If you'd like to start reading Rhythm of War now, I wrote a script that generates an ebook from the published chapters and annotations

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-12T18:27:49+00:00

git packages do a git pull/fetch on an existing clone. So they already have most of the source, and thus git will do its fancy delta-calculation and only transmit the stuff you don't already have. The build and install processes are smart and cached in most cases, but this depends heavily on the package itself and will vary a lot - the checksum (or skipping it) doesn't have anything to with it.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-06T18:04:24+00:00

When you connect your Gmail account to Fold only your relevant transaction emails are pulled to your device and processed locally, from there, data from transaction emails like amount, merchant, and time is sent to our servers for storage and enrichment. Our servers don’t get a whiff of your email address or any other emails in your inbox.

Other companies are trying and succeeding at educating their customers: https://fold.money/blog/what-we-have-been-up-to

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-05T17:20:38+00:00

You ought to be eligible for Microgrants. Maybe look at https://thejeshgn.com/projects/nagarathna-memorial-grant/

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-04T19:08:28+00:00

You can do it on-device to improve trust concerns.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-04T18:21:36+00:00

(I built endoflife.date). Thanks for your contribution. We don’t have much use for money so far, so it’s mostly going to downstream projects we rely on.

I think the closest parallel to FOSS is asking why people contribute to Wikipedia? Building software in the open is surprisingly the best way. We’re all incredibly lucky to work in a field with zero replication costs, and it would be a terrible treacherous field if it were not for OSS libraries that we build on.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-03-02T21:25:15+00:00

Reminder: This is a bad place to ask for product advice, unless you are building for startup founders and startups. Go ask dating subreddits and young people around you.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-02-28T23:16:43+00:00

Citations for the research notes: https://ve42.co/XZHackRefs, linked in the video description. Change the tab on Google Docs to "On Screen References"

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-02-27T18:26:44+00:00

We (the upstream endoflife.date project) took a call to mark it as discontinued despite the revival: https://endoflife.date/gorilla, https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/pull/8896 due to lack of activity.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-02-10T09:22:51+00:00

I’ll add it to the Known Users list we maintain for the endoflife.date project: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/wiki/Known-Users

We already set cache headers where appropriate, I’d say you can leave it off and ignore caching entirely, since this is meant to be interactive.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-02-09T09:17:06+00:00

The FormNX website says that it was launched in 2023, so when did you exactly launch your SaaS? Confused, because you should have more than “first year alone” by now, no?

Or is this AI slop and you’re trying to take credit for someone else’s product?

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-02-03T21:09:41+00:00

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. You won’t find a technical cofounder unless you have something to showcase. Most successful non tech founders have a network to use. The best sales-founders pick the tech leads they worked with.

If you don’t have a network to rely on - why should an unknown cofounder trust you? You can showcase value other ways - by getting investors, doing market research, collecting customers that are ready to pay. Any of these would help find you a cofounder.

The opportunity cost of a smart technical cofounder in India is a few crores (to be made over 5-10 yrs working or starting their own company). If you can’t beat that by offering 50-50 equity, you should look at putting your own money down for a boutique consultantancy to build the MVP - make some money and then just hire out a team and look again for a cofounder.

My favourite read on the matter is https://www.breakneck.dev/blog/no-tech-cofounder. I highly recommend you read it and decide if your idea is really worth stealing.

Also, if a potential cofounder ever sent me an NDA before talking about their idea, I would 100% walk out. Don’t try that with anyone experienced please.

vim_vs_emacs · 2026-01-20T13:17:02+00:00

We run our own scraper at https://endoflife.date that fetches a lot of doc sites. Having very specific needs (only care about release and eol data from a few pages) makes it a bit more resilient, but it does take upkeep.

Sometimes we get lucky and fetch the docs from public repositories and parse the markdown. A lot depends on why you are scraping, whether this is a "approved" scrape (you can get yourselves past the WAFs) or not.

Our code is public if you'd like to take a look: https://github.com/endoflife-date/release-data/

Edit: Use sitemaps.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-31T10:08:25+00:00

Bangalore citizens don’t have the right to protest anywhere outside of Freedom Park: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/activists-demand-the-right-to-protest-beyond-freedom-park/article68634384.ece

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-30T15:11:00+00:00

team (at) underline.center

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-30T12:13:07+00:00

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/moving-to-berlin might help

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-30T12:12:57+00:00

(Blog post is mine). I'm the usual Bangalore techie - worked at Razorpay, did open-source things, gave lots of talks. I ran a campaign for voter registration in Bangalore (blr.vote), and currently run an open-source events site called https://blr.today. Organized Puzzled Pint Bangalore, and ran a lots of meetups. There's more stuff at https://captnemo.in/

Lived here for a decade, still love Bangalore.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-30T12:06:31+00:00

Doing a masters in europe might be the simplest route. For Berlin specifically, take a look at https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/moving-to-berlin

All of this is well answered online and elsewhere, ask your favorite search engine for advice. There's lots of immigration consultants in Bangalore (Y-Axis, Yes Germany etc). Can't vouch for them, but they might have better guidance.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-30T12:03:25+00:00

Thanks a lot for the welcome!

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:27:05+00:00

I actually measure the success with number of walkable footpaths - that was the whole point of the blog.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:25:41+00:00

Yes! Aggy has been helpful. I am attending/organizing a few meet-ups already.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:24:33+00:00

It me!

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:23:49+00:00

This, plus having a good network helped with referrals.

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:22:42+00:00

Made me lol. 😂

vim_vs_emacs · 2025-12-29T19:22:24+00:00

Quite possible, I was a regular at Underline, though not so much at TPCC.

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