naman's log

A running record of one developer's attempts to understand code, business, books, and parenting — usually over gin.

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2026

The GreyWhy calling someone bad says more about you than them

Sticks and NotesOn holding a drumstick for the first time and the moment your brain ruins a good thing.

The PitOn the loop between quitting your job and not quitting your job, and why nobody writes about it from the inside

The Browser Wars Playbook Is Running Again — This Time With LLMsThe 90s browser wars and today's LLM race are running the same playbook. Here's the pattern.

My First Ice Cold PlungeWhat 18 minutes in ice water actually feels like — and why the high after is worth the pain.

I'm a Google Engineer and I Have a Question I Can't ShakeOn Leetcode gatekeeping, the 3x pay gap, and what 'senior engineer' really means — from someone inside the machine.

I Built a Tool Nobody Asked ForThe story of ghostsecret — from a dead landing page to a published npm package.

How Stable Diffusion Builds an ImageWatching an image emerge from pure noise, one step at a time.

The Life of a Network Packet: A 14K Kms Journey in 200msA first-principles story of how a network packet travels 14,000 kilometres across two oceans in 200 milliseconds — from a café in Bengaluru to a server in Virginia and back.

Your Brain on Infinite ScrollI am fundamentally opposed to the entire concept of short-form content. I hate what it is doing to our collective attention spans. But here is the worst part: I am entirely hooked on it.

The Hiring Delusion: Why We Test for the Wrong ThingA breakdown from first principles on why tech hiring is broken, the science of performance, and the massive arbitrage opportunity for startups.