The Ghosts We Inherit: India's 'New Money' Story My mother reuses tea leaves until the water runs clear. My friend's father keeps a wooden box in his closet, with carefully folded bills arranged by denomination. Another's maintains a small diary tracking every household expense down to the last rupee. These aren't quirks – they're battle scars from a generation that survived on less. We are their children. We carry their financial trauma in our wallets, even as we tap them against sleek payment terminals at craft coffee shops.

Vacations are time for you to park all that constant chatter in your mind — be it work or random household chores — and actually be mentally, emotionally and physically present with your family. Trust @paperplane_club to help you tick all your boxes and set the stage for it :)

post merge / pre deploy automated testing feels like the Wild West of building software

My duty as a dad is to let the kids do things that others around them would consider to be ‘too risky’ or whatever 🫡

the ill-informed desi crabs have arrived on the timeline. we can’t stand someone around us succeeding, can we?

cries in evals

Question for the parents here: what happens when AI can engage your kids better than you can? Had this exact discussion with my wife the other day, over kids interacting with AI. Not in a doom way, running away from tech is pretty stupid imo. Might as well figure out how kids can use it to fuel their curiosity, and it keeps them busy while at it. Having taught school kids at one point, the way I see it is a simple 2x2. Does the thing teach the kid something or just kill time, and does it point the kid at the world or at the screen. Kills time but out in the world, cycling around with friends? Fine, we did plenty of that. Kills time on the screen, that's the feed, and that's the empty calories digital tools are very good at, or can very easily be programmed to be. The axis that actually matters is the second one, because "the world" for a kid mostly means other kids. Almost everything social is educational for them anyway. And that's the real crisis? In-person time with friends among American teens is down 70% in two decades, and I'm sure it's true of India too. As kids we'd cycle around the city with just our parents' phone numbers, no way for them to reach us, and we did just about fine. So if a device can push a kid to be more social, nothing like it. Quests from parents, tap two phones together and they turn into walkie-talkies and so on.... But....a device that talks back is a slightly different beast from a TV. So what's the pragmatic role of a parent then? And what kind of relationship do they end up having with the kids?

Last week, we had a customer’s personal AI agent spend $1k/n with us on a Maldives hotel. It is clear that a lot of rules will get rewritten in the hospitality industry in the next few quarters, one of them emerging from the following scenario…

In under 10 months we went from… Loving Anthropic / declaring OpenAI dead to celebrating OpenAI comeback / Anthropic losing the plot to Loving Anthropic / declaring OpenAI dead

toddler parents who co-sleep, how do you manage with cots when you travel? almost no hotel in India seems to provide bed rails / bed guards? and I am sure I'm not the only one facing this problem?

so long, wrangler

My GitHub Actions bill is the dominant part of my entire infrastructure spending. Absurd. Exploring blacksmith to take off some of the load, guidance / alternative are much welcome.

I’m seeing GPT-6 Terra in my model picker 👀 Guess it ain’t dead after all?