Navin Pai
navinpai.bsky.social
Navin Pai
@navinpai.bsky.social
I'm A Moron Who's Too Lazy To Write A Proper Bio
Memory usage on #osx is so weird sometimes. Why is tmux taking up ~2Gigs of memory? WTAF? I'm muxing my terminal not running Slack ffs
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 AM
#TIL (the hard way): When you run .dump on a corrupt SQLite database, it outputs a ROLLBACK command right at the end (for safety). And if you try to create a fresh DB from this multi-GB dump, it'll take over half an hour, and finally output an empty file 🫠 #fml #sqlite
June 14, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Football "pundits": @premierleague is the best football league in Europe!

Meanwhile, teams in semis of either @ChampionsLeague and
@EuropaLeague:

🇩🇪 Germany - 3
🇮🇹 Italy - 2
🇫🇷 F̶a̶r̶m̶e̶r̶s̶ France - 2
🇪🇸 Spain - 1
April 20, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Watched the interview with Klopp. I'm from tech, where the high-performer burning out is almost a stereotype, & it's weird how Jurgen shows all the same symptoms I've seen w/ multiple friends who pushed a bit too far

Nothing but support, and all the best for what's next Jurgen 💗
January 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Leslie Lamport has put up the preliminary version of his new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" online: lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science....

Weekend reading sorted. The introduction itself has a few gems!
January 16, 2024 at 5:28 AM
What a day.. Completed a game I've spent 70 hours playing since Nov, Finished a 1000+ page book that I've been reading since Dec 2, Built an MVP for a side-project I've procrastinated on since Jun, Baked after 3+ months, Watched 2 Oscar IFF Nom movies. Merry Xmas indeed!🧑‍🎄🎄🤗
December 26, 2023 at 7:02 PM
When @getpostman raised $$$ and started jamming in random "cloud" features into a nifty API client, I moved to & recco-ed @GetInsomnia to everyone, as it filled the void. The latest login-locking scam that @thekonginc has pulled undoes ALL the goodwill 🤬

github.com/Kong/insomni...
Changes in Insomnia 8.0+ regarding needing an account and local/cloud data migration. · Kong/insomn...
Expected Behavior I would like to be able to use insomnia without an account or be warned BEFORE an update that you'll lock me out of my stuff. Actual Behavior you just locked me out Reproduction S...
github.com
October 4, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Had a great time talking about #eBPF + #python at #pyconindia yesterday. Thanks to folks who came to listen to me geek out about interfacing with the kernel from userspace 👾 🤓

Extra points to the dude who came over to tell me he ROFL-ed at the "nouveau" comment! #iykyk 😂
October 2, 2023 at 9:20 PM
- A friend's co is struggling to find PMF 2 years into the journey
- Another is getting acquired at a firesale after a longer run & leaving everyone empty-handed
- A third has slashed salaries by 50% since 3 months and has founders taking no salary

Startups are fun, they said 😞
September 25, 2023 at 7:48 AM
With the v1.0 launch of bunjs, thought I'd try it out with an app we use at @OpsVerse. Quite straightforward @nestframework TS app with a few bells and whistles.

Migration was as simple as replacing "npm" commands with "bun" and "node" in package.json with, well, "bun" 😅
September 9, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Went to Bellandur-Marathahalli-Sarjapur area 2 days in a row and now have enough dust in my lungs and eyes to shoot a sequel to Mad Max. How the highest (?) taxpaying junta of this city live in such squalor will be something I'll never be able to wrap my head around 🫥
September 3, 2023 at 10:31 PM
So inspiring to hear from the heroes whose work over the last decade has made this possible.. and so cool to share in their sheer euphoria! Truly hope events like this inspire the next generation of Space Explorers #Chandrayaan3Landing
August 23, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Like many, I started vim by copying random .vimrc from the internet. Struggled to get the right "feel", went back to basics and built my own vim config from scratch over the decade, which went from a blank file to a few hundred lines. The emacs flamewars helped 🙃

RIP Bram 🙏
RIP Bram Moolenaar! VIM has been a project I've used the longest and most consistently over the years. Such a loss for the community! groups.google.com/g/vim_announce…
August 6, 2023 at 9:57 AM
Reposted by Navin Pai
Is programming closer to ‘classical’ engineering or to novel writing?

This is an interesting question: and in The Art if Science and Engineering, Richard W Hamming suggests that in his experience it’s closer to novel writing:
August 3, 2023 at 7:34 AM
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August 1, 2023 at 8:23 PM
I feel personally attacked. 🙈
July 26, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Just setting up my bsky
July 25, 2023 at 6:54 AM