Sundar Narasimhan
@sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social
Engineer by way of Lovedale, IIT, MIT AILab (before it turned into CSAIL), worked at startups, finance, consulting before software (Ascent, ITA Software, Google, and now at Sabre).. yes, mainframes to AI! Investor part-time in a few industries I track!
More services to learn about for my #homelab setup thanks to @xda-developers.com
6 essential self-hosted services I run 24/7
These QoL applications are essential for my daily tasks
www.xda-developers.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
More services to learn about for my #homelab setup thanks to @xda-developers.com
Nice detail on how to handle docs + context windows to handle code generation tasks with #ClaudeCode @blog.langchain.com
How to turn Claude Code into a domain specific coding agent
Authored by: Aliyan Ishfaq
Coding agents are great at writing code that uses popular libraries on which LLMs have been heavily trained on. But point them to a custom library, a new version of a libra...
blog.langchain.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Nice detail on how to handle docs + context windows to handle code generation tasks with #ClaudeCode @blog.langchain.com
Love these step by step articles (need to try Hetzner)! Agree re NoMachine and Claude #SoftwareDevelopment Thanks to @craftingteams.substack.com Termius and Mosh are my gotos as well!
Building a Vibe VPS
A workable Vibe VPS build to give your Claude Code a home at less than $20 a month
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Love these step by step articles (need to try Hetzner)! Agree re NoMachine and Claude #SoftwareDevelopment Thanks to @craftingteams.substack.com Termius and Mosh are my gotos as well!
Always interested in contrarian opinions well defended like this one Brent Johnson @ Santiago Capital argues for the USD bull case even given our debt crisis today! #Investing
A US Sovereign Debt Crisis is Bullish for the Dollar | Brent Johnson
Podcast Episode · Monetary Matters with Jack Farley · 07/27/2025 · 1h 23m
podcasts.apple.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Always interested in contrarian opinions well defended like this one Brent Johnson @ Santiago Capital argues for the USD bull case even given our debt crisis today! #Investing
@dev.to article summarizes key open source alternatives to popular software (but has Mastodon instead of @bsky.app?). Others I’m not quibbling with .. #SoftwareDevelopment
12 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software (For Developers)
Over the years, I’ve relied heavily on industry-standard tools like Postman, Notion, GitHub, and...
dev.to
July 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
@dev.to article summarizes key open source alternatives to popular software (but has Mastodon instead of @bsky.app?). Others I’m not quibbling with .. #SoftwareDevelopment
Umm wait — 200m rps with #cgi-bin? Really? Need to check this out! Thanks to @simonwillison.net for the pointer!
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
simonwillison.net
July 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Umm wait — 200m rps with #cgi-bin? Really? Need to check this out! Thanks to @simonwillison.net for the pointer!
Great timely #Books to read this summer @mitsloan.mit.edu !
MIT Sloan’s 2025 summer book collection | MIT Sloan
Eight research-backed titles covering retirement transitions, artificial intelligence and skills development, and how to build an innovation advantage.
mitsloan.mit.edu
July 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Great timely #Books to read this summer @mitsloan.mit.edu !
Knew about most of these but not all .. check out essential #HomeLab services @howtogeek.com.. (need to try out #Scrypted for instance)
10 Tools Every Homelabber Should Try at Least Once
I bet you haven't used at least one of these homelab tools.
www.howtogeek.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Great article @atlassian.com on their migration of four million #Postgres instances to #AWS Aurora .. must read if you are using single tenant configs! #Database
Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - Work Life by Atlassian
Explore how Atlassian successfully migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora, overcoming unique technical and operational challenges at massive scale. Learn how the team balanced reliability,...
www.atlassian.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Another awesome 🙂 article that wonders if just adding that word makes your GitHub repo awesome 🤔 ? #DataScience #MachineLearning @kdnuggets.com
10 GitHub Awesome Lists for Data Science - KDnuggets
Most popular educational resource list on GitHub for Python, R, SQL, analytics, machine learning, datasets, and more.
www.kdnuggets.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Another awesome 🙂 article that wonders if just adding that word makes your GitHub repo awesome 🤔 ? #DataScience #MachineLearning @kdnuggets.com
Short summary of why #Java renaissance is taking hold courtesy @newstack.io - covering language feature evolution!
Inside Java's Language Renaissance
The path to making Java simpler, more expressive and more data-oriented.
thenewstack.io
June 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Short summary of why #Java renaissance is taking hold courtesy @newstack.io - covering language feature evolution!
Not a front end dev myself but am deeply interested in the frameworks and techniques that make better UX possible — @kdnuggets.com list below is nice (has other bits for someone starting out).
10 GitHub Repositories to Master Web Development in 2025 - KDnuggets
Learn web development skills through courses, exercises, interview questions, checklist, and project ideas.
www.kdnuggets.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Not a front end dev myself but am deeply interested in the frameworks and techniques that make better UX possible — @kdnuggets.com list below is nice (has other bits for someone starting out).
Gradio, streamlit and now Taipy - nice series of articles on how to build dashboards with #Python! #datascience @towardsdatascience.com
Building A Modern Dashboard with Python and Taipy | Towards Data Science
A guide to building a front-end data application.
towardsdatascience.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Gradio, streamlit and now Taipy - nice series of articles on how to build dashboards with #Python! #datascience @towardsdatascience.com
+1 to focusing on developer joy to impact productivity.. good article @infoq.com — shoutout to @quarkus.io 🙂
Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, th...
www.infoq.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
+1 to focusing on developer joy to impact productivity.. good article @infoq.com — shoutout to @quarkus.io 🙂
Great article on math and #ArtificialIntelligence @technologyreview.com - great discoveries have also happened when two different fields were connected via a brilliant insight!
What’s next for AI and math
The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?
www.technologyreview.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Great article on math and #ArtificialIntelligence @technologyreview.com - great discoveries have also happened when two different fields were connected via a brilliant insight!
Good article @linkedin.com on using #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence to build the next generation of job search! 100 engineers ..🤔 wow!!
Building the next generation of job search at LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Good article @linkedin.com on using #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence to build the next generation of job search! 100 engineers ..🤔 wow!!
#systems-hackers will love these papers from #HotOS summarized well by @brooker.co.za - metastable failures, posix_spawn v fork, NIC v OS etc etc!
Systems Fun at HotOS - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
June 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#systems-hackers will love these papers from #HotOS summarized well by @brooker.co.za - metastable failures, posix_spawn v fork, NIC v OS etc etc!
#GenAI impact on #Travel Distribution - key insights from Accor, Kayak and Bonafide execs thanks to @phocuswright.com Mike Coletta and Norm Rose (doffs 🎩!), more questions than answers perhaps (personalization, content models, ads vs subscriptions, $GOOG, #OpenAI, Perplexity etc.)!
#GenAI's Impact on Travel Distribution - #Phocuswright's The New Age(nts) Trend Series Part 3
YouTube video by Phocuswright
youtu.be
May 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@wired.com is perhaps more tech savvy than most - starter article covers #MFA #passwordmanagers #VPN .. Would have liked more info on #Darkweb #Security #IdentityManagement
A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations
Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...
www.wired.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@wired.com is perhaps more tech savvy than most - starter article covers #MFA #passwordmanagers #VPN .. Would have liked more info on #Darkweb #Security #IdentityManagement
Short good article @developers.redhat.com on ensuring you test for network latency locally! #SoftwareDevelopment #podman
How to simulate network latency in local containers | Red Hat Developer
Use containers locally to simulate network latency with a distributed database cluster. Test architectures and identify issues before they occur in production
developers.redhat.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Short good article @developers.redhat.com on ensuring you test for network latency locally! #SoftwareDevelopment #podman