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Shrutarshi Basu

@basus.me

Programmer, writer, lapsed academic computer scientist. Formerly Cornell CIS & Harvard SEAS.

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Hey @anil.recoil.org do you have a writeup somewhere of how your website works? I visited it for the first time in a while and see some things I'd like to steal πŸ˜›

11.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear lazyweb, if I wanted to build a compiler back-end that targeted multiple architectures (x84-64, arm64, maybe WASM), is there a standard-ish intermediate representation I could take as input? Ideally something simpler than LLVM IR?

09.01.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026
Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026 YouTube video by Marvel Entertainment

Can't shake the feeling that no one is in charge at Marvel.

youtu.be/kH1XlwHQv9o?...

08.01.2026 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The more I look into containers and Nix (and related) the more I feel like Docker squandered a golden opportunity by making Dockerfiles be essentially shell scripts rather declarative specifications for reproducible builds.

05.06.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Starting to do some sysadmin and server deployment work and really wishing there was a bastard love child of Docker, Nix and Alpine Linux. With a sane scripting language of course.

04.06.2025 09:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the best way to generate a good looking PDF and a decent looking webpage from the same source? Looks like Typst just added an initial version of their HTML output, but maybe Latex is still the most mature and capable?

15.05.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What is Orena?

28.04.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is this good or bad?

25.04.2025 07:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The language itself is pretty good, though I'm not thrilled by a lot of the tooling and ecosystem around it. Hopefully there's a way of writing usable code in it that keeps the messiness at bay.

24.04.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I should suck it up and learn to program properly in TypeScript. There's a growing list of software that I'd like to use and extend that uses TypeScript (Obsidian, Lume, Fedify), not to mention its utility for web programming.

24.04.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I think you're right. I don't know if I would use it for programming, but for a website, or note-taking it seems nice. I think I'll stick to Catppuccin for programming for now.

24.04.2025 10:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flexoki An inky color scheme for prose and code.

I'm a sucker for a good color scheme, and Flexoki by Stephan Ango is a keeper. It's similar to Solarized but brighter and with more contrast. And yes, I am tempted to adapt it as a color scheme for my site.

stephango.com/flexoki

24.04.2025 06:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Re-asserting Ownership Islands of ownership in a sea of rentals

Some thoughts on re-asserting ownership in age where everything is rented:

v4.basus.me/journal/2025...

24.03.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Steam Spring Sale Haul Picked up some games I don't need and might never play

I wrote about my Steam Spring Sale haul, which made me think about the positive effects of getting things for yourself.

v4.basus.me/journal/2025...

19.03.2025 15:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Picotron

I found the Picotron, a retro-nostalgic computing experiment that is "a Fantasy Workstation: a self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware".

v4.basus.me/stream/2025/...

18.03.2025 06:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday Selection 2025-03-16 Some things that have influenced my thinking on mastery

For today's Sunday Selection, I collected some things that have influenced my thinking on mastery over the last year.

v4.basus.me/journal/2025...

16.03.2025 16:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Home-cooked Software An application of LLMs that I'm actually excited about

This week I finally came around to the idea of using LLMs for programming, especially when it comes to building home-cooked software: v4.basus.me/journal/2024...

14.03.2025 17:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Added my first Bay Area restaurant to my to-go list on Google Maps today.

12.03.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love how modern CSS makes it easy to make complex custom layouts so that we can spend all our time pixel peeping.

09.03.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday Selection 2025-03-09 A smattering of homegrown websites

Today's Sunday Selection contains a smattering of homegrown websites and the first non-fiction book I've read this year.

v4.basus.me/journal/2025...

09.03.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I moved my bookmarks from Pinboard to Raindrop and in the process realized that I have bookmarks going back all the way to 2016. Sadly, a lot of the oldest links are now dead. Memento mori, this too shall pass, all things are impermanent, etc. etc.

08.03.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is FREEDOM not an option?

04.02.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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wyd A quick script to summarize all the work I've done today

I put together a little script to help me keep track of what work I've done during the day, and in the process got much more comfortable with shell scripting.

v4.basus.me/journal/2025...

04.02.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m totally gonna watch this, but like… why?!

03.02.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Darkroom Darkroom: The most efficient photo & video editor with powerful AI tools and presets for effortless creativity, on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and VisionOS

I’ve been considering Darkroom, at least on Apple devices.

darkroom.co

03.02.2025 10:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lightroom replacement?

03.02.2025 04:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How do you get it to work with Deno? I’m pretty new to Typescript, still figuring out package management.

02.02.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really want to go deep into a programming language and ecosystem, but every project I can think of involves a different one.

02.02.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahh Racket, the rabbit hole programming language!

02.02.2025 05:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How are you implementing the editor?

02.02.2025 04:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0