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Whenever I listen to "You're Still The One" by Shania Twain, I think of my habit of exploring a bunch of new technologies, but always coming back to Python and Django when starting serious web dev projects.

July 17, 2026 Permalink

I paused my programming education as a kid for 5 years because I didn't have a printer at home to print("hello world")

July 17, 2026 Permalink

Want to know the best way to put off young aspiring programmers? Start their programming education with the line #include <stdio.h>

July 17, 2026 Permalink

YC's marketing tagline: "You weren't meant to have a boss"

YC to developers: "Apply to thousands of startup jobs with a single profile."

July 17, 2026 Permalink

I found out pretty early in life that the rich and famous don't often mix with ordinary folks, when browsing Wikipedia and finding they seemed to almost exclusively marry people who also had their own Wikipedia pages.

July 17, 2026 Permalink

Has anyone in Python's scientific computing community ever imported numpy as something other than np?

July 17, 2026 Permalink

My biggest purchase last year was a .ai domain that I'm probably never going to use.

July 17, 2026 Permalink

I don't care if AI automates programming. If I can learn a new JS framework every year, then I should also be able to switch careers when required.

July 17, 2026 Permalink

Growing up in India where English was not my native language, I heard the word "cheers" only when villains in old Indian movies plotted their evil plans while sharing a few drinks with their friends.

Later, when watching cricket, I heard Australian players always ended post-match interviews with "Cheers, mate!" especially Ricky Ponting after scoring yet another century against India, so I continued to believe "cheers" was mainly used by "villains".

Now I've come full circle - ending many of my texts and emails with "Cheers".

July 17, 2026 Permalink

Billions of end users Pre LLMs: "How to convert my document to PDF?".

Millions of developers post LLMs: "How to convert a PDF to plain text?"

November 2, 2025 Permalink