https://jangid.info/notes/ Notes by Pankaj Jangid on software engineering, entrepreneurship, governance, and the craft of building products, teams, and systems -- an archive that spans over two decades of writing. en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jangid.info/notes/claude-code-sandbox-macos.html https://jangid.info/notes/claude-code-sandbox-macos.html Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How to reduce the blast radius of AI coding agents on macOS using Apple Seatbelt and an HTTPS proxy, without giving up the productivity gains that make these tools worth running in the first place. https://jangid.info/notes/space-sector-processes.html https://jangid.info/notes/space-sector-processes.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 India's space startups are building rockets and satellites. The harder problem -- and the one that separates a capable ecosystem from a headline one -- is building the processes that make them work reliably. https://jangid.info/notes/colors-of-web.html https://jangid.info/notes/colors-of-web.html Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 HSL beats RGB once you actually think about how colors work on the web. Hue, saturation, and luminosity line up with the intuition most of us already have for color -- RGB does not. https://jangid.info/notes/emacs-macos-contacts.html https://jangid.info/notes/emacs-macos-contacts.html Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 A small startup-file snippet that exposes macOS Contacts inside Emacs through the built-in EUDC framework, with no external packages required, plus a keyboard shortcut for quick lookup. https://jangid.info/notes/increasing-minimum-wage-by-50-percent-isnt-going-to-work.html https://jangid.info/notes/increasing-minimum-wage-by-50-percent-isnt-going-to-work.html Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 If a 50% minimum wage hike is good, why not 500%? Walking through the downstream effects on employers, employment, and prices that well-meaning wage policy tends to ignore. https://jangid.info/notes/karamchand-and-byomkesh-bakshi-were-the-best-detectives.html https://jangid.info/notes/karamchand-and-byomkesh-bakshi-were-the-best-detectives.html Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Why Karamchand and Byomkesh Bakshi -- two of the finest detective serials on Indian television from the 80s and 90s -- still hold up decades later, and what made their storytelling memorable. https://jangid.info/notes/the-grand-weightloss-party.html https://jangid.info/notes/the-grand-weightloss-party.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Three friends, a company gymnasium in Noida, and ten kilograms' worth of reason to celebrate. A short story from the early HCL Technologies days and what started as an ordinary workout routine. https://jangid.info/notes/perception-of-right-and-wrong.html https://jangid.info/notes/perception-of-right-and-wrong.html Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 A bus driver, a horn, and the honest gap between what the law says and what feels normal when everyone around you is doing the same thing. A short reflection on how behaviour gets shaped. https://jangid.info/notes/vashi-days-of-ncst.html https://jangid.info/notes/vashi-days-of-ncst.html Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Old photos from the NCST Vashi centre above Vashi railway station in Navi Mumbai, and a few words about the colleagues -- Binoy, Jacob, Bhavana, Dharmesh, Ripul, Subbu, Meghna -- who made it home. https://jangid.info/notes/moving-on.html https://jangid.info/notes/moving-on.html Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 A short note on leaving HCL Technologies in Noida to join Cadence Design Systems, and what I was hoping to learn in the next role after a few good years at HCL. https://jangid.info/notes/the-worst-week.html https://jangid.info/notes/the-worst-week.html Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000 A difficult week for India's space program when Agni III missed its 3000 km target and INSAT-4C was lost at launch. A short note on what ambitious engineering actually costs when things go wrong. https://jangid.info/notes/chicago-downtown-trip.html https://jangid.info/notes/chicago-downtown-trip.html Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 A weekend trip from the suburbs into downtown Chicago with Amar, up the Sears Tower, and a walk through a city that looked like one enormous cement mountain on the approach. https://jangid.info/notes/sentence-based-natural-language-plagiarism-detection.html https://jangid.info/notes/sentence-based-natural-language-plagiarism-detection.html Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 A sentence-level algorithm for plagiarism detection across natural language documents and source code comments, implemented as part of a larger plagiarism detection system during my NCST thesis work. https://jangid.info/notes/cfg-to-parse-roman-numerals.html https://jangid.info/notes/cfg-to-parse-roman-numerals.html Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Working through a context-free grammar that accepts all and only valid Roman numerals, and what that exercise teaches you about the underlying structure of the Roman number system. https://jangid.info/notes/life-and-universe.html https://jangid.info/notes/life-and-universe.html Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0000 A young mind wondering what sits inside the smallest particle we have ever seen, and whether we ourselves might be sitting inside some larger universe waiting to be discovered by somebody else.