Articles from lalitm.com
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- The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox - Lalit Maganti
New services like exe.dev, sprites, and shellbox succeed not on price or specs, but by offering frictionless, sandboxed cloud VMs for AI-driven developers who want fast prototyping and instant web service sharing.
- Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail - Lalit Maganti
Senior engineers let bad projects fail because being right and being effective differ; they strategically spend influence only when it matters.
- One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household - Lalit Maganti
A software engineer built a personal finance system using plain-text accounting and Beancount to produce a single, trustworthy net worth number across multiple currencies and accounts.
- Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
A senior staff engineer at Google argues that long-term stewardship of infrastructure systems yields more impact than chasing high-visibility product work.
- We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs - Lalit Maganti
A team of 45 engineers paused roadmap work for a week, fixing 189 bugs and improving product polish through a structured 'fixit' process.