lalit

webdev, compilers & all things code • cs @bitspilaniindia

[Santhosh Narayanan @Music_Santhosh]

Starting one of my dream projects today. Building an ultra transparent affordable music streaming platform from India for anyone in the world who streams music. Will see a massive set of legendary artists and upcoming superstars in this platform We will keep artist payouts and affordable subscription(if any) at the forefront. Will be built, operated and served from India. Will also be conducting a few hackathon events to identify deserving young talent who we dream to see at the top of the administration. Thank you for the love all these years and this will be my little something to add some joy to your lives ❤️❤️🤗🤗. Oru nalla name suggest pannunga 🤩…

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@maharshii https://t.co/Ep6ZN6BWj2
this was quite helpful

[Johannes Schickling @schickling]

"Bring your own sync" is such an appealing idea for personal apps.

Instead of putting your data into an app's cloud, you ask the app to put it into your own sync system.

Examples: git, Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, ...

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@schickling @livestoredev also, this solution looks like it can scale decently for a single user. currently, i'm able to sync about 1.2k bookmarks and notes across devices and still not run out of the api request limits

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@schickling @livestoredev i'm currently building an offline and local first note taking app called chaos which uses git and github to store the data. also you don't get any cors issue while using github api from browser, so basically 0 loc of backend is required
https://t.co/wif8kdo3mg

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@asleMammadam @kiwicopple I made a project to exactly do this
https://t.co/d4Y3TWwC1L

Due to the removal of the free tier from planetscale, new docs cannot be generated though. But previously created docs sites are accessible

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@swyx Building a local first notes app with GitHub sync
https://t.co/wif8kdo3mg

[Bhavish Aggarwal @bhash]

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.

As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - https://t.co/TGxfSjtM0F.

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.
⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”!
⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this.
⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on [email protected]. Offer is perpetually open!

Read more here: https://t.co/M27jpJHPWT

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@vineetwts https://t.co/UzxDO5VZa8

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@mrdoob Building a local first solution that's super responsive
https://t.co/1pbOOVWfCO

[lalit @lalitcodes]

Put together a simple local-first app to dump sticky notes, todos and long form notes over the past week and syncs via GitHub

[lalit @lalitcodes]

Put together a simple local-first app to dump sticky notes, todos and long form notes over the past week and syncs via GitHub

[lalit @lalitcodes]

Wrote a post after a long time
https://t.co/JVMetqfs3H

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

India has to get out of this ultra-competitive exam pressure on children and young adults. This is one area where I would *not* learn from East Asia but instead learn from Finland which has a superb state-funded educational system that serves every child without such competitive insanity.

Intense pressure at a young age all too often destroys talent and creates zombified adults. It is the rat race to extinction.

Intense competition is for companies serving a market and for sports, not for children in education.

As an employer, we have pledged to not even consider academic credentials. We are also investing in educational alternatives that are inspired by Finland.

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@Timb03 lalit

[lalit @lalitcodes]

https://t.co/VTbHs8qQRk
Such an amazing video. He had built a spatial-computing device better than the humane ai pin and vision-pro 14 years ago!

[mansin @Mankaran32]

Really makes me sad that half of our people in India are busy grinding useless leetcode problems. And on top of that the influencers have left no stones unturned to capitalise on this. Grinding your ass off leetcode is not how you accelerate. Build real life stuff.

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@kiwicopple @supabase

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@joelhooks Built https://t.co/d4Y3TWwC1L sometime back to simplify docs

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@AkshayPSingh09 Just made it in figma!
https://t.co/N0Ott5zuC9

[lalit @lalitcodes]

@sujayath Imho Sridhar Vembu should be ranked at the top. His thoughts and ambitions are broader and better than many of them in the list...