writings by dhir

june 6, 2026

i tried to select a string vacuum from the new de sitter holography. here's where it broke.

a record of a thing i tried that doesn't work. the place it fails is more interesting than the place it starts.

april 2026

k-means at scale: what i learned building a clustering pipeline

the algorithm is 60 years old. the engineering around making it production-ready is where it gets interesting.

march 2026

why rust changed the way i think

it's not about memory safety. it's about being forced to be honest.

february 2026

the problem with 'best practices'

best for whom, exactly? under what conditions? when were they decided?

january 2026

on reading source code as a habit

i got more from reading redis than from most blog posts about distributed systems.