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!
Great advice from $AMZN engineer - all of these points ring true to me! 👏 @alifeengineered.substack.com
What I Learned From Nearly 1,000 Interviews at Amazon
I was an Amazon Bar Raiser for over a decade. Here's what I was looking for.
alifeengineered.substack.com
One hour is not enough to read and digest this important note wrt #ArtificialIntelligence and #Mathematics by @daniellitt.com Following up on #Knuth’s shock shock paper!
Mathematics in the Library of Babel — Daniel Litt
Mathematics isn't only about saying true things. It's about asking the right questions, being confused, stumbling about, getting distracted, being wrong, recognizing when you're wrong, being stuck. Mo...
daniellitt.com
Another useful post re #SystemDesign @github.com repos @kdnuggets.com
10 GitHub Repositories to Master System Design - KDnuggets
Want to move beyond drawing boxes and arrows and actually understand how scalable systems are built? These GitHub repositories break down the concepts, patterns, and real-world trade-offs that make gr...
kdnuggets.com
Thanks to Bala Priya @kdnuggets.com for introducing me to #Polars for #Python #Datascience projects. Handy addition to #Pandas (replacement 🙂?)!
Pandas vs. Polars: A Complete Comparison of Syntax, Speed, and Memory
Need help choosing the right Python dataframe library? This article compares Pandas and Polars to help you decide.
kdnuggets.com
Nice! @developers.google.com provides a hosted MCP server for @datacommons.org! #ArtificialIntelligence #Data
Data Commons Hosted MCP: Zero-Install Public Data for AI- Google Developers Blog
Connect AI agents to Data Commons instantly with the new hosted MCP service on Google Cloud. Enjoy secure, scalable, and free data access without the hassle of local server management.
developers.googleblog.com
Several articles re #Judgement vs probabilistic optimizations as exemplified by #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence are emerging.. this book review on #Uncertainty and #Risk is worth reading! How #Reflexivity and crowd behavior can alter systems and outcomes!
Book Review: Radical Uncertainty
wp.nyu.edu
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book, “Clearing the Air”, will be published in North America on February 17th! (link to pre-order now in 🧵 ) Hannah, our Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead, published her first book, “Not the End of the World”, in 2024...
@stewartbrand.bsky.social amazing writing - am told he has a new book on #Maintenance coming out! Books referenced here now on my #toread queue as well!
The Maintenance Race - Works in Progress Magazine
The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. Its contestants' efforts can teach us about the art of maintenance.
worksinprogress.co
Had never heard of the #Kardashev scale - thanks to @mattlevine.bsky.social and @moneystuff.bsky.social podcast. Fascinating stuff!
Kardashev scale - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
@tomshardware.com has a good Minisforum MS-02 review.. had been considering quieter @beelink.com units but lack of vPRO on those have me looking 🙂
Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on — can it replace my hulking desktop PC that is 11 times larger?
This new mini-PC features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and a surprising amount of modern expandability options in a modest sub-5-liter chassis.
tomshardware.com
#steveyegge (who has had an illustrious career) attempts to figure out how #softwaredevelopment might evolve in the #AI #LLM era! Interesting to read about the #HiveMind!
The Anthropic Hive Mind
As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
steve-yegge.medium.com
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
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
Hmm need to give #PikVM a try!! Thanks to @xda-developers.com #Hardware
5 PCIe devices that are perfect for your home lab
Those spare PCIe slots aren't going to fill themselves
xda-developers.com
Couple of really interesting #nonfiction #books here! #Crime #Iran #ClimateChange
Best New Popular Nonfiction - August 2025 - Readworthy
Check out this month’s popular nonfiction picks — which include a #1 New York Times bestselling work of true crime, a thought-provoking exploration of the origins of language, and more!
bookbub.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
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
@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
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
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.
howtogeek.com
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,...
atlassian.com
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.
kdnuggets.com
$META joins #Kotlin foundation for their #Android builds @engineering.fb.com
Meta joins Kotlin Foundation
We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android developm…
engineering.fb.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
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.
kdnuggets.com
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
+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...
infoq.com
