Aditya Chandak

Interested in all things tech | CS @ Cornell

[Yash Kalwani @WHYkalwani]

got featured in The Economic Times for Cursor & DevDinners

"Nerds in Cafes" by @HimanshiET is so apt, couldn't have put it better myself

started with a dinner at a cafe because I was bored. didn't expect a headline.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

So the way to install an MCP for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Gemini are all slightly different from each other.

What the actual fuck, why are we in this fragmented ass situation? Can they all not just read from ~/.mcp.json or something?

[Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana]

@snoopy_dot_jpg Who has never heard of tmux

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

flight attendant: Is there an SRE on board? us-east-1 is down
me: *nudging @ajassy* That could have been your keynote
Andy: OMG stop
me: Not asking for a "GenAI enabled experience" to help, are they.
Andy: I hate you so much.
me: Go and see if 'the pace of innovation' will help

[keshav @keshavchan]

flow state. that scene in f1 when brad was flying. in whiplash, when miles teller was one with drums. when time slows down and you are operating at a frequency beyond thought. you are no longer making something, you are simply the conduit through which it comes into being

[Jacob Andreou @jacobandreou]

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. That’s for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

If you're starting out in the field of programming, and you feel like you do not actually like this art of building software - but are doing it just because the world has told you this is a great career option - word of advice is to turn back and find something else.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

"Fundamental" truths about software:

- Code is liability

- The more code you have, the more bugs you tend to have

- The more complex a system, the more important architecture becomes

- Writing maintainable code is a lot more effort than just getting it to work

[Arnav Chandak @chandak_arnav]

cold dm'd @KianSadeghi5 to work for @nucleusgenomics over the summer

asked to sell a 100 nucleus kits to be hired

100 is a BIG number, but we ain't stepping down

follow to see how I make this happen in the next 30 days

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

The final word on developer job security

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

A tool that converts regular PDFs into searchable PDF/A files.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Twitter needs a button that's "bring back that tweet I was just starting to read before you automatically refreshed."

[Ankit Sawant @SatanAtWink]

an offline messenger for everyone attending coldplay

inside the venue - cellphones will eventually not work & you might not be able to communicate with your group in case you lose track of them

there is an app called Bridgefy on iOS & android. this is an offline messenger which works on Bluetooth. you don’t have to be within the Bluetooth range either; if multiple people are using the app, it creates a mesh network, allowing messages to “hop” from one user to another until they reach the intended recipient

this app is often used in situations where internet connectivity is unavailable, like protests, festivals, or natural disasters. the app gained popularity as a communication tactic during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and Citizenship Amendment Act protests in India

they even have a sdk which I guess companies like @bookmyshow @lifeindistrict should eventually integrate to make this part of their festival / concert experience

iOS - https://t.co/KH21Hzq418

playstore - https://t.co/0U2fabJ8AQ

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This is so spot on. Two things:

1. Being focused on producing output the fastest way possible means that you will never prioritize "going deep"

2. Going deep (and down the rabbit hole) is how you learn more: but you need to balance it.

Figure out how to do both: it's tricky!

[Shivam Jindal @ChaoticDeeds]

My personally curated list of best coding YT channels:

1. Tsoding Daily
2. The Coding Train
3. The Cherno
4. Hussein Nasser
5. Arpit Bhayani
6. ThePrimeagen
7. Sebastian Lague
8. Low Level

These help you become a highly skilled dev unlike other "roadmap only" channels.

[kache @yacineMTB]

"is it true that you said 'FUCK IT WE BALL' on the pull request you merged on Friday at 5pm, which caused the incident?"

[Yash 🇮🇳 @not0Zero7]

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A few months ago, my girlfriend was frustrated with the surge in Uber prices during peak hours. Her company has a hybrid work-from-home policy, and she needs to go to the office at least three times a week.

[Yash 🇮🇳 @not0Zero7]

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[Snake Oil Salesman @ghuubear]

first YT and the internet at large solved the exposure problem, and now AI has solved the cold start problem. it has become increasingly easy to spot and filter out unserious people.

there's no edtech business to be made taking someone from a 4-5 to 7 or 8 out of 10 on the skill chart, because you'll quickly realise that being a 4/10 was never a skill issue but a desire issue. and desire is an unsolvable problem.

you can't help someone start. but you can help someone who has already found significant momentum, improve.

so there's still plenty of money to be made in coaching those who are already at an 8 or 8.5 and taking them to a 9 or 9.5. but of course, that needs coaches who understand not just the domain but the craft of coaching.