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vijay.io
software engineer @elevenlabs.io • game developer • musician • dad of two • made dailydungeon.net and semantical.fun
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so cool, thanks to the fediverse i can now see and follow my threads account here @hi.im.vijay.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

i love how when you're playing pokémon diamond and you enter the chamber of the champion only to be greeted by this beethoven-ass piano composition, foreboding tones sending chills down your spine as if to warn you about the shellacking you're about to receive from cynthia's perfect iv garchomp

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

it's kinda crazy how all music is in 4/4

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

the trump-elon fallout was more predicable than the bachelor couple breaking up after the finale

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

it's funny because the thing that's happening right now is something that absolutely no one saw coming. no. one.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

i had this beautiful dream last night where i tried to do something with ffmpeg and it worked the first time

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

if steve ballmer never stepped down, we'd probably all still be using sublime text

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

i don’t get offended by terms like chai tea and naan bread. you know why? because, as a software engineer, i value redundancy in my systems.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

due to inflation, dollar tree will be rebranding as tree fiddy

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

i still don't understand how a client side routing library somehow turned into a server side rendering framework

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

i love working in tech, but it is legitimately insane how someone can be at a company for 18 years while making significant contributions to both the company and the industry only to be laid off without even a moment's notice

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

wrote code without using an ai agent today please clap

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

vscode is old and outdated. is there a good alternative?

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

tread carefully

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

you're adding validation to an existing column in production that previously didn't have any validation for years? oh my sweet summer child

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

it's really hard to find competent engineers. i've interviewed about 20 cs majors who claim to be experts at typescript and none of them have been able to explain what the reparameterization trick is, why it’s used in variational autoencoders, and what would go wrong if we didn’t use it.

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

hot take: big functions are not inherently bad. sometimes shit is just complex, and breaking it up just causes unnecessary cognitive overhead

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

dubbing is the product i'm currently working on, and it's so damn magical to see it in action. this tech will make any content universally accessible in any language

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Introducing the open-source Next.js Audio Starter Kit Add Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Sound Effects and Conversational AI to your product in minutes. Built with: • ElevenLabs SDK • Next.js + shadcn/ui • Tailwind CSS v4 Repo link below:

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

they're really expanding the netflix kids selection

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

build your own csv parser. it's easy and there's very few edge cases

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

thinking of building my own pc

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

thinking of buying a prebuilt pc

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

graphql should update their license to only allow usage in engineering teams over 100 people

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

- duolingo ceo posts about being an ai-first workforce - public backlash, subscription cancellations in droves meanwhile, literally every other tech company out there that's doing the same thing but hasn't posted about it on social media:

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

sex is great, yeah, but has anyone ever responded to you asking something by saying "that's a good question"

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

new job who dis

submitted 54 days ago • 10 comments

when it finally does happen, the internet will be a sight to behold

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

i haven't been posting much recently, but that's because i've been cooking with personal career development. i'm super excited to announce that i will be joining @elevenlabs.io as a forward deployed engineer!

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

anyone felt the earthquake in san diego???

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

garlic op

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

ai will only increase the demand of software engineers. because we'll need more software engineers to fix all the vibe coded bugs

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

i want off this wild ride

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

it's so blatantly obvious

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

america will be a laughingstock for a long time for somehow managing to elect this guy a second time. except no one's laughing

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

the winning will continue until morale improves

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

i can't even imagine what people in manufacturing and import/export must be going through right now

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

at what point is this basically just an embargo on chinese imports

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

temu - shop like a billionaire, but actually tho

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments