Joseph Jude

There was a time when we built things because it was fun. Not because we can make money. Money was secondary. Now everything is tuned to make money. More money. We need to do things because it is fun.

Proud #homeschooling dad My 12yo used Cursor to build his personal website. He made a video about it. Proud, but also mildly concerned he'll be asking for VC funding next week. 😳 His video: His site: Pass on your feedback.

I enjoy listening to David Pawson’s teaching on Biblical books. For the past few days been enjoying his teaching on the book of Revelation:

Homeschooling still needs constant attention to what kids do. Our default nature is to be lazy or drift away from our set goals. Since kids don’t have responsibilities it is more pronounced in them to drift. You need to nudge them constantly to keep in the right direction.

Pessimist sees a dark tunnel Optimist sees light at the end of the tunnel Realist sees a train The train driver sees three idiots on the tracks 😜

This is the only relevant answer

I tried windsurf and went back to cursor. May be familiarity, but I operated both in similar fashion. Cursor gave me reliable answers. Windsurf didn't

I am encouraging all my dev friends to use Most senior devs are like: can do exactly what I am asking to do in one iteration. If not they think it is a waste of time. Junior: they don’t mind experimenting. They see it as an improvement. Seniors have…

Bought this: "Beginner JavaScript" by @wesbos for my son. He is learning Javascript as part of his #homeschooling : I learnt advanced JS from Wes. Now my son. Thanks Wes. You are a super teacher.

It is interesting that liberals wanted to move away from conservative values (religion esp) and then act surprised when society doesn't represent the values they grew up with.

Both my sons (15&13 yrs) have started using Their usage styles are so starkly different. Younger one uses it as a utility - he has an outcome in mind. If he gets it he moves on. If not he iterates. Elder one wants to understand every line generated.…

AWS seems expensive than Hetzner or DO What they sell is certainty and ability to contact their support team any time. Companies expect certainty. And nobody got fired for buying AWS

Getting audio recording working from browsers across desktop, mobile, and different devices is a pain. There are no easy way to do it.

If Indians are not careful, this will happen in India too. With too much taxes, qcommerce, it is way too difficult to be a "mom & pop" shop in India.

Have any of you successfully dockerized React Native development environment? Mind sharing some details?

Engineering guidebook from Cancer Research UK. I love this document.

I have used successfully for converting from tachyons cas to tailwind css and also from preact to svelte5. Both times cursor made me so much productive. I finished in an hour what would have taken me days.

I asked Grok - "Please draw me based on my tweets" and it draws "a very cool x user"

No. Citizens who supported this govt repeatedly and voted for this govt again and again in state and union elections should be given an award. Oh wait...this is that award. If these don't wake up even now, there are much more bigger awards coming in ...

This is all fine. But fingers should point to workers too. They are happy to jump over others and compromise rights if there will be promotions, onsite opportunities, and higher salaries. That is what these business folks tap onto

Once my kids learn #javascript they will create these projects: • color flipper • counter • nav bar • sidebar • modal • questions • food menu • video • scroll • tabs • countdown • slider • grocery Great list

Published my weekly notes here: • having fun in bsky; crossed 100 followers • Kids started using cursor to create landing page; Jerry created digital garden too • Signed up a new coaching client

Starting to teach #javascript to my kids as part of #homeschooling This 3 hour youtube video is a good start: I also teach them whenever needed.

> Chennai has largest number of private weatherman then any city in the world Didn't know this. Interesting

When we label people (right wing, left wing, Mexican, low-caste), we fail to understand people. What we label is only one dimension of people. Get to understand them by talking to them. All of us have fears, desires, hopes, and dreams. Don’t reduce people to genres.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. - Oscar Wilde

Looks like #svelte5 reactivity doesn't work on Safari (both desktop and mobile) 😱😳 This is after writing full application in svelte Any remedial approaches available?

One lesson from bsky's sky-rocking growth: Build a product that already has product-market fit but remove everything customers are complaining about. Threads built a twitter clone but as a same ad-optimized product. Bsky built a twitter clone without ads and alogo for virality…

> practical patterns for integrating large language models into systems & products.... There are seven key patterns. They’re organized along the spectrum of improving performance vs. reducing cost/risk, & closer to the data vs. closer to the user.

Joined twitter on Feb 1, 2008. Lots of things happened between then and now. I have only great memories of Twitter. Met lot of good folks. Learnt a lot from them. Of late it has become more to sell things than to make connections. I wish it could be "social" again.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are three types of teachers: • those who view their job as utility • those who are empathetic • those who holistically develop students

I am wondering if we are at a stage of collapse of UN. History seems to rhyme with League of Nations. > The League failed to intervene following the occupation of Manchuria in 1931 and the invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) by Italy in 1935. This not only affected the political…

Leadership is holistic. Leaders should lead with humility and confidence. And other lessons from the book: “Lead like Jesus”

If you want to succeed in an uncertain world, be like a fox - a multi-disciplinary thinker

There is no single cockroach in the kitchen - Warren Buffett He has been a cheater and a fraud. And lot of Indian folks admire him. And emulate him too. Basically Indian mentality is: cheat, fly abroad, cheat, make money, get power, go out of reach of law, repeat.

A cord of multi-strands is not quickly broken and other lessons from mourning for my mother.

What I wrote a decade back. Anything changed? Or only became worse?

This was the beginning of my exploration into #homeschooling. At that time, I wasn't thinking of homeschooling. My son was ready to go to school and this question came up in my mind. 8 years later we switched to homeschooling

Is it possible to home-school your children in India? Hear from Mahendran who home-schooled his two children for the past nine years.

Christmas started early for me. 🕺 I shared draft of the book I am writing (Tech driven sales: ). One read it and asked for coaching around the theme. Feels good to have a client even before I complete the book.

I taught my 13 yr basics of html & css. Then gave him . He wrote different prompts to design a landing page for himself. Check out his newly designed page: Give me your feedback. He is still working on connecting different things.…

Pollution is forcing people to migrate out of Delhi. We have been in Panchkula for 10 years. Never before we considered moving out. It feels home. For the first time, we have started discussing moving out - probably to outskirts of Bangalore. (there doesn't seem to be a great…

Starting to teach #git to my kids as part of #homeschooling. This is a good primer explaining git visually:

If you are looking for ideas to build for #bsky: #buildinpublic

Hello Web Dev folks: how do you style your apps? I have been using #tachyons css. It is easy to grasp and use. You can use from cdn too. It has not been updated for more than year. Tailwind seems to have sharp learning curve. What do you all use?

Most careers turn into sales jobs when you get senior enough - Sam Altman Everything in a company is geared toward selling more. When sales are up and revenue is rolling in, every problem seems manageable. Since sales is the heartbeat of any company, every resource in any…

@_zenman are you on bluesky? Seem there are lot of indie developers there

What’s your favourite note taking app? I have tried many different apps and keep coming back to @obsdmd Mainly because of its file over app philosophy. I have 1000s of notes. I can edit them however I want without restrictions of what obsidian allows.

Social media exposes us to many options: • LinkedIn - all the jobs that we could do • Instagram - all the stylish ways we can dress • Twitter - all the ways we can make money All these kick start mimetic desires and make us feel disappointed. What’s the remedy? Stay away…