Chirps

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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.

google
June 21, 2025 Permalink

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.
  • A small script to copy data from the sqlite database into a JSON file used by the frontend.
  • 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 site
  • Cloudflare to 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!

djangosvelte
June 20, 2025 Permalink

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.

education
June 20, 2025 Permalink

Now listening to In Pieces by Linkin Park. Features one of the most underrated guitar solos imo.

now-listening
June 19, 2025 Permalink

I just came across this joke post on X by Soren Iverson about building your own Instagram algorithm.

Coincidentally, I'm building a site to filter Hacker News content so that I don't miss out on articles about technologies I'm interested in.

It's not launched yet, but here's a peek at the vibe-coded prototype built with lovable.dev

I just came across this [joke post on X](https://x.com/soren_iverson/status/1935605254856589369) by Soren Iverson about building your own Instagram algorithm. Coincidentally, I'm building a site to filter Hacker News content so that I don't miss out on articles about technologies I'm interested in. It's not launched yet, but here's a peek at the vibe-coded prototype built with [lovable.dev](https://lovable.dev/)
hntechtrack
June 19, 2025 Permalink

You know CSS is complicated when Josh Comeau calls his React course 'Joy of React' but his CSS course is just 'CSS for JS Developers'

cssjavascriptreact
June 18, 2025 Permalink

Who else has the instinct to “Cmd + S” every 20 seconds when writing on Notion or Obsidian?

habits
June 17, 2025 Permalink

Old habits die hard. I used Python’s breakpoint() function - released in 2018 - for the first time today. I’ve been using import pdb; pdb.set_trace() all this time.

python
June 17, 2025 Permalink

Todo apps need to have a to-don’ts section that can be checked off each day as well.

habits
June 17, 2025 Permalink
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