TIL

Some TILs, along with many drafts that I am not ready to promote to the main page yet.

2026

Books 2026 -

2025

Tale as old as time -

Helix aide-mémoire -

System Design 2 -

System Design 1 -

Working with coding agents -

Useful Terminal Commands -

System Design Components and Trade Offs -

UI Navigation: Agent S vs Agent S2 -

API Design -

KV Caches in LLM inference -

2024

Book Notes: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Be Useful -

Elmore Leonard's Fire In The Hole -

Block web crawlers from ai firms -

To Meat Or Not -

Miniconda + Virtual Envs -

Machine Learning Jargon -

Time Complexity Cheatsheet -

2023

System Design Building Blocks -

Autumn of the patriarch -

Comparative Advantages -

State of books, and an early polemic -

Notes from an India trip -

JK on meditation -

Bengaluru after ages -

The Polyglossic Tanjavur Maratha Kingdom -

Coonan Cross Oath -

What's Our Problem? -

Old men looking back, East Asian edition -

Invasions on the British Isles -

World War I and British Elites -

Cache Invalidation -

Charlie Munger's Iron Prescriptions -

200% Indian -

How to talk about databases -

A short list of people claiming to be enlightened -

Nursing -

Bye, Old Friend -

Crying Infants -

GBS and Induction of Labor -

Venkata Kavi on Ramayana -

2022

Compiling and deploying a Zola site -

Grant Takes Command -

Commenting frameworks -

The futility of worry -

Bothering with an annual review -

The Power and The Glory -

Patterns in programming puzzles -

Book Notes: Designing Data Intensive Applications -

Use Collections in Jekyll to group content -

Updating github token -