New post: Avoiding n+1 with the expand pattern. A neat trick I picked up from the Stripe API. vishnubharathi.codes/blog/avoidin...

UUIDs are coming to the Go standard library 🙂 rednafi.com/shards/2026/...

New prompt technique unlocked: Using XML tags :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysPb...

Wanted to write about math and systems, but it drifted into culture. Maybe I will do more math next time! 😄 vishnubharathi.codes/blog/countin...

Wild!

Best use of Go's `context.WithValue`. rednafi.com/shards/2026/...

It looks like we can write drivers for git diff www.jvt.me/posts/2026/0...

TIL Binary fuse filters lemire.me/blog/2026/03...

Shipped a big one today 🚢 github.com/scriptnull/r... With this release, the knowledge graph shows posts from the blogs you follow. (The orange cloud of dots in the picture) 🍊 You need to conquer that cloud!

Just discovered by chance that you can highlight a note in @obsidian.md by prefixing ==

I just discovered Gradia: github.com/AlexanderVan... This is definitely the "one". What a beautiful piece of software for Linux!

I've recently started blogging. Posted one today about my attempt at writing a bracket validator in Go in as few characters as possible :D thedeliberate.life/posts/2026-0...

Peak SRE is waking up at 5:30 IST to verify if something happened at 00:00 UTC.

Ok, hear me out. CLIs are super important now more than ever!

Sometimes you debug using a trace. But sometimes you end up debugging the trace.

I am going to 100% acknowledge and accept that "I am the bottleneck". If you are interested in learning about what a recent coding agent setup would look like, here is a great post for you: calv.info/agents-feb-2...

TIL about `/chrome` in Claude Code! code.claude.com/docs/en/chrome

Pushed a small bug fix :) github.com/scriptnull/r...

Weekend! That means side-project shipping time. Here is a quick one for you!🌸🍃 github.com/scriptnull/r...

Shipped v0.2.0 of Rho Reader today 🌸 🎉 It is not perfect, but I don't want perfect to be the enemy of good! So here is a perfectly imperfect update 😅 - Import OPML files - Sync indicator - "Copy link" button - "Mark all as read" button github.com/scriptnull/r...

I'm hacking on a new passion project! It is an @obsidian.md plugin to encourage the "blog" reading habit. Meet: Rho Reader 🌸 🎉 github.com/scriptnull/r... Made the first-ever (early) release of it last night before going to bed. Here is what is included 👇

Always wanted to write a "Year in review" post. Did it this year! I would recommend anyone to try writing one, and if you have written one, please send it my way. vishnubharathi.codes/blog/2025-ye...

Been running `git show HEAD` all these years and just learnt `git show` does the same job 🙃 TIL: `HEAD` seems to be the default arg for `git show`

We're hiring a senior frontend eng for my team 🎯 looking for someone who wants to: - scale FE systems for 100+ engineers - mentor & grow engineering talent - drive architectural decisions - work with typescript, react, vite, monorepos 📍 France or Spain only careers.payfit.com/jobs/6886605...

one strategy is to keep doing your thing much longer than anyone thought you would

Wrote a small new blog post after a long time ✍️ vishnubharathi.codes/blog/a-blogg...

Does widespread browser implementation of the Sec-Fetch-Site HTTP header mean we can protect against CSRF attacks without needing those hidden form tokens? It looks like the answer may be a cautious "yes"! simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/15/...

I am tinkering with @obsidian.md bases tonight - super interesting!

Music is the real time machine.

Accidentally pressed `w` and `enter` on my shell to discover that it is a valid command line program 🫣 $ man w

Hey we're hiring for in-person engineering roles in SF. I really enjoy my job and you might too. Come hang out and build developer tools!

TIL about citext in Postgres! www.postgresql.org/docs/current...

I wrote something up after a long time. This time, it is a piece of career advice that I have personally struggled following - lol 😅 vishnubharathi.codes/blog/first-u...

TIL: `min` and `max` functions were added to Go's built-in (powered by generics)

I have been having a lot of fun working with Go iterators in the past few days. Thinking of doing a meetup talk or blog post about it 😊

Music is the real time machine.

TIL why sum types are called "sum types" nicolashery.com/decoding-jso...

TIL that Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is pronounced as "sea-surf". I have been pronouncing it "C S R F" for over a decade. Not sure if the joke is on me or them 😂

🚀 Just published: "Taming the Data Fetching Beast" A deep dive into how we solved type safety challenges @payfiteng.bsky.social using Runtime validation with Zod Real solutions for real problems. No perfect answers, just practical ones. Check it out here: beaussan.io/blog/data-fe...

Arrived in Lobsters just in time for my morning coffee ⛅️☕️ lobste.rs/s/uz8tlz/nil... Some comment(s) are making me think harder about some of the design choices in Go. (I love the internet for this)

TIL `AAAA` record in DNS for IPv6 adoption.

Damn, this is so fancy!

I might binge read/watch things about #golang modules and workspaces tonight. If you got any good literature on them, send them my way please 🙏

It seems to be on the orange site now. Let's chat there? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4310...

Never imagined how an alternative way to express `for range` in #golang could be this. 🤯 source: dave.cheney.net/2014/03/19/c...

Just when you thought hash table lookups couldn't possibly get any faster... www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...

Wrote up about Nil channels in #golang last night 📝 Bonus: I came up with a Go proverb about them 😅 Give it a read here: vishnubharathi.codes/blog/nil-cha...

I thought the first @golang.org 1.24 feature I would use was the go tool directive. But after the upgrade, I went straight for `t.Context()` - lol 😂

Made some notes about my note-taking setup 😅📝 vishnubharathi.codes/blog/my-note...

Excited to finally get my hands on it 🎉 I have been eagerly waiting for some new features in this one!