Below is based on an internal doc I shared with my team at Hiro a while back. While there are a LOT of resources on 1:1s out there, I found that my team nonetheless valued hearing my perspective in my words. Feel free to edit / adapt to make your
I spent a decade in your typical Silicon Valley companies. Then two years ago, I took a plunge into crypto.
Most tech companies already have fairly apolitical norms and no one expects that their employer would actively champion every single cause they might care about. But issues like systemic racism and structural oppression of minorities aren't just matters of belief.
⚠️This post is written based on my experience before the Plausible Community Edition was announced. Most of it should still be relevant and applicable; I'll remove this notice once I've had a chance to update my Plausible instance. Just waiting for the final 2.1.0
After having heard about on it the interwebs for a bit, I finally decided to play around with Caddy myself last summer and see what the fuss was all about. Reader, I dig it! I mean, don't get me wrong – let's encrypt is AMAZING and it&
How to setup logseq sync (for free) on desktop and mobile using Dropbox
Below is based on an internal doc I shared with my team at Hiro a while back. While there are a LOT of resources on 1:1s out there, I found that my team nonetheless valued hearing my perspective in my words. Feel free to edit / adapt to make your
Ever since I discovered the Pi Hole project (not too long ago, surprisingly!) I'd been meaning to give it a try. The long weekend and COVID restrictions provided the perfect opportunity! So what is Pi Hole? Straight from the docs: The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects
I spent a decade in your typical Silicon Valley companies. Then two years ago, I took a plunge into crypto.
Most tech companies already have fairly apolitical norms and no one expects that their employer would actively champion every single cause they might care about. But issues like systemic racism and structural oppression of minorities aren't just matters of belief.
Engineering <> Product interactions at tech companies are susceptible to common (albeit sometimes valid) stereotypes. Product Managers (PMs) might complain about engineers not acting with the right urgency or not understanding the priority; they might grumble about estimates being off and constant delays in shipping etc. Engineers, for their
There's no dearth of helpful lists and pointers online, so this post is more me just cataloging what has worked for us. Some resources are likely specific to the situation in NYC, but most should be broadly applicable, in case others find it useful.
With everything that's happening around us, here's an attempt to jot down some half-baked thoughts for possible silver-linings that might emerge when the dust from COVID-19 settles. All outlier events tend to have some hysteresis effect. I suspect though that the shock-wave from COVID-19 would permanently
I grew up in a (what used to be a) small-town in the sleepy heartland of India, called Bhilai [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhilai]. Both in and out of school, I was surrounded by kids whose "mother tongue" wasn't Hindi, who dressed differently than me,
A few months ago, I described how to deploy Ghost on Google Cloud [https://floatingsun.net/over-engineered-blog/]'s Kubernetes Engine (GKE), using GCP's managed SSL offering. But that setup had some limitations, both with the managed SSL certificates as well as GCP's default ingress (which