Ashwin M

13 Mar

Oh this one is an easy one

hunchle.bsky.social@hunchle.bsky.social

🧠 Today's Hunchle Question: "What African nation, home to the ancient city of Aksum, was formerly known as Abyssinia?" Play now at hunchle.com

Ashwin M reposted

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@hunchle.bsky.social

12 Mar

🧠 Today's Hunchle Question: "On May 7, 1915, this Cunard ocean liner was struck by a German torpedo and sank in 18 minutes, shifting U.S. opinion toward joining WWI. Name the s..." Play now at hunchle.com

Ashwin M reposted

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@hunchle.bsky.social

11 Mar

🧠 Today's Hunchle Question: "In 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray performed the first successful long-term transplant of this human organ between identical twins. Identify the organ." Play now at hunchle.com

Ashwin M reposted

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@hunchle.bsky.social

8 Mar

🧠 Today's Hunchle Question: "Declared by Jacques Cousteau as one of the top five diving sites in the world, this 3-word massive underwater sinkhole lies off the coast of Belize. Identify it." Think you know the answer? Play now at hunchle.app #trivia #quiz #hunchle #dailytrivia #geography

6 Mar

Interesting trivia!

hunchle.bsky.social@hunchle.bsky.social

🧠 Today's Hunchle Question: "On June 25, 1983, an underdog team captained by this person defended a modest total of 183 against the mighty West Indies at Lord’s. Identify the person." Think you know the answer? Play now at hunchle.app #trivia #quiz #hunchle #dailytrivia #india

ashwinmenon.comOptimizing Tack OnWith AI advancing rapidly, one of the most asked questions these days is, “Are software engineers still needed?”. I have some answers! I love optimizations and performance engineering, and decided to ...

20 Jan

I know a lot of people dislike LeetCode, but there ARE some benefits to simply practising the craft, even in this "AI world". Here are some Leetcode-style problems I ran into while vibe-coding my trivia game, framed as interview questions so you can test yourself! www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/techni...

19 Jan

One of the highest leverage AI productivity hacks I’ve adopted for Claude Code is ruthlessly aggressive context management. If you don’t curate the "context window," Claude spirals and quickly hits "usage limits." And thanks to AI, you can read it in the style of JRR Tolkien!

ashwinmenon.comI need more contextClick the buttons to rewrite the article in the style of different authors

19 Jan

1/ Swap models to save cash. Use Haiku for data gathering and web searches - same results at a fraction of the cost. For most tasks, stick to Sonnet. Opus is often overloaded and underperforming lately. Don't pay the "Opus tax" for trash output. Full article on www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/techni...

ashwinmenon.comOn Software DesignFor a lot of my career, I never really understood software design. It was always presented as something more associated with SDE2s, or higher and not so much with SDE1s. I had no idea what to make of ...

1 Sept 2025

New post! www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/techni...

cognition.aiCognition | Don’t Build Multi-AgentsFrameworks for LLM Agents have been surprisingly disappointing. I want to offer some principles for building agents based on our own trial & error, and explain why some tempting ideas are actually qui...

15 June 2025

Interesting. Cognition seems to think we should stick to single-threaded agents because multi-agents will not be able to collaborate effectively just yet. cognition.ai/blog/dont-bu...

ashwinmenon.comHow I used AI in HunchleI used AI in a big way to build Hunchle. I figured it would be useful to write this post to share my experience and to document what coding with AI looks like today. There were two major ways I used L...

10 June 2025

New post on generating questions for hunchle.com and what makes it so hard: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...

Using AI to build an app taught me a few things and presented a few challenges: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...

19 May 2025

Amazing stage win by Wout Van Aert! Any cycling fans (or wannabe cycling fans) here who'd like a rundown?

17 May 2025

Sainz, Alonso and Stroll doing better than expected. Tough luck for #Ferrari. #F1

16 May 2025

Get smart while having fun? Try the trivia app I'm building: hunchle.com Blog post on how it was built coming soon!

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok make it so easy to code. I built a trivia app: hunchle.com using these tools, and would love for you to check it out!

Not much coverage on bsky for many topics. Any suggestions for whom to follow for news, and computer science topics?

ubiquitous-pixie-5ba0aa.netlify.appVite + Solid

9 May 2025

Any interest in some trivia: ubiquitous-pixie-5ba0aa.netlify.app ?

ashwinmenon.comDemocratizing AIIf you’ve been following along, I’ve been using LLMs for a while, as detailed here and here. I learned a lot about the world of LLMs and I’ve tried to capture that here. Recently, motivated by Thorste...

25 Apr 2025

I built off of @thorstenball.com 's excellent guide and got an agent working with Ollama! www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...

24 Apr 2025

Is this me?

Scott Hanselman 🌮@scott.hanselman.com

When I retire I’m gonna get through my whole steam library

23 Apr 2025

Glad to move off of @evernote.bsky.social: Buggy & no longer free. @obsidian.md is where it's at!

22 Apr 2025

Listening to @gerberkawasaki.bsky.social on Yahoo Finance's webcast about Tesla earnings. He's gained a bsky follower in me!

22 Apr 2025

I liked his points on old Teslas being "cheaper-model Teslas", the kind of CEO a company that appeals to the masses needs and the tax impact of sales. Probably a few more things I am forgetting. Very insightful!

ashwinmenon.comWhy LinkedIn is the best social network (for me)At the outset, this may seem an absurd conclusion. To make my point, I’ll need to go into a little bit about how social networks came to be. It won’t take long. Back in the mid-2000s, we had a bunch o...

21 Apr 2025

In favor of LinkedIn: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...

ashwinmenon.comMy stint as a managerOver the last few months, during my short foray into management, one of the most common questions I got during 1:1s was, “Why did you decide to become a manager?” I have since realized that many more ...

17 Apr 2025

My stint as a manager: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/though...

4clojure.oxal.org4clojure 4ever4ever-clojure is a static version of 4clojure.com (as it's shutting down). It's a resource to help fledgling clojurians learn the language through interactive problems

8 Feb 2025

Working on 4clojure.oxal.org#/problem/12 Nice way to learn clojure interactively!

github.comSponsor @abhinav-upadhyay on GitHub SponsorsIf you've found my content at Confessions of a Code Addict, and want me to continue to produce more such work, then this is your chance to support me.

26 Jan 2025

I just sponsored @abhinav-upadhyay. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! You can join me at: github.com/sponsors/abh...

ashwinmenon.comA covid chronicleRead more...

31 Dec 2024

Updated my COVID post with some interesting data, which shows the impact of COVID, and of medication! www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...

26 Dec 2024

The new recommended tab is great!

ashwinmenon.comA guide to finances: securing the foundationIntro Around 7 years ago I wrote “A guide to finances” which some of my friends found helpful. Now, everyone is likely at a different point in their lives, so I thought I’d write the follow-up.…

Finally wrote a part two to one of my most-read posts!

thefrugalarchitect.comCost-Aware Architectures for Viewers like YouFrom constant firefighting in their tech operations, PBS faced the challenge of delivering cost-effective services while staying true to their mission. Mike shares how they shifted to fireproofing…

🧵 Learned about automated ABR, Mux, AVC, HEVC and the benefit of Fargate containers on https://buff.ly/3ZV6pBV (The Frugal Architect) Limiting video quality since kids likely don't care about 4k or 720p was quite smart! (1/3)

HEVC (H.265) provides better compression than AVC (H.264). Is there a tradeoff to consider? Yes! HEVC uses more CPU, but can provide network savings of ~50%! (2/3)

What's automated ABR? It's an AWS feature that lets the client customize your video's resolution based on the bandwidth available. Mux is a product that can let you collect analytics on your video's performance (3/3)

buff.lyAWS re:Invent 2024 - Dive deep on Amazon S3 (STG302)Amazon S3 provides developers and IT teams with cloud object storage that delivers industry-leading scalability, durability, security, and performance. Amazo...

8 Dec 2024

S3 video from re:invent seem to mention many of @marcbrooker.bsky.social 's ideas (shuffle sharding, power of two random choices, erasure coding for performance). Wonder if he inspired them or they inspired him?

buff.lyTesting a Single-Node, Single Threaded, Distributed System Written in 1985 By Will WilsonThe super stealth talk by Will Wilson, CEO of Antithesis, that brought the house down at the inaugural Systems Distributed in early 2023. The talk was only e...

8 Dec 2024

Watched https://buff.ly/4g41Gn5 but don't really understand how to apply it without antithesis. Was it just a big ad?

7 Dec 2024

@veritasium-science.bsky.social with another banger. Think they are clearly the best quality video maker on YouTube (ahead of Mark Rober now)

Trying Huel and it's been great so far! Any recommendation for flavors?

buff.lySineRiderA game about love & graphing

Hack club seems so cool! Found this cool game via the project: https://buff.ly/49nPydR !

One of the best explanatory texts I've read! Crystal clear and written in a simple - but engaging - style! Finished the first two chapters of cpu.land written by @kognise.dev. Excellent in combination with nandgame.com, go check it out!

Some things I would detail: - Interrupt vector table, mentioning that it usually contains system calls and examples of handlers it contains - Time slice section: target latency seems like the maximum amount of a time a program needs to wait before it's rescheduled.

So thoughtful: > The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline.

youtube.comAWS re:Invent 2024 - Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantisYouTube video by AWS Events

Interesting notes on AI training & inference, Trainium, network and storage in the re:invent keynote! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx36...

Specifically, the explanation of compute/memory demands during training/inference and the actions taken to scale up vertically and quickly were insightful!

3 Dec 2024

Tous Les Memes vibes

Al Yankovic@alyankovic.bsky.social

Hard Decision

shopify.comShopify Live Globe 2024Watch the world shop live

30 Nov 2024

Cool visualization of sales around the globe! shopify.com/blackfriday