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Practical advice on deciding whether to add a feature to your product, based on experience as a Founder and Advisor building software-driven products.
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Vishal Shanbhagproduct-managemententrepreneurshipstartup+1
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How to Choose Your Next Software Technology Stack
A practical framework for making technology selection decisions, demonstrated through a real-world case study of choosing a mobile development platform.
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Vishal Shanbhagtechnology-selectiondecision-makingmobile-development+5
Apache Solr and ZooKeeper Scaling Guidelines
A set of guidelines for scaling deployment of Apache Solr and Zookeeper with consideration to high availability and disaster recovery.
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Vishal Shanbhagapache-solrapache-zookeepersearch-engine+3
The Banyan Tree called StackOverflow is Dying
A banyan tree once stood in the centre of every Indian village. StackOverflow was that for programmers. The statistics tell a simple story worth acknowledging.
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Vishal Shanbhagstackoverflowaideveloper-tools+2
How This Site Was Built With Astro
I built weshall.build on Astro 6 with the Velocity template. Here are the key decisions, the scorecard, and the things that went wrong.
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Vishal ShanbhagAstroVelocityweb-development+4
Oops, I Deleted It Again
An AI coding agent deleted my raw notes without authorisation. The root cause analysis revealed hard truths about agent governance, permission models, and the price of convenience.
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Vishal ShanbhagAIagentgovernance+3
Bye Bye WordPress (Part 1)
WordPress served well for a decade, but the complexity tax finally outweighed the convenience. I switched to Jekyll and never looked back.
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Vishal ShanbhagWordPressJekyllweb-development+3
Run Further Than a Marathon
A founder replaces his Forrest Gump slide with a real Indian ultra-runner and finds the metaphor he needed all along.
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Vishal Shanbhagfounderultra-runningmetaphor+2
ZeroClaw: From Zero to Super Powered assistant
Installing ZeroClaw on Kali Linux, wiring it to Discord, and verifying the whole thing works. No cloud, no subscription leash, no data leaving your machine.
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Vishal ShanbhagzeroClawself-hostedAI+5