abhishoya

software engineer | maximum effort. likes quotes, coasts and sports.

[abhishoya @abhishoya]

Ye masla bhi bada gazab hai, ki mashuka tere paas jawab nahi aur main jaanta sab hun

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:

Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:

Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:

Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:

Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!

In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.

[Shanu Mathew @ShanuMathew93]

My wife and I are moving to London 🇬🇧 in a few weeks.

We had everything scattered across Notion databases, Google Calendar, random notes, apartment links... so I built a custom dashboard to bring it all together.

What it does:
→ Tasks organized by category (visa, banking, housing, pet transport, etc.)
→ Apartment tracker with pros/cons, scores, and pins on a map
→ Recommendations for restaurants, gyms, neighborhoods we want to try (with filters on distance from our AirBNB and my work office)
→ Calendar events synced from Google
→ Email reminders so nothing slips through the cracks

The part I'm most pumped about: two-way Notion sync. We've been using Notion to plan this move for months. I didn't want to abandon that. The dashboard pulls from our Notion databases, but also pushes changes back.

>Edit a task in Notion → it updates in the app.
>Mark something complete in the app → it syncs to Notion.

We use whichever one feels right in the moment.

I'm not a developer by trade. Built this in about a week using Claude Code - basically pair programming with AI. It wrote most of the code while I described what I wanted and made decisions along the way.

Stack for the curious: Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, Neon Postgres, Notion API, Mapbox, deployed on Vercel so we can open it on our phones, wifi, etc.

Honestly, one of the the coolest and most useful things I've ever built. We use it all the time now!

[Apoorva Govind @Appyg99]

Human identity is now premium and essential for all discourse. We have to shift our online defaults to assume bots are default unless they can prove otherwise.

[Anmol Lunavat @AnmolLunavat]

@airindia just keep sinking till the airline downs. Cancelled the Milan to Delhi flight AI 138. Been asked to talk to agent at Milan (MXP) and they are so shitty scared they have closed the counter and ran away. JUST WOW!

[abhishoya @abhishoya]

I pity the person who judges, I pity the one who is judged, I pity the one who thinks about this judgement and I pity the one who reads about it.

[Shubham Shukla @unishubh1]

Guys in these time let us be smart, let us contribute in whatever we can. Don’t post anything unless it is verified . Remember , when confused better to remain silent.

Also save USD. Oil, electricity anything that is imported, please save

[abhishoya @abhishoya]

Pyaar toh aankhein bayan kar deti par kambakhat ye zamana hi dur se haal chaal puchne ka hai

[Shreya Dhanwanthary @shreyadhan13]

Roads. Please just give us good roads. That’s all we want.

[abhishoya @abhishoya]

@sangharshhh pseudo random at best

[Deedy @deedydas]

Indian startup Dotpe, that raised ~$100M to build point of sale systems for restaurants left their entire API fully public.

A clever hacker found out the most ordered thing at every Social in India.

And did a prank to order what he wanted for a person next to him!

Zero auth.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

The easiest one to start with is WTF - Who To Follow by Twitter, which talks about how they built their "who to follow" service. Pretty easy and breezy read.

Once you get hang of it then start going through the ones from the domain you like. You may find WTF and other interesting papers on my papershelf.

https://t.co/mnh19ySoel

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

my childhood in one video

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

10 years ago, I got divorced, lost my job, so me and my buddy got on our motorcycles and rode North to the Alaskan Arctic until the road ran out.

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

With this video, I’m launching a national health movement against false marketing in packaged food!

This time I’m not alone. Many influencers, celebrities, doctors and sports stars have UNITED to fight against false marketing!

Every week we hear of a new food issue affecting the country! Infant milk sugar, children’s health drinks, Indian chips having palm oil and the masala-cancer issue are just a few of them.

If the majority of Indians started reading labels, companies would be forced to stop false marketing and give us better quality food!

I invite the entire country to pledge to start reading labels now.

Let us all unite to make India the health capital of the world instead of the diabetes capital of the world!

Label Padhega India, tabhi toh swasth banega India!

Let’s break the internet.

#LabelPadhegaIndia

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

Irrelevance is the new retirement.

Deloitte India with a retirement age of 62 years, gave golden handshake to 35 partners above 55.

They are removing those who have their past behind them and adding those who have their future ahead of them.

Guess who all will follow. Right, everyone!

When I came in, no one took you seriously until you had grey hair. Age got respect, credibility and deference.

Just when I got there, someone changed the rules of the game!

Now I know what Charlie Chaplin meant, “Time is my only enemy”.

So you see people trying to cover up their age.
The hair gets blacker.
Cosmetic procedures, shiny new wheels, trendy lingo.
In short my generation moved from trying to impress those older than us to those younger to us! And we all know the former is probable the latter are near impossible to please.

Ask anyone who has retired. They don’t miss the money. They miss the routine, meetings, travel, ringing phones- what they may have complained about. As humans we struggle for relevance. That our life matters. Without it there is void.

Along this time, you meet more Doctors than DJs. You may be paying heavy cost of your kids higher education and you realise that time is running out on you.

Henry Thoreau said, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation and they go to their graves with the song still in them.”

In your fifties there are three possibilities.
One is disappointment of not getting that S Class Merc or you got it but think about what you missed in its chase and the third is laughing at the stupidity of ever wanting one. 

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता
कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता

No one gets everything, sometimes you get success but failed relationships, kids grew up and parents grew old without you and sometimes you get that right but fall short of success.

What’s funny is that growing old is compulsory but growing up seems optional.

I marvel at people’s ability to be childish, egoistic and ready to fight on trivial things. How did they miss the point of life!

Long back I stopped buying tickets to other people’s dramas. I see all around me with the attitude of the Polish adage, “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
A delayed flight, people venting on counter staff, cutting lines to board an aircraft early. Everything is stressful and everything is funny- depends on our lens.

Ageing well is moving from being a noisy mountain stream in your teens to a deep, calm ocean.

Fifties our ancients called Vanprastha ashram. Facing the forest. I have a different take to it. I think in fifties, one needs to build a Version 2, find our joie di vivre and burn the candle at both ends. Do what you need to do. Sing that song. If not now, when!

The pain of failure is less than the pain of regret. Go for it. Fifties is the new twenties with thirty years of experience! If you are in your twenties or thirties take it from me that time is a thief, it slips away. Buddha was right - The trouble is you think you have time!

Enjoy life to the fullest, as it comes....

😎😍😎😍😎

[Mangalam Maloo @blitzkreigm]

Let me just say it - Air Travel is becoming a mess.

What was once a joyful experience is now becoming a dread.

Unfortunately consumers have no say in it. We're at the behest of a crazily one sided ecosystem.

For a 9 am flight, one's day roughly starts at 5 am and by the time they reach any destination it's past noon at least. Not to mention the crazy mafia of cabbies or the ordeal to get out of the airport post landing.

This 8 hour ordeal is filled with a long journey to the airport, navigating through multiple ID checks, multiple bag screenings, security checks and no real assistance from the staff who only look at everyone as if they're doing them a favour.

This, is assuming the flight is on time and all goes well.

Now God Forbid, If your flight is delayed, your problems have begun to compound. You are now going to get sucked into the quicksand of an apathetic ecosystem.

No clear communication by the staff, no empathy or aid to passengers who may either be old, unwell, travelling for a happy family occasion, a bereavement or even an all important work commitment.

Why is this lopsided?
- If you get to the airport even marginally after their long cut-off time, you aren't allowed to fly. But they can continue to delay flights without any intimation.

- If your bag is even marginally heavier, they won't let it in without charging you. But, if you're carrying just a handbag on a full flight they'll bully you into checking that in, because "no space"

- If you carry a bottle of a beverage, it’s considered a security threat. If they sell the same bottle at 5X the price, it’s convenience.

- They can keep you on a stationery plane without air conditioning, food or even the freedom to use a lavatory. But the minute you show any frustration, they may take strict security action against you and perhaps even make you ineligible for flying.

- You're at the mercy of an airline where gate changes, flight changes, aerobridge and bus changes are frequent and random. But if you miss any of these announcements it's your fault because we told you its a Silent Airport.

- You have to book tickets and pay in full immediately, that’s fair. But they will return the money only in 7 working days after deducting crazy cancellation charges of your initial amount. In a lot of cases, any refund is given through discount vouchers and subject to terms and conditions.

The worst part however is, no one knows a way out of this! Demand-Supply-Cost-Infra-Rules-Regulations-Safety-Security are all important and must be adhered to. Everyone's equally helpless.

The only solution – Airlines - please, please, please – train your staff to be more empathetic, helpful and respectful to passengers and ensure the processes are all customer focused and not just cost focused. What's a process, can't be changed. But what can, is the experience you provide.

Not sure if this will even make a difference to anyone, but that’s all one can do as a customer without much choice, right? Make a suggestion or voice a rant.

An airline isn’t just about stuffing people in a metal tube and transporting them. It’s about connecting people to their loved ones. Parents meeting children in different cities, a couple celebrating a milestone occasion, a family having worked very hard to save up for this trip. It’s a celebration of one of mankind’s greatest inventions.

@airindia @airvistara @AkasaAir @IndiGo6E @flyspicejet @DGCAIndia @consaff @LiveFromALounge @TheSanjivKapoor

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

The win predictor graph of this match represents how thrilling it was - infinitely

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

GLENN MAXWELL, WOW!

THE GREATEST INNINGS IN ODI HISTORY?!

#AUSvAFG #CWC23