Devtool Obsession
First Bun + Anthropic. Now Astro + Cloudflare. The devtool space is heating up in a very AI world!
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Welcome to the garden of Anurag Bhandari the developer, a generalist software engg.
This little space on the web is where I write about my coding (mis)adventures, share bookmarks, and scribble short notes to help my future self (and you?) learn something useful.
🎩 Hats I have worn over the years:
Full-Stack Engineer, Engineering Manager, Frontend Architect, Applied R&D Technologist, Linux
Developer, OSS Founder, and "the guy who'll fix my computer".
I love experimenting with shiny new things ✨, learning through knowledge sharing 📣, and spraying emojis 🙂.
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🤔 Notes (16)
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2025 In Books
Seasons changed and so did my shelf. Indeed. May and July were two of my toughest months in 2025. I fell short of my target of 12 books. But I finished 9! They spoke to me, supported me, transported me. Here’s to more stories in 2026.
🔖 Bookmarks (111)
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
Unification of relational data and vector storage sounds undeniably compelling for semantic search usecases, but it’s important to look at the tradeoffs before going all-in on such an approach. The article’s ‘The Limits of This Approach’ section explains it quite elegantly.
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The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
Parts of this article on tokenmaxxing read like plots out of outlandish worlds of Cyberpunk and Mad Max. I mean, didn’t we already learn our lessons from ‘lines of code as a performance metric’?
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The 3 Candidates I Always Rejected as a Bar Raiser at Amazon
I can see a bit of myself in all 3 rejected candidate types. What helped me crack interviews was doing more of them (in ‘production’, of course) and learning from failed ones. It was 10x more effective than any mock interview I ever did.