My first Himalayan trek: five days through villages, forests, meadows, and mountain camps on the Dayara Bugyal Trek.

Walking into the Himalayas: Dayara Bugyal Trek

Curious about the OpenClaw hype, I decided to experiment by running it on an old Raspberry Pi 400 instead of buying new hardware. After setting up Raspberry Pi OS and installing Ollama, I managed to run lightweight local LLMs - but quickly ran into context window and timeout limitations with OpenClaw. Exploring alternatives like ZeroClaw revealed how much token overhead OpenClaw carries and why it demands massive context windows. In the end, I got a Telegram-connected local agent running on the Pi - slow, but functional - and walked away with a deeper appreciation for lightweight AI experimentation on minimal hardware.

Running ZeroClaw on a Raspberry Pi: Experiment in Minimal Hardware

Unlock the secrets of prompt engineering with this practical guide inspired by Lee Boonstra’s book. Learn how crafting clear, targeted prompts can dramatically improve your interactions with AI—whether you’re summarizing text, generating code, or extracting information. This post explores essential techniques, configuration tips, real-world examples, and best practices to help you communicate with large language models more effectively and creatively. Perfect for anyone looking to master the language of AI and get the most out of today’s generative tools

The Art of Prompt Engineering

Discover how Node.js worker threads prevent Kubernetes pod crashes and API timeouts in CPU-heavy workloads. Learn to implement thread-based architecture that keeps your event loop responsive, even under intense computation. Essential reading for Java/Python/Go converts building resilient Node.js microservices – includes battle-tested code samples and Kubernetes survival strategies.

Architecting Resilient Node.js Microservices with Worker Threads

Follow my journey from writing custom scripts to embracing no-code solutions like Postman flows, and discover how automation transformed my daily management responsibilities. This evolution not only saved countless hours but also improved team efficiency, showing how modern automation tools can free managers from repetitive tasks to focus on strategic leadership.

Automating Management Tasks: From Scripts to No-Code Solutions

Building a great team is like putting together a championship roster. Just like in sports, you need to scout for potential, test for the right skills, and ultimately field a cohesive unit that is better than the sum of its parts.

The Ultimate Guide to Hiring Top Talent Through Effective Interviews

Managing your time well as a manager comes down to organizing your tasks into important/urgent groups and setting aside specific times for different types of work, like planning ahead (40%), running current projects (30%), handling new things (20%), and office work (10%). The key is to block out your time with small breaks between tasks, have fewer but better meetings, check emails at set times instead of constantly, and help your team handle more things on their own.

How to Manage Your Time Better: A Guide for Managers

This comprehensive exploration traces the evolution of artificial intelligence from early expert systems through the deep learning revolution, culminating in OpenAIs transformative impact on the field through innovations like ChatGPT and GPT-4. The article chronicles key technical breakthroughs, influential research labs, and pivotal moments that shaped AI development, while examining future directions in multi-modal learning, AI alignment, and interpretability that will define the next era of artificial intelligence.

The Path to OpenAI: A History of AI Models and Innovation

Objectives and Key Results(OKRs) is essentially a method for communicating at a high level what you want to achieve and then breaking it down into smaller milestones that must be met in order to achieve it. This is an excellent technique for goal setting

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for Dummies 

Postman now recommends related collections when you are working on a request, all to help you discover and work with public APIs quickly and effectively.

Postman Now Recommends Related Collections in Requests

The story of a personal blog developed using Next.js, Tailwind CSS and hosted freely using GitHub Pages.

Building a Personal Blog with Next.js and Github Pages

2020 Travel Highlights

Improve development experience with external service callbacks from Facebook, Twitter, Twilio etc., using LocalTunnel.

External service callbacks made easy with LocalTunnel

The Armenian Diaries (ദി അർമേനിയൻ ഡയറീസ്)

A standalone web app that parses the SQL queries from the log and categorises them by tables and query types.

Standalone SQL Log Analyser

Memoirs from travels done in 2019 with a video compilation covering the countries Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, USA and India.

2019 Travel Diary

The good and the bad things when you transition from a regular office job to remote job like shrinking social circle, depression, freedom to travel etc

Pros and cons of transitioning to a remote job

A Ruby gem to compare YAML or JSON files to find the diff in the keys (with support extending to deeply nested key comparisons).

RubyGem: Compare YML

Discuss on handling the background job processing using RabbitMQ in Node.js project with code examples.

How To Run Background Process In Node.js Using RabbitMQ?

A short philosophical take on boredom and the productivity that follows.

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