Raveesh

@raveesh
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I tinker, therefore I am #hopepunk
CurrentRecommendations Algo PM, Netflix
PastJobs Marketplace lead @ LinkedIn, first employee @ Haptik, bunch of startup things
Webhttps://raveesh.xyz
RaveeshJul 2, 2023
How stupid does your product strategy have to be that you keep finding new ways to push your power users to Mastodon???
RaveeshFeb 8, 2023
rabbleFeb 8, 2023
You can still post on Twitter by scheduling posts. So any tweet you see on the platform is created by a bot or scheduled, not in real time. Elon Musk said he was going to go to war with the bots on Twitter, and the bots won.
Show threadRaveeshFeb 8, 2023
Turns out I'd have known had I spent more time here
RaveeshFeb 8, 2023
Things are going great over at the bird app
Show threadRaveeshFeb 4, 2023
This entire thread reminds me of when I first got to try out an Aakash tablet around 2012 (remember those things?) This is what I wrote about them back then.
Show threadRaveeshFeb 4, 2023

I’m literally spending time I’d otherwise use to play console games to write code instead, on weekdays after a ton of work, just because I’m actually enjoying it again!

If you want to get someone you know into programming, the setup is incredibly important, and needs to feel as pleasurable as a game they enjoy

RaveeshFeb 4, 2023

A reflection in the little over month of working on a side project: your programming setup (tools, computer) makes a huge difference in how pleasurable you find it, and is an underrated reason to actually take out time for it.

For me, most of the credit goes to switching from a 2015 MBP to a M1 MBP over the holidays. The snappiness is night and day.

Some credit also goes to web frameworks getting a lot better (toying with nextjs, previously only wrote Android code that took forever to build)

RaveeshJan 13, 2023
So carrotweather.app might be the most fun app I've tried in a while
RaveeshJan 13, 2023
I just discovered Incremental Static Regeneration on Nextjs - it helped me cut down load times from 2.5s to <100ms for my side project (which hasn't been optimized at all and is making a bunch of sequential API calls).
RaveeshJan 9, 2023

Question: when is the last time Netflix recommended something to watch that you weren't sure about but absolutely loved?

I'll start with two personal egs:
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo

I was particularly skeptical about the latter, and assumed I was seeing it just because I watched The Lincoln Lawyer and the Algos thought they were similar. Was convinced by other folks and _loved_ it, great intro to K-shows for me.