What the future holds?
I’ve been a subscriber of John Calhoun newsletters and bought few courses from him. He sent this email a bit ago which contained the following.
Random Bits
Random bits on nothing specfic.
Latest posts
Harper - VS Code based Grammar/Spell checker
VS Code is my primary code editor. Previously, I used to write the blog post in VS Code and then spell-check using Proton Doc. Found that process very cumbersome. Opening browser and copy/paste wasn’t very fun.
My Github commits review
I’ve been seriously coding since late 2020. The desire to ship more will be tracked by how many required (Not trying to game the numbers) commits I’ve pushed to Github.
Screen time
I am not happy with my smartphone over-usages as probably billion others.
TIL - Jekyll Compose
It takes me a while to format the correct structure Jekyll requires for new posts. I found this plugin Jetpack Compose which makes this process quite easy.
The Year of less
2026 is going to be the year of less for me. Less: procastination ego desires speaking
Book reviews - The Rainmaker and The Widow
I managed to finish two books this week: The Rainmaker and The Widow,, both by John Grisham. I am a fan of John Grisham’s legal novels. Here are the ultra-short reviews.
Past Mistakes
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
Desires
I read this article - Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life.
Just start with data
I asked Grok about my biggest blind spots, inspired by Mark Manson’s prompts, and it returned the following answers.