SPT TCH SA Sarath S 15 CLI tools that replaced Postman, Docker Desktop, Slack and other bloated electron apps for me Docker announced in August 2021 that companies with more than 250 employees or over $11 million in annual revenue would need a paid…
AI TCH SA Sarath S I deleted LM Studio after a week with omlx It was a Tuesday night, somewhere past midnight, and I was deep in a refactor with my local coding agent. Five files open. A 70K-token…
LIF SA Sarath S · Mac O’Clock 15 Mac apps I installed in 2026 that changed how I work Years ago, I used to spend hours hunting for a screenshot I had taken on my mac. It was somewhere in my Desktop folder between two hundred…
AI ECO TCH SA Sarath S · Generative AI What Claude Code’s MCP Support Unlocks (Beyond the Marketing) MCP isn’t Claude’s proprietary magic; it’s a Linux Foundation protocol that’s rewiring how every AI coding tool connects to external…
AI SPT TCH SA Sarath S · JavaScript in Plain English Biome vs ESLint and Prettier: Why one tool beats two (with benchmarks) You’ve been running two tools to handle what should be one job. ESLint catches bugs and enforces code quality. Prettier formats your code…
TCH SA Sarath S · JavaScript in Plain English ESLint takes 45 seconds. oxlint takes 0.4. Here’s the switch. ESLint takes 45 seconds to lint a 1,200-file TypeScript project. oxlint covers the same codebase in 0.4 seconds. That’s not a typo.
LIF SA Sarath S · Stackademic G1 garbage collector vs other Java GCs: Choose the right one for your app Java developers love to argue about frameworks and libraries, but garbage collection is where performance lives or dies. Pick the wrong GC…
SA Sarath S · Stackademic Generational ZGC: How Java 21 cuts pause times without sacrificing throughput Your application just hit 10TB of heap. G1 starts pausing for seconds at a time. You switch to ZGC and pause times drop to microseconds…
AI TCH SA Sarath S I used 4 AI coding agents for 6 months. Here’s what actually happened. Six months ago I made a deliberate decision: instead of picking one AI coding tool and sticking with it, I’d run all four of the serious…
TCH SA Sarath S I replaced Prisma with Drizzle. Six months later, here’s what I gained and what I missed. About eight months ago, I started seriously questioning Prisma. Not because it was broken, but because the friction had been accumulating…
MDA TCH DSN SA Sarath S I’m slowly moving my projects to Svelte from React My side projects don’t need a hiring pipeline. They don’t need a component library with 200 contributors. They don’t need the ecosystem…
TCH SA Sarath S Cloudflare bought VoidZero. The DX redemption arc is almost complete. In 2017, deploying a Cloudflare Worker meant pasting JavaScript into a browser textarea. There was no local dev story worth the name, no…