Anyways. Consider doubling your business somewhere with. some place or someone that deserves it. And the smaller that business is, the even bigger impact you’ll have on the number chart. Before I go: Double your business with companies you like
I have been part of some interesting conversations over the last two days around AI. It’s hard to avoid AI as a topic around most tables you sit at these days. Now that we all have access to the same LLM models from Anthropic or OpenAI, most conversations go like this: “I am a system architect. I know how to architect a system, and with the power of these models, I don’t need a developer anymore…
The first time I heard about Hyrox was four years ago when my friend Richard Peake participated. I remember being tired at the end of the event just from walking around the venue. Walking out of there, I remember wondering if I would ever participate in the event myself. After three years of just talking about it, I floated the idea of participating during a coffee catch-up with my friend…
For the past week, I’ve been telling people that I’m feeling a lot like the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” meme. “Old Man Yells at Cloud” is a meme based on an image from The Simpsons featuring Grandpa Simpson angrily waving a fist under the aforementioned headline. It’s used to poke fun at people who complain about change and have cranky, old-fashioned opinions about modern trends. And…
Had a really good conversation with a colleague the other day as to why I don’t use AI a whole lot outside of when work mandates usage of AI. If I come across a long blog post, I rarely read the whole post unless it’s written by an author I know from before or if it’s linked by someone who I know recommends good content. The attention span I have is slowly shrinking and I want to…
If you can think of an idea, there is already software out there addressing that need. It might not be 100% perfect, but it does 80% of what you want it to do. If it is open-source, you can now use AI to get it to 100% and match exactly what you want. If you read articles online, you’ll see that very few people are writing code without AI assistance anymore. It definitely improves the speed…
Cuttlefish and Wobbegong Shark spottings In Shelly Beach
More time in water swimming. Pure joy.
Kwonny I liked this print from the art collection by Kwonny. On my wish list to buy.
and so should you. And of all the advice I would pass on to my niece if she were to ask for advice, writing down your thoughts either in private or in public would be quite high up on the list of things I would tell her. I am getting back into reading more long form content these days and it’s been great to come across so many new people through their blogs. My RSS reader has a lot more…
I did my job fine before AI came along. Now my workplace ‘suggests’ we use it. How do I say no? Sigh. Fuck. Fine. OK. Buckle up. How to use NO as a complete sentence Been following Mike Monteiro and his writing for a few years now and it’s always good to read the newsletter. If you have not subscribed, you should.
If it ain't fun, there's no sense in doing it. Fast or slow. — Jason Fried (@jasonfried) June 4, 2026
I recently moved into a new apartment a week ago. After looking for a place for two months, it felt great to finally have a place to call home. My friends helped with the move, dropping everything off in the apartment before they left. The last time I moved, four years ago, I remember spending the whole weekend finding a spot for everything I owned and giving it a place in the apartment. I am…
More pictures from the trip
Some captures from the recent trip around Berlin and Norway.
The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn’t go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, and got it into users’ hands while everyone else was still drowning in a review queue full of AI-generated PRs…
It started with me telling people I am away for 9 weeks and now it’s down to the last three. Every time I pressed submit on an empty timesheet for work, I would tell my friends, that’s one week done out of nine. This Friday, I complete seven weeks. Time does fly by really quickly. I remember a few friends asked me what I planned to do in the nine weeks I would be away and I told them I had no…
It’s been a plan in action since July last year, and here I am sitting in Bergen airport as I say goodbye to the Norway leg of this trip. I got here sixteen days ago. I started by landing in Tromsø and then slowly made my way through Bodø, Svolvær, Oslo, Flåm, Voss, and finally Bergen. I remember telling my friends I couldn’t wait to experience sunlight a few days after getting to Tromsø. And…
I’ve been thinking about AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) a lot over the last few days. After working as a PHP developer at a company back in 2009 and then moving to New Zealand to do a PG Diploma in Computer Science, I remember hearing the word AJAX quite often, before I actually got a chance to work on creating websites again in 2011. After two years of hearing about and seeing what people…
HTML was the first syntax-based language I learned. I still remember the joy on my face as I wrote the <scroll> tag and saw the text move from one side of the screen to another. A few nbsp; and I could see text have more space than what the default setting allowed. Since then, I have never stepped away from the world of software and technology. Building software gave me so much joy. Something…
Its finally happening. The trip I had been planning since August last year. After hearing about a friend who recently went through a life-threatening operation, my mind immediately went to one question: what do I want to experience before life ever gets to that point? . I am in Tromso in Norway as I write this and even though I am yet to see northern lights, I am filled with joy to be able to make…
Forty. I used to rush to write this blog post every year, usually the day before my birthday on the 15th of December. But if this year had a theme, it was this: few things are rushed anymore. Things still get done. Just not in a hurry. Less urgency. Less noise. More intention. I turned 40 this year, and surprisingly, it doesn’t feel like a checkpoint. I remember turning 30 and spending a lot of…
Since I moved back to India in 2009, I have struggled with managing my calendar. There were more things to do than I had time for. There was always that one new project to work on. The last few years though, I made a conscious decision to slow down. Do less. Work less. Spend more time doing nothing. It was a long process of slowly parting ways with projects I had worked on for ten-plus years. As…
I’ve been building something. And that’s all I’ve wanted to do over the last few weeks. It’s a project that has lived quietly in the back of my mind for years, one of those ideas that keeps resurfacing no matter how many times I’ve tried tried to put it away. Last month, it finally felt like the right time to commit to it. Letting go of other projects wasn’t easy; I enjoyed working on them.…
For a long time, every time I came up with an idea I wanted to work on, I put too much pressure on it. It had to be the idea, the one that hit it out of the park. The winning idea. The idea that lots of people used, loved, and talked about. But age (and experience) has taught me something important: putting all that weight on a single idea is never helpful. In fact, it often gets in the way. Now I…