Hariharan

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[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Soon will be changing my bio from software engineer to FDE I guess. But will wait for the space to settle on the name.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Updated my location from Cursor to Terminal. Claude code ftw! Once again a latepost but better late than never.

[Maximilian @maxedapps]

So ... with AI right now, I mainly:
- craft specs
- review and adjust plans, steer AI
- review code
- have to heavily steer / write tests because AI will just take the happy path otherwise

Awesome - I'm left with the bs tasks whilst the part that was genuinely fun (= writing the code) is taken away.

And yeah, I am excited by being able to move fast with Claude Code, Codex etc.

But I'll be honest: I've had more fun in the past.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Read “Use AI, but my data shouldn’t leave the building“ by Hariharan D on Medium: https://t.co/bPxy4c50P0

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Reliable AI systems require strong engineering solutions. No matter how strong your model is, always protect your system with evaluations, validations & retries.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

I was today years old, when I found out that we can take print outs from mobile. Just took a printout, never came across someone doing it before though.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Read “The Curious Case of the API That Worked Everywhere Except TestFlight“ by Hariharan D on Medium:
https://t.co/JDped9so1o

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Service based companies should stop normalizing

1. working in weekends
2. working late night to sync with customers in diff timezone

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

TIL mobile app package names are reverse of their web app(if exists)

Web app - https://t.co/eq2kj93lab
Mobile app - com.myproject.web

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

AI has a purple problem

Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?

I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Announcing @ChromeDevTools MCP! 🚀

Connect your AI coding agent to Chrome's powerful automation & debugging capabilities with ease.

Key features:

✅ Reliable automation: It can programmatically handle clicks, form fills, dialogs, and page navigation with ease.

✅ Performance insights: Go beyond simple audits. Instruct your agent to record a performance trace and extract actionable insights to optimize your web apps.

✅ Advanced debugging: Empower your AI to analyze network requests, list console messages, take screenshots, and even evaluate scripts in the browser context.

✅ Browser emulation: Easily test different conditions by emulating CPU slowdowns, network throttling, or various screen sizes.

Works well with modern web apps and believe this will unlock new workflows for automated testing, AI-driven debugging, and interactive web development.

And there's much more to come!

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

When you are given a problem, read it, understand it, solve it in your mind maybe write down your thoughts if needed, think of the edge cases and how your solution can fail, fix it!. Now finally start solving the problem.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Wanna know how swiggy dealt with it ? They ignored it 🫠 Change font sizes in your device and open swiggy nothing changes

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Responsive ui with different accessibility settings is such a pain in the ass. It is always gonna wrong in some device no matter what 😏

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Joined a new company and it's been a week. Going through the shift from product to service based, new role etc.

There has been some learnings towards react native app dev. Helped revamp two screens. Getting used to css-in-js.

Want to get back to my hands-on to-do list asap 👷🏼

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

AGI can wait, stop models from using "—" a ton of times!

[Chip Huyen @chipro]

$100 for anyone who can show me how to get ChatGPT to stop using emdashes. it's driving me insane

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

@Franc0Fernand0 PATCH is also there.

PATCH: Partially update a resource.

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

👀 Ever seen a JavaScript memory leak in action?

I created a simple HTML demo that leaks 10,000 DOM nodes on purpose and visualized how memory behaves using Chrome DevTools.

https://t.co/tsmbhJh2h5

#JavaScript #WebDev #MemoryLeak #Frontend #DevTools

[Hariharan @findhariharan]

Wanted to see javascript memory leaks for real. Did a small exploration session today. Will post about it later. The engine does a lot of optimizations that we don't know. It's a rabbithole to get into.