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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 13-08-2025 | Exploring Notion's Data Model: A Block-Based Architecture | Notion’s data model enables the product’s most foundational component: blocks. Through blocks, we allow users more flexibility over their information. |
| 13-08-2025 | Open Banking and payments competition | Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily. |
| 13-08-2025 | Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear Now | |
| 11-08-2025 | Do Things that Don't Scale | |
| 11-08-2025 | Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck | LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment. |
| 10-08-2025 | Nootropics | This page deliberately left blank. It is meant to serve as a placeholder for client-side transclusion purposes. |
| 10-08-2025 | What can India do to industrialize? | A guest post by Prakash Loungani and Karan Bhasin. |
| 09-08-2025 | Choking China+1? | China is trying to stop Foxconn from moving manufacturing to India, but this might backfire and make more companies leave China. |
| 09-08-2025 | Distributed Systems 101 | |
| 09-08-2025 | Improved government buying | This article argues that government buying in India needs a serious overhaul, focusing on efficiency and value for money, not protectionism. It suggests opening up to foreign competition and reforming domestic processes to get better deals for taxpayers. |
| 09-08-2025 | The Lessons of Liberation Day | This article discusses the \"liberation day\" tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, arguing they were a miscalculated and ineffective strategy for reindustrialization due to their abrupt implementation, lack of consultation, and failure to consider the absence of domestic industries. It suggests a long-term strategy should prioritize investment in productive capacity and supply chains, with targeted tariffs as a secondary measure. |
| 08-08-2025 | How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB | Radar offers geocoding, place search, and fraud detection APIs, powered by HorizonDB, a Rust-based engine delivering 20k QPS and sub-millisecond latency. |
| 08-08-2025 | Lago Blog - Why building a self-hosted SaaS is a headache (and how we make it easier) | |
| 08-08-2025 | The Sun Never Leaves | This post explores how mass emigration from Britain, rather than low fertility, led to its decline in global power, suggesting a counterfactual UK population of 200 million if no one had left. |
| 08-08-2025 | Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language | F# is a pragmatic, .NET-friendly functional language that's great for enterprise apps, despite a smaller talent pool and some tooling kinks. |
| 08-08-2025 | Why Postgres is a Good Choice for Durable Workflow Execution | DBOS | In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS. |