debarshri

My friend works in large tech; think SV, a satellite office in Amsterdam. Both of them earn greatly. With two kids, they literally don't have any saving at the end of the month. With 52% taxes and mortgage, even with child benefits. of course you don't pay a lot for the education, but the daily operational cost is very high. Small unplanned activity in NL can make you go in the red. Rising energy and grocery prices are not helping either.

Reddit for expat in netherlands is full these posts.

Acquisition happen for 3 reasons.

1. Product 2. Talent 3. Business/growth

In the AI era, some of acquisition happening in the space is for talent and product.

In this case, it looks like it was that. Vite is a great product they were able to build a great team.

You would be surprised how much of a premium companies can pay for talent.

Totally agree with you.

Legacy system users are also the one who pays the most for tools and services. We sell to enterprise, I can attest to that. If it is relevant usecase and positioning for the market, it should be fine.

Those who are curious about notorious data centers, please see Cyberbunker [1]. I think conceptually it is cool. Also in the netherlands.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker

It is just ironic - there are other countries who want talent that goes to US but does not have industry to support them. I guess this is how monopoly looks like.

I have alot to share. I'm writing a blog about it. I'll share along with the game.

I have been using GPT 5.5 to build a video game. Benchmark sounds about right. It generates assets and sprite good enough, if not closer to AAA level games. Will check antigravity now.

They also uploaded sensitive docs in chatgpt [1]

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumuk...

VAT carousel is fraud. This is pre-legal.

What are the types of ARR the platform support?

Can it also generate SOC2 certifications in days?

Does it make it remotely? I mean, you can do that locally with

``` CREATE DATABASE cloned_db WITH TEMPLATE source_db OWNER your_owner; ```

Does it clone the data? We have a table with 35GB data, what happen in that case?

It is basically like invoicing through AWS Marketplace.

This is interesting. I am trying to k3s equivalent essentially. Not a full implementation.

I am writing kubernetes compatible single binary service for various runtimes in rust [1].

Currently supports docker, containerd, wasm runtimes. I am adding support for jvm and kvm, etc. Works as is in macos. There is mock runtime too to mock it for various testing various distributed services etc.

It is a fun little experimental project.

[1] https://github.com/debarshibasak/superkube

I dont agree. For instance, one of the features in the roadmap was to build pgbouncer equivalent project internally. We did not underestimate the time it would take. You can have tech debt if you are not cautious. Internally, we do PRD-driven development; this is how we are not incurring tech debt.

> agent that's likely to wipe your Prod instance and backups at some random future time.

Funny that you mean, we are actually building a platform that builds guardrails, runtime policies, tool repo and classifiers that prevents agents from these operations.

The agent thing is going a bit out of hand here.

thats not what i meant, but thats ok.

I think every CLI is agent native when invoked from claude or any coding agents.

I was really suprised today. We at adaptive [1], is an access management platform to access psql, mysql, vms, k8s etc. When you use `adaptive connect <db-name>` it would connect create just-in-time tunnel and connect the user to the database. You cannot do traditional psql operation etc. That design is by choice.

Today I was trying to invoke it via claude, and, god damn, it found a way to connect. It create a pseudo shell in python, pass the queries and treat our cli like a tool. This would have been humanly not possible. Partly because, you would like about risks, good practice/bad practice, would be scared to execute and write code like that, and it just did it and acheived the goal.

[1] https://adaptive.live

Anthropic is probably looking at this trend and building something. When released will kill couple of startups.

why does it need e2b? Why cant you just use docker.

Would be funny if you host it on github pages.

Ps. Agents can also sell and delete domains.

Thats true for point solutions. You often dont find a guided product tour there.

Guided tour does have its place where the product is a workflow, a platform offering, has bunch of features and you want to introduce the feature to them.

If you are paying 10-25k USD per year, you expect some onboarding specialist who gives instructions on integrating ACH and payroll systems etc. It is very common for non-technical folk to hop on a onboarding call.

People often try to automate that as it is expensive, but i think people prefer that human touch esp. when you are paying alot of money.

Just updated it. What do you think?

Point taken. Let me see what i can do.

The reason I do not want to remove them and would rather mark them as defunct is that founders or companies have put time and effort into creating a PR. I would not just delete stuff but rather do due diligence on their status occasionally.

I would argue all products that people put effort into, build, try to market, and put in front of people are awesome.

People make PRs, I review them, and many a time companies themselves have categorized them in the PR. You can argue with me that they don't fit, but many a time these companies or the founders choose the categories.

Please feel free. I do not make any money with this nor there is any hidden intentions here. I am doing this because I am genuinely passionate about PaaS, containers and devops.

I started this when my company as into PaaS. Now we are not, but I still curate and maintain it.

It does not look so bad, does it?