Hasan Kumar

Curious • Lifetime Student • SugarJunkie • Randonneur • Hunts for Novelty/Challenges • Trying to Quit Perfectionism • Ruby ❤️ TS 💪🏽 Pydantic🎖️

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

Adding AI agents to your SaaS or internal dashboard?

I'm building 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗺, an open-source, self-hostable single-binary with best practices built-in so that you can get the chat working in a few minutes.

https://t.co/3KyUBHogMO
PS Give us a ⭐️ on GitHub

[dax @thdxr]

sent this to the team today

everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible

and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

IFF statement against the Alarming Escalation of Social Media Censorship and Proposed Expansion of Takedown Powers

New Delhi, March 19, 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is concerned by continuing reports of posts and accounts being withheld in India on Facebook, X and Instagram, including satire and criticism of the government. Recent reporting shows users receiving generic “withheld in India” notices or emails under Section 69A from social media platforms, with little or no explanation, while independent reporting has documented takedowns affecting speech that appears political, satirical, or critical rather than clearly unlawful.

As reported by Business Standard and The Indian Express on March 18, the Union Government is currently exploring a proposal to decentralize content blocking powers under Section 69A of the IT Act. The new proposal would grant direct takedown powers to multiple ministries, including Defence, Home Affairs, External Affairs, and Information & Broadcasting. At present, MeitY signs off on Section 69A orders, while a separate notice and takedown channel already operates through Section 79(3)(b) and the Home Ministry led Sahyog portal that at least has 35 nodal officers across State Police Departments in India.

At the same time, the February 2026 amendments to the IT Rules have sharply compressed compliance timelines. MeitY’s own published FAQ says intermediaries must act within 3 hours when they receive actual knowledge through a court order or a government intimation, within 36 hours for certain expedited grievances, and within 2 hours for specified complaints involving nudity, sexual content, morphed content, and impersonation. The government has also reiterated that intermediaries which fail to observe due diligence risk losing Section 79 immunity. A system built on speed, legal threat, and secrecy predictably incentivises over compliance.

We remind the Union Government that the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A in the Shreya Singhal case on the basis of procedural safeguards and written reasons that could be challenged. Secret and inaccessible censorship defeats those safeguards in practice.

IFF calls on the Union government to halt any move to decentralise Section 69A blocking powers further, publish blocking orders with only as per the letter and spirit of the Shreya Singhal judgement, and ensure timely notice to affected users with clear grounds and avenues for remedy. Platforms must also do more than send boilerplate messages. They should provide meaningful notice, preserve records for challenge, and publish granular transparency reporting given online censorship also impacts the public right to receive information.

If your account or post has been withheld or blocked in India, please write to [email protected] with screenshots, URLs, and any email or platform notice you have received. IFF will try to assist impacted users and document patterns of opaque censorship.

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@ioquatix Is it through socketry/
traces-backend-datadog?

Would it work with rails on falcon?

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@maciejmensfeld Thank you
Working now

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@maciejmensfeld 🤔 I am in India if that is relevant
gem install solid_errors -v 0.4.2
fails with
Could not find a valid gem 'solid_errors' (= 0.4.2) in any repository

same error in GitHub actions too!

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@excid3 If you use docker, issue is directly patched there
https://t.co/4vaGYK4lru

[GeekWire @geekwire]

Seattle founder Vetri Vellore, who sold his last startup to Microsoft, raises $26M for new AI company https://t.co/dsKfIFsyfL

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@Saadeghi @ishartwt @mohitbajoriaa @daisyui_ I see a 'Headless UI + daisyUI component pack for React' in the official daisyui store. Any rough ETA on when it might be available?

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@eastdakota @jorilallo @Cloudflare .in
Would let me keep all my domains in one place

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

With Copilot in Microsoft Viva, we’re applying next-generation AI to help organizations prioritize both productivity and employee engagement, in order to build high performance teams. https://t.co/Tx8TxUKHPK

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@nateberkopec 0.1ms feels like a lot of time to get something from memory. Are there ways to optimize this without resorting to custom memoization?

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@frayzil See Null Design Pattern https://t.co/xs0F2BfpnP for one of the alternate ways to solve this

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@frayzil The suggested option might cause unexpected bugs.
Say you want to send a notification n minutes before the deadline and you queue a job for that time, you will have to have an equals Infinity check to avoid bloating your queue
In simple cases, I don't mind using the nil checks

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@akshayalladi @IfraJan_ What is considered as acceptable behaviour has already deteriorated much in past few years (even during conversations) Dream Hindhu Rastra will only enable and embolden this fringe from one religion and make the rest live as second class citizens

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@akshayalladi @IfraJan_ I feel extremism from any group is a threat and must be dealt with in accordance with law. Violence if any should be used only by a state in extrordinary law and order situations and impartially. Current trend of giving free pass to certain groups IS a threat to state.

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@akshayalladi @IfraJan_ Agree! And lets extend the same logic and try those wanting to impose hindhurastra in India as terrorists and a threat to our state.

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@paranoid__floyd While I believe continued obsession with work is unhealthy in the long run,
I feel it is during those short bursts of obsessing about something I like, where I have learnt a lot / made satisfying progress

[Hasan Kumar @mintuhouse]

@akshayalladi @unraveaero What do you think are the chances that culprits would be punished even if they did? Especially when the said violations are happening even with presence of police.