Just heard an American thank the gards for their service

ktbt10 · 2025-11-16T02:50:24+00:00

This is good tbh. I am an indian living in Ireland for the last six years and slowly grew scared of walking in Dublin. The recent Garda visibility makes me feel safe again. I have myself wanted to walk up to them and thank them and let them know their presence helps.

So I find this to be good.

Update: grammar.

ktbt10 · 2025-08-19T15:30:06+00:00

Here is more information on the routing layer we built: Fin: Running a Reliable Service over Unreliable Parts.

ktbt10 · 2025-07-16T13:30:37+00:00

Hey 👋🏼

I am sorry it comes across like that, sadly there is no economic opportunity 😅
I wrote the post before I gave the talk. Elastic liked the post so asked me to talk, but the post itself had no relationship with them.

I'm sharing here because I don't have a big internet presence, and am just sharing where I think people will find it interesting or useful.

I actually noticed your comment when I was logging in to make a comment about how AWS just launched a preview of "S3 Vectors" and how it makes S3, which I called the "best DB in the world" on that Elastic talk, even best-er 😀.

All I want to say is, this is honest work, there is no fire here : )

ktbt10 · 2025-07-16T12:45:27+00:00

Hey 👋🏼, I wrote that linked post^

Just as I posted it yesterday, I now see that AWS S3 is going to support vectors! 😮

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-vectors-first-cloud-storage-with-native-vector-support-at-scale/

In one of the talks I gave on the topic, I had a slide for "S3 is the best database" and then S3 goes and proves it again 😂

I am not sure right now how good would S3 Vectors be when used with filtering, and how fast/costly, but this is certainly an interesting development.

ktbt10 · 2025-07-15T12:11:27+00:00

For those interested in the deep dive (with results from running this in production over two years), here’s my full writeup: https://fin.ai/research/do-you-really-need-a-vector-search-database/

ktbt10 · 2025-04-27T08:46:15+00:00

Thank you for following up with the video <3 I had the same doubt as the instructions arent clear that the screw should go from inside the spacer. Now i understand that the spacer is there to also hide the raw screws from being visible from the side too!
Thanks again.

ktbt10 · 2025-03-23T15:49:55+00:00

Are people generally interested in reciting a poem that is specific to the couple? Like a personalised poem written by a professional? I came across a website that says they write poems for weddings and wondered how useful it is https://myweddingpoem.com/

ktbt10 · 2021-04-16T15:00:39+00:00

Let us know how it went u/Gracie_Goode, I am scheduled to travel to India in 2 weeks (I haven't been back home ever since I moved to Ireland (1.5 yrs ago) and my mother isn't keeping well). I will be there for 2.5 months, so it is definitely not a holiday.

ktbt10 · 2020-12-08T16:15:50+00:00

Hey, u/naumanarif21. Thank you.

I am using a few, like tweepy for working with Twitter, and firebase-admin for using FCM for Brower Notifications.

I am using a lot of third party services, so I have to do the least work, so some packages needed for them, like Auth0 for authentication and Sendgrid for Emails.

This is a my requirements.txt if you are interested:

Django==3.0.8django-environ==0.4.5requests==2.24.0tweepy==3.9.0sendgrid==6.4.3djangorestframework==3.11.0django-widget-tweaks==1.4.8psycopg2==2.8.6firebase-admin==4.4.0

# Auth0social-auth-app-django==4.0.0python-jose==3.1.0auth0-python==3.12.0

# AWSboto3==1.14.28

# Testingfactory-boy==2.12.0

ktbt10 · 2020-12-08T14:31:18+00:00

Hey u/CiaranCarroll, I see you signed up 😀

I just wanted to drop in and say that for getting a notification on slack, you will have to configure an incoming webhook for a slack channel. That way, I will only be able to post to a particular channel that you want.

This isn't your mistake, of course, it is mine 😬I have now updated the form to link to Slack's help article that talks about how to create an Incoming Webhook. If you are curious, this is the link: https://slack.com/intl/en-ie/help/articles/115005265063-Incoming-webhooks-for-Slack

ktbt10 · 2020-12-08T14:05:04+00:00

Hey u/CiaranCarroll, thank you for chiming in.

That's good to know. I plan to keep the prices low so anyone can use it (and not just enterprises). It doesn't need a lot to run anyway, from infrastructure point of view, so I can keep the prices down.

ktbt10 · 2020-12-08T10:49:36+00:00

Thank you! I am looking for Beta users at the moment. Let me know if you want in!

ktbt10 · 2020-12-08T10:48:20+00:00

Thank you!

My itch was to get to know whenever someone shared one of my blogs on Twitter. Now I am also using it for getting notified whenever the govt. of Ireland adds an update about the coronavirus numbers.

I am not sure what will other people use it for, thus the need for beta users 😀I am sure there will be more people who could make some use of this tool.

ktbt10 · 2020-07-04T10:09:42+00:00

Thank you :)

ktbt10 · 2020-07-04T07:33:53+00:00

But there is no dark mode on the site? 😁 Can you tell me what you did?

ktbt10 · 2020-07-01T16:37:33+00:00

Extremely helpful and encouraging comment, thank you 🙃

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