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https://www.shirishpadalkar.com/

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Garbage··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
I’m currently working on https://www.dreamly.in - automated, personalized, and localized bedtime stories for kids.

My daughter loves stories, and I often struggled to come up with new ones every night. I remember enjoying local folk tales and Indian mythological stories from my childhood, and I wanted her to experience that too — while also learning new things like basic science concepts and morals through stories.

So I built Dreamly and opened it up to friends and families. Parents can set up their child’s profile once - name, age, favorite shows or characters, and preferred themes (e.g. morals, history, mythology, or school concepts). After that, personalized stories are automatically delivered to their inbox every night. No more scrambling to think of stories on the spot!

Garbage··on Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript
I found that [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/langchain) has pretty good abstractions and better support for multiple LLMs. They also have a good ecosystem of supporting products - LangGraph and LangSmith. Currently supported languages are Python and Javascript.
Garbage··on Popular Git config options
During my consulting time, I had to do this a lot. So I wrote a blog post for myself on how to do this effectively - https://www.shirishpadalkar.com/using-separate-git-identitie...
Garbage··on Gail.com FAQ
This is awesome.

I have following 2 domains, which are a popular misspellings :)

1. https://geethub.com/

2. https://geetlab.com/

Both of them get non-trivial amount of traffic.

Garbage··on Tell HN: (weirdly, it works now) DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt
Which ISP are you using? I can confirm I am able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues at all.
Garbage··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Medly Software Systems LLP | Multiple Roles | Pune, India | Full-Time

Medly is a digital pharmacy that was founded by second-generation pharmacy owners with decades of experience in the industry. By combining the personal relationship you’d expect from a corner drugstore with the efficiency of a national pharmacy, we aim to make healthcare more efficient and enjoyable.

We are hiring for following roles:

- Associate Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Associate DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Associate QA

- Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Senior DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Senior Frontend Developer (React, Redux)

- Software Development Manager / Engineering Manager

You can send me resumes at shirish.padalkar[at]medly.com or apply directly at https://apply.medly.careers/

Garbage··on Strange domain names that developers bought
I brought geethub.com (a misspelling of Github.com) and have setup a redirect to Github from it. :)

https://geethub.com/

Garbage··on Show HN: I wrote a book about working in a security team
This is great. Congratulations.

Is there a way I can look at sample chapters before buying it?

Garbage··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Medly Software Systems LLP | Multiple Roles | Pune, India | Full-Time

Medly is a digital pharmacy that was founded by second-generation pharmacy owners with decades of experience in the industry. By combining the personal relationship you’d expect from a corner drugstore with the efficiency of a national pharmacy, we aim to make healthcare more efficient and enjoyable.

We are hiring for following roles:

- Associate Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Associate DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Associate QA

- Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Senior DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Senior Frontend Developer (React, Redux)

- Software Development Manager / Engineering Manager

You can send me resumes at shirishp@medly.com or apply directly at https://apply.medly.careers/

Garbage··on Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
This blog from Mozilla [1] explains why rendering CSS is such a complex process.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

Garbage··on Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
This is brilliant.

CodeSandbox also has this. For example, you can import this project in CodeSandbox using link https://githubbox.com/conwnet/github1s (adding box between github and .com)

https://codesandbox.io/docs/importing

Garbage··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Medly Software Systems LLP | Multiple Roles | Pune, India | Full-Time

Medly is a digital pharmacy that was founded by second-generation pharmacy owners with decades of experience in the industry. By combining the personal relationship you’d expect from a corner drugstore with the efficiency of a national pharmacy, we aim to make healthcare more efficient and enjoyable.

We are hiring for following roles:

- Associate Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Associate DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Associate QA

- Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin, Micronaut, AWS Lambda)

- Senior DevOps Engineer (Terraform, AWS)

- Senior Frontend Developer (React, Redux)

- Software Development Manager / Engineering Manager

You can send me resumes at shirishp@medly.com with HN in subject or apply directly at https://apply.medly.careers/

Garbage··on The Chaos Engineering Book
They are offering free copy of the book at https://www.verica.io/book/
Garbage··on Time Travel Theoretically Possible Without Leading to Paradoxes, Researchers Say
Direct link to the paper - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aba4bc
Garbage··on Developing Online with GitHub Codespace
The most risky part is when Github decides to delete your account or repository, you would loose all of your intellectual property, because it was all on the cloud.
Garbage··on MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars
Swastika is a symbol of prosperity in Hindu culture for hundred of years. It doesn't seem right to ban it because Nazi used it for their doings.
Garbage··on I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
Can you please explain why would you not hire this person?
Garbage··on A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers
This seems like a misplaced comment. Does this contribute to any discussion about the article?
Garbage··on JetBrains to reimagine IntelliJ as text editor, add machine learning
Regarding point 1, you know that IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is open source[1], right?

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

Garbage··on A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store
I have been using it for a few "years" now. It has exceeded my expectation for stability from a "nightly" product. I don't even remember having problems with it in last few years, and it's my primary browser.
Garbage··on Windows Sandbox
I believe it's because the virtualization support is only limited to those versions. I might be wrong though.
Garbage··on Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
Same for https://mobile.twitter.com/

It loads very fast even on a mobile browser.

Garbage··on Webpack 4.0
If I understand correctly, using `mode` is optional. You can still continue using full configuration if required.

But I get your point. There might be problems if people start using it without understanding the internals.

Garbage··on Chrome is Not the Standard
It started working from yesterday (at least on Firefox nightly). I found it accidentally. Can you please try again today and see if it works?
Garbage··on Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
You can use tools like Talisman which registers a Git hook to check if you are checking in anything that looks like secret.

https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman

Garbage··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
Did you mean to reply to this comment instead of what you replied? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627722
Garbage··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Did you try current stable firefox or Developer edition or Nightly edition?

If I understand correctly, the photon changes haven't landed on current stable firefox yet. They have just landed in Developer edition. So you might want to give it (or nightly edition) a try.

Garbage··on Java EE
Sorry, I don't understand your point. Are you trying to say, JavaEE is bad, or outsourcing to India is bad, or the code quality is bad?
Garbage··on Headless mode in Firefox
Do you have any advice / links on how to do that? May be you should write a blog post about it. :)
Garbage··on Off-main-thread HTML parsing in Servo
I have been using Stylo for some time now. I have faced exactly zero problems. I think it's rock solid. I don't think it's the default CSS style system though. You can enable it using layout.css.servo.enabled to true in about:config
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