Vivek Shukla

Blogroll

Links back to the posts that I liked.

Wild Performance Tricks 03 Sep 2025, rust

SSH Tunnels: My VPN Alternative for Privacy on the Go 03 Sep 2025, vpn, ssh

%CPU Utilization Is A Lie 03 Sep 2025,

Go is still not good 23 Aug 2025, go

o_uring, kTLS and Rust for zero syscall HTTPS server 23 Aug 2025, rust, server

the core of rust 23 Aug 2025, rust

Writing that changed how I think about PL 19 Aug 2025, programming

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? 19 Aug 2025, customer acquisition

When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows | MIT News | Massachusetts Insti 12 Nov 2024,

Steal these brilliant growth tactics 28 Jun 2024,

Radical Simplicity in Technology 27 Jun 2024,

Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads? | Hacker News 04 May 2024,

50 Resources for Building a Lean Innovation Foundation: Lean Startup, Sprin 26 Apr 2024,

I built a SaaS in 24 hours 24 Apr 2024,

4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way 23 Apr 2024,

Stop going to the cloud and getting scammed. $200 infra to serve your start 23 Apr 2024,

The UX of UUIDs 20 Apr 2024,

Ten Years and Counting: My Affair with Microservices 20 Apr 2024,

What it was like working for GitLab 08 Feb 2024,

How We Decide What To Pay Our Team: Our Salary Formula and Compensation Phi 08 Feb 2024,

Compensation as a Reflection of Values / Oxide 08 Feb 2024,

Send your users this welcome email 05 Feb 2024,

Career and Commitment – Steve Pavlina 14 Sep 2023,

30 Days to Success – Steve Pavlina 14 Sep 2023,

5-Year Commitments – Steve Pavlina 14 Sep 2023,

10 Things I Stopped Doing in Python After Learning from the Pros 08 Sep 2023,

Being an Achiever – Steve Pavlina 18 May 2023,

The Power of Now – Steve Pavlina 18 May 2023,

Show Me Your Battle Scars – Steve Pavlina 18 May 2023,

An in-depth look at Database Indexing 15 Apr 2023,

Randall Degges - My 'Done' List 13 Apr 2023,

Advice to Myself When Starting Out as a Software Developer - The Pragmatic 12 Apr 2023,

Effective Spaced Repetition 11 Apr 2023,

How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud 18 Mar 2023,

Open source Projects | GitHub India 23 Dec 2022,

Startup post mortem: Neta. 02 Nov 2022,

How we reduced our annual server costs by 80% — from $1M to $200k — by movi 17 Oct 2022,

Django: use partial() with transaction.on_commit() to avoid late-binding bugs 26 Aug 2022,

How to deal with money in software 26 Aug 2022,

How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code | Freaking R 24 Aug 2022,

Krishna Stories: Exploring Krishna's Path of the Playful 20 Aug 2022,

Total Giving, Total Living 10 Aug 2022,

The Story of Vemana 08 Aug 2022,

Finding Your Aspiration 23 Jul 2022,

Leetcode Patterns 16 Jul 2022,

Top Patterns to Conquer the Interview - Getting Started / Overview 16 Jul 2022,

Introduction 16 Jul 2022,

GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software net 16 Jul 2022,

Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Nginx | TestDriven.io 16 Jul 2022,

Don’t Step into Other People’s Karma 10 Jun 2022,

How to Manifest What you Want 23 May 2022,

Prime Your Brain for a Permanent Performance Gain (in a Few Minutes) 16 May 2022,

Does Being Smart Make You Dumb? 17 Apr 2022,

Can You Change Your Thinking? 06 Apr 2022,

Fortunate Misfortunes 04 Apr 2022,

20 Python Interview Questions To Challenge Your Knowledge | by Ahmed Besbes 31 Mar 2022,

1 - Union vs TypeVar - Daily dose of Python 31 Mar 2022,

Three Steps to Move Towards the Truth of Life 18 Mar 2022,

The Subtlety of the Spiritual Path 14 Mar 2022,

Creative Process and Ways to Enhance Creativity 20 Feb 2022,

The 10 tools I wish I knew when I started working with Python | Python in P 13 Feb 2022,

Do Past Lives Determine the Form We Are Born In? 28 Jan 2022,

How Do I Handle Confusion on the Spiritual Path? 27 Jan 2022,

Becoming A Source of Energy 19 Jan 2022,

From a Piece of Flesh to a Divine Force 19 Jan 2022,

Of Laughter and Enlightenment – A Zen Story 19 Jan 2022,

How to Handle Inner Noise? 19 Jan 2022,

How to Manifest What you Want 19 Jan 2022,

Feel Frustrated With Life? Remember the Joy of Being Alive 19 Jan 2022,

When Sadhana Becomes Successful 19 Jan 2022,

Speed Up! – Steve Pavlina 13 Jan 2022,

How to Take Action Consistently – Steve Pavlina 12 Jan 2022,

Please Don’t Interrupt – Steve Pavlina 12 Jan 2022,

Do It Now – Steve Pavlina 12 Jan 2022,

Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired 06 Oct 2021,

The Secret to a Fight-Free Relationship 06 Oct 2021,

How to study effectively 06 Oct 2021,

The 10 commandments of salary negotiation 29 Sep 2021,

Notes on streaming large API responses 01 Jul 2021,

Isha Forest Flower - May 2021 — Why Your Thought Process Goes On Endlessly 16 May 2021,

Thinking Recursively in Python – Real Python 25 Dec 2019,

Top 50 commonly asked Django Interview Questions and Answers 25 Nov 2019,

How I Went from Writing My First Line of Code to a $226K Job Offer in Just 27 Sep 2019,

Building Modern Applications with Django and Vue.js 24 May 2018,

Python Multitasking – MultiThreading and MultiProcessing – Developers Area 06 Dec 2017,

Clocks for Software Engineers 20 Sep 2017,

12 Terminal Commands Every Web Developer Should Know About 13 Sep 2017,

Build a fast, secured and free static site in less than 3 hours • gsempe 12 Sep 2017,

30 Behaviors That Will Make You Unstoppable 11 Sep 2017,

Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views 07 Sep 2017,

Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On Compound Time 03 Sep 2017,

11 Strategies to Develop an Unshakeable Belief in Yourself 22 Aug 2017,

The Profound Power of Consistency 09 Aug 2017,

Gallery: 20 books that every programmer should read 28 Jul 2017,

Why finding 10x developers is so hard 11 Jul 2017,

System Design Interview Question Handbook – Concepts You Should Know 02 Jul 2017,

What Should be in a Coder’s Toolbox? 01 Jul 2017,

25 Must Know Terms & concepts for Beginners in Deep Learning 29 Jun 2017,

Software Engineering 101 for Front-end Developers 26 Jun 2017,

Our 500 engineers all use this front end development guide 17 Jun 2017,

9 Types Of Intelligence - Infographic 05 Jun 2017,

10 Things I Would Do If I Were Twenty-One 03 Jun 2017,

CS 161 Summer 2016 18 May 2017,

How to prepare for competitive programming ? 17 May 2017,

Python Top 10 Articles for the Past Month 10 May 2017,

How To Learn In 2 Days What Normally Takes 6 Months 07 May 2017,

Learning to rank with Python scikit-learn 05 May 2017,

32 life lessons I learned by age 32 04 May 2017,

Course 2 — Data structure — Part 1: The Basic data structures 04 May 2017,

This 10-Minute Routine Will Increase Your Clarity And Creativity 03 May 2017,

50 Essential Cheatsheets, Guides & Docs for Web Designers 30 Apr 2017,

SEO Secrets: Reverse-Engineering Google’s Algorithm 27 Apr 2017,

I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. 25 Apr 2017,

Hardware Fundamentals: what exactly is a microcontroller? 24 Apr 2017,

Here’s How to Banish Mediocrity From Your Life 22 Apr 2017,

Web Scraping Job Postings from Indeed 20 Apr 2017,

Python Top 10 Articles for the Past Year (v.2017) 19 Apr 2017,

Incomes Are Going Down, Jobs Are Disappearing…Here’s Your Survival Guide. 19 Apr 2017,

30 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago 16 Apr 2017,

40 things about life I wish I could travel back in time and tell myself 16 Apr 2017,

Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice from Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant 03 Apr 2017,

Warren Buffett’s 2 List Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities 29 Mar 2017,

Stop Spending So Much Time In Your Head 29 Mar 2017,