Akshay

Programming || Richard Feynman || Marcus Aurelius || Books || Minimalist || Tweets on Tech/Books/Work/Philosophy

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

Reading is when you take your brain for a walk.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

This makes so much sense !

"You don’t build trust with your users by writing a 2,000 word privacy policy. You build trust by not needing one to begin with."

https://t.co/IneK9DAQGx

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

Metrics Types - When to use what ? https://t.co/FIElZMiAVv

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

- “It's fun to be competent."
- “If the cost of a line of code has dramatically dropped, then the cost of the right line of code has dramatically increased."
- “Earning experience is more valuable than completing something instantaneously."
- “Is it useful? No. Is it fun? Yes."

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

Recording from Omacon 2026 is available
https://t.co/EkuWfjdPRQ

This is fun 5hours. It touches so many aspects on learning and “having fun” in the current days of AI. Some really cool cli things and some great wisdom spread across 5hours.

[✒️ @Literariium]

Dostoevsky wrote this after nearly being executed:

“When I look back at my life, I feel pain not because of suffering, but because of wasted time. I see how carelessly I lived, how often I ignored the quiet voice of my soul, how rarely I understood the value of a single moment. Only when death stood before me did I realize that life is not merely existence—it is a miracle. Every minute is a treasure, and in every breath, there is the possibility of happiness.”

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

Looking forward to it.

[One2N @One2NC]

Most Neovim setups look great in a screenshot but fall apart under real-world load: large codebases, flaky LSPs, and terminals full of competing tools.

In this session, @ProgrammerMonk will explain his Neovim plugins choices to ensure the editor remains fast and predictable.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@Nithya_Shrii Work/Study in 4hr blocks and Not 1+1+1+1 blocks.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Had a friend tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do––get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

Some of the best advice I've ever received.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

Joining the Omarchy club!

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@LeakerApple Install everything via a Brewfile.
Maintenance and updates are such ease.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@theRevOpsGuy Shoffr has been my goto for airports.
Can't deal with @Uber_India having cylinders in the bootspace and zero luggage space.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

When you trade your ambition for comfort, you actually end up living your whole life with the very uncomfortable idea that you betrayed yourself.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

"If then I find myself writing, not mathematics, but ‘about’ mathematics, it is a confession of weakness, for which I may rightly be scorned or pitied by younger and more vigorous mathematicians"

such intellectual honesty.

https://t.co/gVXHKNxdvw

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

This weekend, I am going down the rabbit hole of getting to know G H Hardy, from the math world.

"The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done."
- G H H

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

A clear pattern that I see is, some of the best intellectual works come in collaboration with someone is equally obsessive about the same topic.
GHH - Littlewood,
GHH - Ramanujan

https://t.co/yWqfTziFjH

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@mipsytipsy ,
came across one of your recent decks. Looks very interesting. Would love to follow the link if the recording ot the talk is available somewhere ? Thanks much.

https://t.co/NfOWglp0TY

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

This is some most practical ways for management of time.
Relevant for anyone who is NOT a manager. Managers firefight, and there is no right way for them.

Very relevant for Staff Engineers.

https://t.co/jcuGKw2cHa

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@brankopetric00 In terms of cost efficiency, any scaling done without a system resource component could lead to waste of money.

Let's say we solely scaled in customMetric, and that metric didn't care about resource usage on pod, then we could be scaling underused pods. Composite works the best

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

@Ekaeoq Just to extend - for something that we externalise to be intellectually honest and pure, will need to go through churns in our own head. That takes time (which is good). Once is never enough.

[Akshay @ProgrammerMonk]

These two are the most imp metrics.

All the 101-alerts to my systems are based on these.

System Resource exhaustion, Bad code deployment, Broken infra, Network failure or anything.. They can all be caught in the above two models.

[THE CODE SCIENTIST @mysticwillz]

1. Error rate: Check 4xx/5xx spikes to see if the system is breaking under load.

2. Latency (p95/p99): Identify if response times are degrading.