raj-shah.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

A herring is a fish. When a herring is preserved by salting and smoking, it turns red and smells. It's so pungent that it's a great diversion to distract hunting dogs from their trail. Now, a ‘red herring’ refers to anything that diverts attention from the issue at hand.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

How can #transdisciplinary researchers work with AI as a genuine collaborator? Five capabilities for collaborative human-AI #research, my latest contribution published on Integration & Implementation blog at the Australian National University. i2insights.org/2025/06/10/a... #AIethics #education

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Going to get a whole lot of messages on my next podcast where I called Elasticsearch the first mainstream search engine 🙈 I know Solr came first but I feel like Elasticsearch made it cool.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

My cat just walked across my keyboard and I think she wrote a valid Perl script.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

So funny. Register for VibeCon at 127.0.0.1:8080/register

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Rust programmers are like the vegans of programmers.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Whenever faced with a problem, sometimes I think, “I’ll ask my family for help.” Then, I have two problems.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

At Reddit, they added a "name pronunciation" field in Slack, so I filled it out with: राजीव

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I hate devops with a passion that defies description.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

What’s your favorite Debussy song and why is it Clair de Lune?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

The metronome I listen to beats inside of my chest. It’s built to last, but analog at best. ❤️

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

You know how every friend group has a weird friend? Well, mine didn’t.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

I’m of the Ready, Fire, Aim school of software design. If you’re a fellow #Python programmer, here’s why you might consider it too: youtu.be/UANN2Eu6ZnM?...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It's today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Unpopular opinion: Docker is for people who don't know how to manage their dependencies. kennethreitz.org/essays/2016/...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I wish I still had an optical drive, just because lasers are cool.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

This makes me happy. youtube.com/shorts/HLaWO...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a #Python newbie and wondering where to get started? Check out our Python for Beginners page: www.python.org/about/gettin...

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

"There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us." Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭

submitted 114 days ago • 14 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=KdqE...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

submitted 133 days ago • 4219 comments

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

“Think simple thoughts.” — @fayemiller.bsky.social

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

In #Python, @classmethod can used to create alternate constructors for making objects in other ways. Here's a simple example:

submitted 144 days ago • 4 comments

TechCrunch going in hard!

submitted 151 days ago • 67 comments

Do you use trailing commas in #Python? I do! They make adding items and swapping items easier, avoid accidental implicit string concatenation, and they make diffs shorter.

submitted 151 days ago • 2 comments

@archive.org is such an amazing project. It blows my mind that I can still see my college website from August 2000: web.archive.org/web/20000815... Donate to the Internet Archive! archive.org/donate

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Python has won the title of ‘TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year 2024’. This award is given to the programming language with the highest increase in ratings in one year. Python gained a whopping 9.3% in 2024: www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/... #Python #TIOBE

submitted 155 days ago • 3 comments

@scottmccloud.bsky.social -- How can I find your introduction to Google Chrome? I tried searching on Google for "filetype:pdf Scott McCloud Google Chrome" and I couldn't find it... Also, you're brilliant, and thank you for all that you do. ❤️

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

macOS feels like I’m using my computer. Linux feels like my computer is using me.

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

@antirez.bsky.social — Check this out: api.spool.video/v1/lolwut/5 Thank you for being a good computer scientist and a good artist and a great person.

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

Coding is writing words, but the words do something.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

“Things in general when they start to fix them get worse before they get better.” — Steve Jobs

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

90% of an electric guitar is: - how the neck feels in your hand - how the pickups sound - if it looks cool and you feel cool playing it

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

Underrated search relevance methodology - Tuning sprints (gather a few broken queries, label them, improve them, repeat) Get into a ritual of label, tune, measure, repeat...

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

Get started with the all-new free plan for GitHub Copilot, available for everyone today in VS Code. All you need is a GitHub account, and you'll have access to: ✨ 2000 code completions per month ✨ 50 chat messages per month ✨ Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o aka.ms/copilot-free

submitted 174 days ago • 5 comments

Alan's Law: We do work. We don't talk about doing work. Raj's Corollary: Design docs are the new UML. They didn't work then, and they don't work now. @runyaga.bsky.social @softwaredoug.bsky.social

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments