Arvind Parekh

Nice, will pull up!

Wow didn’t know you were in the Boston area. Would love to bump into you somewhere :)

Jack of all trades, master of none

What's the workaround here? Not to feel? Isn't that counterintuitive to living a humane life? But that seems like the only option for now.

If you have a task, and you spend so much as even a second to think about how it'd feel, if it doesn't feel great, you'll start coming up with excuses of not doing it, or postponing it to later.

I think sometimes the biggest blocker in productivity is the ability to feel. As humans, we are able to imagine what doing a particular task would feel like (that feeling might not even be true!) 👇🏻

Catch Keith Mattix (Microsoft) & Lior Lieberman (Google) at #MaintainerSummitEU 2025 Kubernetes track, where they will present “Towards a Standardized Identity-based Authorization in Kubernetes.”

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📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

Join Sreeram Venkitesh (DigitalOcean) & Priyanka Saggu (SUSE) for “A Field Guide to Integrating CEL in the Kubernetes Codebase” at the #MaintainerSummitEU 2025 Kubernetes track!

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📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

Check out the Kubernetes track at #MaintainerSummitEU 2025! Join Surya Seetharaman & Dan Winship from Red Hat for session “Redesigning Kubelet Probes”.

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📅 March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM BST

Today’s thinking after spending a perfectly good day at the library

People from different generations, raised by different parents who earned different incomes and held different values, in different parts of the world, born into different economies experiencing different job markets with different incentives & different degrees of luck, learn very different lessons

Features implementation, check ✅

Onto the testing part now, let’s hope it works!

Abstraction remains and that is a huge pain :’(

I can feel the awkwardness… :)

“Few topics offer a more powerful magnifying glass that helps explain why people behave the way they do, than money”.

I'm trying to built an AI agent using the various tools and frameworks available and I'm shocked at how bad everything from the libraries and documentation are. Maybe it's just early, but I'd expect a 2015 level of quality before promising the whole world is about to change.

Workout, check 💪🏻

damn, it took 59 minutes to load the csv data into a mysql database

i guess its time to batch load the data; i regret not doing it sooner

imagine making an error in the next part now and having to re-load the entire data :'(

happy saturday y'all!

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KubeCon FOMO starts soon…

it’s time to implement new features to the calendar application:

- add support for timezones
- add functionality to create multiple cals
- copy events from one cal to another
- improved command set

coding this in java is the real pain (or fun, depends)

will complete it by this friday!

Absolutely can’t ask for a better place for a nice morning jog 🥰

It’s 4:30 am, trying to get back on schedule after spring break…

What could have taken 30 minutes to an hour to explain is now compressed into a few words.

So, note to self, look into design patterns, but remember: there's not just one way to implement them. It all depends on the problem at hand.

The real benefit of design patterns becomes clear when you start explaining your software in terms of design. You can summarize your code in a sentence or two using design terminology, and others will immediately get what you mean.

Reification means taking something abstract and making it concrete. There are many ways to reify a design pattern. A reified pattern is considered "good" if it aligns with the programmer's intent.

But if they’re so flexible, why use them at all?

Popular resources like Gang of Four present design patterns as one-size-fits-all solutions, but I don’t think these patterns are "implemented" — they’re "reified."

A quick thought on Design Patterns:

I had the chance to work with design patterns this semester in my academic setting, and they’re amazing! Naturally, I thought about reading more books on them. But here’s something I’ve realized:

@bsky.app down?

the length of tasks that AI agents can do is doubling every ~7 months

straight lines on log scale graphs in thorough research papers are significantly more convincing to me than marketing speak — AI progress is real and it's happening fast, props to @metr.org for this new paper making sense of it

google calendar + a double pomodoro is my best productivity hack.

and yet I still find myself looking for alternatives.

do you HAVE a better alternative?

im working on a cli calendar application (like google calendar) in java and it is coming up pretty strong!

have tested it, and it works so far!
- create events, autoDecline them if conflicts
- create single and recurring
- edit properties, add desc, location, public/private
- query event(s) & more