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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Apr 25

Latency is overrated! If you can make better decisions that prevent errors, adding a few milliseconds is not a significant drawback. #performance

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Jan 10

AI will lay foundation for the most inclusive generation ever #ces2025

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Jan 9

The eye never forgets what the heart has seen

#lionking

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Jan 7

Fast incremental changes eventually turns into technical debts! #engineering

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Jan 2

Some perform under pressure, while others succumb.

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Jan 1

Happy New Year folks 🥳🎇

#2025

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 22

is intelligence finite? 🤔

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 22

Recency bias is an engineering manager’s silent enemy: praising the latest hero while missing the quiet consistency that powers the team. Great leadership sees the whole arc, not just the last sprint. #Leadership #EngineeringManagement

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 22

@perplexity_ai well thats interesting! Got a bit confused with ozone(O3) and @OpenAI 's O3 🤭

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 22

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 21

well are these kinda surveys still worth it?

The first page is about supporting the survey with a T-shirt

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 21

2023 goal: Read 12 books.

Reality:
Books: 4
Podcasts: 86

Do podcasts count as reading, or am I just very cultured in procrastination? 🤔

#2023Goals #BooksVsPodcasts #ProcrastinationWins

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Dec 4

I officially hate Hooks 💔 #reactjs

#javascript

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 23

Why @why.bsky.team · Nov 22

Here's a good place to start: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...

Federation Architecture | Bluesky

The AT Protocol is made up of a bunch of pieces that stack together. Federation means that anyone can run the parts that make up the AT Protocol themselves, such as their own server.

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 23

the first follow 🙃

Darren and Poley @darrenandpoley.bsky.social · Nov 22

do you Bluesky elders remember who invited you?

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Daniel Duan @duan.ca · Nov 23

Approachable Swift Concurrency, a vision document:

github.com/hborla/swift...

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 21

Oh you beauty @ziglang.bsky.social ! ❤️

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 20

at times people hear what they want to hear 🙃

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 20

okay time to stop cursing my internet provider

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Nov 20

It’s not just you, Reddit is down

Social media platform Reddit is experiencing an outage this afternoon, resulting in thousands of users being unable to access its website and app. Reddit confirmed that it’s currently investigating the issue, according to its status page. We discovered…

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 19

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · Nov 19

Due to the server issues some of your recent posts may have gotten fewer likes than they deserved

Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did

a coupon which says "10 likes*" and then in fine print says "* does not give you likes"

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 18

It’s astonishing how many people don’t know the difference between Hindi, Hindu, and Indian language. 🤯🤯

sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 18

Nice one!

Gracefully disagree and commit, if things don't go on your direction. These are perfect instances to build trust.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · Nov 11

Wrote something for lead dev on how managers can productively disagree with their manager
leaddev.com/communicatio...

How (and how not) to disagree with your manager

Disagreements with your manager are inevitable, and it can be tempting to just tell yourself that you can’t fight the boss and give up. Don't.

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sendilkumarn @sendilkumarn.com · Nov 18

I believe their team should address the code review process. If the engineer missed a trivial detail, shouldn't it have been caught during the code review, especially given the precedence? 🤔