Aravind Baskaran

Engineering at @swymit and other stuff. Opinions are only mine, when not useful.
Social moth more than butterfly, just lurking in the curtains until moved

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Reasonable for well defined criteria problems, eg code gates - decide what gates on what phases as agents build/test/raise PRs, local laya-mlx hooked in to reduce LLMs overdoing at every step. Fast response, tiny tokens(1k-ish). Early, promising on M5Pro, will move to m2Pro evals later. Chunking is improving quality but long ways to go

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@josiah_arcanist The -webkit vs -moz vs -ms of 2026, hoping not but...

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Context - https://t.co/8fy4eIqTjZ

GitHub - https://t.co/H3QvNACj4O

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Back to open-source after a bit, npm contrib package after a decade (11 years 🤐). Took some time to address a personal pain that I assume is wider.
Brief - Hard to test any logged in storefront experiences without overflowing junk OTPs in the inbox or having a separate "test" email address that is pretty much just spam and needs oauth-2fa connectors.
Building a sorta elegant solution, customer-account-keycard, or keycards for short, to create portable shopping sessions for Playwright that every AI session/workspace/automation doesn't need to relearn (i.e. waste time + tokens). CLI-first with mcp options as well to work with your favorite harnesses - Quick demo attached.
Here is the package - https://t.co/0F3jRnNh2J. More context links in comments.
Give it a try in your automation and give feedback or send over improvement PRs 🙌
Shout out to @testmailapp for a no-frills simple email-as-api construct. It has enough of a free budget, but is truly worth getting the subscription.
P.S: The accounts are masked, so you will see some masked stuff. @ShopifyDevs #storefront #automation

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Maybe just me - I always read `ngmi` as I'm "not gonna miss it" and not I'm "not gonna make it". Somehow the former makes sense more often if not always 😄😉 #saturday #ngmi

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@GilFeig There's so much types of Indian food that it probably deserves more than 3x a day to get anywhere close to catch em all 😄 In case you want a quick ref of Bengaluru/Karnataka ones - https://t.co/249X6wMDoj - small peer curation. Wish you catch as many as you can and then some 🙌

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@thenuschke @mehdisdev Yes - most useful. 2 fronts - wiring up integrations and configuring as workflows. Connecting different app-sourced triggers/actions will make it full integration service capable + Temporal-like workflows with merchant control boundaries = observable/traceable, prod level trust

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Thank you! Felt like the browser prefix/compat wars situation all over again. Not good use of anyone's time using those prefixes. It's a lesson learnt, embedded enough, hoping we don't have to relearn 🫡👍

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md. We'll fallback to it if CLAUDE.md isn't specified. Hope this helps :)

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@AisiriReflects Super early, few hours in. Cost effectivness combined with Codex has been interesting. Have to try to connect with some runbooks/AI-os workflow style execution. Generally instructing to use the typesafe skill is a good starting point, then comes cookbooks and deeper workflows

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@denniscessan @mattdkoenig :)

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

You know it's most probably human written if it has typos 😄

https://t.co/WxQ2R2eZ6k

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Congrats to the @foxsellapp team @PrakharS96 @adhithya_vijai for once again setting up Shop Quest with all the energy and breadth this community has to offer. 
Unfortunately, I won’t be in town even though the venue is literally in front of our Swym office. So instead will leave you with a small gift of sorts - an unrelated side quest I have been working on with a few folks from work and life.
https://t.co/HLrTZPGgU3

An open-source/peer curated Bengaluru portal that can get you in touch with the local vibe outside the popular/trend/must-do lists and get to know the place.
You can learn a bit about Bengaluru (and Karnataka), some history, our personal picks, notes and a growing gallery of photos to share in our Bengaluru experiences. Give it a spin, build up your todo list while you are here or just know about the place, maybe even learn swalpa Kannada too 😊. This ended up being a bit of unrelated happy coincidence as a lot of folks from India and outside coming over to Bengaluru in a couple of weeks, so please share around as you find it useful.

Thanks to Deepika Varadarajan, VINAY KARTHIK BALUGURI, Mohamed Hassan, @reachsakgupta and Namita Gudaraddi for helping with this. This is still a v1, happy to get feedback.

P.S: In case anyone wants to use our @getswym space during your weeks in BLR, please reach out to Jahnavi Varampati, Sakshi Gupta or me here or on DM, LinkedIn works too. Grab a Blue Tokai cuppa and head on over to the 9th floor, the view of Cubbon Park is enough reason to come on over 😄

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Are you okay @Garmin, sounding a bit too positive aren't we 🧐

Purple streak indeed, keep working hard i suppose on all fronts 🫡

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@shadcn Not really cheat on purpose, just creative problem solving that we humans more often than we'd like to admit. But yes, trust needs more iteration

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Lists, Carts, checkouts, discounts, fulfillments, purchases 🤕🫡🤕🫡

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

Running storefront test automations on Shopify customer accounts has been a struggle. Seeing some ways out but something native is always better, similar to testing payments allowing bogus, need bogus accounts that don't accumulate noise on stores @ShopifyDevs

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

@arvindax Yeah, also lowered sleep lowered inhibitions to decide 😄

[Aravind Baskaran @aravindbaskaran]

For someone who can be super annoying and gets super annoyed easily, doesn't follow routines or overdoes it, not a bad week.