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2025

04 Feb 2025
Replicache Internals - Behind the scenes of store.subscribe
Diving into Replicache source code to see why subscribing to store is efficient
30 Jan 2025
Computer keyboard as MIDI Piano Input over Wifi
Making your mobile think it's connected to a Piano, for using Piano learning apps
10 Jan 2025
Postgres Sharding lessons from Notion
Notion used to run a Postgres Monolith till early 2021 before they sharded their database to improve performance
09 Jan 2025
Maglev - Google's load balancer
Maglev is L4 load balancer based on consistent hashing used by Google, it's the next in flow after network routers in their DC.

13 Jan 2024
Expressing Yourself Is Hard
Sometimes, you read something that resonates so deeply, you wish you could write so beautifully too.
03 Jan 2024
Are your lights on? - Notes
A book about problem solving and critical thinking. Notes and summary.
01 Jan 2024
The correlation between Unhappiness and Self Image
Why are some people happy, others miserable in the same situation?

27 Dec 2023
Quotes I like
A collection of quotes that I like. This is a running list.
24 Dec 2023
Replicache Notes (Library to build local-first sync engine)
Notes from reading about Replicache, gives a good overview of the concepts.
23 Dec 2023
Show Code, Not Passion
Code speaks louder than words. Show me what you've built.
17 Dec 2023
SSR for dashboards and complex webapps?
Does SSR make sense for dashboards and complex webapps?
17 Dec 2023
Making faster SPAs
SPAs(Single page applications) are easy to make slow, some ways to make them faster.
16 Dec 2023
GPT can't cover for poor taste
GPT is not a band-aid for creative laziness and artistic shortcuts
15 Dec 2023
On Writing More Often
Reflections on writing and why I want to do it more often
04 Dec 2023
Write Code That’s Easy to Delete (Because You Will)
Perfect code is a myth, strive for writing code that can fearlessly evolve
10 Nov 2023
What the heck is Helm?
A introduction to Helm for people familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
08 Jul 2023
The SDK that Reacts: State Over Events
My React Nexus talk about designing data intensive web applications.
22 Feb 2023
100ms Web SDK Mental Model
A doc page I wrote about 100ms' SDK architecture to help users develop a mental model of how the SDK works.
17 Jan 2023
Using ChatGPT to derive meaning from support chats
How we converted casual support chats into structured data with the help of ChatGPT.

20 Oct 2022
A Video Call App With Svelte
How we built a browser-based recorder and streamer for live meetings.
01 Sept 2022
Building a bot to record and stream live meetings
How we built a browser-based recorder and streamer for live meetings.
22 Feb 2022
Grayscale Filter for 100ms Video Calls
In this post, we'll build a Grayscale plugin to make video calls more fun. This can be used as a starting point to build more complex filters like AR filters.

14 Sept 2021
Building a clubhouse clone with 100ms SDK
A video walkthrough of how to build a clubhouse clone with 100ms SDK and React.