Automating My Taxes using AutoHotKey
Copying all the details from my tax forms into TurboTax takes hours. What if I wrote a script to do it for me?
Preetham's Posts
I write about productivity, software development, cubing, and various projects that I'm working on.
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How I analyzed Mr. Beast sponsor data
Mr. Beast has hundreds of videos and it would be infeasible to click through all of them manually. So I built some automations to help me with my analysis. Here's how I did it...
Using ChatGPT on an airplane through free Whatsapp - ChatGPT Over Whatsapp (COW)
ChatGPT is pretty useful and I didn't want to give up access when I flew. Most airlines give messaging access for free... so ChatGPT over Whatsapp was born.
Why does Mr. Beast cut out sponsors from his older videos?
Most YouTubers don't have the luxury of removing ads from their older videos but Mr. Beast sets his own rules. How does he get away with it and what else is unique about his sponsorships?
Where are Mr. Beast's sponsors now?
These days it costs millions to sponsor a Mr. Beast video. But how much did he make in his early days and how much ROI did his early sponsors get?
Why are Hard Drives called "Drives"?
Punch card, floppy disks, compact discs, etc. They all focus on the form factor. So why are hard drives called "drives"? credits: Thumbnail photo by Stockio.com
AI Zero to Hero Week 1: Fear of missing out on the AI train and what I'm doing about it
I kept procrastinating learning ML because I either thought I was too late or not smart enough... Time to stop that.
What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name
Southwest usually has good customer service... but in this case it's completely broken, I can't fix it myself, and the company has no plans of fixing it
Using ChatGPT to make a Pokémon theme of my favorite card game
ChatGPT is really great at some things but at other times, it's so incompetent that I feel like giving up
When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?
I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.
Who actually even uses is-odd and is-even?
People love to make fun of Javascript dependency bloat by talking about packages like is-even and is-odd but that got me wondering... Who actually uses them?
Piver - The reason TeX is on version 3.141592653...
You've heard of semver. You might have heard of zero ver. But what about piver?
My First Open Source Contribution
One of the things that I love about programming is that you can see a problem in the world and solve it. So when I found out that one of the apps I used on a daily basis was open source, I was pleasantly surprised
How Fast Inverse Square Root actually works
Learn how one of the most elusive algorithms in gaming history works using calculus, floating point binary representations, and computer memory management
2020 Year in Review
My yearly flex under the guise of reflection. Here's a summary of everything I did in 2020 alongside a few things I learned along the way. The year's theme was the "Year of Doing"
Test Post Please Ignore
Testing my first post using Gridsome + Vue.js for a personal website blog