I’m Navendu, and welcome to “The Open Source Absolutist,” aka my brain dump.
I mostly write about my work and life as an open source contributor/maintainer and an amateur policy analyst (what am I doing now?).
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I could probably give solid life advice to twenty-year-olds, right?
A visual and interactive guide to understanding Bayes’ Theorem, a fundamental tool for updating probabilities with new evidence.
Should you build your own reverse proxy to replace Nginx?
Exploring the new Kubernetes Gateway API and comparing it with the existing Kubernetes Ingress API for handling external traffic.
Access to publicly funded scientific research should be ubiquitous. But the current plan to achieve this is far from ideal.
A comprehensive comparison of API gateways, Kubernetes gateways, and service meshes with actionable insights.
Notes from a weekend with hackers, maintainers, and wonks.
I like both niche and umbrella conferences: one for depth, the other for breadth.
ForecastBench continuously evaluates the performance of LLMs against an automatically generated, continuously updated set of forecasting questions.
Practical guidelines on context engineering, like having an append-only context, using response prefill to remove/force tools, setting up restorable compression strategies, and more.
It was much cheaper and easier than convincing my family to use ad blockers. And it turns out, a quarter of all DNS queries were ads.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets LLMs run code safely in isolated Docker containers.
Notes on using OpenAI Agents SDK’s MCP support to integrate DiceDB MCP.
A practical, hands-on, and interactive guide to Git for new coders and creative builders.
My experience in building an MCP server for DiceDB using the MCP Go SDK.
Insights on active citizenship and governance from “The Nitopadesha.” Part 2 explores the lessons from the second book, “The Thread of the Science of Prosperity.”
Practical, experience-driven, and often-overlooked ideas to improve your next developer conference talk.
A quick guide to using the Hugo Version Manager (hvm) to download, manage, and switch between different versions of Hugo.
The author is clearly trying to channel his existential crisis and crippled ambitions into a blog post.
An interactive quiz to teach the importance of evaluating actions by their consequences and not their intentions.