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 (119)
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AI is shifting commerce — here's what 225 leaders told us they're betting on
Search and discovery will be the first thing that’s disrupted in the agentic commerce era. 7/10 store owners are actively investing in LLM discovery and traffic. Both stats match my instincts about how e-commerce is changing, which makes building what I’m building even more exciting.
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Why Defaulting to Pessimism Sabotages Your Career
Realism is a mark of seniority, optimism is a trait of visionaries, pessimism is what puts your work and career in danger. The difference is subtle and lies in how you conclude situations. The realist says, “The timeline is tight and the dependencies are unclear.” The pessimist says, “The timeline is tight and the dependencies are unclear, so this isn’t going to work.” The optimist says, “The timeline is tight and the dependencies are unclear, so here’s what we’d need to do to ship it.”
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The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
The FDE role evolving into solutions architect isn’t surprising given how sales is a profit center in any org. All top AI companies rapidly building their services businesses was inevitable.