Palak Mathur
Software engineering, computing systems, leadership, and things I am trying to understand.
Recent writing
- Publishing Blog using Org Mode and EmacsI recently moved from Jekyll to publishing through OrgMode. This post goes in details of why and how I did so.
- Java 28 Preview: Value Objects Bring Identity-Free Data to JavaHow Java 28’s value objects bring identity-free data to Java, changing equality semantics and opening new JVM optimizations.
- Http Get, Open AI Agents and What it tells about API GovernanceThis post explores the recent "hack" that Open AI Agents found on a Software development wiki
- Observing the world unfold at StarbucksObserving the world move at Starbucks
- Austin's VibeThis post is to just share my raw thoughts on University Town vibe of Austin downtown
- A Sunday Drive to AustinA Sunday drive from Dallas to Austin, with family time, an unexpectedly pleasant journey, and a predictably sleepless night
- Search and Keyboard Shortcuts on This BlogA short guide to the search overlay and the keyboard shortcuts on SystemHalted.
- Simplifying SystemHalted.inWhy I simplified SystemHalted and made the writing the center of the site
- Why I love OmarchyRecent move to Omarchy and why it feels great
- GTIDs, Kafka Consumer Offsets, and What a Recovery Checkpoint Really MeansA recent MySQL replication change made me reconsider a question from Kafka disaster recovery: does a checkpoint identify what was processed, or merely where processing should resume?