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Sarker

@ssarke7.bsky.social

Just stardust contemplating star stuff.. Trying to make sense of politics, tech and life in general as an Indian. Occasionally blogging on tech topics at https://ed.plus/content

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Tech Over ChaiAug 27, 2026

comptime or !comptime?

Zig wants to be clear when it's resolving types/structs and when it's dealing with runtime data. Comptime bakes in your logic into the binary at compilation time, but when to actually use it?

zigprogramming

Tech Over ChaiJun 22, 2026

Choose your "poison"

How do you choose a solution/tooling for a problem or enabling a capability? The adage goes "it depends"

tradeoffssolution architecture

Tech Over ChaiMay 20, 2026

The heat trap,dopamine loops & conformism

Three situations, not unique by themselves to Indians in particular. But the blend seems challenging enough. These are some of the realities in everyone's life if you are here and kind of shape how far you can truly go.

LearningWeather

Tech Over ChaiApr 26, 2026

Learn & Relearn

With industry changes forcing us to re-evaluate what software engineering should be, the retrospection path isn't uniform or unanimous, nor should it be.

learningsoftware development

Tech Over ChaiMar 26, 2026

Specs to rule them all?

With LLMs being good enough to generate code, the implementation cost is dropping drastically. And a trident is emerging which can be an attempt to harness how aligned agents are to real intent. Is Spec Driven Development here to stay?

LLMagents

Tech Over ChaiMar 1, 2026

The impact of connotations in tech (an Indian pov)

An ecosystem evolves with the meaning and context of the words/conventions used by it's participants. We need shared understanding to have meaningful conversations around topics. The engineering & scientific communities over the world have created common parlance where applicable, where does Indian context fit in?

languageengineering

Tech Over ChaiFeb 16, 2026

Will AI tools manifest more intent based API?

While LLMs provided a significant leap in capability, how 'agentic' we should be with them has been of significant interest over the last years.

LLMartificial intelligence