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[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Read this in the morning, somehow related to it later in the day. Had to come back fr a repost!

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

If you’re alive and pain free, remember that every moment you have a choice to be hopeful about future, and be happy.

No matter what happens externally, the choice of how you interpret is always yours to make.

[Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee]

Wanting things too fast is fucking you up.

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

I’m overqualified for what I do but underqualified for what I want to do

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

😬

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Planned a 5k initially, couldn’t resist the weather 🤌🏻

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use the giant iPad built into the car and flip through 50 settings to use navigation or turn ac on.

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

A decent setup

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Sundayssss

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Still got it.

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Saturdaysss

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Startup idea: Why isn’t there an Uber, but for drivers?

Say I drive my own car to a bar or restaurant. After a few drinks, I just open an app and hire someone to drive me home in my car.

@Uber @rapidobikeapp

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Yaar fable, sans toh lene de!

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Is the entire city late for work today? This is blr at 2 PM.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Remember the days where we used GPT-5 and Sonnet 4 on $20/month plans and it felt nearly unlimited?

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

GitHub went down for ~70 minutes yesterday. Interestingly, the root cause was not a database (the usual suspect), but an auth was returning 401s. Although outages are not good, we as engineers can learn a thing or two from them. Here's a quick dissection...

So, about 15% of API traffic started getting "Unauthorized" responses for requests that were perfectly valid. The credentials were fine. But the 'infra' was lying. Here is the part that makes this interesting.

Every well-behaved HTTP client reauths when it receives 401. So thousands of apps did exactly what they were supposed to do - and that made things worse.

Every client getting a false 401 (root cause for 401 not mentioned yet) kicked off a token refresh, which piled more load onto an already struggling auth layer. Here is my key takeaway...

When a 401 comes back, we typically reauthenticate, and we should. But if we get 10 consecutive 401s on a token that was just refreshed, reauthenticating again is not the answer. That is a circuit-breaker moment - back off, raise an alert, and stop hammering the system.

Retrying blindly in an auth-failure loop could turn an incident into a full outage. So, this is something you can account for when building your next system :)

Hope this helps.

[Likith @surfpora]

Before DKShi. After DKShi

[sohan A @sohanTwt]

Maybe we were wrong https://t.co/6AHzc50km7 via @YouTube

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

The industry has gone completely nuts.

Use tokens to generate AI code and documentation slop. Then use even more tokens to understand and review that slop.

Then judge engineers by token usage instead of how empathetic and clear their docs and code actually are, and completely neglect human comprehension.

Utter nonsense.

[itskaveri @itskaveriirl]

It’s not just me right? every person you meet in Indiranagar/HSR is ‘building something’ 💀

It feels illegal to just …. have a job

[Mufaddal Vohra @mufaddal_vohra]

A delivery guy saw a cricket bat while leaving and couldn’t control to have a go. 🥹

- He kissed the bat after practicing few shots! ❤️