I shipped the syndication feature for my website today.
Getting the threads api was a bit tricky. It was easy after I had done it and I knew where to go and what to get. But before I did all of that, it was tricky.
It was the main reason why this had to be delayed till today.
There were other things I should have done by now, but haven’t because I had not shipped this feature.
Now I can go back to changing the UI. My favourite past-time.
too many people are doing a great disservice to their writing by garnishing it with generative-ai (artificial intelligence) - ethics and values aside (lol), it looks tacky and it cheapens the words around it.
For my poems I had tried to use these at one point, when this was just starting, a couple of years ago.
But then I decided I did not want it. It did not look right. I could make it to look right, but did not want to.
I was using Ghost then, so I used images from unsplash instead. It was great!
Noticing the little things
Tribes
We join them

Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki
The value of diversity
The reason why I want to move my home on the world
A tale of four chat bots
We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind
Don't think too much about the rules

Reading children’s books
They are so damn beautiful
What would you do without me?
Remarry (Bad jokes and me)
Just because you can do something does not mean you should
A writer's apocalypse approaches
Moving my home on the web
Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you
Make more detailed notes

I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family
Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk
Organizing the things in our life
The value of knowing where things are

I voted for the first time in Finland
In the municipal + county elections of 2025
Elections in Finland
About the local elections

The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence comes to India (English)
Temu as a form of soft power
A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu
Balancing new tech and its maintainance
All new technology needs to be tested out in the world
It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar
I don’t need to count anymore
How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world
Boiling frogs and global warming
Duplicating everything
Stop re-doing everything
Be a hybrid
Have expertise in two or more things
A weird day
Something felt off

Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone
Focus modes + Shortcuts magic
The contexts in which I use my phone
Thinking about phone usage + productivity
Maybe we should not have connected
Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse
Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web
Public beta for fediverse support is live now
Who are you?
Who are you?
What is Nordletter about?
Or, how to write about the same thing perpetually?
You can’t make friendships happen
Good food takes time to prepare
Patience is a virtue

Providing customisation options to users is a great thing
Adventures in configuring tools to work better
Which iPad do I get in 2025?
About the state of the iPad lineup
Don’t call me a writer!
I hate the spotlight
Sit on the floor with your child and play
Spend time playing with your child
We are all addicted to our phones
And a few rules I have
How I use Obsidian
Notes on note-taking
About the Pareto principle
And the value of putting in the work
Warming up to LLMs
Using copilot to update my book page
Seeing it for the first time
Following Apple rumours

Spring already?
Walk a little
All work is creative
Things change when you become a parent
Life goes on
LLMs are being deployed in factories
How does that make you feel?
About Garbage
And how its our responsibility
Reading is better than watching movies
If it’s the same story
About reflections on writing
From people who have been doing this for many years
Savya-Sajal
Coalescing into my son
How the coffee breaks have changed
Answer: more time on phones
About the marshmallow experiment
And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up
Why work?
The myths of work
Some times we wait
For a thing to become what it must
The three types of code I write
slapdash, scrappy and production-grade
Some times
The last work left in this world
Train the models!
Should you pay for search?
Public services should be subsidised
Once upon a time, we almost lost everything
A story of a near victim of a cyber crime
Sleep well
Yoga helps you know your body

Designing a book
With a little bit of quirkiness
A week of AI news
Deepsek and the others
Why do I read more on the web
The phone, that’s the answer.
What a mess!
Living with a kid in a messy home
Embracing the light
Light mode / dark mode
I need to talk to more people, more often
And hear their stories
The two factors that allow services to be terrible
My WhatsApp story
The next four years are going to be a drag
Spent in dread

You can’t have one without the other
Actions and consequences
Parenting is full of contradictions
Sleep child, sleep!
The value of consistency
Discipline and repetition
How to complain
Or, how to make your boss's life easier
Meta will not do fact-checking anymore
Meta goes MAGA?
About glue work
Is glue work bad? Depends.
Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?
Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies
Sometimes all it takes is magic
Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible
I do not know what to do
Part #3 of what to do and how to post my damn links

I figured out what to do
How to write here
Rethinking what and how I write on this website
How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things
How to use habituation to your benefit
Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.

Build a bridge to your corner of the web
Self host
When to write
When you're away from the keyboard

Two lessons on work
Show your work + Ask for help

Books I've read this year
16 - that's the number
Sitting and talking
a place to be less alone
Advanced civilisations could be indistinguishable from nature
A sustainable solution to the fermi paradox
How do I know if someone subscribed to me via RSS
Fans everywhere. Fans nowhere.
No pity for the bosses
Apps make everything legal
The net good or bad of AI
Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms
We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions
An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain
We can have a fun conversation with max four people
Shakespeare got it
Digital consumption does not let me do actual work
It affects my ability to focus and remember
The things we don't need
We should let those go, no?
Music can remind you of things
It can transport you, across time and space

Birthdays are funny
Another year around the sun! Yay!
Notes on obsidian
Some things which do not work

Building furniture
A traditional Ikea holiday

Beating death
Living forever
Types of workers in an organisation
Or, evolution of the type of worker you are
Duo all the way
Learning (Playing?) on Duolingo

Why are there no small photo sharing apps
There is an opportunity here

Proprietary formats
A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown

Love and Despair
Reading poems
Life everywhere
But not in the way you expect

Be positive
And not just in the abstract sense.
Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do
Curb micro-management
Where you do yoga matters
Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass

Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali
When to let go
Life withers away

Bimba
The art hut
how to blog
daily posts?

A tale of two airlines
Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.

Going home
To Delhi
The future of Kindle
More notes please!

Look at the stars
Look at the sun
How to tell stories
Stories need to surprise

If you're stuck on something
Talk to someone

You're like a river
You flow
The problem with read-it-later apps
It feels like stripping character from the web

Keeping promises

Why walk the same path every day
Ignore the path
We don't want intelligence
We want slaves
Who will advocate for the future
Leave a better world than you found
The custodian for all human knowledge
AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place

Everything can teach us something
Help us grow
A world full of agents
Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!

The stories we tell
Of a place and a time

Sing!
Go on!

Blue skies
Night skies

Professionals are consistent
They show up
Science fiction does not have to be dystopian in order to be interesting
More hope for the world
What is an iPhone
Answer - a computer
Linkin Park are back
The emptiness machine

Losing someone
It's hard

Everything in nature that is born, dies
Life is what happens in the middle

What are trails
But paths other have walked upon

The good people of Finland
About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness

Hello from the puddle
Nature

The joy of reading
Books transport you

Made you cry
That's the goal
Further thoughts on certifications and trainings
And marrying well

Original art
No art is original

Thoughts on iPhone day
2024 edition