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300+ AQI and crowded markets
March 8, 2026
If you don’t live in India, or have lived in some other industrialising/developing countries in the recent past, you probably haven’t seen mentions of Air...
FOMO on the ATmosphere
March 1, 2026
The capital T is not a typo. Although the builders and more ‘involved’ call it simply the atmosphere, I, being an outsider still, feel better emphasising the...
The Human-AI work matrix
February 22, 2026
Anniversary week
February 15, 2026
Persevere and start again
February 8, 2026
Like almost anything in today's world, interviewing has a lot to do with getting the other person's interest, and then maintaining it for some time. That...
Humans in the loop
February 1, 2026
Exploring 'humans in the loop', Clawdbot controversy, and discovering creative developers!
Deutsche Technik museum is a treasure
January 25, 2026
Hello from the past, hope you are having a good day. How do you index data about fields/column that are only decided during runtime and can be completely...
Gel-mann amnesia and solving unknown problems
January 18, 2026
I spent some time this week thinking and talking to Claude about how syncing photo transitions with tempo of the music can work. This was related to a...
A bird begins its collection
January 11, 2026
A warm welcome to the magpie’s nest and thank you if you have already subscribed to the newsletter. If you haven’t, hope you find it interesting enough to do...