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Agent Looping and Systems Engineering: Building Reliable AI

Prompt engineering is a temporary fix for AI slop. True reliability comes from systems engineering. This post explores agent looping, Eval gates, and the GBRAIN architecture.

June 9, 2026 (2d ago)20 min

Building a Multi-Writer Serverless SQLite Engine on Amazon S3

How to run SQLite in WAL mode on Amazon S3 for serverless applications.

June 5, 2026 (6d ago)91 min

EngineeringSystem DesignAWS

Letter to EveryOne

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.

June 3, 2026 (1w ago)17 min

LiteraturePhilosophy

System Design Basics Databases Message Queues and Authentication

A complete deep dive into databases message queues authentication and proxies. All the core system design concepts explained simply with real examples and diagrams.

June 1, 2026 (1w ago)14 min

EngineeringSystem DesignDevOps

System Design Basics Caching How to Make Your App Fast

Caching stores frequently used data in fast storage so your app does not hit the database every single time. Here is how it works from scratch with real examples.

May 28, 2026 (2w ago)19 min

EngineeringSystem DesignDevOps

System Design Basics Scalability and Load Balancing

Breaking down system design concepts like scaling load balancers and redundancy into plain English. No jargon just common sense.

May 27, 2026 (2w ago)14 min

EngineeringSystem DesignDevOps

Why I Use A Tally Counter For Daily Meditation And Chanting

A deeply personal look at how a simple mechanical tally counter became my greatest tool for finding peace devotion and focus in a noisy world.

May 27, 2026 (2w ago)15 min

ProductivitySpiritualityFocus

Reproducible Research Notebooks for Digital Humanities

A practical guide to building reproducible research notebooks for digital humanities projects, with runnable code, open datasets, and methods for cultural interpretability.

May 26, 2026 (2w ago)12 min

Digital HumanitiesReproducible ResearchMethods

Digital Humanities Methods: A Comparison Guide

A detailed comparison of digital humanities methods for cultural analysis, covering topic modeling, network analysis, stylometry, and cultural interpretability with practical guidance on choosing the right approach.

May 25, 2026 (2w ago)12 min

Digital HumanitiesMethodsComparison

Cultural Interpretability: Bengali Literature Case Study

A case study applying cultural interpretability methods to examine how language models represent Bengali literary traditions, with full reproducible code and datasets.

May 24, 2026 (2w ago)12 min

Digital HumanitiesCultural InterpretabilityCase Study

Download: DH Notebook for Cultural Analysis

A ready-to-use reproducible research notebook template for digital humanities cultural analysis, with pre-configured environments, runnable code examples, and step-by-step instructions.

May 23, 2026 (2w ago)10 min

Digital HumanitiesDownloadTemplate

DH Consultancy and Research Collaboration Services

How I help researchers build reproducible digital humanities projects, from method selection to publication-ready notebooks, with cultural interpretability expertise.

May 22, 2026 (2w ago)10 min

Digital HumanitiesConsultancyResearch Collaboration

Kiro vs Cursor vs Windsurf vs Claude Code vs Codex vs Antigravity: What I Actually Use as an SRE

I ran all six major AI coding tools through the same five real infrastructure tasks. Terraform modules, Go refactors across 12 files, Kubernetes silent failures, Datadog SLO monitors, incident runbooks. Here is every command I ran, every diff I got back, every time a tool failed mid-task, and which one I actually reach for now.

May 21, 2026 (3w ago)40 min

AIDev ToolsSRE

I Built a Bhagavad Gita Reader With Three Languages

I built a full Bhagavad Gita reader with all 700 verses, audio recitations, and translations in English, Hindi, and Bengali. Here is what I built, what the Gita actually says, and why I felt compelled to make this.

May 18, 2026 (3w ago)11 min

PersonalEngineeringLife

Logging Off For A While

A short, quiet note about stepping away for a while and holding onto small things.

May 5, 2026 (1mo ago)8 min

PersonalLife Update

Building Neuroinclusive AI with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

A step by step, beginner to expert guide to building a Neuroinclusive Toolkit MCP server in Python and TypeScript, with four working tools, security and consent guardrails, WCAG mapped audits, ready to paste prompts, and full Claude Desktop and Claude Code setup.

May 5, 2026 (1mo ago)39 min

TutorialAIAccessibility

Next.js 15 on Azure Container Apps: A Production-Ready Deployment Guide

Deploy Next.js 15 to Azure Container Apps with scale-to-zero, Easy Auth, managed identities, Front Door, and OpenTelemetry for production workloads.

April 29, 2026 (1mo ago)19 min

AzureNext.jsDocker

Cultural Mechanistic Interpretability: Reading Cultural Memory Inside Large Language Models

A new digital humanities method that reads cultural memory inside large language models using sparse autoencoders, with formal metrics and runnable code.

April 28, 2026 (1mo ago)32 min

Digital HumanitiesAIInterpretability

How to Build a URL Shortener on AWS in 2026: The Complete End-to-End Guide

Build a modern, serverless URL shortener on AWS in 2026. Learn how to use CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, and the new S3 Files feature for high-scale routing.

April 28, 2026 (1mo ago)39 min

AWSServerlessArchitecture

আইসিসিআর (ICCR) স্কলারশিপ ডিকোডিং: আমার অভিজ্ঞতা ও বাস্তব কিছু পরামর্শ

আইসিসিআর স্কলারশিপের আবেদন প্রক্রিয়া এবং ভারতে জীবনযাপন নিয়ে আমার ব্যক্তিগত অভিজ্ঞতা ও গবেষণার সংকলন। ইন্টারভিউ প্রস্তুতি থেকে শুরু করে এখানকার বাস্তব চ্যালেঞ্জগুলো সহজভাবে বুঝে নিন।

April 20, 2026 (1mo ago)21 min

ScholarshipsStudy in IndiaICCR

My ICCR Journey: Personal Experiences & Insights (AY 2026-27)

Sharing personal experiences and practical research on the ICCR scholarship. An honest look at the application process, interview preparation, and the real-life adjustments of studying in India.

April 20, 2026 (1mo ago)23 min

ScholarshipsStudy in IndiaICCR

Part 1 - The S3 Files EC2 Infrastructure Handbook Manual Configuration & Architecture

The definitive manual for engineering Amazon S3 Files on EC2. Step-by-step setup of VPC mounting, IAM trust policies, and NFS v4.1 client installation.

April 18, 2026 (1mo ago)8 min

AWSCloudDevOps

Part 2 - The S3 Files Lambda Handbook Serverless Persistence & Access Points

High-authority manual for mounting Amazon S3 Files on AWS Lambda. Engineering persistent storage for serverless using Access Points and POSIX mappings.

April 18, 2026 (1mo ago)4 min

AWSCloudDevOps

Part 3 - The S3 Files Terraform Masterclass Modular Automation & Workloads

High-authority guide to automating Amazon S3 Files with Terraform. Architecting modular storage, ECS Fargate workarounds, and cross-platform automation.

April 18, 2026 (1mo ago)6 min

AWSCloudDevOps

Building the Web I Needed: Stammering, Disability Studies, and Neuroinclusive UX Design

Why stammering belongs in accessibility conversations, and how design choices can remove silent barriers.

April 16, 2026 (1mo ago)30 min

Web AccessibilityStammeringSpeech Differences

How I Made My Next.js Portfolio Actually Production-Ready (For $0)

Most developer portfolios are one bad commit away from breaking in production. Here's how I added ten practical reliability layers, from CI/CD and API security to dependency policy, performance budgets, observability, and release governance.

April 9, 2026 (2mo ago)15 min

Next.jsDevOpsCybersecurity

Kiro IDE: Building a Production API With Spec-Driven AI (Hands-On Tutorial)

A step-by-step walkthrough of building a real feature using Kiro IDE, from installing the tool to shipping tested, documented, convention-compliant code. No theory. Just the build.

April 1, 2026 (2mo ago)35 min

AWSDev ToolsAI

I'm Officially an AWS Community Builder! The Complete Guide to What It Is, What You Get, and How to Make the Most of It

I have been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program in the Dev Tools category. Instead of just announcing it, here is a complete guide: what the program is, every benefit you get, how to apply, what the onboarding process looks like, and a practical first-30-days playbook. Bookmark this one.

March 5, 2026 (3mo ago)10 min

AWSCommunityDev Tools

The Topography of Trauma: Mahmud of Ghazni's Ideological Rupture and the Chola Response in Amish Tripathi's The Chola Tigers

A look at Amish Tripathi's 2025 epic, focusing on how it handles the history of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Chola response.

February 21, 2026 (3mo ago)24 min

Book ReviewHistorical FictionTrauma Theory

The Gangster in the Garden: A Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me

A forensic accounting of Arundhati Roy's first memoir. We explore how Mary Roy - the 'shelter and the storm' - shaped the writer who would go on to win the Booker Prize and challenge the Indian state.

February 12, 2026 (3mo ago)12 min

Book ReviewArundhati RoyMemoir

Build Your Own HTTP Server

Learn protocol engineering by building an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in Python. Sockets, headers, and concurrency explained simply.

February 10, 2026 (4mo ago)26 min

NetworkingPythonHTTP

Build Your Own HTTP/3 Server

A massive guide to building a modern HTTP/3 and QUIC server from the ground up using Python. We move beyond the limits of TCP into the world of UDP-based protocols.

February 10, 2026 (4mo ago)15 min

NetworkingPythonHTTP/3

Algorithmic Dysfluency: Why AI Cannot Hear the Stammering Subject

Why AI speech recognition fails people who stammer. Interrogating Whisper through the lens of Berardi and Fanon to argue that the stammer is a form of political refusal.

February 5, 2026 (4mo ago)9 min

Critical AIDisability StudiesDigital Humanities

My Secure AI Agent Setup: Building a Better Playground with Nix

Don't let AI agents have access to your whole system. Here's how I built a secure sandbox using Nix and Bubblewrap to keep my coding agents in check.

February 3, 2026 (4mo ago)23 min

NixSecurityAI Agents

Goodbye reCAPTCHA, Hello Turnstile: Why I Switched (Next.js Guide)

Struggling with reCAPTCHA's impact on user experience and privacy? This guide walks you through migrating to Cloudflare Turnstile in Next.js-improving speed, security, and mobile UX in under 15 minutes.

January 30, 2026 (4mo ago)9 min

Next.jsCloudflareCybersecurity

EKS Networking Deep Dive: Why Your Pods Can't Talk

Kubernetes networking is notoriously hard. Here is a guide to AWS EKS networking, VPC CNI, and how to debug DNS issues in your cluster.

January 18, 2026 (4mo ago)8 min

KubernetesEKSAWS

Observability 101: Why Logs Are Not Enough

Monitoring tells you something is broken; observability tells you why. A look at Metrics, Logs, Traces, and how to handle cardinality explosions.

January 17, 2026 (4mo ago)9 min

ObservabilityPrometheusGrafana

Breaking Production on Purpose: A Guide to Chaos Engineering

Why would you crash your own server? Because someone else will eventually. Learn how to use AWS FIS for Game Days and build more resilient systems.

January 16, 2026 (4mo ago)8 min

Chaos EngineeringAWSSRE

Disaster Recovery: The Art of Sleeping at Night

RTO and RPO aren't just acronyms-they're the difference between keeping your job and losing it. A guide to surviving AWS outages and ransomware.

January 15, 2026 (4mo ago)10 min

AWSDisaster RecoveryBackup

FinOps 101: How to Stop AWS From Bankrupting You

The cloud isn't free. Here's my survival guide for AWS cost optimization-Spot instances, Savings Plans, and how to avoid the NAT Gateway trap.

January 14, 2026 (4mo ago)9 min

AWSFinOpsCost Optimization

The Docker Diet: How to Slim Down Your Fat Containers

Stop shipping 1GB images for a 5MB app. Learn how to slim down your Docker containers using multi-stage builds and distroless images.

January 13, 2026 (4mo ago)10 min

DockerContainersDevOps

The Perfect Pipeline: How to Ship Code Without Crashing Production

Shipping code shouldn't be stressful. A look at Blue/Green deployments, Canary releases, and how to build a CI/CD pipeline that lets you sleep at night.

January 12, 2026 (5mo ago)16 min

CI/CDDevOpsAWS

Bash for Cloud Engineers: The Lost Art of Text Processing

Why click when you can script? Learn how to use sed, awk, and grep to parse logs and automate deployments like a pro.

January 11, 2026 (5mo ago)13 min

LinuxDevOpsBash

Git Under the Hood: The DevOps Engineer's 'Undo' Button

Stop memorizing commands and start understanding the graph. Learn how Git actually works under the hood-blobs, trees, and how to fix a detached HEAD without panicking.

January 10, 2026 (5mo ago)15 min

GitDevOpsVersion Control

Terraform State Surgery: The Senior Engineer's Guide to Moving Resources Without Downtime

Learn how to move resources in Terraform without breaking production. A guide to using 'state mv', 'rm', and 'import' for refactoring infrastructure safely.

January 9, 2026 (5mo ago)17 min

TerraformDevOpsInfrastructure as Code

Glitch Poetics: The Political Ontology of the Refused Body

A rigorous computational and theoretical analysis of the 'Glitch' as a site of political refusal. Utilizing High-Dimensional Semantic Analysis (BERT), T-SNE visualization, and post-colonial theory, this research article mathematically proves the semantic identity between 'Glitch Aesthetics' and 'Disability Politics'.

December 31, 2025 (5mo ago)20 min

AcademicGlitch FeminismDisability Studies

The Theology of Code: Algorithmic Ijtihad in the Age of Artificial Gnosis

A theological auditing of Artificial Intelligence. By applying Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem to Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), this study argues that AI is incapable of 'Ijtihad' (Reasoning). It is a machine of 'Taqlid' (Blind Imitation) that threatens to freeze the Islamic tradition in a stasis of historical data.

December 31, 2025 (5mo ago)8 min

AcademicIslamic StudiesPhilosophy of AI

The Physics of Trauma: Network Latency and the Crip Chronotope

A rigorous physical and computational analysis of Trauma as a temporal anomaly. Integrating Einstein's Special Relativity (Time Dilation) with Network Engineering (Buffer Bloat), this study proves that Post-Traumatic Stress is not a psychological disorder but a 'Synchronization Failure' between the somatic clock and the colonial clock.

December 31, 2025 (5mo ago)14 min

AcademicTrauma StudiesPhysics

Halal Sex: Redefining Intimacy and Faith in North America - A Review

A comprehensive review of Sheima Benembarek's 'Halal Sex', exploring the complex intersection of faith, intimacy, and female identity for Muslims in North America. This essay examines historical context, personal narratives, and the challenges of reconciling tradition with modern desires.

December 30, 2025 (5mo ago)37 min

Book ReviewIslamic FeminismSociology of Religion

Fatima Mernissi: The Godmother of Islamic Feminism and the Unveiling of History

A tribute to Fatima Mernissi, the pioneering sociologist who questioned the Prophetic tradition, exposed the 'Male Elite', and argued for Islamic equality.

December 29, 2025 (5mo ago)10 min

AcademicIslamic FeminismBook Review

Homosexuality in Islam: Scott Kugle and the Hermeneutics of Justice

An in-depth exploration of Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle's seminal work 'Homosexuality in Islam'. This essay deconstructs the traditional interpretation of the Story of Lut, examines the theological validity of same-sex unions through the lens of 'Fitrah', and challenges the legal reliability of Hadith used to condemn queer Muslims.

December 29, 2025 (5mo ago)13 min

AcademicQueer TheologyBook Review

Sexual Ethics and Islam: A Feminist Reflection on Kecia Ali's Magnum Opus

Exploring the tension between classical fiqh and modern feminist ethics in Kecia Ali's 'Sexual Ethics and Islam'. This essay dissects concepts like 'Milk al-Nikah' (ownership of the marriage tie), the legality of consent, and the urgent need for a new Islamic jurisprudence of intimacy.

December 28, 2025 (5mo ago)15 min

AcademicIslamic FeminismBook Review

From Zero to Cloud: My Personal Journey into AWS (2026) - A path I am following

My personal field notes from learning Amazon Web Services. I dug deep into the kernel, mastered 'sed', and broke production with Terraform so you don't have to. This is the path I took from 'absolute beginner' to AWS Community Builder.

December 27, 2025 (5mo ago)15 min

AWSCloud ComputingCareer Guide

KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud: Essential Linux Security Guide (Days 1-3)

A practical guide to the first three tasks of the KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud challenge. meaningful detailed tutorials on configuring non-interactive shells, managing temporary users, and securing SSH root access for production server.

December 23, 2025 (5mo ago)10 min

LinuxSRECloud Security

The Ultimate Handbook: Hosting a Dynamic Portfolio on AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway)

Build a serverless dynamic portfolio from scratch using AWS S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. Complete beginner-friendly guide with step-by-step deployment instructions.

December 21, 2025 (5mo ago)23 min

AWSCloudS3

The Silent Killer in Your AWS IAM Policies: Escalating Privileges via PassRole

A deep dive into one of the most dangerous and overlooked AWS misconfigurations: the iam:PassRole permission. Learn how we discovered a silent privilege escalation path in our CI/CD pipeline that could have compromised our entire production environment, and the comprehensive, architectural fix we implemented using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and SCPs.

December 20, 2025 (5mo ago)20 min

AWSDevOpsSecurity

JavaScript Has a Flair for Drama: 6 Concepts That Break Minds and this

Master JavaScript's toughest concepts: async flow, closures, 'this' keyword, prototypes, type coercion, and the event loop. Explained with wit, clarity, and real examples.

November 5, 2025 (7mo ago)64 min

JavaScriptFrontend DevelopmentProgramming

AI Prompting: Essential Foundation Techniques

Master prompt engineering with role-based prompting, system message optimization, and structured frameworks. Learn advanced techniques for ChatGPT and LLMs with practical examples.

November 2, 2025 (7mo ago)192 min

My First Month as a Site Reliability Engineer at Airbnb

A comprehensive deep-dive into my first 30 days as an SRE at Airbnb: automating monitoring for 50+ microservices, building Redis observability tooling, implementing SLO enforcement in CI/CD, conducting chaos engineering experiments, and streamlining incident management using Go, JavaScript, and Kubernetes.

October 10, 2025 (8mo ago)36 min

SREAirbnbGo

No One to Catch Me: But I Never Quit

A story for anyone who feels alone in the fight. For those who keep going not because someone's watching, but because quitting was never an option. Motivation for developers.

October 5, 2025 (8mo ago)11 min

PersonalCareerLife

My Apologies

Your love didn’t calm the storm, but it made me feel less alone. It didn’t erase the pain, but reminded me I have you by my side in the rain. My wounds remain, yet you see beauty in my scars. My fears linger, but your hand makes it safe to be scared. Bad days still come, but your love does so much-it reminds me I’m never on my own.

June 18, 2022 (3y ago)2 min

PersonalLife UpdateCareer