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. ⚡

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

I used to be a banker. Then I was a leftist. Then I started a business and took some color of pill not sure what it was.

During those days I met a prominent and vocal leftist at one of the barcamps and she was going on and on about how unfair it is that someone can make millions just for writing a song.

So I said well one of the things states do is tax income to give to the less fortunate. Then the songwriter can make money from all the joy they brought people and we can buy textbooks for the less fortunate. She had no answer infact this might have been the first time she had heard of such a possibility - that this isn't a zero sum game.

Much of leftist discourse is just undiagnosed rage.

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

We doubled down by creating exceptions. Exceptions are abstracted gotos. Hidden in the code base deep inside call stacks, jumping over multiple functions at once. Exception-safe coding is identical to goto-safe coding, except that goto-safety is local and explicit. Easy to prove.

[Sriram Murali (Velamur) @techieV2]

RD approves.

[Digital Nomad @Digital_Nomadd]

Caste neutral

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

For years, major institutions have framed India and Hindus through the lens of nationalism, extremism, and suspicion. But what we've uncovered on @Wikipedia raises a deeper question: who gets to write the public record?

Our investigation found that a small cluster of anonymous editors controlled more than 80% of the @HinduAmerican page. Among the findings:

Blatant Conflict of Interest: The editors aggressively shaping HAF’s page were the exact same people controlling the Wikipedia profiles of HAF's legal adversaries and academic critics.

Inserting False FARA Allegations: Editors laundered complaints from HAF's opponents into "facts," using demands for a DOJ investigation to falsely brand HAF as a foreign agent

Administrative Silencing: An admin with supreme platform permissions deleted quotes from HAF's leadership, stripping the organization of its right to reply to allegations.

Over four years (2021-2025), editors systematically erased HAF’s identity as an American civil rights group, transforming its Wikipedia page into a heavily curated dossier of accusations. Our report from @npovmedia documents how it happened. 👇

[Mathias Lechner @mlech26l]

why pay $20/month for Claude if you can run gigaslop_27b_q8 on a $20k GPU rig in your living room

[Vinay Kesari @vinaykesari]

RM turnover at banks is so high that they feel more like one night stands 😆

[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