Manish Tomar

backend engineer, Recreational tennis player, Programmer. Trying to learn FP via Haskell. Also distributed systems.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

Part time grandpa tennis player is winning @rolandgarros

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@signofhsab Smart of him to utilize lob when the sun is in opponent's eyes.

[Aish @AishwaryaDevv]

For people who keep asking how to deploy a simple static HTML personal blog:

1. Buy a .io domain for $70/year
2. Provision 3 AWS EC2 instances
3. Setup a multi-region Kubernetes cluster
4. Write 4,000 lines of Terraform config
5. Deploy a high-availability Kafka event stream
6. Rewrite the backend API in Rust
7. Containerize everything with Docker
8. Set up Grafana and Prometheus for observability
9. Implement an enterprise-grade CI/CD pipeline
10. Configure a distributed Redis caching layer
11. Setup PagerDuty alerts for 99.999% uptime
12. Realize the site only gets 1 visitor a month
13. Forget how to center a div in CSS
14. Abandon the project completely

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

What junk is this saying Zverev lost to Arnaldi when instead he lost to Darderi? Stupid AI slop. Can't even verify the content before posting.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@TennisChannel Knowing how much abuse players get due to gambling, it is shameful to promote it. It is also annoying and frankly lazy when panelists consider odds instead of the game style / form when talking about matchups.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

I miss times when there used to be interesting tech blog posts on HN. Now it’s just AI.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@BNPPARIBASOPEN what on earth are you doing scheduling match on the hottest time of the day? It’s bad for fans and bad for players!

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Where are the students who think they benefited from Chromebooks and iPads in school?

Where are the teachers who believe that ed tech greatly improved education?

Let's get this stuff out of elementary schools by September. Older grades will be harder, but let's start with K-5.

[signüll @signulll]

ai is going to sever the deepest identity loop in the west... i.e. who you are ~= what you do for money.

for centuries, trade was dignity, meaning, social rank, & even morality. capitalism welded cognition to occupation. “what do you do?” became shorthand for “what are you worth?”

now machines are almost done encroaching this almost sacred layer for almost all white collar work. the next few years will be like watching god being forced to retire in real time.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@janniksin fire that physio of yours! None of this happened in 2025 with other physios

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

Is anyone else worried about losing the patience and skill to write code or debug by hand?

[Jessie Pegula @JPegula]

*Me watching and judging everyone before I’ve yet to play a match in 2026*

[sysls @systematicls]

https://t.co/FQe5bCBqW1

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@immanuel_vibe What applications do not need disk guarantees?

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@TMobile In today's world of everything online, why on earth are you asking folks to call to signup for your Internet?

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

This pretty much sums up @CincyTennis. https://t.co/t8sVuEIsXS

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@josemorgado So many in the west coast 😭. Only Indian wells left.

[Manish Tomar @manishtomar]

@carlosalcaraz is doing the @janniksin today to @TommyPaul1.

[Serving Up Clutch @clutchtennispod]

@atptour Get rid of the two week Masters events

[Alex de Minaur @alexdeminaur]

@pavyg Hey mate it’s a shame that you never became a good enough player to experience playing Jannik. I’m sure you would’ve put up a better performance and know exactly how to beat him. Wishing you all the best!!!