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Hi — I'm Shardul. I live in Montréal, Québec, Canada. I'm currently an engineer at Gadget. Previously I worked at Distributional, Stripe, and Shopify.
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- > Read this and your next model will be 10x...
- Art Doesn't Scale
- A Future Worth Entering
- How I Use Cursor
- The Need to Read
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- Pictures are famous for their humanness, and not for their pictureness
- Maybe you should learn something
- the figs will rot if you don’t eat them
- Accidental anonymity
- Joy & Curiosity #91
- Short Reflection on being Offline for 24 hours
- But Y
- All Buttons Could Be Action Buttons
- Reject Agility, Embrace Specification
- Dopamine Fracking
- this scene changed my life in 2023
- Two hundred decisions
- WARNING: Longer post (but worth reading or bookmarking for later)
- A simple thought experiment for cultivating inner strength
- Saying the obvious thing
- The Everyday Miracle: Value Is Not Cost
- 🟧 Is "character" the new taste?
- The Missing Ingredient in Most Personal Curriculums
- Fast is better than slow
- My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this...
- Missing the Trees for the Forest
- Code is Cheap(er)
- Yes, and...
- My biggest regret of 2026
- Augmented Augmented Reality
- Honeycrisp
- Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
- How to Lose Time and Money
- Slow Tools
- The Work of Staying
- How Much Will SpaceX Actually Cost Your Index Fund?
- The software industry: annealing, but wrong
- The User Doesn't Care - But you should
- The Motivation Ranker
- Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat
- Doing nothing at work
- You can design your life for winning with a few...
- Contributing to Complex Projects
- Meta strategy: list, rank, iterate
- Slow Tools
- We should be more tired than the model
- Building Software Is Learning
- The Wu Tapes
- Casus Belli Engineering
- Coding Models Are Doing Too Much | wh
- Liar's Valuation
- alexine's case against education
- Always Be Blaming
- Do you know your default shape?
- The right place at the right time
- there is no better time in tech than now to...
- The saddest people i know are not the ones who...
- The Fast Lane to Mediocrity
- Hacks vs. Artists
- A new EDIT tool for LLM agents
- Your dopamine as it was meant to work
- Unit and Integration Tests
- Why the problem isn’t what you crave
- Neuro-Engineering: how to neutralise the urge to check your phone
- From addiction to agency: taking advantage of dopamine’s plasticity window
- Why Spain has the world’s greatest cities
- Parenting as a public good
- How I Learn Things
- Repairing the Ruins: Why AI Can’t Replace Education
- The agent principal-agent problem
- Cutting through to what matters
- Build It Yourself
- Militant contentment
- Dependencies are a Liability
- Death worries me because I have things to do
- How my 3-year-old learnt to read
- Our homeschool plans
- The wonder of modern drywall
- Securing posterity
- Learning on the Shop floor
- The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
- I Want to Live Like Costco People
- I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say - The Boston Globe
- Who’s afraid of artificial flavors?
- Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish
- The Shape of the Essay Field
- Our Uncertain Uncertainties
- Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
- Java for Everything
- As an engineer, you should have some depth
- Appearing Productive in The Workplace
- Good Writing
- The Brand Age
- Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub
- Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution
- Write to escape your default setting
- The Missing Bundler Features
- The Great Filter
- Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
- JJ LSP Follow Up
- Consensus Board Game
- Automation That Screams Joy
- Why fat tailed costs emerge at scale
- Using LLMs at Oxide
- A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) primer
- Having Kids
- The death of the phone call. - by Greg Scaduto
- Iteration Inside and Out
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The world’s most complex machine
- Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful
- My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
- How to make yourself crave hard books (not just want to want to read them)
- My 7 Biggest Self-Education Mistakes
- The Best Founders Have... Zero Introspection?
- Earlier this year Yann LeCun left Meta because Mark Zuckerberg...
- You Will Live Like a Lobotomized Pigeon If You Don’t Reclaim Your Focus
- Dear Aliens: A Writing Contest
- Getting a better sense for when you’re thinking well and when you’re faking it
- The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
- The Overlooked Killer of a Meaningful Life
- Set aside an extended period of time for you to...
- being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
- LLM prompt for useful note headers · GitHub
- There’s no speed limit
- What Color is Your Function?
- 🌲 The Konik Method for Organizing Electronic Notes
- Tasty — Quarter Mile
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
- The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
- Safer systems with the help of Claude | Bouke van der Bijl
- when interviewing for jobs, don't talk as if they're doing...
- Two Worlds
- The Reckoning
- We decided to organize a meetup around agentic coding last...
- your agents have a state problem. event sourcing fixes it
- Three Reasons to Be a Parent
- Minimal NixOS systemd-nspawn containers
- From error-handling to structured concurrency
- How to read more books (as a novelty-seeker)
- My Husband Didn’t ‘Let’ Me Go to Australia
- Paychecks, Not Portfolios: Why Income is the Key to Financial Success
- Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life
- Are Your Beliefs Assets or Liabilities?
- Four Line Fridays: jemalloc is back, more parallel test runners, TUI for Sidekiq, and how to speed up your CI
- The Execution Layer
- why some conversations rearrange your brain
- On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke
- SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
- Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
- Class Rules Everything Around Me
- What to learn
- Putting Ideas into Words
- Deliberate Practice for Software Developers
- The Mundanity Of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report On Stratification And Olympic Swimmers
- Are you serious? - by visakan veerasamy Are you serious?
- 95%-ile isn't that good
- Errors as Values in TypeScript
- How System Prompts Define Agent Behavior
- My 3-Phase Self-Education Routine (+ 5 Tips to Build Your Own)
- Offline 23 hours a day
- 747s and Coding Agents
- How to Become a Self-Taught Expert (Just do these 3 things)
- The happiest I’ve ever been
- No title
- Easier Soufflés Start Upside Down
- saturday comics: file descriptors
- I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong
- The Insane Stupidity of UBI
- The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class
- The Need to Read
- How to Get New Ideas
- The housing theory of everything
- A Guide To Doing Things
- Steps back are also steps, right?
- I won't let you pay me for my open source
- The Hidden Danger in Low-Information Goals & Statements
- Taste for Makers
- Deep Blue: Chess vs Programming
- AI is the Best Thing to Happen to Art
- "Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work
- Stories From 25 Years of Computing
- The Education Babies Need
- Lessons from Building Claude Code: Prompt Caching Is Everything
- Fellas, I finally have a really good Web Search in...
- The Montessori Method / Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in 'The Children's Houses' with Additions and Revisions by the Author
- The 11 Most Interesting Ideas I Read on Paternity Leave
- Books I Read in 2025
- Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't
- The two kinds of desire, and one of the most important things I know
- Do Less.
- Unoptimized
- How to Test
- The "AI Bubble"
- Love is a skill.
- Cost of Housing
- Joanna Stern Signs Off From The Wall Street Journal
- The Final Bottleneck
- The Grug Brained Developer A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
- The death of software, the A24 of software
- My competitive advantage is I’m having fun
- Why I’m not worried about AI job loss
- Carpenters’ tools
- How to decide and make the best choice
- 3-2-1: Keeping your body loose and head clear, how to find adventure, and what to do when you're motivated
- How I practice at what I do
- No new instructions for the computer
- Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (Can AI Break It?)
- Career Hypnosis
- What virtue is undersupplied today?
- You Can Hold Her Now
- What are you getting paid in?
- Senior engineers should make side bets
- Becoming the person who does the thing
- In Montessori, children learn many things earlier than normal
- How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it
- What happens when you start a process on Linux?
- How do we tell truths that might hurt?
- Something to look forward to
- It is actually very simple
- We mourn our craft
- A Smart Bear » Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor
- One Question that Will Help You Become Consistent
- I cannot emphasize enough how much I prefer this "tutorial...
- fun is the only metric that doesn’t lie
- a book on improving marriage without talking keeps going viral...
- Tour de France primer: What is a breakaway?
- Raising An Agent Episode - Episode 10
- Money is the Map
- My AI Adoption Journey
- Decide What’s Human
- Episode 10 of Raising An Agent with @sqs and @thorstenball...
- The Erotics of Intelligence
- Designing AI-resistant technical evaluations
- Marry Your City
- Why Now Is a Bad Time to Get Into Fragrances
- No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases – Dex Horthy, HumanLayer
- Inverse Triangle Inequality Jul 7, 2025
- DHH: Why AI Isn't Writing My Code (Yet)
- The secret to being happy in 2026? It’s far, far simpler than you think …
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- The Grandmaster in the Corner Office: What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life
- What I'm looking for in my marriage
- Beware of Black Butterflies
- Your Presence is Inversely Related to Your Hunger for Distraction
- Brain Food: Your Greatest Competition
- A Way Forward
- Collecting Advice Is Killing Your Progress
- have a lot to say about this, but broadly:
- Why our house is a library
- Eliminate Noise In Your Mental Bandwidth
- You know we talk about how modern parenting expectations are...
- A student suggested I make this video free, as a...
- I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting...
- Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck
- 3-2-1: On ignorance vs. genius, the history of every day, and the process of becoming yourself
- Your codebase is the prompt
- Be sustainable
- This 1000000%
- What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
- The lack of "feature design" is why so many products...
- A Smart Bear » Double your productivity without more work or stress
- Giving Up Is Also Giving
- Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
- No you can’t “have it all.” You can have two things, but not three.
- Possessed by fantasy
- From Any Spot on the Field
- The Book So Helpful That the Eagles’ A.J. Brown Read it During a Game - The New York Times
- Oh, to turn off your mind!
- How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
- Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
- My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text
- Crossing the cringe minefield
- Burnout is breaking a sacred pact
- mini-cure for doomscrolling
- Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice
- Forget Willpower. If You Want to Resist Temptation, You’ll Need Something Else.
- AI Needs a Jobs
- The Move Faster Manifesto
- Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water Reading Well
- LLMs aren’t world models
- 3-2-1: On comparison, life strategy, and stopping negative thought spirals
- What if you tried hard?
- Majjit LSP
- you should be writing quarterly shareholder updates even if you...
- Open the Door
- Burnout is breaking a sacred pact
- Why you don't know yourself as well as you could
- Fwd: My Enneagram: 4, 1, 7
- Roger Federer as Religious Experience
- you might not need tmux
- The parental dead end of consent morality
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email: shardul AT baral DOT ca · github: shardulbee