m a classically trained CS Engineer and I work as an Engineering Manager.
I’m a polyglot engineer with expertise in Backend, DevOps, Mobile etc.
I speak ~6 languages, lived on 3½ continents, love running, swimming, and trekking.
More about me at: samkhawase.com
#introduction
Y Tu Mamá También.
What a cinematic masterpiece!
What a cinematic masterpiece!
October 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Y Tu Mamá También.
What a cinematic masterpiece!
What a cinematic masterpiece!
Reposted by Sam Khawasé
i think migrating away from Vercel hosting is a solid idea. i moved my Next.js blog to Cloudflare (for free) and have been very happy with that
with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration
with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration
September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
i think migrating away from Vercel hosting is a solid idea. i moved my Next.js blog to Cloudflare (for free) and have been very happy with that
with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration
with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration
Reposted by Sam Khawasé
- How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes: Karthik Nayak, Manuel Kraft (@gitlab.com)
- Cross-compiling Zig on an old Kindle:
@samkhawase.com
- The art of SQL query optimization: Jan Nidzwetzki
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts:
Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)
- Cross-compiling Zig on an old Kindle:
@samkhawase.com
- The art of SQL query optimization: Jan Nidzwetzki
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts:
Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)
July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
- How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes: Karthik Nayak, Manuel Kraft (@gitlab.com)
- Cross-compiling Zig on an old Kindle:
@samkhawase.com
- The art of SQL query optimization: Jan Nidzwetzki
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts:
Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)
- Cross-compiling Zig on an old Kindle:
@samkhawase.com
- The art of SQL query optimization: Jan Nidzwetzki
- My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts:
Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)
Feels nice to wake up and see your post on Hacker News front page ☺️
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Feels nice to wake up and see your post on Hacker News front page ☺️
I took a hiatus from social media and vowed not to sign back in unless I had produced something worth sharing. I hacked my old kindle device and created a school dashboard for my daughter using @cloudflare.social
platform. Totally worth it 💯.
platform. Totally worth it 💯.
April 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I took a hiatus from social media and vowed not to sign back in unless I had produced something worth sharing. I hacked my old kindle device and created a school dashboard for my daughter using @cloudflare.social
platform. Totally worth it 💯.
platform. Totally worth it 💯.
The internet needs more visual explainers and there’s no one better than @samwho.dev to help you get started 💯
Have had a couple of takers on this and it is tremendously fun and productive.
I’m totally serious: if you’re making a visual explainer with web technology and you want expert feedback for free from someone with a proven track record making this content, DM me.
I’m totally serious: if you’re making a visual explainer with web technology and you want expert feedback for free from someone with a proven track record making this content, DM me.
If you’ve been thinking about making something like this, and you’ve not done it before, or you’re on the fence about it, or you’re stuck: my DMs are open. I would love to help you. Let’s talk.
April 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The internet needs more visual explainers and there’s no one better than @samwho.dev to help you get started 💯
Dear BlueSky community: 🦋
What cool hackable electronic stuff should I get from Shenzhen?
(E.g. eInk displays, ESP32s?)
My friend is in Shenzhen and told me they can get me something on their way.
Please RT for wider reach if you like.
What cool hackable electronic stuff should I get from Shenzhen?
(E.g. eInk displays, ESP32s?)
My friend is in Shenzhen and told me they can get me something on their way.
Please RT for wider reach if you like.
April 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Dear BlueSky community: 🦋
What cool hackable electronic stuff should I get from Shenzhen?
(E.g. eInk displays, ESP32s?)
My friend is in Shenzhen and told me they can get me something on their way.
Please RT for wider reach if you like.
What cool hackable electronic stuff should I get from Shenzhen?
(E.g. eInk displays, ESP32s?)
My friend is in Shenzhen and told me they can get me something on their way.
Please RT for wider reach if you like.
Reposted by Sam Khawasé
Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world.
As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.
It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.
It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
March 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world.
As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.
It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS.
It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
“My best engineers come from obscure places like Coimbatore and Kolhapur, not from top universities with a pedigree ”
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Missile man and former President of India.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Missile man and former President of India.
The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers
Software engineer Charity Majors challenges the "10x engineer" myth, arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance. She encourages building workplaces where "norma...
spectrum.ieee.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“My best engineers come from obscure places like Coimbatore and Kolhapur, not from top universities with a pedigree ”
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Missile man and former President of India.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Missile man and former President of India.
We have Girls Day in Germany which is a public-private collaboration that tries to bring the change. Many companies participate in it enthusiastically and there’s genuine support. It’s a good start in my opinion.
www.girls-day.de
www.girls-day.de
I am going to write an opinion paper called "psychologists should stop researching getting girls to code and research changing software cultures"
Back when the Ada initiative was a thing, we were talking at a conference and realized that most of the women software engineers we knew had significant trauma histories. We were used to being treated like shit. Women who were unwilling to be treated that way left the field! To us it felt normal.
March 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We have Girls Day in Germany which is a public-private collaboration that tries to bring the change. Many companies participate in it enthusiastically and there’s genuine support. It’s a good start in my opinion.
www.girls-day.de
www.girls-day.de
It’s Thursday and this week I’ve:
- Jailbroke an ancient arm-gnueabi device.
- Wrote Zig code for it and debugged using ancient gdb
- Wrote Golang code as usual
- Wrote C++
- Reviewed Python code and SQL query performances.
…while being an EM.
I think I need help. 😵💫
- Jailbroke an ancient arm-gnueabi device.
- Wrote Zig code for it and debugged using ancient gdb
- Wrote Golang code as usual
- Wrote C++
- Reviewed Python code and SQL query performances.
…while being an EM.
I think I need help. 😵💫
March 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s Thursday and this week I’ve:
- Jailbroke an ancient arm-gnueabi device.
- Wrote Zig code for it and debugged using ancient gdb
- Wrote Golang code as usual
- Wrote C++
- Reviewed Python code and SQL query performances.
…while being an EM.
I think I need help. 😵💫
- Jailbroke an ancient arm-gnueabi device.
- Wrote Zig code for it and debugged using ancient gdb
- Wrote Golang code as usual
- Wrote C++
- Reviewed Python code and SQL query performances.
…while being an EM.
I think I need help. 😵💫
Does anyone know if project Euler is good for 10yo kids? Are there any other such projects that use programming to solve maths problems?
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Does anyone know if project Euler is good for 10yo kids? Are there any other such projects that use programming to solve maths problems?
I wrote some Zig code today and cross compiled it for an old arm-gnueabi platform. I was pleasantly surprised by the ergonomics and maturity of the language.
What’s more impressive was it integrated with my NeoVim perfectly and showed me meaning linter hints on save.
💯
What’s more impressive was it integrated with my NeoVim perfectly and showed me meaning linter hints on save.
💯
March 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wrote some Zig code today and cross compiled it for an old arm-gnueabi platform. I was pleasantly surprised by the ergonomics and maturity of the language.
What’s more impressive was it integrated with my NeoVim perfectly and showed me meaning linter hints on save.
💯
What’s more impressive was it integrated with my NeoVim perfectly and showed me meaning linter hints on save.
💯
Reposted by Sam Khawasé
Do I have a sticker for that? YES, I DO HAVE A STICKER FOR THAT 😍
March 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Do I have a sticker for that? YES, I DO HAVE A STICKER FOR THAT 😍
March 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I stay away from US political discourse because it’s not something that I can influence, but that press conference at the Oval Office just made it clear that 4chan edgelord takeover of that country is complete.
What a shitshow
What a shitshow
February 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I stay away from US political discourse because it’s not something that I can influence, but that press conference at the Oval Office just made it clear that 4chan edgelord takeover of that country is complete.
What a shitshow
What a shitshow
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
February 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
Berlin, du bist so Wunderbar!
February 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Berlin, du bist so Wunderbar!
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one.
February 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one.
That “almost” is doing quite some heavy lifting.
Come back to me when your AI can grow some crops, make food for us, and clean our houses.
Come back to me when your AI can grow some crops, make food for us, and clean our houses.
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027 #SuggestedRead #devopsish arstechnica.com/ai/2...
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
Amodei: “I think progress really is as fast as people think it is.”…
arstechnica.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
That “almost” is doing quite some heavy lifting.
Come back to me when your AI can grow some crops, make food for us, and clean our houses.
Come back to me when your AI can grow some crops, make food for us, and clean our houses.
Health, Family, Friends are the three invaluable jewels you’ll need.
Philosophy will help you be at peace with yourself.
Life is absurd. If you’re not having fun, you’re trying too hard and need to relax.
Philosophy will help you be at peace with yourself.
Life is absurd. If you’re not having fun, you’re trying too hard and need to relax.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Health, Family, Friends are the three invaluable jewels you’ll need.
Philosophy will help you be at peace with yourself.
Life is absurd. If you’re not having fun, you’re trying too hard and need to relax.
Philosophy will help you be at peace with yourself.
Life is absurd. If you’re not having fun, you’re trying too hard and need to relax.
My LIS-BER flight got delayed by 2 hours. Due ton night curfew at BER, it was redirected to Hannover airport.
After a tiring bus ride from Hannover, the bus driver told us he can’t stop anywhere in the city and has to drop us only at the airport! We literally came via A100 but nope, Das Regeln 😡
After a tiring bus ride from Hannover, the bus driver told us he can’t stop anywhere in the city and has to drop us only at the airport! We literally came via A100 but nope, Das Regeln 😡
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My LIS-BER flight got delayed by 2 hours. Due ton night curfew at BER, it was redirected to Hannover airport.
After a tiring bus ride from Hannover, the bus driver told us he can’t stop anywhere in the city and has to drop us only at the airport! We literally came via A100 but nope, Das Regeln 😡
After a tiring bus ride from Hannover, the bus driver told us he can’t stop anywhere in the city and has to drop us only at the airport! We literally came via A100 but nope, Das Regeln 😡
From a historical perspective: The response from US, unsurprisingly, is very similar to the imperialist days of Gunboat diplomacy and Boxer rebellion.
The problem with that is there’s no 8 Nation Alliance + cannon fodder from
Colonies to back that up.
The problem with that is there’s no 8 Nation Alliance + cannon fodder from
Colonies to back that up.
Distillation is violation of Terms of Service. That is not Intellectual Property theft. It’s up to the company to enforce TOS, not the government.
Outputs of AI stems are not copyrightable either. Oh, and OpenAI might be violating copyright anyway.
Outputs of AI stems are not copyrightable either. Oh, and OpenAI might be violating copyright anyway.
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
January 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From a historical perspective: The response from US, unsurprisingly, is very similar to the imperialist days of Gunboat diplomacy and Boxer rebellion.
The problem with that is there’s no 8 Nation Alliance + cannon fodder from
Colonies to back that up.
The problem with that is there’s no 8 Nation Alliance + cannon fodder from
Colonies to back that up.