New Software Engineering
The new era of software engineering is characterized by two major currents in computing today:
1. End of Moore's Law: This means everything is embedded programming, including even server side programming. Doesn't matter if you have terabytes of RAM and hundreds of po…
ChaiPani
A small, text-only place to read and write with people you trust.
No images competing for your attention. No algorithm deciding what matters. No like counts to chase. Just writing, from a circle you chose yourself.
Built around a few deliberate limits
Text, and a link if you have one
Posts are words. You can attach a link to something you read, and ChaiPani will pull in its title — but nothing autoplays, nothing flashes, and nothing is designed to keep you scrolling.
25 people, maximum
You cannot follow more than 25 people. The limit forces the question most feeds let you avoid: who do you actually want to read? A feed you can reach the end of is a feed worth reading.
10 posts a day
Enough for a real conversation. Not enough for any one person to flood everyone else's morning.
No likes, no counts, no ranking
There is no score to protect and nothing to farm. Posts appear newest first — that is the entire algorithm.
You choose who sees each post
Public, friends, or private — decided per post, not once in a settings page you forget about.
Urdu and Arabic, properly set
Most platforms render Urdu in whatever Arabic font is lying around, which is why it so often looks wrong. ChaiPani sets Urdu in Gulzar, a genuine Nastaliq typeface, and Arabic in Naskh — deciding line by line, so a post that mixes English and Urdu gets each one right.
ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے
بہت نکلے مرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے
بہت نکلے مرے ارمان لیکن پھر بھی کم نکلے
A few public posts
Posts whose authors chose to make them public. Everything else is visible only to the people they picked.
"Rich people acquire assets. Poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets". Replace people with nations and the quote becomes even more generalized.
A masterpiece of UI/UX, elegantly explained by the most important user, i.e. the fighter pilot.
Brilliant!
Fighter Pilot Breaks Down Every Button in an F-15 Cockpit | Ars Technica
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Today Ars Technica brings you inside the pilot’s seat of an F-15C Eagle fighter jet to break down every button in the cockpit. Join retired United States Air...
Bring your own people. Twenty-five is plenty.