Abhishek Siddhu

Full Stack Web/Mobile Developer | Core, Blazor, MAUI, Azure | As an early adopter, I’ve made every mistake first, so you don’t have to.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@James_M_South Probably just rate limited. A lot of users are facing it for a long time. https://t.co/XKpKpvlP97

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@techSage @WindowsCentral In my understanding winget vs store cli is like windows terminal vs power shell, just like wt is the UI with power shell, cmd being the actual runtime, winget is more like a package manager with multiple sources, store being one of them

[Aaron Stannard @Aaronontheweb]

Nice, my dotnet-slopwatch tool is at the top of /r/dotnet today.

Wasn't sure how it'd be received there, since tools like this are indicative of where coding is likely going as a profession - LLM-assisted coding being the rule rather than the exception.

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

IN POST FEMINISM WORLD

When Men are high earning & their wives primarily take care of kids & home - he pays for her kitty, parlour, holiday, hobbies, shopping, gym, buys joint properties & all that is considered to be HIS DUTY

BUT

If women are high earning and their husband care for kids, run the house, she still has NO DUTY. The man is still expected to earn & if he doesn't earn, he's called Nalla, Nikamma, Biwi ke tukde par palne vaala. Forget about the woman paying for his entertainment, he gets taunted even to get his basic needs met.

Feminists can blabber equality all they want but it is a fact that 99.99999% of women respect a man only if he earns more than her

#MaryKom #Onrel

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@DevLeaderCa Most of the old reflection code is migrated to source generators, and no new code uses reflection, unless for "temporary" hacks.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@James_M_South I'm saying tricky to report, since reproduction can only happen across restarts and only on first launch. If you start the project even once in 2022, it'll keep on working till the next update. And you have to specifically open a Blazor project, works fine for MAUI @VisualStudio

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@James_M_South I also face this, but this is tricky to place a bug report. When you have both 2022 and 2026 installed and there's an update in both, you need to first open a Blazor project in 2022, play around for a few mins then it starts working in 2026. Doesn't work when launch 2026 first

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@Razorpay how long it takes for POS device to get delivered, it's already been 1.5 months. Even multiple support tickets via the app/portal gets closed automatically without any communication. I have always had extremely high respect for you. You can do better than this.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@Shpigford A large number of times, I want both the files list and chat open so, I do whatever is the default for the IDE so in VS Code the files on left and chat or right, I Visual Studio, Solution explorer on the right and chat on the left. In VS I minimise the window if on laptop.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@paharganj2paris @akhileshutup AI2xxx series are vistara flights, even the tail and seat headrest still has same vistara logo, and the food/cutlery is also pretty much the same. It's just the same vistara staff with Air India uniform. Took 2 flights with them in May itself.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@GergelyOrosz Github Copilot will change their pricing from next month, much like the others where unlimited is only for gpt-4o and premium models have included limits with pay per request beyond it. Although to be fair, it still has like a 100x ROI as compared to my time when not using it.

[Cosmic P. @cosmicpadisah]

@sama Companies be like: ‘Let’s evaluate all models carefully before choosing one.’
AI models: already evolved twice while you were in the meeting :D

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@prstb Similarly if you have developer mode on, they'll ask you to confirm before accessing the app. This is with good intentions to make the user aware of the risks associated. But yeah, completely agree that apps like swiggy don't need that data except for user profiling.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@prstb One genuine use case for financial apps is to check the presence of remote control apps like TeamViewer etc and warn user about it. I have seen it in PayTm, Axis, RBL that if you open the app with team viewer installed they'll not let you use the app unless you accept the risks

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@andugocodes @GergelyOrosz That's because browsers are ingrained into our lives now. The viewpoint might be different 15-20 years ago. LLMs are in their infancy at the moment. Also, like anything else there will always be a bell curve for target users. Like some people still use text editors to code 😅

[Raj Kunkolienkar @kunksed]

The Ghosts We Inherit: India's 'New Money' Story

My mother reuses tea leaves until the water runs clear. My friend's father keeps a wooden box in his closet, with carefully folded bills arranged by denomination. Another's maintains a small diary tracking every household expense down to the last rupee. These aren't quirks – they're battle scars from a generation that survived on less.

We are their children. We carry their financial trauma in our wallets, even as we tap them against sleek payment terminals at craft coffee shops.

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@davidfowl @AITrailblazerQ For reference:
https://t.co/ljKBwJTrYe

https://t.co/kLmy8aCtzF

https://t.co/6BJgfBW0AP

[Abhishek Siddhu @TheMisfitTechie]

@davidfowl @AITrailblazerQ DocumentDB is the old name for CosmosDB(around 2014-15). Infact many places in the CosmosDB API still uses Microsoft.DocumentDB namespace. Repo says it's the underlying engine for CosmosDB MongoDB API. Ideally, for local development the same CosmosDB emulator should work as is.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Of the best devs I know, ~50% have CS degrees

Of the worst devs I know, ~100% have CS degrees