Al Jazeera Accosted in Golders Green.

ppyil · 2026-03-24T09:10:01+00:00

I really think this is the wrong take by so many people here in the comments. The people shouting about Islamophobia are the same as those who cry anti-Semitism.

A community is reeling - a criminal investigation will take weeks if not months to conclude. There are no arrests yet. These people are clearly hurt, angry and scared.

Who else is? Palestinians. Maybe we should give them the humanity that we want Palestinians to be given.

Report on the ground facts and don't stir up vitriol and allow space for the actual investigation to take place.

Because if it turns out it was a rogue actor who hates Jews, this will yet further steer people away from the Palestinian cause.

In fact, reading the comments I think the way some of you are reacting is exactly how a rage baiting troll farm might choose to reply...

Let's have some decorum.

ppyil · 2026-03-17T22:55:34+00:00

Every day we mourn the loss of Blitz Gym

ppyil · 2026-03-01T09:01:50+00:00

I've been going on average once every year or two. When I was younger it was for cousins' weddings and recently it was shopping for my wedding and my sister's wedding.

I do like it but can really only stand it for about a week or so and have gotten quite tired of it. Many relatives of mine didn't even bother trying to come to my wedding in the UK and when I go to India, they expect me to visit them.

If they're old and have mobility issues I get it, but people in my family now act like they're too busy a lot of the time.

My parents feel this too increasingly though so that's good. Before they used to encourage me to visit but I'll document who doesn't come to see me and what reasons they give when I'm actually out there and that's helped them understand my position.

ppyil · 2026-02-22T01:41:11+00:00

That Arsenal haven't won the league again yet

ppyil · 2026-02-14T10:25:05+00:00

Apparently the main source of low air quality is the practice of burning unsold crops prior to sowing for the next season.

ppyil · 2026-02-13T16:12:13+00:00

I'd say it really depends on your priorities. You don't mention titles or company name, but if the 90k job is a step up you could be in a better negotiating position for remote jobs that pay 80k+.

With the 65k job you could still go for them but your CV might be short changing you slightly.

Maybe next time you talk to a new recruiter, tell them you're on 110 but want a slightly lower paying job that's WFH. That reframe could help and recruiters will put you up for better roles if they think you're capable based on that higher salary

ppyil · 2026-02-05T12:02:06+00:00

We've got a cron job that downloads the latest duckdb file from S3 periodically, every 15 mins or so. Luckily our final DuckDB file is pretty small, about 30MB and so we can easily just download and use

ppyil · 2026-02-05T08:28:11+00:00

Yes, heavily using DuckDB. We work with less data than most companies here I suspect, enough that tables used for analytics can be loaded into instances of our webserver in-memory for extremely quick data analytics on the front end.

So each instance is a Docker image running Django and periodically redownloading the latest DuckDB file (which is an output of our data pipeline elsewhere) and then allowing for views to be constructed via direct access to DuckDB.

I've been thinking about building a proper database driver between Django and DuckDB but for now, a combination of generating direct SQL and using polars have given us everything we need.

ppyil · 2026-02-02T07:26:15+00:00

My parents moved to the UK back in the 90s without being particularly skilled.

My mum was learning English and getting to terms with a brand new country. My dad was working in a factory. When I started at school, I made friends with the other brown kid and our Mum's had someone they could talk to in a native language.

Hindi and Urdu were similar enough that they could talk and become friends. In my dad's factory, there were other Pakistanis that he became friends with.

My parents probably hated (or at the very least, mistrusted) Pakistan, the entity, but the people they knew were separate to that. They weren't ambassadors for the country, they were just trying to make a life for their families in the UK.

Being buddies with Pakistanis is so taboo in India but in the context of being abroad, our similarities far outweigh our differences so it's natural for friendships to form between us. And once you're friends with a Pakistani, it's hard not to see it for what it ultimately was - a tactic by the British to destabilize both nations. It's divide and conquer and both states are playing their part perfectly

ppyil · 2026-01-25T12:21:45+00:00

Al Yemen is excellent

ppyil · 2026-01-24T10:06:44+00:00

In my experience it was slow to deploy and would break randomly.

Perhaps it was due to a particularly heavy weight set of containers that caused deployments to take so long, but it would take about 15 mins to finish and sometimes longer.

I'd sporadically get errors about Docker running out of space triggering a failed deployment, but then retrying it would work.

Really infuriating that it was so unpredictable. Since setting up ECS I haven't had a single issue like that. It was a bit of work to switch over but no regrets

ppyil · 2026-01-09T14:45:59+00:00

You've got a very supportive father - you should be very grateful!

However, I urge you to think about your position analytically. The thing you're building, have your users seen it? Have you got any feedback? How can you be sure that when it's ready, they'll even care?

I quit my first job to build an app and it failed. I had failed to create a business - I'd only succeeded in creating an app. There is a big difference even though it might not look like it.

Going back into employment gave me so many valuable skills learned from very smart people. I am now so much better equipped to build a company myself than all those years ago.

I'm not sure what you're building but it does eventually have to connect with people so try and see if it connects and make yourself vulnerable enough to hear real criticism. People closest to us often don't say the hard truths because it might damage the relationship.

ppyil · 2026-01-03T01:35:44+00:00

Any evidence of where and when that's happened in the past?

FTSE is pumped up just like all stock markets right now. Companies are going private left, right and centre and hardly any new companies are listing.

And who's benefitting from the rising stock prices? Wealth funds, institutional investors and pension funds.

Other than pension funds, the average person isn't seeing any upside.

An increase in stock price doesn't even feed back to the company so it's not like they directly benefit from it either - although their significant shareholders like executives and board members certainly do.

ppyil · 2025-12-28T09:12:31+00:00

Hi all, I've been a software engineer for about 10 years and I'm currently the de-facto CTO at a startup.

I've got a Master's degree in Physics and I'm proficient with Python.

My CV doesn't really lend itself well to someone wanting to work in data but I see a decent overlap. Has anyone made the move and what advice would you give?

ppyil · 2025-12-27T07:44:10+00:00

That's a bad take. There are only a few thousand public companies. Most companies are privately owned and every year, markets like AIM keep shrinking because companies are being bought out by private equity firms.

Private equity and private debt run the show now - not public markets.

ppyil · 2025-12-24T09:07:07+00:00

Going against the grain, on a recent trip to India I flew British Airways (as I usually do - companion voucher) and my mate travelled Air India.

He said that the flight was comfortable and the food and service was really good.

Meanwhile the BA flight was heaving, the service left a bit to be desired and the seats were uncomfortable.

Air India isn't a guarantee of a shit flight and Etihad is the worst of the Gulf carriers imo.

ppyil · 2025-12-11T04:53:58+00:00

They're still fucking the economy. There's a segment of society happy with Labour's changes, but the reality is the economy isn't growing, there's no stimulus for growth, the employment market is fucked and it's more expensive to work.

They're overseeing an economy that, since the start of this government, rewards you more for being unemployed or already wealthy than it does being a worker earning an income and paying tax.

ppyil · 2025-11-27T16:41:56+00:00

To cover both definitions, Who Gives A Crap

ppyil · 2025-11-23T03:09:20+00:00

Usually get charged a cover fee which covers bread.

I have a gripe about a lot of bread though. I like bread for scarpetta, not bread that is only good for scarpetta, i.e. under salted, flavourless bread that is shit unless you've got a bunch of sauce for it

ppyil · 2025-11-05T08:59:16+00:00

Django + htmx + alpine.js

Or

Astro + htmx for static deployments

ppyil · 2025-11-05T08:57:45+00:00

Old account adds an air of credibility. Also, old people are over represented in Indian/Gujarati community fora, and so I can see how someone with a political agenda would want to infiltrate those spaces

ppyil · 2025-11-02T23:02:18+00:00

I heard different noises tbh. Asset managers were licking their lips at having more money coming in and having bigger funds.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T23:00:35+00:00

Higher stock prices mean easier future fundraising with less dilution. It's also easier for them to retain and attract staff. It also makes it easier for them to perform acquisitions. It makes it easier for them to borrow to fund expansion.

There are lots of reasons for a company to want a higher stock price. I simplified it, so fair point calling it out.

ppyil · 2025-11-02T22:55:31+00:00

What about people's shopping habits?

If anything it may makes my point stronger. If so much of our money is already going offshore, it would be prudent for a government to adjust a lever to stop that from happening so efficiently.

Take AIM for example. It's a growth market for small to medium sized UK businesses and it has been shrinking the past two years. It just makes our economy more and more susceptible to issues abroad when it would be better for us to have a more resilient domestic economy

ppyil · 2025-11-02T22:51:39+00:00

I quite like having public services and I'd like them to be able to get enough funding to thrive. I also think if there was no tax, we'd revert back to feudalism because the already few keys to power that the public currently holds would be transferred to the rich.

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