Vinit Kumar

Principal Engineer · Django CMS Fellow

Writing about robust systems, open source, tools, AI workflows, and engineering craft.

I use this site as a working notebook: long-form essays, sharp technical notes, career reflections, and project write-ups from building production software.

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April 29, 2026

GitHub PR Attention: A Terminal UI for Taming the PR Inbox

Why I built github-pr-attention, a fast, vim-friendly TUI in Go for triaging, reviewing, and merging GitHub pull requests without leaving the terminal.

March 19, 2026

How to Land That Job

A blunt take on landing the next job: work hard, keep learning, and do not let comfort make your skills stale.

March 11, 2026

Why I Forked fff.nvim and Turned It Into a Complete Picker Ecosystem

fff.nvim is already the fastest fuzzy finder for Neovim, powered by a Rust backend. My fork adds buffer switching, colorscheme browsing, and git status picking, turning it into a full fzf.vim replacement.

February 24, 2026

New Blog After a Hiatus

Wrote a blog after a break

Today I Learned

Short Technical Notes

All TIL
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