Your startup website's "about" page should ideally list the founders and core team members. I shouldn't have to stalk you on LinkedIn to verify if your offering is legit.
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Remember when Heroku with its distinctive myapp.herokuapp.com was the default choice for quick deployments like myapp.vercel.app is now, and people used Heroku to create invite pages for Slack communities?
The mathematician George Polya, in his 1945 book, "How to Solve It", described how asking "Can you solve a more general problem?" is a useful problem solving strategy.
Demis Hassabis taking it to heart now: "We'll solve AGI first and then use it to solve everything else."
I'm so used to Tailwind CSS now that I've forgotten many vanilla CSS incantations. It seems to be a common sentiment among Tailwind users.
I was curious to understand what happens cognitively. I got a pretty good answer from Claude.
Our musical tastes peak as teens, says this study and it's mostly true for me as well, although I continue to try to explore different genres of music.
 and it's mostly true for me as well, although I continue to try to explore different genres of music.](/media/images/Screenshot_2025-06-22_at_9.10.01_PM.png)
Now listening to this mesmerizing 90s song by Sting ft Cheb Mami
I listen to quite a few podcasts, but I haven't shared any of them here.
So here's an episode from one of my favourite podcasts: An underrated episode on the Piccolo ORM on Talk Python hosted by Michael Kennedy with guest Daniel Townsend.
I haven't used the Piccolo ORM in a project yet, but I'm inspired by its neat API and usage of Python's metaprogramming capabilities behind the scenes.
Rewatching one of the best tech talks of all time by Rich Harris
Google executives to YouTube product manager: Increase YouTube podcast engagement and ad revenue
YT product manager thinking out of the box: Let's kill Google Podcasts app.
I've had fun over the last 3-4 days rebuilding this site!
Here's the stack:
DjangoandDjango Adminbacked bysqlitefor all data entry.- A small script to copy data from the sqlite database into a JSON file used by the frontend.
Sveltefor the frontend.Sveltekitfor static site generation.Viteis ever present under the hood.rsyncto copy the static site directory to aDigital OceandropletNginxrunning on the droplet to serve the siteCloudflareto handle HTTPS and caching
I've taken Django Admin's capability for granted for more than a decade, but I got an opportunity to appreciate this time. I tried to vibe-code the admin backend. But it came nowhere close to Django's quality. So I stuck with Django.
As a fairly new Svelte user, I was pleasantly surprised by how well SvelteKit works. Navigating between pages is a breeze since SvelteKit intelligently prefetches data and components in the background.
Since the workflow is now smooth enough, I'm tempted to chirp more!