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:
Django and Django Admin backed by sqlite for all data entry. Svelte for the frontend. Sveltekit for static site generation. Vite is ever present under the hood.rsync to copy the static site directory to a Digital Ocean droplet Nginx running on the droplet to serve the siteCloudflare to handle HTTPS and cachingI'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!
OpenAI isn't the first organization to abandon its non-profit status. Every educational institution in India has been doing it since forever. They just never bothered with the paperwork.
Now listening to In Pieces by Linkin Park. Features one of the most underrated guitar solos imo.