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Stories by lalitm

Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer (lalitm.com)
L 115 pts 14 comments by lalitm Dec 4, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs (lalitm.com)
L 94 pts 25 comments by lalitm Nov 23, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail (lalitm.com)
L 88 pts 25 comments by lalitm Jan 15, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household (lalitm.com)
L 64 pts 19 comments by lalitm Jan 1, 2026 financepython Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google (addyosmani.com)
L 57 pts 11 comments by lalitm Jan 4, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer (seangoedecke.com)
L 48 pts 25 comments by lalitm Jan 23, 2026 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Leaving Intel (brendangregg.com)
L 45 pts 10 comments by lalitm Dec 6, 2025 performanceperson Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap (questdb.com)
L 40 pts 12 comments by lalitm Jan 14, 2026 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Perfetto: Swiss Army Knife for Linux Client Tracing (lalitm.com)
L 36 pts 11 comments by lalitm Oct 31, 2025 linuxperformancevisualization Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / InfrastructureDesign / UX / Visualization thread
CAST(x AS STRING) casts to integer in SQLite (lalitm.com)
L 30 pts 29 comments by lalitm Nov 3, 2025 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
No More Self-Censorship (kerrick.blog)
L 26 pts 61 comments by lalitm Nov 29, 2025 culturepractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox (lalitm.com)
L 25 pts 8 comments by lalitm Jan 31, 2026 vibecodingvirtualization AI / Machine LearningSystems / Low-Level / OS thread
I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years (seangoedecke.com)
L 23 pts 14 comments by lalitm 3d ago vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
so, you want to chunk really fast? (minha.sh)
L 21 pts 9 comments by lalitm Jan 6, 2026 aiperformance AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (blog.cloudflare.com)
L 20 pts 0 comments by lalitm Jan 20, 2026 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets (blog.zakkemble.net)
L 13 pts 1 comments by lalitm Nov 25, 2025 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Running unsupported iOS on deprecated devices (nyansatan.github.io)
L 11 pts 0 comments by lalitm Nov 27, 2025 ios Apple / macOS / iOS thread
The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming (jerf.org)
L 10 pts 3 comments by lalitm Nov 18, 2025 performance Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
profiling.sampling: Statistical profiler (docs.python.org)
L 9 pts 0 comments by lalitm Dec 26, 2025 performancepython Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Getting the main thing right (seangoedecke.com)
L 8 pts 1 comments by lalitm Feb 5, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t (chrisgregori.dev)
L 4 pts 2 comments by lalitm Jan 12, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Diagnosing performance issues with dotnet-trace and Perfetto (dfamonteiro.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by lalitm Jan 11, 2026 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Anthropic's original performance take-home open-sourced (github.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by lalitm Jan 21, 2026 performance AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / Infrastructure thread