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Thoughts, tweets and technicalities.

Directions v/s details

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

AI art isn't a real thing

False certainty v/s uncertainty

My time outside my job is multiple orders of magnitude more important than my job.

Syntactic v/s semantic correctness

The arc of human progress seems to be

We can get quite far in life by just trying really hard.

Ownership and control need to go hand in hand

What is a Photograph

Vision v/s Strategy

The same five questions

Learning by reviewing

Setup EC2 machines using Terraform technical

Automate and manage setting up EC2 machines using Terraform

Less vibe coding, more prototyping

Learnings on Leadership

Compound Complexity

Tension at work

What did you vote for?

Naval said it better

AWS CLI with 1Password MFA on macOS technical

Learn how to use 1Password to securely store/use your AWS access credentials

Why am I innovating?

How to search for SSH ports technical

Scan for SSH ports within a subnet using nmap.

Remove all local docker images, volumes or networks technical

Use a combination of commands of the docker CLI to remove all docker images on your machine

Quickly get a curl debugging shell in a k8s cluster technical

One line command to get a curl debugging shell in a Kubernetes cluster

Signing Git commits using 1Password technical

Sign Git commits and pull content from Github securely using 1Password

AWS Logs Insights technical

Use AWS Logs Insights to make sense of complex logs

Check the nameserver for a domain technical

Use nslookup to lookup the nameserver for a domain

Print the number of lines in a file technical

Use wc to print the number of lines in a file

Encrypt/Decrypt using GPG technical

Use GPG to encrypt/decrypt data.

How to truncate docker logs technical

Truncate docker logs to clear up disk space

How to use openssl to generate random bytes technical

Here's a quick trick to use openssl to generate random bytes.

How to look for large files in linux technical

Use the find command to list large files