Sep
16
🤝🏽 Guide to effective 1:1s
Below is based on an internal doc I shared with my team at Hiro a while back. While there are
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Diwaker Gupta
Sep
06
HOWTO: Network Wide Ad Blocker 🥧 🕳️
Ever since I discovered the Pi Hole project (not too long ago, surprisingly!) I'd been meaning to give it a
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Apr
11
Changing Jobs? Consider Crypto!
I spent a decade in your typical Silicon Valley companies. Then two years ago, I took a plunge into crypto.
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Oct
20
Politics At Work
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.
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Aug
13
Effective Engineering <> Product Engagement
Engineering <> Product interactions at tech companies are susceptible to common
(albeit sometimes valid) stereotypes. Product Managers (PMs) might complain
about
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Apr
26
Remote Learning Resources for Kindergartners
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.
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Mar
30
Hope in the times of Corona
With everything that's happening around us, here's an attempt to jot down some half-baked thoughts for possible silver-linings that might
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Mar
04
Tricolor? Bloody, Saffron! 🇮🇳
I grew up in a (what used to be a) small-town in the sleepy heartland of India,
called Bhilai [https:
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Jan
05
❓HOWTO: cert-manager with ingress-nginx on GKE
A few months ago, I described how to deploy Ghost on Google Cloud
[https://floatingsun.net/over-engineered-blog/]'s Kubernetes Engine
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Nov
01
Machine Learning for dApps ?
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the World Summit AI, 2019. Slides are
embedded at the
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