# WRITING: Sangeet Banerjee
# Machine-readable index of essays and notes at sangeet.xyz/blogs
# Add new posts by creating content/blogs/*.mdx. This file updates at build time.

index_url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs
feed_url: https://sangeet.xyz/feed.xml
post_count: 8

## Posts (newest first)

### The resume is the site
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/the-resume-is-the-site
date: 2026-02-18
reading_time: 2 min read
tags: portfolio, hiring, meta
description: Humans barely read PDFs anyway. Screening is agents + a URL. The site is for both.

### When the host leaves (and mute is still two clicks)
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/when-the-host-leaves
date: 2026-01-12
reading_time: 3 min read
tags: realtime, webrtc, ux
description: Host handoff, one-click mute, and the “small” host tools people actually played with: quality meters, network graph, fine controls.

### Redesigning Meet while people are still in calls
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/redesigning-a-live-meeting-product
date: 2025-12-04
reading_time: 2 min read
tags: realtime, ux, product
description: We thought it was a theme pass. It became ripping out years of code, loaders, and infrastructure, mid-traffic.

### What PostHog was actually for
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/what-posthog-was-actually-for
date: 2025-11-03
reading_time: 2 min read
tags: analytics, product, growth
description: Instrumenting Huddle Meet and friends without turning every button into a marketing experiment.

### Status that lies
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/status-that-lies
date: 2025-10-08
reading_time: 2 min read
tags: ux, infrastructure, cloud
description: Priority-based polling, cursor prefetch, and why cloud status still feels wrong without a clock.

### Growing a developer product without turning it into a billboard
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/growth-engineering-for-developer-products
date: 2025-09-02
reading_time: 3 min read
tags: growth, analytics, product
description: Funnel instrumentation, docs, and experiments from shipping platforms people actually use, mostly the boring parts that move activation.

### Boring cloud consoles are the point
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/the-case-for-boring-infrastructure-ux
date: 2025-06-18
reading_time: 4 min read
tags: ux, infrastructure, design
description: What I learned building infrastructure UIs under time pressure: tables, consequences, and color that means something.

### Why Statera exists
url: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs/why-statera-exists
date: 2025-05-20
reading_time: 2 min read
tags: sdk, react, performance
description: Most teammates only used state + setState across components. I built the small native-feeling version of that (169B), during the React 19 moment.

## Discovery
- HTML index: https://sangeet.xyz/blogs
- RSS: https://sangeet.xyz/feed.xml
- Knowledge corpus: https://sangeet.xyz/knowledge.txt
- AI reading order: https://sangeet.xyz/ai.txt