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Book Summaries Notable quotes from "How to Live" by Derek Sivers Book Summary: What I learned losing a millio dollars by Jim Paul Book Summary: Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke Book Summary: The half-life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman Book Summary: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Book Summary: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick Book Summary: Staff Engineer by Will Larson Book Summary: Woke, Inc....

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Following is a list of selected posts, all posts can be seen here. About me can be seen here. Programming Always support compressed response in an API service Hermetic docker images with Hugging Face machine learning models How to add a new formula to homebrew package manager How to setup Go packages under monorepo Android: Always show toasts on the background thread Tech Thoughts Abstractions should be deep not wide Some data on podcasting API services should always have usage Limits Using Python & Poetry inside Docker Timing Book Summary Travel Currency issues in Argentina A day in El Calafate - Patagonia, Argentina Hiking in El Chaltén - trekking capital of Argentina Ultimate guide to traveling in Ushuaia Argentina Ultimate guide to exploring Buenos Aires Life Sometimes the middle ground is most empowering Diet action plan from "How not to die" book Binary vs Graded outcomes Book summary: The science of happily ever after by T Y Tashiro

I am a software engineer and an angel investor based out of the San Francisco bay area. This page is mostly a collection of curated articles that I have written and tools that I have built. More professional info is on LinkedIn. You can email me at ashishb AT ashishb.net. Blog posts & Tools Infrastructure If you are an infrastructure engineer consider my Docker 101 blog post and then read how you can deploy web services essentially with zero fixed costs....