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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 8d

And this one! 😀

The 5 Home Lab Upgrades that Changed Everything for Me

Learn about 5 home lab upgrades that transformed my setup, from 10GbE networking to mini PCs, Proxmox, Ceph, and container orchestration

www.virtualizationhowto.com

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · 8d

More services to learn about for my #homelab setup thanks to @xda-developers.com

6 essential self-hosted services I run 24/7

These QoL applications are essential for my daily tasks

www.xda-developers.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Sep 13

Nice detail on how to handle docs + context windows to handle code generation tasks with #ClaudeCode @blog.langchain.com

How to turn Claude Code into a domain specific coding agent

Authored by: Aliyan Ishfaq Coding agents are great at writing code that uses popular libraries on which LLMs have been heavily trained on. But point them to a custom library, a new version of a libra...

blog.langchain.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hmm need to give #PikVM a try!! Thanks to @xda-developers.com #Hardware

5 PCIe devices that are perfect for your home lab

Those spare PCIe slots aren't going to fill themselves

www.xda-developers.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Couple of really interesting #nonfiction #books here! #Crime #Iran #ClimateChange

Check out this month’s popular nonfiction picks — which include a #1 New York Times bestselling work of true crime, a thought-provoking exploration of the origins of language, and more!

www.bookbub.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Neat! #Python #SoftwareDevelopment

Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] | Coming August 28 🚨

YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Love these step by step articles (need to try Hetzner)! Agree re NoMachine and Claude #SoftwareDevelopment Thanks to @craftingteams.substack.com Termius and Mosh are my gotos as well!

Building a Vibe VPS

A workable Vibe VPS build to give your Claude Code a home at less than $20 a month

open.substack.com

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 27

Always interested in contrarian opinions well defended like this one Brent Johnson @ Santiago Capital argues for the USD bull case even given our debt crisis today! #Investing

A US Sovereign Debt Crisis is Bullish for the Dollar | Brent Johnson

Podcast Episode · Monetary Matters with Jack Farley · 07/27/2025 · 1h 23m

podcasts.apple.com

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 24

@dev.to article summarizes key open source alternatives to popular software (but has Mastodon instead of @bsky.app?). Others I’m not quibbling with .. #SoftwareDevelopment

12 Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software (For Developers)

Over the years, I’ve relied heavily on industry-standard tools like Postman, Notion, GitHub, and...

dev.to

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 6

Umm wait — 200m rps with #cgi-bin? Really? Need to check this out! Thanks to @simonwillison.net for the pointer!

Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

simonwillison.net

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 6

Great timely #Books to read this summer @mitsloan.mit.edu !

MIT Sloan’s 2025 summer book collection | MIT Sloan

Eight research-backed titles covering retirement transitions, artificial intelligence and skills development, and how to build an innovation advantage.

mitsloan.mit.edu

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 6

Knew about most of these but not all .. check out essential #HomeLab services @howtogeek.com.. (need to try out #Scrypted for instance)

10 Tools Every Homelabber Should Try at Least Once

I bet you haven't used at least one of these homelab tools.

www.howtogeek.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 6

Great article @atlassian.com on their migration of four million #Postgres instances to #AWS Aurora .. must read if you are using single tenant configs! #Database

Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - Work Life by Atlassian

Explore how Atlassian successfully migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora, overcoming unique technical and operational challenges at massive scale. Learn how the team balanced reliability,...

www.atlassian.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Another awesome 🙂 article that wonders if just adding that word makes your GitHub repo awesome 🤔 ? #DataScience #MachineLearning @kdnuggets.com

10 GitHub Awesome Lists for Data Science - KDnuggets

www.kdnuggets.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jul 1

$META joins #Kotlin foundation for their #Android builds @engineering.fb.com

Meta joins Kotlin Foundation

We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android developm…

engineering.fb.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Short summary of why #Java renaissance is taking hold courtesy @newstack.io - covering language feature evolution!

Inside Java's Language Renaissance

The path to making Java simpler, more expressive and more data-oriented.

thenewstack.io

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Not a front end dev myself but am deeply interested in the frameworks and techniques that make better UX possible — @kdnuggets.com list below is nice (has other bits for someone starting out).

10 GitHub Repositories to Master Web Development in 2025 - KDnuggets

Learn web development skills through courses, exercises, interview questions, checklist, and project ideas.

www.kdnuggets.com

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Gradio, streamlit and now Taipy - nice series of articles on how to build dashboards with #Python! #datascience @towardsdatascience.com

Building A Modern Dashboard with Python and Taipy | Towards Data Science

A guide to building a front-end data application.

towardsdatascience.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 7

+1 to focusing on developer joy to impact productivity.. good article @infoq.com — shoutout to @quarkus.io 🙂

Developer Joy: A Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity

In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, th...

www.infoq.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great article on math and #ArtificialIntelligence @technologyreview.com - great discoveries have also happened when two different fields were connected via a brilliant insight!

What’s next for AI and math

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

www.technologyreview.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 7

Good article @linkedin.com on using #LLMs and #ArtificialIntelligence to build the next generation of job search! 100 engineers ..🤔 wow!!

Building the next generation of job search at LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 7

#systems-hackers will love these papers from #HotOS summarized well by @brooker.co.za - metastable failures, posix_spawn v fork, NIC v OS etc etc!

Systems Fun at HotOS - Marc's Blog

brooker.co.za

Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · Jun 6

There goes the weekend 🙂 thanks to @blog.jetbrains.com #Java #HAGW!!

Java Annotated Monthly – June 2025 | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Java Annotated Monthly with the latest selection of tech news and tips for May is here.

blog.jetbrains.com

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · May 26

#GenAI impact on #Travel Distribution - key insights from Accor, Kayak and Bonafide execs thanks to @phocuswright.com Mike Coletta and Norm Rose (doffs 🎩!), more questions than answers perhaps (personalization, content models, ads vs subscriptions, $GOOG, #OpenAI, Perplexity etc.)!

#GenAI's Impact on Travel Distribution - #Phocuswright's The New Age(nts) Trend Series Part 3

YouTube video by Phocuswright

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Sundar Narasimhan @sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social · May 26

@wired.com is perhaps more tech savvy than most - starter article covers #MFA #passwordmanagers #VPN .. Would have liked more info on #Darkweb #Security #IdentityManagement

A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations

Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...

www.wired.com