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Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, after a prolonged illness. Om was the blogger whose voice I had resonated with the most over the last half year. He had been very prolific and wrote with such amazing clarity and depth. I was just very lucky that he was writing at the intersection of topics which have been of great interest to me - AI, Apple, photography, software industry, etc. It came as a…
Observations from our first day of Japan. We landed at Narita Airport, reached the hotel and then went out for a brief exploration of the neighbourhood. Vismay goes to the toilet at the airport. He comes back excited that there was a cushion where the plastic seat usually is. Later I go to another toilet at the airport. Mildly disappointed that it’s a regular plastic seat at first, but then it…
Nice to see a well-built iOS app which makes use of Open Air Quality network which I wrote about recently . Download it on App Store
This is a popular recent tweet , and Andrej retweeted saying that he has been citing it a lot . you can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding According to me, this is the most important problem being faced by humanity today. You don't have to think much when AI can do the thinking for you. But you need real understanding before doing something, or you are passing on…
I was listening to The Talk Show’s recent episode - Apple at 50 . Somehow the Johns (Gruber and Siracusa) end up spending a long time discussing their time using ResEdit, and at one point Gruber mentions how the lack of Internet meant spending inordinate amount of time just goofing around with all the tools available on the computer. This is exactly my experience from the early years of using a…
Good initiative by Rainmatter Foundation to collect and present hyperlocal AQI data across India - OAQ . In India, we are quite lacking in public data when it comes to weather and air quality. So it is good to see someone taking initiative on one of the two important metrics regarding our surroundings. Weather is hard - you need a lot of satellite imagery and data points first. You cannot simply…
I found myself nodding to pretty much everything here - Stop Sloppypasta . They define the term thus: slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender…
Andrej Karpathy writes about his append-and-review note-taking system . It's super simple. No need for an expensive app. Just a simple note edited with any text editor or a default note taking app. I like this approach. I would probably use it a system to add quick entries, and later triage or check off things. The harder we make it on ourselves to add quick notes (through complex systems), the…
Succinctly put by Shubham : Viewability and time-on-page are very important metrics these days. Every hostile UX decision originates from this single fact. The longer you're trapped on the page, the higher the CPM the publisher can charge. Your frustration is the product. No wonder engineers and designers make every UX decision that optimizes for that. And you, the reader, are forced to interact,…
Timely piece by Craig Mod: Software Bonkers Some snippets: Yes: I’m certainly an anomaly. In that I’m a big ’ole dork with a strong, lifelong love of technology and a degree in computer science, who is compulsively opinionated about software. TaxBot2000 would be mostly useless to many of you. It’s all custom to my particular situation, which basically nobody else in the world shares. Software for…