Palak Mathur

Software engineering, computing systems, leadership, and things I am trying to understand.

Recent writing

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. Observing the world unfold at StarbucksObserving the world move at Starbucks
  5. Austin's VibeThis post is to just share my raw thoughts on University Town vibe of Austin downtown
  6. A Sunday Drive to AustinA Sunday drive from Dallas to Austin, with family time, an unexpectedly pleasant journey, and a predictably sleepless night
  7. Search and Keyboard Shortcuts on This BlogA short guide to the search overlay and the keyboard shortcuts on SystemHalted.
  8. Simplifying SystemHalted.inWhy I simplified SystemHalted and made the writing the center of the site
  9. Why I love OmarchyRecent move to Omarchy and why it feels great
  10. 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?

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