Joseph Jude

How I Used ChatGPT to Understand the Indian Budget - 2025

This is traffic to my site () for the past 30 days. Of all social media sites, LinkedIn sends more traffic; followed by Twitter. Bluesky is distant 3rd.

Why isn’t MSFT teams on Mac AppStore while MS word, Excel are there

I am not rushing to “Agentic AI” I use GPTs to analyse stock performances It starts with a simple task of reading a screenshot, add a total row and sum numerical cols Always there is a mistake in total. Doesn’t give me confidence to let GPTs take financial decisions.

How to Run Open WebUI Locally on Your Apple Mac: A Step-by-Step Guide

Shopify academy is so slow. Don’t know if their online stores are also this slow.

Apple's bet on hardware is paying off more than they would've thought. Almost all of the folks who run these models locally use Mac.

We missed manufacturing cycle We will also miss AI cycle

🇨🇳 Here is an open source low cost LLM model 🇮🇳 cow urine is antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory Fear for your future

Network of Time is a website that lets you choose two historical figures and connect them through a series of photographed encounters across time. I didn't expect to connect Napoleon III and Ice Cube in 6 photos:

Are cline & Roo Code open source replacements for cursor & windsurf? Anyone in my network used them? Your feedback?

Wrote this 4 years back: We will see GenAI permeate into all sections of our lives.

China used to be called as “copy-cat country” By copying major US brands they built amazing manufacturing capability. Now they are beating everyone on innovation. Lesson: Start copying

Today while chatting with LLM (deepseek), came to know about snowflake method of writing novels. Asked LLM, how can I use it to writing blog posts. It gave me an outline and examples. Very useful time.

I am using deepseek & open web ui mostly now. Often I use them as rubber-duck: when I am stuck on a problem I will describe it and the LLM model to interview me. After few iteration I land on a solution.

> Following Joseph's writing for a while now, he has good taste - @orenellenbogen That high praise goes into my website.

Week notes for 2025 week 4 • mini vacation • Josh passed NIOS 10th Insights • homeschooling is a smart cut Read all here:

I am neither a dystopian nor an utopian. I am ... protopian a world that is always getting better, but is never perfect. Such a world always has new problems to solve, including some problems created by the old solutions. I have seen this first hand in the last 3 decades.

@TobyWalsh wrote 4 years ago: > Tianjin, a city in China, outspends India in AI. The best time to invest in AI was yesterday, the next best time is now. No wonder China is leading the AI revolution His book review:

There so much happening in GenAI field - new models, new IDEs, new use cases … Influencers flooding social media with hyped-up content doesn’t help. So tough to go through noise to get to useful items

The UK govt unveils its AI Action Plan with a vision of shared economic prosperity, improved public services, & increased personal opportunities. 👏 History shows tech revolutions widen inequality—AI would too—but govts must lift everyone up. Plan:

It doesn’t take a grand trip to hit reset. Sometimes, a quick pause and a quiet place are all you need to reconnect—with yourself and your loved ones. Last weekend, we took a little break. Here is our first of many mini-vacations:

UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan

Every heart has a tear that nobody else knows

Transition from Employee to Successful Solopreneur: A Short Guide

Twitter hides lists from top menu. Only shows “for you” and “following” I use lists as a way of categorising what I read. Now more friction means I will use it less and less.

Why Greenland? > Trump's politics works on a notion of friends and enemies, not on a notion of the interests of people or the rights of citizens. .

Curated RSS Feeds and Newsletters for Diverse Self-Directed Learning This is list of blogs that I read often. Take what resonates with your interest. If you have any other interesting blogs in these topics, please share.

Hope to more "GenAI wrappers" for personal use: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building Code:

How to extract guitar chords from a song and display for "Guitaraoke": This is the kind of articles that made the web as is. Hope we get to read more like this. HN disc:

Fascinating interview about the Making of Community Notes on Twitter. The academic studies, pilot, data analysis, and of course algorithm that powers it.

Most people chase big, audacious goals. They look awesome on paper—buying a fancy car, traveling the world, starting a company. I tried them all. And I failed. Miserably. Then I learned a simple truth: Small goals can lead to a big life. 🧵

> querying LLMs has made me better and explaining things to people Found this on Hacker News. This is true with me too. You have to describe context - what you are doing, what you want, what you don't want. All of that makes me better at explaining

Morality can’t be codified. And that’s a good thing.

What the Air Quality Index doesn’t tell us about the air

> have the confidence to act even when there's a gaping chasm between what you can give and what's asked for.

Is there a way to sort notes in @obsdmd based on frontmatter data? I want to short notes across different folders based on “publish_date” Possible?

"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." - Laurence J. Peter

> There were plenty of individuals who did plenty of heroics to try to see what was coming and do something about it, but there weren’t any institutions waiting behind the scenes to save the day Even in the mighty USA?

Week 3 notes: • Productive week • New release of t2n app • published 6 posts GenAI insight: • it is time to start a GenAI division in your company

Clear thinking is rare. That’s why it is so attractive

How to Schedule Cron Jobs in GitLab to Automate Netlify Builds for 11ty Blogs

TIL The word secular, from the Latin root saecularis ("of an age, occurring once in an age") has two basic meanings: • Of or pertaining to the world (from which secularity is derived) • Of or belonging to an age or long period ex of 2: a secular trend

Take notes the way our brains work If you are new to #pkm and wondering the benefits of taking notes, read my summary of video by Nicole, a Dev Advocate at Grafana Labs (but not a dev!).

I didn't know with one codebase we can support web and mobile apps. Looks like Bluesky did exactly that. From "The Pragmatic Engineer" > have one codebase that powers the web, native iOS, and native Android apps

Living conditions in India will improve only when ordinary citizens discover that they need basic, civic governance more than places of worship - @tavleen_singh

4 yrs back, we started a daily meditation on our church. Each member will share their thoughts on a NT chapter for 3 min. This year, we included teens. Share your thoughts on a verse. Today, my elder son talks abt a verse that's closer to our family:

Is there still need for templates & checklists when you can ask ChatGPT to generate these?

🚨 Is it time for businesses to create an AI division? 🚨 Seth Godin: “When a new technology arrives, it’s almost always at a disadvantage. If we wait until the new thing is better… we’re taking a big risk.” Time to think of AI business unit is now. Why? 👇

I have way too much fun running local LLM via Open WebUI: I now use it for everything: asking questions abt books I read, concepts, journalistic edits of articles I write….