lalitmaganti

688 karmajoined February 1, 2021On HN

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google working on Perfetto (docs.perfetto.dev). Passionate about open source, performance, and the intersection of the two. Writing about all of these at lalitm.com.

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Review a pull request by booting it fzakaria.com
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Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk a friend, cause I can zerotistic.blog
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Opus 5 doesn't use em-dashes in code comments lalitm.com
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Responsibility Is Taken Before It Is Given lalitm.com
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Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn't lalitm.com
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How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer lalitm.com
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Giving and taking credit in big tech companies seangoedecke.com
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GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement lalitm.com
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Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)curiouscoding.nl
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When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter blog.colinbreck.com
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17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning lalitm.com
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Don't answer the first question lalitm.com
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 seangoedecke.com
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Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code seangoedecke.com
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Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)iev.ee
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Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves lalitm.com
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Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself anup.io
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How I estimate work as a staff software engineer seangoedecke.com
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers seangoedecke.com
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail lalitm.com
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail lalitm.com
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Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto dfamonteiro.com
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Understanding SQL Parsers nishchith.com
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?lukefleed.xyz
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2025 was an excellent year for this blog seangoedecke.com
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Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?lukefleed.xyz
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The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence seangoedecke.com
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State of the Server 2026 theorangeone.net
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They have to be able to talk about us without us anildash.com
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