Ranjit Mathew
rmathew4bs.bsky.social
Ranjit Mathew
@rmathew4bs.bsky.social
Notorious procrastinator, supposed reader, and alleged programmer.

https://rmathew.com/
The Amazon Pay app only lets you use your mobile number for UPI IDs (e.g. 9845098450@yapl). 😰

The Google Pay app only lets you use your Gmail username for UPI IDs (e.g. ashokkumar@oksbi). 😥

The BHIM app thankfully lets you customize your primary UPI ID. 😮‍💨

#India #UPI
December 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A lot of people feel this way 😩:

“Everyone In Seattle Hates AI”, Jonathan Ready (jonready.com/blog/posts/e...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613...

#Microsoft #Seattle #Layoffs #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hype #Productivity #Morale
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
jonready.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The utter greed & cynicism that made IndiGo mess up the lives of hundreds of thousands of passengers across the country this week in order to force the DGCA to roll back an inconvenient rule is 🤯.

Evil. 😡

#IndiGo #India #Capitalism #Monopoly #WTF #Aviation
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In which the Indian government continues its authoritarian war on its own citizens 😡:

“India Orders Smartphone Makers To Preload State-Owned Cyber Safety App”, Reuters (www.reuters.com/sustainabili...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...

#WTF #India #Authoritarianism #SancharSaathi
India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to ant...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A bit too cynical, but there’s a grain of truth here:

“How Good Engineers Write Bad Code At Big Companies”, Sean Goedecke (www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608...

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/jxppk7/how...

#Programming #Quality #SoftwareEngineering #BigTech
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
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www.seangoedecke.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
No, or transparent, bathroom doors are my biggest irritants in hotels 😡. WTF?

👇🏽 lists hotels with bathroom doors 👏🏽:

“Bring Back Doors”, Sadie (bringbackdoors.com).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4606...

#Hotels #Bathrooms #Doors #Dignity
Bring Back Doors
Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels
bringbackdoors.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Opinion Piece: On Zig (And The Design Choices Within)”, ‘Blueberry Wren’ (blueberrywren.dev/blog/on-zig/).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587...

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/uclead/opi...

#Zig #Programming #PLDI #Critique #Rants
Opinion piece: On Zig (and the design choices within)
blueberrywren.dev
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The article is too verbose & the discussions flame out, but some good references in both:

“Memory Safety For Skeptics”, ACM Queue (queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587...

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/mytmnl/mem...

#PLDI #Programming #MemorySafety #Security
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Emma Thompson 👇🏽 is all of us who are pissed off by the constant nags to use #AI while we are busy writing or coding – just let us be 😠:

youtube.com/shorts/H_Ff3...

#UX #DarkUX #Productivity #Writing #Interruptions #Nagging
The advent of AI and the plight of the Writer- explained by #emmathompson @ColbertLateShow #write
YouTube video by The Himalayan Writing Retreat
youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
How can you say no to “an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI”? 🙄

“How To Declutter, Quiet Down, And Take The AI Out Of Windows 11 25H2”, Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586...

#Windows #Windows11 #AI #Copilot #Bloat
How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2
A new major Windows 11 release means a new guide for cleaning up the OS.
arstechnica.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hmm…limited intersection with my set, but still some good recommendations:

“What’s Your Favourite Podcast At The Moment?”, Lobsters (lobste.rs/s/kinpl3/wha...).

#Podcasts #Recommendations #Lobsters
What’s your favourite podcast at the moment?
59 comments
lobste.rs
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Sure to stoke flame-wars that ignore the very point of the article 🍿:

“Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages”, Steve Francia (spf13.com/p/the-hidden...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/jrwaey/why...

#ProgrammingLanguages
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages | spf13
The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
spf13.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Leaving Meta And PyTorch”, Soumith Chintala (soumith.ch/blog/2025-11...).

On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4584... (👈🏽 some great discussion on why #PyTorch won over #TensorFlow and #Keras for #MachineLearning with #Python).

#Farewell #Meta #AI #ML
soumith.ch
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Dillo Website
dillo-browser.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I laughed out at the conclusion 😂:

“A Short Survey Of Compiler Targets”, Abhinav Sarkar (abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-c...).

On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/ctbibn/sho...

#Compilers #Programming #IR #IntermediateRepresentation #GCC #LLVM #QBE
A Short Survey of Compiler Targets
A short survey of compiler targets like assembly, LLVM, C, JVM and Brainfuck.
abhinavsarkar.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM