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"Imagine if I told you that every computer crash every security breach every time your phone freezes traces back to a single decision made in 1965 by a British computer scientist who was just trying to make programming easier. Tony Hoare added something called "null references" to a programming language because "it was so easy to implement." Today he calls it his "billion dollar mistake" and honestly thats an understatement. This is the story of pointers and it's really the story of power itself. Back in 1954 IBM built a computer called the XXX that could do something never seen before"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1948210007985775088) 2025-07-24 02:33:56 UTC 2801 followers, 6917 engagements


"Been thinking about this Cluely thing for a while now and honestly it's pretty fascinating not because of what it does but because of what it reveals about us. Here's this XX year old Roy Lee who got kicked out of Columbia for making a tool to cheat on coding interviews and instead of crawling into a hole somewhere he doubles down and builds something that basically does the same thing but for every single professional interaction you can imagine. The sheer audacity is almost admirable in a twisted way. We're all pretending this is some unprecedented moral crisis when we've been augmenting"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1947498166351499472) 2025-07-22 03:25:20 UTC 2803 followers, 6170 engagements


"Been researching about Loki versus ELK stack lately for my upcoming Go boilerplate playlist and after going through a ton of resources I realized it comes down to one thing what do you value more simplicity or power ELK gives you everything. Elasticsearch handles search and storage. Logstash processes your logs. Kibana shows you pretty graphs. Three separate tools that work together like a well oiled machine. But here's the catch. You need to run three different services. You need to tune Elasticsearch clusters. You need to manage memory and disk space carefully. You need to understand how"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1946494125932683465) 2025-07-19 08:55:38 UTC 2773 followers, 1656 engagements


"Thinking about what actually happened in the whole Windsurf drama the moment they got close to something valuable the tech ecosystem's immune system kicked in. OpenAI swooped in with $3B not because they needed Windsurf's tech but because they couldn't afford to let anyone else have it. When that failed Google just hired the entire brain trust and licensed the IP for $2.4B. The big players have figured out they don't need to innovate anymore they just need to prevent innovation from happening outside their walls. These companies have created a system where the smartest people in AI can only"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1945155145207308490) 2025-07-15 16:15:00 UTC 2774 followers, 1321 engagements


"I study the history of software because most people think code innovation happens in a vacuum. They see React and think Facebook just invented components. They miss the decades of work on MVC patterns the failed attempts at web components the slow evolution from server-side rendering to SPAs the quiet advances in JavaScript engines. When you know history you see that every breakthrough is built on a mountain of failures and incremental progress. Git exists because Linus got angry at BitKeeper licensing. Docker works because Google needed better process isolation and FreeBSD had jails. React"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1946970418696659053) 2025-07-20 16:28:15 UTC 2803 followers, 135.7K engagements


"the reason async rust feels impossible isn't the syntax or even the borrow checker. it's that rust refuses to let you live in the beautiful lie that makes go and nodejs so pleasant. go and node let you pretend concurrency is just "do multiple things at once" and handle all the terrifying complexity for you. goroutines feel like lightweight threads that just work. nodejs callbacks and promises feel like "pause here resume later." both languages have garbage collectors that make your memory problems disappear and runtime schedulers that hide the fact that your "concurrent" code is actually a"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1948562386648269254) 2025-07-25 01:54:10 UTC 2803 followers, 2467 engagements


"@rsjagarlamudi We're all better off normalizing it and pushing the bounds of productivity forward than the other way around"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1947504033419432012) 2025-07-22 03:48:39 UTC 2722 followers, XXX engagements


"The story of Go's garbage collector is one of the most remarkable engineering transformations in modern computing that I have ever studied about. When Go launched in 2009 its garbage collector would freeze applications for literal seconds making it unusable for any serious production system. Rob Pike and the team knew this was a problem but chose garbage collection anyway because manual memory management was simply too error prone for the kind of systems they wanted people to build. The early implementation was brutally simple stop everything mark all reachable objects sweep away the garbage"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1945309896188289428) 2025-07-16 02:29:56 UTC 2799 followers, 75K engagements


"The most counterintuitive truth about modern business is that FOMO isn't a psychological bug it's an evolutionary feature that every successful company weaponizes. The real edge comes from understanding that human psychology operates on scarcity gradients not rational utility functions. Look at how OpenAI essentially created the entire generative AI market not through superior technology alone but by manufacturing existential urgency. It was the perfect FOMO loop: early access created exclusivity which generated social proof which amplified network effects which created genuine competitive"  
![@sriniously Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1421058930.png) [@sriniously](/creator/x/sriniously) on [X](/post/tweet/1948675209726492725) 2025-07-25 09:22:29 UTC 2805 followers, XXX engagements

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@sriniously "Imagine if I told you that every computer crash every security breach every time your phone freezes traces back to a single decision made in 1965 by a British computer scientist who was just trying to make programming easier. Tony Hoare added something called "null references" to a programming language because "it was so easy to implement." Today he calls it his "billion dollar mistake" and honestly thats an understatement. This is the story of pointers and it's really the story of power itself. Back in 1954 IBM built a computer called the XXX that could do something never seen before"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-24 02:33:56 UTC 2801 followers, 6917 engagements

"Been thinking about this Cluely thing for a while now and honestly it's pretty fascinating not because of what it does but because of what it reveals about us. Here's this XX year old Roy Lee who got kicked out of Columbia for making a tool to cheat on coding interviews and instead of crawling into a hole somewhere he doubles down and builds something that basically does the same thing but for every single professional interaction you can imagine. The sheer audacity is almost admirable in a twisted way. We're all pretending this is some unprecedented moral crisis when we've been augmenting"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-22 03:25:20 UTC 2803 followers, 6170 engagements

"Been researching about Loki versus ELK stack lately for my upcoming Go boilerplate playlist and after going through a ton of resources I realized it comes down to one thing what do you value more simplicity or power ELK gives you everything. Elasticsearch handles search and storage. Logstash processes your logs. Kibana shows you pretty graphs. Three separate tools that work together like a well oiled machine. But here's the catch. You need to run three different services. You need to tune Elasticsearch clusters. You need to manage memory and disk space carefully. You need to understand how"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-19 08:55:38 UTC 2773 followers, 1656 engagements

"Thinking about what actually happened in the whole Windsurf drama the moment they got close to something valuable the tech ecosystem's immune system kicked in. OpenAI swooped in with $3B not because they needed Windsurf's tech but because they couldn't afford to let anyone else have it. When that failed Google just hired the entire brain trust and licensed the IP for $2.4B. The big players have figured out they don't need to innovate anymore they just need to prevent innovation from happening outside their walls. These companies have created a system where the smartest people in AI can only"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-15 16:15:00 UTC 2774 followers, 1321 engagements

"I study the history of software because most people think code innovation happens in a vacuum. They see React and think Facebook just invented components. They miss the decades of work on MVC patterns the failed attempts at web components the slow evolution from server-side rendering to SPAs the quiet advances in JavaScript engines. When you know history you see that every breakthrough is built on a mountain of failures and incremental progress. Git exists because Linus got angry at BitKeeper licensing. Docker works because Google needed better process isolation and FreeBSD had jails. React"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-20 16:28:15 UTC 2803 followers, 135.7K engagements

"the reason async rust feels impossible isn't the syntax or even the borrow checker. it's that rust refuses to let you live in the beautiful lie that makes go and nodejs so pleasant. go and node let you pretend concurrency is just "do multiple things at once" and handle all the terrifying complexity for you. goroutines feel like lightweight threads that just work. nodejs callbacks and promises feel like "pause here resume later." both languages have garbage collectors that make your memory problems disappear and runtime schedulers that hide the fact that your "concurrent" code is actually a"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-25 01:54:10 UTC 2803 followers, 2467 engagements

"@rsjagarlamudi We're all better off normalizing it and pushing the bounds of productivity forward than the other way around"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-22 03:48:39 UTC 2722 followers, XXX engagements

"The story of Go's garbage collector is one of the most remarkable engineering transformations in modern computing that I have ever studied about. When Go launched in 2009 its garbage collector would freeze applications for literal seconds making it unusable for any serious production system. Rob Pike and the team knew this was a problem but chose garbage collection anyway because manual memory management was simply too error prone for the kind of systems they wanted people to build. The early implementation was brutally simple stop everything mark all reachable objects sweep away the garbage"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-16 02:29:56 UTC 2799 followers, 75K engagements

"The most counterintuitive truth about modern business is that FOMO isn't a psychological bug it's an evolutionary feature that every successful company weaponizes. The real edge comes from understanding that human psychology operates on scarcity gradients not rational utility functions. Look at how OpenAI essentially created the entire generative AI market not through superior technology alone but by manufacturing existential urgency. It was the perfect FOMO loop: early access created exclusivity which generated social proof which amplified network effects which created genuine competitive"
@sriniously Avatar @sriniously on X 2025-07-25 09:22:29 UTC 2805 followers, XXX engagements

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