Somraj Saha

Building tools and software for ecommerce business owners @weburz.

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

A weekend well spent (for me) is to revive an old computer with Fedora 41 Server installed on it. I plan on experimenting with a bunch of browser-based applications in it during our Christmas holidays @weburz

I might post updates on it if there's anything interesting enough!😉

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

@bhupeshimself It's a slightly modified version of an icon I found here - https://t.co/oCYdV0Ki5o. To modify it, I used InkScape - https://t.co/9llKZx8mWS

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

Rebuilt my Python script for generating Markdown boilerplates and it now runs on nothing but the standard library. A full CLI, built with just "argparse", no Typer, no Click nor ANY external dependencies! Learn more here - https://t.co/guz42cBmMl

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

@proxy_vector Neovim, a compiler, and a dream

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Even if you're avoiding AI because "you love writing code" (great!), do yourself a favor and ask it to audit the code you wrote, especially tests for coverage analysis. It's very good and will find your bugs. Example: https://t.co/cPHwrH4H2e Cost me 42 cents.

I didn't blindly accept the fixes, I manually wrote tests to verify it was right that I had bugs, and then got those to pass with the AI fixes. Very good.

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

That's how LLMs should be used, not to replace you but to augment your knowledge and skills.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

my usual day at work -

pick some task
write a big-ass prompt
let Gemini do the heavy lifting
while I sip my coffee
make some edits
push and publish

my life has been reduced to prompting; and doing it well. no complaints 😅 bigger impact, less effort.

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Announcing the Swift on Android Working Group, with the goal of establishing and maintaining Android as an officially supported platform for Swift. More here: https://t.co/am6fpiVFQl #Android

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

Most developer:

"$10/mo for this app kinda feels like a steal but it has issues which I might have a solution for. Let's try building it by myself"

3000 hours later:

"Wow that was a fun experience, maybe I should open source it under GPL or a similar license!"

[Thomas Frank @TomFrankly]

Every developer:

“They want $10/mo for this app?! I’ll build it myself in 3 hours”

3,000 hours later:

“People should pay me $10/mo for this”

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

@JioCare I don't think you're working on it "diligently" else a technician would have been assigned within 24 hours to say the least!

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

@JioCare my Internet is down for over 48 hours now! I've raised a service request as shown in the screenshot below. Can you please assign an engineer to fix my issue at the earliest?

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

@JioCare I'm aware the service request has been raised but the field technician hasn't been assigned yet. Does it take over 48 hours to assign one?

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

With the launch of Fedora 42 came a little surprise which I was least expecting. It is now an officially available distro for WSL 2 on Windows! See the docs - https://t.co/MubExRqgN7

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

Hmm....looks Australia is getting another relic from space to showcase in their museums! 😆

Jokes aside, its nice to see ISRO, handling the issue of space debris in such a responsible manner. I assumed portions of the delivery medium often floated around in space for some time.

[ISRO @isro]

Atmospheric Re-entry of POEM-4

On December 30, 2024, ISRO’s PSLV-C60 launched twin SPADEX satellites and after injecting satellites at 475 km altitude, the specially configured upper stage (PS4) of PSLV-C60 (called PSLV Orbital Experimental Module in short POEM-4) was also almost in the same orbit. Subsequently, POEM-4 was de-orbited by engine restarts to a nearly circular orbit at 350 km altitude with 55.2 degree inclination. PS4 was then passivated by venting the leftover fuel to minimise any potential risk for accidental break-up. During its mission life, POEM-4 hosted altogether 24 payloads (14 payloads from ISRO and 10 from various NGEs) and all payloads worked as expected yielding valuable science data.

While the POEM-4 was in orbit, it was continuously tracked by ISRO’s Radar Facilities and United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) facilities as well. The tracking data was in turn utilised in the re-entry prediction process. It was observed that POEM-4’s orbit had decayed to 174 km x165 km and the platform was predicted to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on April 04, 2025.

The atmospheric re-entry event of POEM-4 was then closely monitored by ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Space Operations Management (IS4OM) and regular updates in predictions were made. Finally, the POEM-4 module re-entered the atmosphere and impacted at 02:33 UTC (08:03 IST), April 04, 2025, in the Indian Ocean. The safe re-entry of POEM-4 is yet another accomplishment to ISRO’s commitment to contain the growth of space debris, reaffirming the prominent role of ISRO in the long-term sustainability of outer space environment and Debris Free Space Mission (DFSM).
Image: Final traces of POEM-4

[PyCon India @pyconindia]

The Call for Proposals is LIVE for #PyConIndia2025
Got something exciting to share with the Python community?
You can submit proposals for
- Talks 30 min
- Workshops 3 hrs
Submit here: https://t.co/xbm5GKNGIZ
For Doubts, register for #CFP office hour call-https://t.co/1uMdGl6kL7

[Shantanu Goel @shantanugoel]

Code is not art, it's just mundane labour.

That's a limited worldview, born out of a need to think of oneself as "superior" (Many do this even just for "consuming" content, not even creating)

Art appears anywhere where someone expresses themselves via their own set of skills.

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

TIL the @overleaf webui is free& open-source here - https://t.co/IIWu3oKDoJ but of course the last update release is from over a decade ago!

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

A bit of a shameless plug. I've been using Neovim (and ONLY Neovim) to write code for the past 6 years or so! If you would like to take inspiration from my Neovim configurations, you'll find them in my dotfiles repository - https://t.co/AeK6JJhbDN

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

I would still recommend using @Neovim and configure it according to your specific development habits. Be wary of replicating X behaviour from Y IDE though! You'll not utilise Neovim's full potential on that route.

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

Been there, tried it. It's not worth it replicating VSCode (or any other IDE) in XYZ software.

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

Been there, tried it. It's not worth it replicating VSCode (or any other IDE) in XYZ software.

[Sudoscientist @cyb3rnaut_]

When I first switched to neovim from vscode, I tried to replicate features from vscode, like the file tabs. As I got more used to neovim, I realized it was counter productive. Why clutter the screen with tabs when I can just fuzzy find over open buffers, or switch to last buffer with leader b l?

[naren.io @nareni0]

I have vibe coded my big project with over 30 .py files and I have 0 knowledge in python 💀

[Somraj Saha @Jarmosan]

@ChatGPTapp is now enabled to generate & run code. It has its shortcomings for obvious (business/economics) reasons but at least it goes to show that the functionalities provided by AI in the future will only become more readily available as the compute resources get cheaper!