Mohit Sindhwani

Work:
CTO, Quantum Inventions.
CounciIlor, ITS Singapore.
Opinions: Own

Tweets: ITS/ Transportation, Ruby, Rails, Windows, Tech, Programming, Life & Oddballs

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@ShriramKMurthi @lreyzin I think I remember the assassination of Indira Gandhi - I was very young then. I only remember the Berlin Wall because of Roger Waters' wall concert with an all-star cast ☺️

[threadlocked @threadlockers]

Hi, we're Threadlocked, a small collective of young researchers and hackers scattered across India and APAC.

We're sick of watching an entire generation mistake salary packages and credentials for the pursuit of computer science itself.

We're looking for curious hackers and researchers who still dare to take the road less traveled by treating computing as a craft.

We grew up in obscure corners of the Internet and learnt from strangers who encouraged our curiosity, shared their knowledge and even helped us access resources we couldn't afford. Somewhere along the way, we found our people. Now that we're in a position to do the same for others, we'd like to return the favor.

If any of these feel familiar we’d love to hear from you.

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@bradgessler @nateberkopec @github I hate the ones that don't let you paste the digits together - must enter 1 digit in each box!

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@AjeyGore "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"?

[DuckDB @duckdb]

🦆 Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

We are proud to release DuckDB 2.0.0, named after the cinnamon teal (Spatula cyanoptera), a striking reddish-brown duck found in the western Americas. 🌎

DuckDB 2.0.0 is the biggest DuckDB feature release so far. It ships a polished version of the Quack protocol, which turns DuckDB into a full-fledged server. It improves performance and lowers costs through supporting asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, and a dedicated “agent mode”. It also empowers extension developers with a new SQL parser that allows adding new statements, clauses, and keywords, a new API to build on, and a new mechanism to distribute extensions more easily.

In our announcement blog post, we summarize the highlights and then walk through the key changes and give guidance on how to migrate to 2.0. For the complete release notes, see the release page on GitHub⁠.

https://t.co/QtT5wHhg2w

#DuckDB

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@nateberkopec They did disclaim the evaluation as "apples to bananas" 🙂

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@ShriramKMurthi "Look a bit Truss" 👏

[Santanu Bhattacharya @santattech]

Rails + Text-only Bedrock KB: cheap and worked great.

Upgraded my Rails + Bedrock app to multimodal search.
Added a 2nd KB with OpenSearch Serverless for image processing,

worked amazingly: Unexpected bill! 😅
​Always check idle costs! 💡 😭 #aws #developerlife

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@ismasan I'm a big fan of state machines anyway... both, for implementation, and perhaps event more for designing & thinking.

[James Hibbard @jchibbard]

🔒 https://t.co/WIYfwIbk19 now displays security warnings for gems with known vulnerabilities. For now, the warnings are limited to the website, but Bundler integration is on the roadmap. #Ruby https://t.co/0X9TtRoJo4

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

I read this in the voice of @GaryDelaney

[Jim Strabo @JimStrabo]

Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@RealTimVine I see that you're doing your best to drive less...

[Andi / アンディ @largo]

New qr_reader gem. A pure ruby QR Code reader. https://t.co/xt1mdBdSUd

[成瀬 @nalsh]

"Ruby 4.1.0-preview1 Released"
https://t.co/voodnyfJlC
It introduces Ractor local GC, Windows support of YJIT, autoload_relative, and adds many improvements

[Hiroshi SHIBATA @hsbt]

I translated my article introducing RubyGems/Bundler 4.1 into English. Part 1 covers override, which rewrites or drops gem dependencies from your Gemfile, and prune, which strips caches from the bundle path. Both are in 4.1.0.beta2.
https://t.co/wicePPJfMZ

[Crystal Language @CrystalLanguage]

We proudly present: Crystal 1.22
Our newest and shiniest release 💎

It's also the biggest release since 1.0 with 251 changes in total.

https://t.co/qRM6H10VY6

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@juliknl @samruby @schwad_rb @mhenrixon @yo_waka I really liked this

[Mohit Sindhwani @onghu]

@marcorus I had missed this news altogether, so thanks to you, I got to know - and rescued the 134 boards that I had.

Thanks so much 🙂

[Hoyt Emerson @HoytEmerson]

DuckDB 2.0 CLI is getting an Agent Mode. It prints in markdown and returns errors in JSON when it detects an agent. Major major quality of life for agentic loops using DuckDB CLI. So good.

https://t.co/VnBP8fU3j2

[Julik Tarkhanov @juliknl]

Added to Herringbone: you can combine Parquet files together (via schema union or intersection), more efficient redaction, and Sorbet/RBS typedefs are in the package for your Big Codebase pleasures. Go and own your parquet file exports from Ruby today! https://t.co/V3MTVtz9Rb