Get your dopamine from production, not consumption
Get your dopamine from production, not consumption. -- Justin Skycak With that reminder, I'm back to writing here.
Maximus Indicus
Not an Indian Elephant
Latest posts
Thick and thin cultures
Chris Arnade on X (Feb 14, 2026): ... for the U.S., our thick culture is largely inherited from Western Europe, mostly England, and is best summarized as Caree…
Tulu, and Havyaka Kannada
A link
Best model depends on the task at hand
Via X/Vikhyat The diagram uses the Cynefin Framework
How to make a living as an artist
One of the better blog posts I have read in a while. Going into depth about the motivation, and how to practice the "trade" etc.
Finders, Minders, and Grinders
I read this tweet: “Finders, minders, and grinders” Partners, VPs, and analysts And it was a new perspective on how organizations are structured.
Software's first act is over
AWS's Marc Brooker offers a sober view of the evolving split in the road for software development career.
More Codex-like Apps
Yesterday (Feb 2, 2026), OpenAI announced their Codex App for managing multiple coding agents.
Training and Tuning models is the new modeling
Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding.
Welcome to the room
Congratulations... your days of whining are over.
Sizing Risk and Reward
Similar notes from Peter Cundill from his two books -- "There is always something to do" and "Routines and Orgies" via The Ichanist
Coding Agent VMs on NixOS
With the popularity of exe.dev, sprites (from fly.io), and shellbox, one wonders if there is a way to give sandboxed environment on existing, local boxes witho…
Seek Delight
"What do you want [out of life]?" The answer often is - Happiness, Contentment, Wealth, Health.
How I am using Clawdbot (Moltbot)
Moltbot fka ClawdBot has been the rage among generative AI enthusiasts for the past few weeks, and I too have been caught up in it.
The Stable Marriage Problem
Ajeya Cotra goes into the "Stable Marriage Problem" algorithm to explain why Asking for what you want opens up you to opportunities that may be outside your us…
Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or so…
Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame.
Reliable Signals of Honest Intent
This is a great phrase -- "Reliable Signals of Honest Intent", one that you should be reminding yourself every time you are making something for "others" to se…
Targeted Bets
The biggest takeaway from reading "Poor Charlie's Almanack" is that the late great investor Charlie Munger preached the importance of having, acquiring, and ap…
IU Hoosiers are College Football Champions
Indiana University Hoosiers Football team won the National Championship today defeating Miami Hurricanes after their toughest match of the playoffs.
A new era for static site generators
I am no stranger to static site generators, having written a few of them (bari) myself(mdninja) over the years (webgen.py) and of course something I wrote and…
Observed on the stream A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute…
Observed on the stream A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute workout.
Coding is cheap, taste is not
What coding agents do is make exploring your ideas accessible even when you are not al all-rounder in design, coding, administration, and other tasks associate…
What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep…
What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep saying.
Astro Joins Cloudflare
I thought I would resist the temptation to make the first post on this blog about the tools used to write this blog, but ironically, this news pushed me to fin…