Welcome. This is a [[digital garden]] — a collection of notes, ideas, and explorations that grow over time. Unlike blog posts ordered by dates, this is an interlinked web of living documents that evolve as I learn.
I’m Hrishikesh Bhaskaran, VP of Engineering at Entri. This is where I think out loud — connecting ideas across things I read, build, and encounter. Some notes are half-formed, others are well-tended. Start anywhere and follow the links.
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- ActivityPub is the W3C protocol that powers the fediverse
- Circuit breaker pattern stops cascading failures in distributed systems
- Federated search distributes queries across independent indexes
- Federation is many independent servers speaking a shared protocol
- HTTP Signatures prove identity in federation without shared secrets
- Relay pattern reduces N-squared delivery to 2N in federation
- WebFinger resolves handles to identity documents in federation
- Jerry Rigging
- Kludge
- You Build It, You Own It
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- A Note on Distributed Computing
- ActivityPub is the W3C protocol that powers the fediverse
- Adaptability
- AI Adoption
- Amateur
- Amateur Mindset
- Amazon's 6-Pager
- Analytical Data
- Analytically Operational Data
- Application Layout Engine
- Architecturally-significant Requirement (ASR)
- Architecture Decision (AD)
- Architecture Decision Log (ADL)
- Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
- Avoid Stupidity
- Boundary Setting
- Broken Ownership Archetypes
- Broken Windows Theory
- Character (Story Element)
- Chinese Settlement in Calicut
- Circuit breaker pattern stops cascading failures in distributed systems
- Coachable vs Learnable vs Intrinsic Skills
- Conflict (Story Element)
- Constitution of India - Article 21
- Cyber Bullying
- Cyber Bullying Laws in India
- Cyber Bullying Laws International
- Cyber Crime
- Cyber Crime Laws in India
- DAMP Principle
- Deductive Reasoning - Eliminate the Impossible
- Design of Experiments (DoE)
- Desire (Story Element)
- Digital Garden
- Digital Garden Workflow
- Document Layout Engine
- DORA
- Doxxing
- DRY Principle
- Dunder in Python
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Eisenhower Matrix
- ELT (Extract - Load - Transform)
- Engineering Strategy
- Federated search distributes queries across independent indexes
- Federation is many independent servers speaking a shared protocol
- Flexibility Over Rigidity
- Footnotes in Markdown
- Friends
- Genomic Sequencing Service
- Goals-Signals-Metrics (GSM) Model
- Google Maps
- Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
- HEART Framework
- Highest Divorce Rate
- Hope Is a Good Thing
- HTTP Signatures prove identity in federation without shared secrets
- Human Brain Memory Capacity
- Influencer Marketing
- Influencer Marketing Funnel
- Ingress
- Internal Platform
- Intrinsic Qualities in Hiring
- Inversion
- Invictus
- Jerry Rigging
- Jugaad
- Kludge
- Layout Engine
- Legend of Prester John
- Local vs Distributed Objects
- Lone Genius Myth
- Making a Difference (The Star Thrower)
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Miranda Warning
- Mortality Awareness
- Nano Influencers vs Macro Influencers
- Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Online Violence
- Operational Data
- Ownership Trio
- Phantom Media
- Phantom Urbanism
- Plaintiff
- Platform Engineering
- Podcast Etymology
- Polymath
- Pre-Mortem Analysis
- Pretty Good House
- Primary Sources in Historical Research
- Process Documentation
- Process is Messy
- Proof of Concept (POC)
- Prototype
- RACI Matrix
- Reciprocal Rank Fusion merges ranked lists without comparable scores
- Relay pattern reduces N-squared delivery to 2N in federation
- Request for Comments (RFC)
- Resilience
- Retraction Watch
- RICE Framework
- Right No vs Wrong Yes
- Scenius
- Silence and Unspoken Words
- Story
- stultus
- The Compass of Zettelkasten
- The Ivory Throne by Manu S Pillai
- Theory of Constraints
- User Interface Markup Language
- Value Stream Mapping
- Wardley Maps
- WebFinger resolves handles to identity documents in federation
- Widget Toolkit
- You Build It, You Own It