What do you do when things you take for granted are down. On another note, billion dollar company sites are down. Don't panic your site is down too.

Education was supposed to be about making a person Today it is only about making a living

It seems the gap between what marketing wants and what IT can deliver is a problem even Meta faces. Meta's product managers aren't waiting for engineers to turn ideas into demos. Instead, they are vibe coding to design prototype apps themselves. www.businessinsider.com/meta-vibe-c...

"100 Ideas from Books" is gaining popularity on my site. I began posting one idea from each book I've read that has shaped my thinking. It has already attracted much traffic. If you're interested, read more here: www.jjude.com/100-ideas-f...

My First Overseas Presentation for a "Faculty Development Program" I presented on "Human Oversight in AI-Driven Educational Systems" for the Department of Engineering & Technology at UTAS, Oman.

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to meaningful life is not to discard The Box of Daily Experience and find a new one — it’s to warmly embrace the one that we have now — with its joys, its flaws, and everything in between. moretothat.com/travel-is-n...

Extremely unpopular take: What if instead of atheism, we need even more religions?

When you feel powerless against AI slop, the best remedy is to read a well-crafted dark-humor essay on an important topic and smile. Abhishaike makes you smile while writing about biology. www.owlposting.com/p/ask-not-w... Read a random interesting essay to reflect: read2reflect.com/

Kobo Plus > Amazon Kindle Unlimited Kobo is filled with genuinely useful books that I want to read.

Apparently when US MNCs layoff citing AI, it means "Always Indian" news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458...

See how different personas will interact with your marketing mimicmarketer.com/premade.html Define personas Test your copy against them (there are few other tools too)

Just three important insights for parents • You are a shepherd, not an engineer of your kids. • Just because little bit is good doesn't mean more is more good • Where you live has more impact on kids than in-home environment Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkn...

Theology 101: If your church’s worship feels like a circus, don’t be surprised if its members behave like animals and act like clowns.

If you're not active, you're sick. You just don't know it yet. If you don’t move regularly, your metabolism is already compromised. You may feel fine, but under the surface, the foundations of long-term health are deteriorating. howardluksmd.substack.com/p/if-youre-...

I may not be the smartest, but I succeed through sheer persistence. I shared 10 ideas from the books I've read, posting daily—not for likes or sales, but to build discipline. What are you pursuing with relentless determination?

AQI is inversely proportional to IQ

Skills obsolence is a reality for everyone - from coders to the CEO. Do you think CXOs are not under pressure to upskill themselves? I know CEOs who are taking private coaching & enrolling in executive MBAs.

Speed to market → Speed in market Lots of companies can’t switch gears on this. Both need a different style of work and engineering culture.

Crazy idea for your hackathon! Cloudflare released an open-source vibe coding platform. Host it yourself and open it to your employees. Skip the long training sessions. Let your HR, Marketing, Admin, Finance, Design, and Dev, dive in, learn, and build apps. Get here: github.com/cloudflare/...

We’ve built a world of moral theatre, full of gestures, empty of gravity. We’ve replaced virtue with visibility. Once we stopped worrying about survival, we started worrying about significance. We seek meaning where it’s easiest to display it: online, in public threex.substack.com/p/55-the-ul...

A metaphor for everything: focus on fundamentals, repeat, and let time compound the results. For fitness: lift heavy 3–4 times a week, sleep 8 hours, eat real food with enough protein. No supplements. Progressive overload, consistency, and patience. onlyvariance.substack.com/p/getting-j...

When tools like AudioPen & VoiceNotes came out I bought them. Even lifetime plans. But now I use chatgpt directly. It has all my chats together in one place. With “memory” feature I can chat across everything. Do you still use these apps? What are your use cases?

What I like about Kobo Plus (the Kindle Unlimited equivalent): Recently, I started using Kobo for reading, and I've come to appreciate this feature a lot. They don't show books that aren't available under the Plus subscription (Kindle does). They don’t "trick" you into buying. I like it.

> who is the key to the future of your company, and what are you doing to unleash his or her potential? > You must deploy talent as successfully as you deploy capital. Started reading this book. Like the ideas. Have you read this? What are your views?

The more I experiment with AI for coding the more I understand their limits. This also tells me how effective these AI tools are for other domains like nutrition, fitness … These AI tools replaces average minds and democratises actions for average expectations.

What are the advantages & disadvantages of #svelte? There are many advantages. Only one disadvantage: no job market or super low. Now with all agentic tools (figma, lovable) generating react / nextjs based code, demand is going to be more for them, not for svelte. www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/...

The agentic commerce ecosystem is developing very quickly. In the beginning, there was MCP. Then, OpenAI introduced the Agentic Commerce Protocol, enabling checkouts within ChatGPT powered by Stripe. Now, PayPal is not just a payment system; it's also a wallet. www.shopifreaks.com/paypal-is-p...

I don’t know what we, Indians, should outrage Pollution levels are > 300 in North India No roads survive a rain Data privacy is a joke. Everyone asks for your phone number and sells to everyone Work in govt offices won’t move an inch without greasing Votes are stolen

Zapier vs Pipedream vs n8n • Zapier is non-tech business person's automation tool. • n8n is self-hosted bare-metal automation tool. • Pipedream hits sweet-spot between the two. You can get down to coding if required. Their AI assistant to write your automation is also superb

A dead-simple API to store and retrieve text or JSON. No login. No fuss. setget.io/ I came across this setget service while researching for storing temporary data. Simple, small, but useful service.

While experimenting with workflow tools such as Zapier, n8n, and Pipedream, I often find: Pipedream > n8n > Zapier.

Typefully is continually improving its product. The whole experience is becoming easy and pleasant. Because of mobile app I used to use Buffer app. Now even though I have to use typefully as a PWA, I am using it more and more.

Created my 2nd n8n workflow. Append published typefully posts to a Dropbox file. Invoke typefully api Download dropbox file Read the file Create new content Upload dropbox file with new content Let me see how this works

Amazon Kindle Unlimited # Kobo Plus You can export highlights of a book you read via Kindle unlimited subscription. Apparently that is not the case with Kobo Plus. I asked their support. They told me this.

A park along the Satluj river An unplanned day trip #mobilephotography

Wanted: product that converts video tutorials into text and image manuals by removing all the unnecessary frames where a mouse is dramatically sneaking up on a toolbar button. Bonus for also removing the instructor's life commentary – I'll pay to not be their therapist.

If you are using Dropbox with n8n, use OAuth rather than just with access token. Access tokens expire quickly. It is ok to use that for quick checks but for long running workflows, use OAuth.

Question for this who sell n8n services. How do you set your prices? Coming from a dev background, I am used to a longer contracts. n8n works seems to be very short. So wondering how you price these.

Firefox has this multi account containers feature. This is the only reason I still use Firefox. Any other browsers have this feature?

There are quite a lot of good features in Bsky which are in the replies. For me (from India), unless breaking news happen in BSky I will keep going to X (earthquakes, war like situation that happened recently, local events etc)

Okara says it is secure. Data doesn't leave its servers and data is deleted when we delete it. How can we test it? x.com/askOkara/st...

How to append a rss feed item to a dropbox file using n8n Dropbox doesn't offer an append API. So you've to download the file, read the file in javascript and then upload the file. Used claude to write / debug code. Tested it. Let me see if this works.

Pollution tends to remain at this level for the rest of the year due to trapped air between the mountains and people continuing to set off fireworks for festivities and weddings. Given these, how can we shield the family from pollution's effects? And can we eliminate those inhaled pollutants?

Deployed n8n on Railway (railway.com/) Setup a bluesky feed to dropbox workflow. Let me see if this works ok. (Pipedream etc gives "append file" option. In n8n there is only "upload file")

We often talk about seeking God. But the story of Scripture begins with God seeking us—calling sinners, raising change makers, and transforming hearts. www.jjude.com/sermons/god...

Dark patterns and unethical design examples on the internet : hallofshame.design/

Trying out Kobo ios app. Subscribed to their Kobo Plus (equivalent to Kindle Unlimited). One big difference I already see: I can't export highlights from all books. If you read a book with KU subscription, you can export highlights. Doesn't seem to be the case in Kobo.

When you make everything API / MCP integration options are unbelievable. I would've never thought of this integration. Now that I've read this is something that has been hiding in plain sight.

> Maybe the next frontier in AI isn’t faster thinking. It’s better thinking > we’re moving from alignment ethics (i.e. how AI behaves) to what you could call epistemic ethics (i.e. how AI teaches us to know) from: forrealai.substack.com/p/the-end-o...