01Jun 21, 2026/4 minPolitically Dead ProjectsProjects die politically months before they die officially. Learn to read the death certificate before it's signed — and leave before the…thinking principlesorganizationscareer
02Jun 20, 2026/4 minSingle-Threaded OwnerA thing owned by "the team" is owned by no one; accountability only works when it has exactly one name attached. Why committees don't own…thinking principlesorganizationsengineering
03Jun 19, 2026/4 minThe Demo EffectWorking software beats slides: seeing it run collapses skepticism that no argument can. Why demos beat documents A slide deck describes a…thinking principlesorganizationsengineering
04Jun 18, 2026/4 minThe Hero LoopOrganizations reward the engineer who fights the fire, not the engineer whose design meant there was no fire — so they get more fires. The…thinking principlesorganizationsengineering
05Jun 17, 2026/4 minThe Last Ten PercentNinety percent done counts as zero. Organizations pay out on landed work, not effort — and the reputation that matters most is "give it to…thinking principlesorganizationsengineering
06Jun 16, 2026/4 minTranslate Infra to BusinessPlatform work is invisible to leadership until it is priced in business currency — revenue, cost, risk, or velocity. The currency problem…thinking principlesorganizationsengineering
07Jun 15, 2026/2 minTOCTOU - the gap between checking and usingYou peek into your wallet at the counter, see a ₹500 note, and decide "yes, I can afford this". You walk to billing, but by then your friend…securityrace conditionconcurrencyprogramming
08Jul 11, 2023/1 minFind disk usage sorted by sizeTo find all folders and it's disk usage sorted by size, you can use the following cmd Copy du -ck | sort -n To find all files in a folder and it's size, Copy ls -l --block-size=MB or Copy ls -lhcmdline
09Jul 6, 2023/1 minFind process using a portyou can execute the following cmd to find the process which occupies a specific port in linux. Copy sudo lsof -i :<port_number> -t | xargs ps -o pid,user,cmd -pbashcmdline
10Mar 11, 2023/3 minTop 10 tools you need as developerIntroduction As a developer, it is essential to have the right set of tools to help you streamline your workflow and boost productivity…programmingsoftware developmentfrontend developerbackend developer