Sriram Murali (Velamur)

Building @beetleradar for compliance

Ex - Platforms/Compliance @gocashfree | Ex/Now - @crispnewsin |

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

Happy New Year, Node.js builders! 🎉

On this January 1, 2026, I'm releasing Vajra — my gift to the indie community and a reminder that performance doesn't have to be sacrificed for usability.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come not to bury Express, but to say we don't bury performance at the altar of usability. ⚡

[Arc @arc]

Tired... of waiting... for approvals... updates... payments... progress? The Bored Room is for you.

[Digital Nomad @Digital_Nomadd]

@HariRaj10881778 @AgentSaffron No no. Agent is rage baiting and engagement farming. I know it and yet I fell for it

[athreya @athreya49]

Reg this panic over alleged RBI gold sales something that’s going over panicans’ heads is that if an asset is sizeable part of your portfolio (reserves) you can’t sit on it w/o change. Gold at 5% of reserves can be static but if it’s 15-20% of reserves it may have to be churned.

[Teddy Blank @teddypowday]

Your CEO should be strong.

Your CTO should be wise.

Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

[dax @thdxr]

someone made a fork of opencode that routes through the unsecured ai endpoints from chipotle

[Nikhil | നിഖിൽ | निखिल | ನಿಖಿಲ್ @nikhilnarayanan]

So now there’s a self-declaration form to be filled by passengers landing at BLR from outside the country. Mandatory.

[ɟɟoɥɹǝppıɹ @hoffridder]

> update system
> program doesn't work
> check commit history
sigh

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Day one of GitHub Copilot token-based billing and the customers LOVE IT! They're all celebrating the power and value of generative AI!

[Prawin Ganeshan @PrawinGaneshan]

Important note for Travellers

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

@Ethirajans @Vexxter4sure @avinierx Ah! Right. I mixed it up

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

@Vexxter4sure @avinierx @Ethirajans is the photographer iirc.

[Saran Shanmugam @saranstm]

Unpopular opinion: In Tamil Nadu, the BJP is more of a liability than an asset for any political leader. Decades of narratives built against the party have turned it into an albatross around the neck of those associated with it. Moreover, the central leadership's tendency to interfere, rather than giving leaders like Annamalai a free hand to build the party organically, is likely to keep the BJP's growth in the state stagnant.

My take is that Annamalai is a leader Tamil Nadu needs, irrespective of the BJP. The state's social and political engineering has been moving in the wrong direction for years, and a course correction is long overdue. More than party affiliation, what matters is having leaders willing to challenge the status quo and drive that change.

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Rajkumar ji, sitting on the chair in the picture, is divyang. He is paralysed from waist down and walks with great difficulty

But last week, he sat at a police station till 2 am to get a paedophile Mohd Parvez (35) booked and arrested for assaulting a 12-year-old girl

The girl studies at Rajkumar ji’s free educational centre for underprivileged kids. After somehow escaping from Parvez, she ran straight to him and told him what happened. Rajkumar ji took lead and called police

I visited him and his centre in Delhi today

Around 100 children study here and also receive free meals. Classes begin with Gayatri Mantra and Om, and conclude with Hanuman Chalisa

Those who refuse to do these prayers, are not given admission

@sewanyaya has provided financial assistance to both the survivor and Rajkumar ji’s centre

Deeply moved by the courage of the little girl and the spirit of people like Rajkumar ji

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Most corporate employees work for 10-14 hours a day, make to 15-25L CTC

Just to pay 3-7L taxes, not being able to afford

- Good education, healthcare
- Transportation
- Own house

Sorry to say this, GOD FORBID, if they die - their family has ZERO support from govt

#Tax

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

@theniyo please fix your copy.

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

By and large this dark pattern has become the norm for long now.

Wonder if some telltale flags exist to smell them from a distance; besides experience.

[aditya @adxtyahq]

bruh tf, why do you let me edit a PDF for 30 minutes and then ask for money when i click download?

if downloading isn't free, just tell me before i start editing. don't waste my time and then hit me with a paywall afterwards.

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

Camel worship by Durga Stalin. Others don’t have to worry too much about this and react.

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

Chef’s kiss.

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

The C++ compiler looked at my code and said,

"Nah, bro, I ain't doing that ass loop, I'll just call memcpy"

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

Somehow the best remembrance of this line is from a note @gokulns wrote in the book he gifted during the crisp era and not any of the re-reads of Murakami.

As Wordsworth would put, the recollection in tranquility does surface the emotions. Perhaps why Murakami isn’t the flag.

There have been a number of storms and a number of personas ever since. As I reminisce, here’s to many more arenas and manning them all.