Joseph Jude

This article by @SigalSamuel is so good. I highlighted so much out of this article. I published my perspectives on my commonplace notes: Morality can't be codified.

One mistake all IT services teams do: They listen to business requirements and then somehow forget what biz wants to achieve and start pushing technical requirements. Client: decrease website loading time What tech teams hear: add cache No

I look at my portfolio and am disappointed. But keep investing. I am not trying to time the market. Because I'm not a trader or make money out of market (ex: adviser, influencer ...). I make money (with job). Invest it. And wait it out.

Sticking to one topic / interest for long is a tough thing for me Even within tech, I can’t stick to one stack. I like to experiment with different languages, frameworks etc. It helps me immensely to be a CTO but not to run as biz.

Testing out @tryOctarine First impression: Wow. It looks so polished.

We accuse AI models about hallucinating. What about news media? He passed away because of fasting?

My plan for today. What's yours?

Week Notes: • Fantastic week • Published a post daily • As part of homeschooling, boys wrote an essay on "The role of sw in taking man to the moon" • Using Open WebUI daily. It is super useful • GenAI is both unreliable & powerful same time

As part of homeschooling, today my boys had a essay writing challenge. They aced it. They had to research, validate facts, write an essay, post it on their blog, and critique the sibling's essay, and post on their social media.

I have minimal cover for family of 4. We have not claimed anything for the last 15 years or so. I do something like @RajeevMatta says: Take the insurance and put into a separate MF (for me Parag); Have emergency fund; Take care of your health. Deal with life as it comes.

My son (15yrs) is learning Javascript via Coursera. Here is his video about Javascript variables: He has come to enjoy learning JS.

Been using both Typefully & Buffer to schedule social media posts. Buffer has better overall UX • It has mobile app • Updates to different platforms can be at different times Only thing better at TF is their thread UX

I am starting to redesign my blog using Windsurf IDE. I have given a instruction that it should strictly use tachyons classes. It generates a html block. I ask if a certain class is tachyons. It says no. Turns out it is a tachyons class.

I've been using Windsurf IDE for all my coding in December. Plan to use it more in the coming days.

Teaching my boys how to *research* has been a fun experiment this week. 🚀 As part of our homeschooling, they’re working on an assignment: **“The Role of Software in Taking Man to the Moon.”** Here’s what we’re doing and how it’s going. 🧵

I am trying to understand Meta's move to community notes. Isn't it good if they follow Twitter's community notes model: ? Any one can add community notes against any post. That is what I understand. Isn't that better than a centralized fact-checking group?

My posting history as a Github style graph: Been posting since 2005. 20 years of blogging here

Coders are spoiled by frameworks. Today asked someone to write a code to fetch a json API and handle errors in nodejs. They couldn’t use native nodejs; had to use expressjs. They didn’t know how to do using native 😳😱

I don't know why @ndtv would put EC photo for Trump's warning to Hamas. May be EC is issuing a threat to Indians?

Came across a #htmx like framework. Anyone used it?

GenAI models give us boost in productivity and ability to complete many tasks quickly. They open worlds not opened to us before. I am also afraid this possibility will open us into FOMO.

"How to Display Popular & Trending Blog Posts from @PlausibleHQ Analytics In a @eleven_ty blog" • Fetch analytics with Plausible API 📊 • Map slugs to titles for reader-friendly stats 📰 • Display results with Nunjucks templates 🎨 Read here 👉

How to run chatpgpt-4o & gpt-4o models locally with Open WebUI: These models give me strikingly similar responses like ChatGPT.

In the AI era, what will differentiate you: questions Both quality and quantity of your questions Ask more questions Use GPT tools to ask even more questions

I have used #htmx before. Love it. But htmx = 14k alpine = 15k preact = 3k Purely from a size perspective shouldn't we just use preact? What am I missing?

There are low cost LLM models are coming out (even from ops point of view). What kind of impact these will have on blogging, websites?

My notes from @simonw's approach to running a link blog: • a link blog is a low stake, high value writing • Include names of the people • Highlight a key idea; provide extra context; tie it with similar ideas

Tons of AI models and tools are coming out leading to paradox of choice. I apply the same rule as I have done in selecting tools: stick to what you have unless new one improves at least by 2x. Unless you are an analyst in this domain you don’t gain much by keep switching

In an era where knowledge is ubiquitous and can be synthesized by LLM agents quickly, what will differentiate you and your company? My bet: • distribution • speed of execution What do you think?

The pressure for profits & productivity will ruin GenAI based coding. Like OSS movement. OSS was truly a liberating one for those who loved coding. You can read code written by genius programmers. But the world at large saw it just as free software for paid software.

Recently we visited a resort in southern tip of India surrounded by a lake and western ghat. We loved our stay there. Here is an account of our 2 days stay:

Installed Open WebUI (following this instruction: ). First local model UI that works without any problem for me. Hope to play around with it more

I am using GenAI tools (chatgpt, windsurf, WhatsApp AI) for everything I do: • rewrite blog posts in conversational tone • fine tune blog posts for SEO • questions on Biblical passages I am publishing all those prompts here:

Most of us chase goals like dogs chasing cars. We chase because it is shiny We have no idea if we will get them We don’t know what we will do with them even if we get them

Trending posts this week: • Employee to Solopreneur: • Review of 2024: • Three Types Of Goals You Should Set: • Writing my obituary:

2025 Week Notes So glad to start the year with momentum. Able to do so much in just 4 days. Obsidian + 11ty + Windsurf is an super duper combination for blogging. Read full notes here:

Surprisingly after I canceled X premium I got more engagements 🤷‍♂️

Been using chatgpt to analyse stock investments. Doing that for the past 6 months at the end of every month Gotten good inputs so far. Today it made an error in adding a column. If it wasn’t for such huge numbers I wouldn’t have noticed it. Would I trust it again?

Integrated Plausible & 11ty to show popular posts on my homepage. If you go and scroll down you will see these posts. Steps to do that: • call plausible api • create 11ty collection • loop through posts to get title • display the posts in template

Been checking out indieweb to implement web mention. So much of good work done for free in the interest of open web. God bless those. They make the Internet what it is.

Have any of you had success with Msty / GPT4all / open-webui ? Been trying these apps to run local models. None of them give any reasonably good output. Nowhere near outputs generated by chatgpt / cursor / windsurf etc. What am I missing?

To build a flourishing life you need: • knowledge • depth of insight • discernment of the best 📚Everyone has access to knowledge 💡Be a multi-disciplinary thinker to see insights specific to your situation ⚒️don’t stop there. Do it.

Want to have a fulfilling 2025? Write your obituary. You might say, gosh, what an inauspicious thing to say. Hear me out. There is no better tool available than writing your obituary. I wrote one 18 years back and it changed how I live.

Don’t live on borrowed wisdom Build your own How? Learn Do Reflect Ask questions Repeat what you do (only better) Iterate AI can’t beat a man who earned his wisdom

Pursuit of mastery in any domain will make you a multi-disciplinary thinker & doer. Ex: Investing in stocks: diff industries; management styles; understanding numbers … Indie maker: product design, market research, copywriting, sales … Pursue mastery

Do you think more Indian parents will choose homeschooling?

Been using cursor & windsurf for coding. They get you to 70% very quickly. Then it plateaus. Adding complex logic to an exiting code base is almost impossible with these. If anything these tools will increase demands for good programmers.

Whenever I research on a concept I read with view to benefit personally from it. Not for writing a post or a paper out of it. So I don't store all the references. But when I benefit from the concept, I want to write but I don't have the references. Do you face this issue?

First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil. - Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Have a working 2015 Mac Book Pro. Looks like many of the latest software won’t work in it. Should I continue to use MacOS with whatever works or shud I switch to Linux?