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Akshay Shah
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Field CTO @ Antithesis
https://akshayshah.org
There's also a nice shout-out for @antithesis.com! I'm biased, but I think it's pretty sweet and you should check it out for your next commercially-important distributed system.
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
For everything today's models are bad at, I'm really happy with how the images in this presentation came out. Starting with our designer's Halloween images and a pic of myself, then riffing from there was fun! The model feels like an in-betweener in the hand-drawn cartoon days.
October 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Popularized in Haskell"

Denominators can really do a lot of work.
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Datadog must have been polishing this piece of ragebait for years. It's art, really.

(But seriously, this API is like a cheese grater to the face.)
October 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Vibe-writing in Excel? No thanks 🤮

Unreliable tools can be incredibly useful - but you need a bulletproof test for their output. And spreadsheets are famously hard to get right! 94% of operational spreadsheets contain errors, and humans are exceptionally bad at catching them.
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Best convo on the internet right now @vicvijayakumar.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Poor Joe. I knew him before his radical sourdough ways.
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is … convoluted.
September 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I used to be a die-hard Inbox Zero fan, but I don't think I've seen this screen in at least a year. (I snoozed liberally to get here.)

Being on top of every last thing feels less important as the years go by.
December 22, 2024 at 6:12 AM
I’ll never understand how people can just throw dry ice away. I can’t resist playing with it…for science, obviously.
December 4, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Guess there’s no risk of this @db.cs.cmu.edu seminar being boring 😂
November 25, 2024 at 2:38 PM