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Continue reading →: Understanding My Money, Part 2: Letting AI In (Carefully)
A few months ago I wrote about SpendSort, the app I built because my credit card statements were giving me anxiety. People actually used it. Some of them uploaded statements from banks I had never tested. And pretty quickly, they ran into a wall I had been quietly climbing over…
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Continue reading →: Printing Flipkart Labels That Actually Scan
My brother is setting up a store on Flipkart. Most of the early work is unglamorous: listing products, packing orders and printing shipping labels. I assumed printing would be the easy part. It wasn’t. The Label Problem For every order, Flipkart Seller Hub gives you a PDF to print. It…
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Continue reading →: Understanding My Money
I recently moved to the UAE from India with my family. The culture shock was expected. The cost-of-living shock? Not so much. My brain developed this annoying habit: mentally converting every price to INR, then quietly panicking. A coffee that costs what a full meal would back home. Groceries that…
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Continue reading →: Exploring Parquet Files and DuckDB for App Development
Recently, I stumbled across the Parquet file format. I know that folks who work with data are acquainted with Parquet and its benefits, but I wanted to explore this from an app development perspective. Quoting their documentation: I had some interesting experience with ClickHouse, another columnar database, so this could…
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Continue reading →: Creating Kafka 4.0 Cluster using KRaft
Kafka recently released Kafka 4.0. It brings many changes, including removal of Zookeeper and going full throttle on KRaft. Now KRaft is responsible for metadata management and removes any depdency on Zookeeper. Let us setup a three node Kafka 4.0 cluster. I am going to use all the three nodes…
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Continue reading →: Did you really ran out of disk space?
I’ve been using Fedora Linux for over a decade, and upgrading the OS is a routine process for me. I started an upgrade about 36 hours ago on my personal laptop, expecting it to be smooth—just like the past few years. However, this time, things went sideways. I encountered an…