Curious mind. Finds happiness in building things and writing.https://spraka.sh/https://spraka.sh/blog/life-is-long-enough/https://spraka.sh/blog/life-is-long-enough/Jeff Dean helped build the systems beneath Google. His calendar still made room for yoga, football, and a 30-minute meeting with an intern.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/the-opportunity-was-one-question-away/https://spraka.sh/blog/the-opportunity-was-one-question-away/A fifth-standard boy corrected my geography. Another family used one plain AI question to find an opportunity for their son's book.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-oss/https://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-oss/Kailash Nadh, Zerodha, Cloudflare, and Shopify show the discipline behind a costly choice: inherit, extend, fork, or build a production system from scratch.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-languages/https://spraka.sh/blog/companies-and-languages/Jane Street, Ericsson, NeXT, Google, Meta, Roblox, and Apple show when a company can justify years of investment in a programming language.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/disclosureday/https://spraka.sh/blog/disclosureday/A director near 80 and a composer in his nineties shipped a 2026 movie. Work stays alive when you enjoy the process and keep learning.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/doom-is-cheap/https://spraka.sh/blog/doom-is-cheap/Why doom scenarios are easy to imagine and flourishing scenarios are hard, and what the May 2026 tech layoffs show about the work that actually matters.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/the-math-doesnt-exactly-math/https://spraka.sh/blog/the-math-doesnt-exactly-math/A lifelong Vijay fan tries to explain an election result that defies explanation.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-answer/https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-answer/How LLM inference works step by step: prefill, decode, the KV cache, sampling, tool use, and the engineering that makes it economical.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-get-built/https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-get-built/Inside the months-long pipeline that turns trillions of words of text into a deployable LLM: data, tokenizer, pre-training, alignment, and shipping.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-work/https://spraka.sh/blog/how-llms-work/From raw text to streaming response - every step of how large language models are built and how they process your prompts.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/how-programming-languages-work/https://spraka.sh/blog/how-programming-languages-work/From the text you type to the binary that runs - the full compiler pipeline, type safety ladder, and patterns every developer should know.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/health-naval-ravikant/https://spraka.sh/blog/health-naval-ravikant/Naval's framework for making health non-negotiable - from concentric circles to daily practiceFri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/a-third-path-paathuklam/https://spraka.sh/blog/a-third-path-paathuklam/Sridhar Vembu says programmers should consider alternative livelihoods. He's right about the disruption - but how you sit with this moment matters more than what the moment is.Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/happiness-naval-ravikant/https://spraka.sh/blog/happiness-naval-ravikant/Naval's framework for training happiness - from desire as a contract to peace as the goalSun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/jevons-paradox/https://spraka.sh/blog/jevons-paradox/A documentation project that grew into an MCP server, a competitive landscape analysis, and a realization about what AI actually does to software demand.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/hidden-rnd-giants-of-tamil-nadu/https://spraka.sh/blog/hidden-rnd-giants-of-tamil-nadu/A fan buying experience led me to discover local companies doing world-class engineering that most of us don't know about.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/the-river-that-came-back/https://spraka.sh/blog/the-river-that-came-back/A city forgot its river was a river. Then it remembered.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/the-leader-makes-the-difference/https://spraka.sh/blog/the-leader-makes-the-difference/Two stories from different worlds - a startup ecosystem and a Christmas carol competition - that reveal the same truth about leadership.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/two-tales-of-marketing/https://spraka.sh/blog/two-tales-of-marketing/What a Diwali trip taught me about the extremes of marketing - from deception to delight.Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/sqlite-testing-590x/https://spraka.sh/blog/sqlite-testing-590x/SQLite has 92 million lines of tests for 155K lines of code. A Twitter debate made me rethink what balanced testing really means.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://spraka.sh/blog/hello-world/https://spraka.sh/blog/hello-world/Welcome to my blog! This is where I'll share my thoughts, learnings, and things I'm building.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT