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2026-08-18	Gen AI Evolution: From a user and a developer's perspective We grew up with black and white TVs. Then came PCs, the internet and smartphones, and now AI. ChatGPT was released to the public in 2022, barely four years ago as I write this. A map of the Gen AI era, and how we adapt, from a user and a developer's perspective.	technical	ai-assisted-coding context-engineering agents claude-code developer-workflow gen-ai
2026-08-15	Indian Independence and the Freedom Fighters You Never Learned About in School People trek the David Scott Trail for the views. It is named after the British agent David Scott. But did you know he escaped death near that trail by a single day, when U Tirot Sing, the Syiem of Nongkhlaw, rose with bows and swords against the British who broke their deal? Stories about Indian Independence from the hills that the mainstream history books left out in school.	others	independence-day india history meghalaya northeast-india
2026-08-14	Revamping a Chat App: Evolving an Open Standard into a Modern Messaging Platform Some years back I worked on a messaging platform and learned a lot about these systems, so I thought why not write about it. A story, more historical than recent, of four places where the XMPP core design meets a modern mobile messenger and does not quite fit, and what we did about each of them.	technical	xmpp ejabberd erlang presence group-chat push-notifications scalability

2026-08-18

Gen AI Evolution: From a user and a developer's perspective

We grew up with black and white TVs. Then came PCs, the internet and smartphones, and now AI. ChatGPT was released to the public in 2022, barely four years ago as I write this. A map of the Gen AI era, and how we adapt, from a user and a developer's perspective.

technical

ai-assisted-coding context-engineering agents claude-code developer-workflow gen-ai

2026-08-15

Indian Independence and the Freedom Fighters You Never Learned About in School

People trek the David Scott Trail for the views. It is named after the British agent David Scott. But did you know he escaped death near that trail by a single day, when U Tirot Sing, the Syiem of Nongkhlaw, rose with bows and swords against the British who broke their deal? Stories about Indian Independence from the hills that the mainstream history books left out in school.

others

independence-day india history meghalaya northeast-india

2026-08-14

Revamping a Chat App: Evolving an Open Standard into a Modern Messaging Platform

Some years back I worked on a messaging platform and learned a lot about these systems, so I thought why not write about it. A story, more historical than recent, of four places where the XMPP core design meets a modern mobile messenger and does not quite fit, and what we did about each of them.

technical

xmpp ejabberd erlang presence group-chat push-notifications scalability