Hacker News: bhupesh

GitHub's checkout action is halting contributions

bhupesh — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/actions/checkout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44209775

Points: 1

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New comment by bhupesh in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

bhupesh — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:18:39 +0000

I am in the middle, neither a dogmatic skeptic nor a full-blown prompt engineer, but I lost it when the author compared a junior developer (a human) to a SaaS subscription.

Tells you what you need to know about the AI culture.

The minimalist's guide to cloning Git repositories

bhupesh — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:58:47 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/minimalist-guide-git-clone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946662

Points: 1

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Checklist for tech workers who think there's no growth without working at scale

bhupesh — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:35:43 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/growth-without-scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43878113

Points: 2

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What will you do with the freedom GenAI offers?

bhupesh — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:54:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/freedom-by-genai-mindset/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678716

Points: 1

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The humanity in each line of code

bhupesh — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/humanity-line-of-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621255

Points: 1

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5 years of maintaining India's largest dev community on the web

bhupesh — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/5-years-developersIndia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917661

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by bhupesh in "Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?"

bhupesh — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:21:50 +0000

> How do you find readers

I don't, that's what search engines are for. If people know what keywords to lookup, and are willing to go an extra mile (browse all pages of the Google search) they will eventually find your blog. If you have done a good job, it may land on the first page of search results.

> Where do you share your content?

Random short off-topic ramblings on X. Discussion oriented stuff on Reddit. Personal long-form opinion/perspectives on personal blog & knowledge base.

> why do you keep writing

For myself, I do not owe anyone anything, I don't plan to "build a brand" (or rather I have failed to do that), writing is a form of expression, that's it.

Whenever my gut says, this "thought" needs to get out of your head because you have been wasting a lot of time thinking about it, that's usually my cue to draft a post.

2024 State of the API Report

bhupesh — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:58:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.postman.com/state-of-api/2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41938554

Points: 1

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Show HN: I created a digital version of my bookshelf

bhupesh — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://bookshelf.bhupesh.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41555857

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

An open letter to everyone that I will ever work with as a remote tech worker

bhupesh — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:47:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bhupesh.me/open-letter-remote-tech-worker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645598

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Show HN: I made a silly website to let people book tickets to heaven or hell

bhupesh — Tue, 14 May 2024 14:13:55 +0000

Article URL: https://heavenorhell.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355443

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bhupesh in "Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?"

bhupesh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 08:48:39 +0000

Folks at gitbook are kind enough to give me a LLM over my notes https://til.bhupesh.me

New comment by bhupesh in "Why Elixir (2014)"

bhupesh — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:44:37 +0000

Soul of erlang got me hooked to Elixir recently, trying to get my hands dirty as well.

Other than distributed/concurrent system use-cases, could you share what kind of products are best when built with elixir/erlang compared to easier to write languages like Go, for example.

New comment by bhupesh in "It's OK to abandon your side-project"

bhupesh — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:31:25 +0000

> Out of all of my abandoned side-projects, this was the one that made me think differently. Even if I would never actually use the end 'deliverable', working on the project still indirectly achieved what I'd set out to do. That led me to an important realisation: we talk a lot about abandoned side-projects as "failed", but their success is really a matter of perspective.

Very much agreed here, abandoning things helps us eventually priortise other things that we learned from the exercise of building the original thing. I briefly wrote about a similar experience on how thinking too much about maintaining a project for a longer period of time is not really a good idea.

https://buttondown.email/bhupesh/archive/why-its-ok-to-aband...

Discovering Small GitHub Projects for Contributing to FOSS

bhupesh — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.developersindia.in/faqs/finding-small-foss-projects-on-github

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39485250

Points: 3

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Feeding a Hungry Mouse Using Chromedp and Golang

bhupesh — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pacenthink.io/post/feeding-a-hungry-mouse-using-chromedp-and-golang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39349139

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bhupesh in "A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts"

bhupesh — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:41:10 +0000

> Here's a solution that compresses everything into a single 8.7MB layer using tar and an intermediate staging stage: https://gist.github.com/carlosonunez/b6af15062661bf9dfcb8688...

Hey this looks interesting, will try it out. Thanks for writing it!

> That said, in a real-world scenario where I care about readability and maintainability, I'd either write this in Go with gzip-tar compression in the middle (single statically-compiled binaries for the win!) or I'd just use Busybox (~5MB base image) and copy what's missing into it since that base image ships with libc.

Agreed, rewriting was not the option (as mentioned in the beginning). Moreover, It would have taken longer to build a nice TUI interface then it took to dockerize it.

New comment by bhupesh in "A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts"

bhupesh — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:28:45 +0000

> I think it would be more accurate to say, in the Alpine ecosystem, it is generally not advised to pin versions of packages at all. Actually, this is not so much a recommendation as it is a statement of impossibility: You can't pin package versions (without your Docker builds starting to fail in a week or two), period. In other words: Don't use Alpine if you want reproducible (easily cacheable) Docker builds.

Agreed, should have been clear with my sentiment there. Thanks for stating this :)

> Personally, I'm very excited about snapshot images like https://hub.docker.com/r/debian/snapshot where all package versions and the package sources are pinned. All I, as the downstream consumer, will have to do in order to stay up-to-date (and patch upstream vulnerabilities) is bump the snapshot date string on a regular basis.

This is really helpful, thanks for sharing. Looks like it will be a good change, fingers crossed.

New comment by bhupesh in "A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts"

bhupesh — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:49:54 +0000

> How would I use this? Say I just made a bad commit in my terminal. How would I run this container to fix it? The container doesn't have my working directory does it? Or is that the idea, to mount a volume with the working for or something?

You can refer to usage guidelines on dockerhub https://hub.docker.com/r/bhupeshimself/ugit

> So if you do that and just give me a one liner install command to copy paste then I guess this actually makes sense. A small docker container could eliminate a lot of potential gotchas with trying to install dependencies in arbitrary environments.

Yes, that was also an internal motivation behind doing this.

> Why does it need fzf? Is it intended to run the container interactively?

Hey fzf is required by ugit (the script) itself. I didnt want to rely on cli arguments to give ability to users undo command per a matching git command. Adding a fuzzy search utility makes it easier for people to search what they can undo about "git tag" for example.