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I see more and more traffic coming from ChaGPT to my personal blog. There is no SEO / AEO work I've done on my blog. Just keep sharing my thoughts on topics interesting to me.

Weather shows no rain but it is raining heavily It is also uncommon to rain at this time of the year. Weather has become unpredictable these days

AI-referred shoppers convert nearly 50% higher and spend 14% more than organic search shoppers. As per Shopify data, more than half of AI-referred sessions start on a product detail page. This leads to journey compression. www.shopify.com/enterprise/...

The more languages kids know, the better for them—especially if those languages come from different roots. My son took a foundational-level course in Chinese and loved it, so he went on to a Level 1 course. He’s planning to take two more levels so he can speak Chinese fluently.

Translation capabilities of LLM models. I read a good article in Tamil about the reasons behind Vijay's victory. I pasted parts of it into Deepseek, ChatGPT, and Claude for translation. All three did a good job, though I liked Deepseek's the most. Didn't expect Deepseek to outshine all

Moved from 1Password to Proton Pass. I had onetime licence of 1Pass. Been using it for years. 1Pass changed to subscription. When I upgraded MacOS, 1Pass6 didn’t work. When I had to switch, I looked around. Proton came with VPN + Pass Mgr. Switched. Easy import too.

Your data sprouts wings and flies to companies you’ve never heard of. I sold my car, and my insurance expires in May. Somehow that spread fast—now I’m flooded with WhatsApp messages from random companies. It’s alarming how quickly your details get shared, and how little control you really have.

Sending money from to a friend in the US such a tedious job. It is almost not possible.

You can create videos from html. And you can automate them too. Creating a product demo becomes lot more easier. hyperframes.heygen.com/introduction

This is mostly how my conversations go these days.

Stock market is not excited abt the election results. Why?

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Is it possible to find cost for each prompt and response in Claude code?

Is there a quick way to configure (but also customise) new Mac machine? Something like installing all brews is simple as brew install $(cat leaves.txt) (I know abt migration. It copies everything)

How do you guys use Apple's Intelligence? What apps? What tasks? Any tips to get started with it?

Do Agentic coding IDEs become slower over weekends? Both cursor and Google’s antigravity are noticeably slower today.

Is Grok working for you guys? I used to click on grok button on tweets and used to check the veracity of the details. It doesn't seem to work any more; Tried in different tweets today.

I get this error on self-hosted #n8n Can you help me debug and fix it? ValidationError: The 'X-Forwarded-For' header is set but the Express 'trust proxy' setting is false (default). This could indicate a misconfiguration which would prevent express-rate-limit from accurately identifying users.

'Beijing Is Not Playing the Long Game — Every single week, someone in the Western media will tell you that China is playing “the long game.” Don’t believe them.' That's not what I read in Indian and Western media. What's your take on this? sharptext.net/2026/beijin...

How I develop with AI tools I use claude, antigravity, and cursor for developing personal tools. Get the vision right with Claude, implement with agy, review with cursor. Hope this is useful to you.

This is an accurate depiction of chatting with AI tools (programming too ;-) )

Riches are in the niches Fortune is in the follow-ups Pressure kills trust People buy from people they respect Some lessons on sales I learnt.

You can't create an island of success in culture of cesspool. This Japanese airport hasn't lost a SINGLE luggage in 30 years, even with 30 million visitors passing thorough it. Why? Because of Japanese culture - attention to details, hospitality, continuous improvement ..

Interesting addition to "Tools I use": github.com/iamgio/quar... Write your books in markdown.

Does ChatGPT has project memory? Did something change recently? I remember ChatGPT can reference threads in a project. It says it can only reference within the conversation. Anything changed? (I am on the same plan)

Anyone payed property tax already in Bangalore? What are these? Yes, the unit is in > 100 dwelling units. Does that mean I need to pay for bulk waste generation?

After building multiple apps with GenAI, I realized prompts aren’t the problem. Context is. So I stopped relying on chat to remember anything. Now I use a simple workflow: PRDs → features → atomic tasks → separate review. Way less rework.

Simple scales Fancy Fails

Why I use Svelte for all my apps. • small bundles • no dom manipulation • feature parity with react / vue • good ecosytem Now Thoughtworks recommends it. www.thoughtworks.com/radar/langu...

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. - Senator Dianne Feinstein

LLMs aren’t an authority. Clients show me application designs by LLM and suddenly I’m defending my design instead of designing their application. When things fail at 4 a.m. Sunday, the LLM isn’t on the hook—my team is. It’s not just asymmetry of thought. It’s asymmetry of accountability.

A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools: tools.rmv.fyi/ No logins. Just click and start using them. • QR Generator • Background Remover • Crop images for social media and so on.

Small enterprises should try out OpenCode rather than Cursor / Antigravity. Antigravity is down for more than 4 hours now. Earlier Cursor was down for long. If agy or cursor is down, your devs sit idly. With opencode, they can switch to another model and work.

Surprisingly both cursor and antigravity servers are so busy. As more users come in they will increase pricing or increase limits.

I'm writing (generating) more markdown than other languages as I develop with GenAI tools. This is how the code-base looks like for my latest personal tool - ThoughtSnaps.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. - Sir William Drummond

Watching “Better Call Saul” Let me see if it really lives up to its high acclaim. x.com/hashitpuroh...

What do people complain about you? It says a lot. My mentor’s “flaw” was high standards—he demanded excellence. Hard to work with, but he made you better. www.jjude.com/complain-ch...

2026 Q1 went extremely well for us, except that all stocks are down. Do you conduct retros? How did your Q1 go?

Can I build an app entirely via prompting—without writing any code myself? That’s the hypothesis I’m testing while developing “ThoughtSnaps”: an app that creates social media images with short text. So far, I’ve managed to build the guest experience (in #svelete) and the backend (in #golang).

the most anti-christian regime is the current Israeli regime Evidence: x.com/ricwe123/st...

If you report a broken manhole in India, - a police case will be registered - 50 cr defamation suite will be filed - your twitter account will be banned In China, the broken manhole is replaced. x.com/AndreLonggi...

How do you stay grounded when life gets complex? I don’t have a secret. But I do have a source I trust. I turn to it when decisions feel challenging. Scripture. I’ve started writing short reflections on how it guides my thinking in real situations. Read the series here: www.jjude.com/books/ww/

The movie "Crime 101" has 88% positive reviews. "sleek action set pieces and vivid characterizations, receiving top marks and graduating near the top of its class" Watch it on PrimeVideo

Shopify introduces Tinker, a free mobile app that generates logos, product images, social media videos, and 360-degree product views based on plain-language descriptions of your needs. Shopify is continuing to innovate with AI. www.shopify.com/news/introd...

Tired: Omg the Claude Code leak is a bunch of vibe coded garbage Wired: Vibe coded garbage can get you to $2.5 billion annualized recurring revenue in under a year if the product market fit is there

All stocks are at an all-time low. That’s not the worst part. I don’t know how low they’ll get. (Some are only 10–20% above the price at which I bought them 10 years back 😱😳)

How I develop products now. How do you develop products? (I develop ThoughtSnaps using this; this is now shared via the same app - talk about recursion 😀 )

What’s a better way to learn than by building a fun project? I’m building an app purely via prompting. It’s like having a peer who knows every syntax and command by heart, and can apply the right one. Homepage is up: www.thoughtsnaps.app/; You'll hear about it more in the coming days.