Ashwin M
ashwinmenon.com
Ashwin M
@ashwinmenon.com
Building hunchle.com & helping you get smarter!
I write at https://buttondown.com/AshwinMenon
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...
Cognition | Don’t Build Multi-Agents
Frameworks 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...
cognition.ai
June 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
New post on generating questions for hunchle.com and what makes it so hard: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...
Hunchle
hunchle.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Using AI to build an app taught me a few things and presented a few challenges: www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...
How I used AI in Hunchle
I 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...
www.ashwinmenon.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Amazing stage win by Wout Van Aert! Any cycling fans (or wannabe cycling fans) here who'd like a rundown?
May 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Sainz, Alonso and Stroll doing better than expected. Tough luck for #Ferrari. #F1
May 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Get smart while having fun? Try the trivia app I'm building: hunchle.com
Blog post on how it was built coming soon!
Hunchle
hunchle.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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!
Hunchle
hunchle.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Not much coverage on bsky for many topics. Any suggestions for whom to follow for news, and computer science topics?
May 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Any interest in some trivia: ubiquitous-pixie-5ba0aa.netlify.app ?
Vite + Solid
ubiquitous-pixie-5ba0aa.netlify.app
May 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Is this me?
When I retire I’m gonna get through my whole steam library
April 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Glad to move off of @evernote.bsky.social: Buggy & no longer free. @obsidian.md is where it's at!
April 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Listening to @gerberkawasaki.bsky.social on Yahoo Finance's webcast about Tesla earnings. He's gained a bsky follower in me!
April 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Working on 4clojure.oxal.org#/problem/12
Nice way to learn clojure interactively!
4clojure 4ever
4ever-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
4clojure.oxal.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I just sponsored @abhinav-upadhyay. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! You can join me at: github.com/sponsors/abh...
Sponsor @abhinav-upadhyay on GitHub Sponsors
If 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.
github.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Updated my COVID post with some interesting data, which shows the impact of COVID, and of medication!
www.ashwinmenon.com/posts/activi...
A covid chronicle
Read more...
www.ashwinmenon.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:10 AM
The new recommended tab is great!
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Finally wrote a part two to one of my most-read posts!
A guide to finances: securing the foundation
Intro 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.…
www.ashwinmenon.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:14 PM
🧵 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)
Cost-Aware Architectures for Viewers like You
From 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…
www.thefrugalarchitect.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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?
AWS 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...
buff.ly
December 8, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Watched https://buff.ly/4g41Gn5 but don't really understand how to apply it without antithesis. Was it just a big ad?
Testing a Single-Node, Single Threaded, Distributed System Written in 1985 By Will Wilson
The 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...
buff.ly
December 8, 2024 at 2:47 PM
@veritasium-science.bsky.social with another banger. Think they are clearly the best quality video maker on YouTube (ahead of Mark Rober now)
December 7, 2024 at 6:33 AM