Athreya aka Maneshwar

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Mar 15 '25

Domain Driven Design

#webdev #programming #beginners #java

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Mar 2 '25

Implementing an API with Background Tasks: A Pragmatic Approach

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Feb 24 '25

Why Kafka? A Developer-Friendly Guide to Event-Driven Architecture

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

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Feb 6 '25

Speed Up DB Queries Like a Pro

#webdev #programming #beginners #database

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Dec 27 '24

Understanding Webhooks: A Humble Guide for Developers

#webdev #programming #beginners

3 min read

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Oct 9

The Stack I'd Need for Claude to Direct a Whole YouTube Video in Blender

#blender #ai #mcp #claude

16 min read

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Oct 5

Spider-Man Moonwalked Off a Billboard and Only My Test Suite Noticed

#blender #python #gamedev #debugging

14 min read

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Oct 3

I Made Spider-Man Swing Without Animating a Single Frame

#blender #mcp #ai #beginners

13 min read

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Oct 1

What Happens When Two Databases Both Say Yes

#systemdesign #database #architecture #backend

15 min read

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Sep 29

Building a Custom ERP Module on the MERN Stack: Data Modeling, Transactions and Audit Trails

#mongodb #node #javascript

5 min read

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Sep 28

Two-Phase Commit Is a Trap: How Real Systems Do Distributed Transactions

#systemdesign #microservices #architecture #backend

13 min read

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Sep 27

Do You Really Need to Be in the Top 0.1% of Your Field?

#discuss #career #productivity #motivation

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Sep 26

GFS Cost More Than 50 Cents a Run. Now Each Run Costs 4 Cents

#rag #ai #go #python

14 min read

Comments warn about API key store isolation quirks

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Sep 22

Cheap RAG in Go with Gemini File Search: no vector DB, two calls, one hosted store

#go #ai #rag #gemini

14 min read

Redis users rave about tiny 12KB footprints

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Sep 16

How to Count 100 Billion Things in 12 Kilobytes

#systemdesign #algorithms #redis #computerscience

8 min read

Common architecture acronyms explained simply

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Sep 15

MVC, MVP, MVVM, MVVM-C, VIPER: one pattern wearing five outfits

#architecture #mobile #programming #webdev

7 min read

Demystifies the hidden stream pipeline

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Sep 14

The ffmpeg Pipeline Nobody Explains

#ffmpeg #cli #video #linux

6 min read

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Sep 12

Seven Patterns That Decide If Your AI App Survives 10,000 Users

#ai #systemdesign #backend #scaling

9 min read

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Sep 11

How Uber Knows Your Driver Is 7 Minutes Away

#systemdesign #machinelearning #backend #uber

4 min read

Readers share haunting outage stories

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Sep 10

Down Is Kind, Slow Is Fatal: Circuit Breakers and the Three Links Around Them

#systemdesign #backend #architecture #webdev

18 min read

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Sep 9

How Google Stores a Planet: The GFS, Explained

#distributedsystems #systemdesign #googlecloud #architecture

10 min read

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Sep 8

7 Ways to Make Your API Faster

#webdev #performance #backend #api

10 min read

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Sep 7

SSH, Actually Explained: Handshakes, Keys, and the Tunnel Trick

#ssh #security #devops #networking

10 min read

Explains MCMC intuitively using dart throwing

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Sep 6

Markov Chain Monte Carlo: the 1953 algorithm hiding under modern AI

#machinelearning #python #datascience #computerscience

13 min read

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Sep 5

Your average latency is lying to you: p90, p95 and p99 explained

#performance #webdev #architecture #devops

9 min read

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Sep 4

How ChatGPT agents with no internet access ended up in Hugging Face

#ai #security #devops #architecture

10 min read

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Sep 3

Four Ways Your Background Job Disappears (And How to Stop Each One)

#systemdesign #backend #architecture #webdev

11 min read

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Sep 2

Designing a Webhook Delivery System for 10 Million Events a Day

#systemdesign #webhooks #backend #architecture

11 min read

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Sep 1

How the internet actually works, and why nobody is in charge of it

#networking #webdev #programming #beginners

8 min read

Debates hidden state costs and revocation traps

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Aug 31

Sessions vs JWTs: you are choosing how often you pay for state

#webdev #security #backend #programming

8 min read

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Aug 30

CPU, GPU, TPU, NPU, DPU, QPU: six chips, one question

#hardware #ai #computerscience #programming

10 min read

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Aug 29

Seven Ideas That Keep Distributed Systems From Falling Over

#distributedsystems #systemdesign #beginners #webdev

11 min read

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Aug 28

How BitTorrent Turned Every Downloader Into a Server

#distributedsystems #algorithms #webdev #programming

10 min read

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Aug 26

Kademlia: Algo That Turned XOR Distance Into a Network

#webdev #programming #beginners #algorithms

6 min read

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Aug 25

Bitwise and Otherwise: Understanding XOR Distance

#algorithms #beginners #learning

6 min read

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Aug 23

Too Many Req: A Bucket List Guide to Building a Rate Limiter

#backend #systemdesign #webdev #beginners

9 min read

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Aug 22

Same Model, Two Speeds: A Friendly Tour of LLM Inference Engines

#ai #machinelearning #llm #beginners

7 min read

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Aug 21

How ChatGPT Serves 900 Million Users at a Time

#systemdesign #postgres #architecture #beginners

7 min read

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Aug 19

Rules, Standards, and a Missing Line on My Chart

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

7 min read

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Aug 18

COSP: The Prompting Trick Where Your LLM Grades Its Own Homework

#ai #machinelearning #webdev #llm

6 min read

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Aug 16

How We Got an LLM to Draw Charts Without Ever Touching a Pixel

#ai #webdev #programming #beginners

8 min read

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Aug 11

The Guy Who Invented the Internet's Front Door and Refused to Charge Rent

#webdev #beginners #opensource

7 min read

How AI-driven coding made massive diffs worse

Athreya aka Maneshwar

Aug 10

Ayo GitHub Quietly Killed the Unreviewable Mega-PR

#webdev #programming #productivity #github

7 min read

Moves past generic code for unique UI

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Aug 8

Teaching Your AI Web Design Some Actual Taste

#ai #webdev #claude #design

8 min read

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Aug 7

ratatop: the process table, and the parentheses that ruin everything

#rust #tui #cli #beginners

7 min read

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Aug 6

Google Quietly Dropped 12 Free AI Tools. Developers Should Probably Care.

#ai #programming #webdev #productivity

5 min read

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Aug 1

ratatop: the network box, and why your ISP lies with units

#programming #productivity #cli #rust

7 min read

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Jul 31

ratatop day 3: disks, statvfs, and my first unsafe block

#cli #beginners #programming #rust

8 min read

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Jul 29

ratatop day 2: the memory box, and the lie in `free -h`

#programming #rust #cli #beginners

6 min read

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Jul 28

Building ratatop: a Rust System Monitor with ratatui

#programming #cli #beginners #rust

8 min read

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Jul 27

A VPN Is a Lie You Tell Your Kernel

#webdev #programming #linux #networking

10 min read

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Jul 26

How terminal-sharing tools put your shell in a browser

#webdev #programming #productivity #cli

9 min read

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Jul 25

I'm a Dev Who Barely Knows the Kernel. Here's How I'm Learning How to Track a Packet with pwru

#debugging #linux #networking #opensource

8 min read

Addresses frustrating 403 blocks and paywalls

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Jul 24

6 Open Source Tools That Give You the Web Back

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

6 min read

Compiling query ASTs directly into safe SQL

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Jul 23

Tried building GitHub's search box in Go

#webdev #programming #beginners #go

9 min read

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Jul 20

Your AI Re-Reads Your Whole Codebase Every Session. Hand It a Map Instead

#ai #productivity #webdev #beginners

6 min read

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Jul 18

Your PDFs Are Eating Your LLM's Tokens for Breakfast

#ai #webdev #productivity #tooling

5 min read

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Jul 16

Nobody Painted That Rectangle Black

#android #security #mobile #programming

4 min read

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Jul 15

/proc, pkexec, and 678 commits

#programming #webdev #beginners #linux

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Jul 14

A Dash of dev.to: My Blog Stats Now Live in the Terminal

#webdev #programming #productivity #bash

6 min read

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Jul 13

Fusuma: Write Markdown, Get Slides, PDFs, and a Self-Made Social Card

#webdev #productivity #beginners #markdown

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Jul 12

I Poked a 10-Year-Old Chat Protocol With a Stick

#webdev #programming #go #beginners

6 min read

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Jul 11

I finally counted my tokens before they hatched

#ai #webdev #programming #productivity

3 min read

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Jul 10

The Shell You Know vs The Shell You Deserve

#webdev #programming #productivity #linux

5 min read

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Jul 7

This Post Was Published by Nevo David's Postiz

#webdev #programming #javascript #productivity

7 min read

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