Dinesh Pandiyan
Software engineer who loves solving complex platform problems and helping teams ship software that lasts.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- API Platforms,
- Design Systems,
- GraphQL,
- React
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AI search explained: indexing, retrieval and reranking
Organisational knowledge is usually spread across a dozen tools, and keyword search only finds results that match exact words. We run text search, embedding search and reranking on the same dataset, and find out how semantic search with a reranker returns the most relevant results for a query.
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Faster CI Pipelines: Share build artifacts across independent jobs
Optimising CI pipelines is critical for scale. By leveraging `actions/cache` with commit-specific keys, we can share build artifacts across parallel jobs, significantly reducing build times and compute costs.
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Arch Linux with Hyprland is very good
A look at setting up Arch Linux with Hyprland – a fast, keyboard-first window manager with smooth animations and Wayland support.
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Takeaways from the book Multipliers
Dinesh has written a summary of his takeaways from Liz Wiseman’s book “Multipliers”.
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Visualizing the N+1 Problem in GraphQL
Dinesh explains the N+1 data fetching problem and walks through the solutions in REST and GraphQL world.
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Dinesh has released a series of blog templates for Astro
Checkout these these beautiful, performant, and accessible open source blog templates for Astro made by our very own Dinesh Pandiyan.
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Dinesh has released an app for sharing social notes
Dinesh made a handy tool to let you embed text into Open Graph images for social sharing purposes. Pocketnotes lets you quickly create and share notes to platforms like Twitter/Slack/Discord and the text will show up in the link preview.
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Schema-driven Development
Dinesh recently gave a lightning talk at Sydney’s Web Directions Meetup on schema-driven development. Here’s a quick recap in case you missed it.
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Static blogs with Keystone
Dinesh has a great post about making static blogs using Keystone.
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Progressive Rendering — The Key to Faster Web
Progressive Rendering is the technique of sequentially rendering portions of a webpage in the server and streaming it to the client in parts without waiting for the whole page to rendered.
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React Dev Tools - Debug like a ninja
Hands down console.log() was, is and will always be the greatest debugging tool of all time.
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