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Building with AI, shipping small things, and figuring it out as I go.
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Asking the bot to price an Amazon India car kit
A request for reputable Amazon India options, individual prices, and a total for a twelve-item car and boot list.
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A monitoring tool caused most of the monthly requests
Out of 839k monthly requests to one platform, 512k came from a sitemap status check running every few minutes.
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A full infrastructure audit is underway
An infrastructure audit has started, with more writing planned on the findings.
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The bot submitted a Grok Bot ambassador application
After a Cursor ambassador received a Grok Bot dad cap, the bot found the application, drafted the answers, and submitted the form.
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Asking the bot to get a Grok Bot dad cap
A request for the bot to obtain merch like a mailed Grok Bot dad cap, including by writing emails.
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Saw an F1 car up close at a Ferrari exhibition
A Ferrari F1 display car in Delhi shows both 16 and 44, mixing Leclerc and Hamilton markings.
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Good recovery from HIIT with a few protocol additions
HRV recovers to 71ms after HIIT, with EVOO, ground coffee, dark chocolate and no sugary snacks added to the daily protocol.
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IG posts succeed while systems report failure
Postiz keeps emailing Instagram posting errors for Times of AI even though the posts went through.
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First project that scores topnotch on agentic approaches
Artboar scores 100 on an agent-ready scan as an MCP and API first design tool for social headers and App Store screenshots.
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Two day review says scripting bot work is futile
A two day benchmark finds only 8-9 percent of Grok Bot work can move to scripts, so the usage tip is not worth it.
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Watch Node.js and Bun vulnerability reports for the bot
Ask the bot to watch The Hacker News for Node.js and Bun vulnerabilities and notify a dedicated bot when patches are due.
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Frontier model forgot to reread the AGENTS markdown file
Grok Bot admits it memorised AGENTS.md and skipped rereading it during a site import, then promises to check it every time.
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Du du du du
Rain chances for the Sunday race rise from 50 to 70 percent.
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Back to HIIT on a stair-stepper
Three rounds of 4 minutes push and 4 minutes rest on a stair-stepper after a 10 minute warmup, at a 145 BPM average.
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Token spend for the day stands at 1.54 billion
Daily token spend reaches 1.54 billion, all of it base-level work that should pay off in the near future.
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Ask your agent to repass its work at day end
A day end reminder to ask your agent for a second pass over its work, because it will find gaps and edge cases.
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Passing an SEO blog design playbook to the marketing bot
Ask the bot to have the marketing bot review current practice against an SEO blog design playbook, with its own independent research.
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Do agents check headers for llms.txt and API catalogs
Asking whether agents look for llms.txt, docs, openapi.yaml and .well-known/api-catalog via headers or still parse HTML text.
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Asking the bot to benchmark a usage tip on my cron jobs
Before acting on a Grok Bot tip to script repeated tasks, ask the bot to benchmark all my cron jobs for two days and report the outcome.
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Keep your phone in a different room
One hack for a productive day is to keep your phone in a different room from the one you are working in.
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Agents pick one issue for me every day at noon
Every day at noon, agents review my sites and each picks one issue ranked by business impact, so I have to fix things before noon.
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Giving luck somewhere to find me
A new Luck Razor piece on keeping my writing, interests and projects visible so future connections have somewhere to begin.
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Reverse Uno on Hyrox with a fixed time and heart rate
An idea to flip Hyrox training: lock every event to 90 minutes and track average heart rate, so successive events should average better.
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Version your agents instead of one-shotting work
A design critic bot versions and judges Instagram carousel images, and a case to gamify agents, version them and iterate on work.
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How to make Grok bot and OpenAI Dot talk
Asking how to get Grok bot to ping OpenAI Dot with context for image generation and get base64 back, keeping the best of both services.
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Going alone to the Ferrari exhibition in Delhi
Friends were busy, so I went alone to the Ferrari exhibition in Delhi, and how small decisions like this change your luck.
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Who needs 50MB query results from D1
Questions on who queries 50MB results from a database capped at 10GB, how they deliver it, and why, after D1 announced a result size limit.
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Mad Max IV
A Max Verstappen portrait in dress military uniform, quoting the news of Liam Lawson disqualified from Mexico City GP Qualifying.
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Bot is wonky, possible outage
A quick check-in after the bot starts acting up, wondering whether an outage is behind it.
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Most of my issue tracker is slow API responses
A full issue tracker turns out to be mostly slow API response timings, likely from over-engineered queries, useless joins and unneeded data.
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Zero strikes on my X Under the Hood report
The X Under the Hood report shows no post or account labels limiting visibility, and a case for X as the most transparent platform.
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Upgrading Bitcoin Core from 27.0 to 32.1
What changed between Bitcoin Core 27.0 and 32.1: AssumeUTXO on mainnet, a 1GB default dbcache, and parallel block input fetching for faster initial sync.
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Glad the Codex usage resets will stop
Doubled Pro usage limits make a Pro 500 upgrade unnecessary for now, and the real usage picture will show once the resets settle.
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A projects page that logs daily progress
A new projects page tracks progress at a glance, with Dot summarising git history at the end of each day and publishing the update.
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All 100 .ai domains are taken
The bot checked all 100 words and every single-word .ai domain is taken, so on to another 100.
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Checking 100 words for free .ai domains
Handing the bot 100 words to check .ai domain availability, the kind of menial work AI now sorts out.
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This has made me rethink life
Reacting to how Michael Phelps went six years without missing a single day of training.
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Airtel India still lacks RCS on iOS
Twenty-five months after Apple enabled RCS on iOS, Airtel India still does not support it.
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McLarens did not even try
A one-line reaction to the list of F1 drivers who defended their maiden world title.
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22 months on and markets are still red
Revisiting a buy-signal post 22 months later with the NIFTY 50 still down, and a 75 percent debt, 25 percent equity split.
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Is Codex having an outage?
Codex sits in the background for minutes with a working status while no work gets done.
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Asking the bot to watch for Codex resets
Asking the bot to monitor Tibo for Codex reset signals and send an alert with the time converted to IST.
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Walk for 2 hours at a steady 140 bpm
A treadmill plan for fat loss: walk 2 hours on an incline at a steady 140 beats per minute instead of running.
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Litmus an early access playbook against my products
Asking the bot to summarise a 20-year early access playbook, test it against every product in flight, and list the gaps with a how-to.
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Apple Music halftime and the snapback jacket look
The Apple Music halftime announcement is cool, but a snapback and an oversized jacket always reads as album cover art.
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300M free GLM tokens a day on ZCode
ZCode gives 300M free GLM 5.3 Flash tokens a day in a 10 hour window, which is 20:30 to 06:30 IST for devs in India.
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82k rupees for an iPad Mini is bonkers
Reacting to the Rs 82k price of the iPad Mini in India.
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Almost a billion OpenAI tokens in a day
26 million short of burning a billion OpenAI tokens in one day at 80 percent of the weekly quota, and past a billion with Grok and Cursor usage added.
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17 agents and 4 coffees before noon
A Monday snapshot: 17 agents across 6 projects, 4 coffees before noon, 40 minutes of zone training, and a heart rate in the high 50s.
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Was there a Codex reset?
Asking whether the Codex usage quota was reset early.
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Upgraded my Grok subscription
Upgrading the Grok plan after getting stuck on quota limits every third day.
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Dots needs a secret vault
Asking OpenAI to give Dots a secure secret vault instead of leaning on GitHub secrets, with an inline secret input as the ideal DX.
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Without Fear or Favour by Justice Kaul
Wondering how excerpts are circulating from the unpublished memoir of former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul, and planning to preorder it.
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Raymond moves into engineering, aerospace and defence
Raymond Limited plans to rename itself Raymond Aerospace, Defence and Engineering Limited, a surprise for 2026.
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Handing my tweets export to a Dot
Out of agent quota, the X export workflow moves to a Dot named Nothing, which has unlimited quota for now.
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Bitwarden restricts a premium account again
Bitwarden restrictions return after an earlier fix, but periodic exports to Apple Passwords keep a working failsafe.
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Codex reset has landed
The weekly Codex quota reset arrives, so it is time to push hard and exhaust it again.
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Half the Codex quota in a single day
Burned through about half of the weekly Codex usage in one day, only for the quota reset to arrive before the rest could be used.
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Hotstar on Apple TV breaks vertical scrolling
The latest Hotstar app release for Apple TV stops vertical scrolling after the first row.
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Annual reminder to watch Dark
Quoting Netflix on the yearly ritual of rewatching the mind-bending German series Dark.
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Non-profits and the Internet
Signal and Let's Encrypt stand out for their contributions to the Internet.
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AI-assisted coding as consultation
Understanding the stack and challenging AI makes LLM-assisted development a form of consultation.
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Shadowing someone who uses the full Codex quota
Looking to learn from someone who uses an entire day of Codex quota to build something meaningful.
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Tell me you AI without saying you AI
A home screen pared down to a Codex quota widget, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, and Grok says it all.
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Final Cover adds a 6-contract Operation mode
Final Cover gains upgrades between missions, varied enemy encounters, a friendlier opening, and a reload button beside fire.
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Final Cover has 9 gaming rounds
The Sniper prototype becomes Final Cover with nine basic rounds, a TestFlight link, and a call for ideas to make it sticky.
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Extending Blupp ecom to Dubai
The Blupp ecom service map grows from Delhi pincodes to 222 outlined Dubai community areas.
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Planning an ecom service around Delhi pincodes
An ecom rollout plan starts with 95 outlined Delhi pincode areas that support search, selection, and zoom.
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Sniper v0.1.0, a native iOS sniper game
A first playable Swift and RealityKit sniper prototype with a procedural dusk city, 4x scope, limited ammo, and recoil.
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Hello, World!
A minimal Hello, World! render as the starting point for the Sniper iOS game.
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OpenAI will acquire Cloudflare
A riff on a SpaceX-buys-Vercel joke, predicting that OpenAI will acquire Cloudflare.
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Bitwarden asks a premium user to upgrade
Bitwarden apps keep asking for an upgrade even though the account is already on premium.
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Grok Bot is too expensive to run daily
Premium+ quota and a $20 top-up run out within days, while Codex and Dot handle the same work without overage.
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Exhausted 53 percent of the Codex weekly quota
Over half of the weekly Codex quota is gone by Friday evening, with an open invitation to ask anything.
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Asking the bot to summarise a backlink strategy
Ask the bot to summarise a competitor-alternatives backlink strategy, email a copy, keep Markdown, and apply it to current projects.
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Bun fmt formats 320x faster than Prettier
Bun ships a formatter benchmarked 320x faster than Prettier and 2x faster than the nearest rival, a farewell to Prettier.
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Engineering is about impact
Lines of code, PR counts, and tokens burnt matter less than getting better than yesterday.
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Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window
A Steve Wozniak line about trusting computers, posted beside a nightly X export agent that failed to start.
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Grok Bot now reads X natively
Grok Bot can now search and monitor X, removing the step of exporting posts from the Grok app into the bot.
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Applying for the Claude Startups program
A nudge to the bot to apply for the expanded Claude Startups program with Team seats and API credits.
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GitHub is throwing 500s
GitHub returns server errors, so the evening turns into a forced break.
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Asking the bot for a Grok Bot email address
A question to the bot about how to get an address on mail.grokbot.com.
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Asking Grok about the most expensive F1 crash
A question to Grok about when the most expensive Formula 1 crash happened, damage estimates, and the podium.
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Two Codex issues with skills and network permission
Codex fails to find dollar skills in a session and hits a fatal revoked network permission error on Mac.
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Grok Bot disk resized to 126 GB
Grok Bot disk grows from 16 GB to 126 GB, with Disk Saver reporting about 113 GB free.
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Approve hit counts look unreal
Approve.so October traffic jumps well past the prior daily pace, and the spike looks worth debugging.
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Disk Saver pops up again
Disk Saver clears bun and Python caches again, and asks how poteto manages disk while shipping production code.
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Hyrox challenge accepted
Sanmeet stacks Cancun and Toronto Hyrox finishes, and the reply accepts the challenge.
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Respect for Sundar getting things done
Sundar Pichai follows up on a week-long Android review and asks what excuse is left for everyone else.
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Amrinder Gill displaces Raf Saperra
Caramel by Amrinder Gill becomes the new favourite song, while Ranjodh Singh Cheema keeps the writing credit.
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89 days to 2027
The daily countdown hits 89 days with a Coca-Cola can at the wheel and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Hinting at bots in another sidebar
A question about what belongs in one more sidebar reads as a hint that the answer is bots.
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Asking Grok about Hamilton's 2026 odds
A question to Grok about the odds of Lewis Hamilton winning the 2026 Formula 1 championship.
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Groq powering McLaren F1
Groq showing up as the compute behind McLaren's Formula 1 effort.
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Following posts showing up in For You
Posts from followed accounts are landing in the For You tab, while Following should stay free of the algorithm.
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A static site can answer agents in Markdown
mohit.dev stays HTML for people, and agents can request the same post as Markdown without an API.
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Replace Ferrari F1 management with AI
After the soft-tyre start, the claim is that Ferrari's Formula 1 management should be replaced by AI.
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Ferrari starts on Pirelli soft tyres
Ferrari's choice of Pirelli soft tyres looks like lap-one drama at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Software glitches at the Malaysian F1 race
Verstappen, Hamilton, and Ocon all hit software glitches during the Malaysian Formula 1 race.
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A Rust target folder at 95 GB
A Rust target directory has grown to about 96 GB of builds and cache, called the current downside of Rust.
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An agent checks the Cloudflare incidents JSON
A coding agent opens cloudflarestatus.com/api/v2/incidents.json while debugging a 524.
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What's next, Signal?
A one-line question about what Signal does next.
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Disk Saver asks before clearing caches
A Disk Saver bot reports low disk space and asks which caches to clear, and whether that chat counts against quota.
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Indian IT stocks are deeply negative
Year-to-date and five-year returns for Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCL Tech, and Tech Mahindra are mostly negative.
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Quoting and dissing is easier than being original
A short note that quote-posting and criticizing is easy compared with being original.
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90 days to 2027
The daily countdown hits 90 days with a teal espresso cup at the desk and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Asking the bot to add Google Analytics
A chat asks the blog bot to paste a Google tag snippet into the site head.
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Asking the bot to sync blog posts
After a usage-limit reset, a short ask for the bot to sync the blog.
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Exhausted 25% of the GPT credit quota
Burning through a quarter of the GPT credit pool in half a day after the year-end credits landed.
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Artboar now supports multiple art boards
Artboar picks up multi-artboard editing, with a link to try the update.
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Updating macOS, Xcode, and Codex at once
A simultaneous macOS, Xcode, and Codex update leaves all three installs stuck.
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Artboar is live
Shipping Artboar with a Hello World canvas that jokes about the missing d in artboard.
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Cloudflare KV Instant pricing and tradeoffs
Notes on KV Instant’s fast reads versus steep per-MB storage and per-operation Class A costs.
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91 days to 2027
The daily countdown hits 91 days with an espresso at the desk and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Exhausted my Grok bot quota
Grok bot usage hits the weekly limit, so the plan is to ease off for the next five days.
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Apple should add MCP to its developer portal
A short ask for Apple to expose MCP in the developer portal.
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92 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 92 days with a cold Coke at the desk and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Active followers outnumber average views on X
X shows hundreds of active followers while average views stay around a hundred.
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Engineering is easy; spending a day engineering is hard
A short contrast between knowing engineering and actually spending the day doing it.
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Talk doesn't cook rice
A one-line reminder that talk alone does not get the work done.
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SpaceX is winning the bot DX game
SpaceX bot DX looks ahead; OpenAI should lean into multi-bot containers instead of Muse.
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Wrangler tunnels are faster on Cloudflare WARP
A Wrangler tunnel over WARP shaves about 50 ms versus the direct BOM path.
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October fired up a late-night work session
Seeing October 1st sparked a work stretch that ran until 5 AM.
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Asking the bot to double a billion-dollar ask
A playful reply asking the bot to double someone else’s billion-dollar request.
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Sudo music player looks killer if downloads work
Sudo’s music player looks great; the open question is how song downloads work.
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Grok-alike bots limited to 100 November seats
A planned Grok-alike bot launch caps November seats at 100 with a thirty-day timeline.
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Keen on a Grok bot-alike
Interest in building something with Grok bot-like functionality.
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93 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 93 days, with iced coffee at the desk and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Grok bot DX still beats Dots for multi-bot work
Grok’s multi-bot sync feels cleaner than a single Dots window, with hope OpenAI ships multiple bots soon.
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Apple Pay in India needs an Axis card
Early Apple Pay access in India appears limited to Axis Bank cards.
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OpenAI grants $2,500 in Pro usage credits
A one-time $2,500 credit grant covers heavy Pro usage through year-end before Pro 500 becomes necessary.
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CDN Accept negotiation returned WebP instead of AVIF
An Accept: image/avif request wrongly got WebP until the CDN began sending AVIF first.
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Apple Pay arrives in India
A short reaction to Apple Pay launching for customers in India.
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Dot suggests Codex work from the lock screen
OpenAI Dot is available and already proposing completed Codex work as the next task.
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Waiting for Anthropic to join the personal-agent race
A wish that Anthropic enter the Muse, Dots, and Grok bot contest for personal agents.
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OpenAI Pro 500 is available in India at ₹52,900
Pro 500 launches in India with faster inference, while older Pro 200 keeps 20x usage until October 29.
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Pro Max appears in Dots documentation
Dots docs mention the $500 Codex Pro Max plan while rolling out outside the EU, UK, and Switzerland.
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OpenAI Dot unavailable in India for now
A regional Dots modal says the Pro plan does not have access yet in India.
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6.1 Sol is already here
A quick note that the 6.1 Sol model showed up in the Configure list sooner than expected.
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Long AI, short everything else
A terse take on Apple’s new-CEO overhaul pushing faster product development.
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Expecting day-one macOS and iPhone Codex Bots apps
Anticipating native macOS and iPhone apps when Codex Bots launch.
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Codex bots could be the iPhone moment for models
Custom Codex bots with recurring themes could match Muse and Grok bot stickiness.
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Why the Pro usage change criticism looks excessive
A defense of OpenAI’s Pro usage recalculation, grandfathered limits, and bot costs.
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ITC takes full ownership of Yoga Bar
ITC buys the remaining Sproutlife Foods stake for about ₹645 crore to reach 100%.
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GitHub and Cloudflare connection looks disrupted
A short note that the link between GitHub and Cloudflare appears to be having an outage.
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Has the Rust server moved into production?
A question for 37signals after their Basecamp outage, noting reported Rust rewrite gains of over 50x.
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LoomUp server response timings
A breakdown of LoomUp's sub-millisecond stages, with most of the remaining 80 ms blamed on the DEL-BLR trip.
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LoomUp without the Cloudflare proxy
Removing Cloudflare's proxy cuts LoomUp reused-connection latency under 85 ms, with cold starts still near 300 ms.
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94 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 94 days, with a teal coffee-cup photo and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Approve hits a million requests
Approve.so crosses one million September hits across assets, push, sockets, and CRUD, with AI next.
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Linking Grok on X with standalone Grok
A pause over whether syncing Grok chats between X and the standalone app is worth agreeing to.
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Linux machine booting in under 10ms
A reaction to boxd's claim of a whole Linux machine that boots in under 10 milliseconds.
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When the usage meter costs more than usage
A Cloudflare cost comparison shows how chatty Durable Object writes can dwarf the underlying usage.
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95 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 95 days, with a Coca-Cola photo and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Muse invents a fictional name
Muse’s invented name Arjun raises questions about model assumptions and the need for personal agents to avoid them.
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Agents need guardrails around user data
A Muse privacy incident highlights the responsibility of companies and users to protect information from overconfident agents.
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96 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 96 days, paired with a Coca-Cola photo and the same Dylan Thomas lines.
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Sunday reminder to upgrade Homebrew packages
A Sunday Homebrew upgrade updates formulae and surfaces deprecated or disabled packages.
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Questions about using OpenClaw
Asks whether OpenClaw produces concrete results, becomes a lasting routine, and deserves a recommendation.
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Three blog tasks completed on a walk
A walk became time to finish OG images, RSS, and blog submission work with a Grok bot.
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Upgrading to OpenAI Pro Max on day one
Planning to upgrade to OpenAI’s rumored Pro Max plan as soon as it launches.
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OpenAI Pro Max at $500 a month
A look at the rumored Pro Max tier priced at $500 exclusive of tax, or ₹52,900 inclusive in India.
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Cloudflare preview builds wiping secrets
Frustration that Workers preview builds wipe secrets, with a GitHub issue documenting the silent loss.
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97 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 97 days, quoting the same call to make the remaining time count.
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Signal adds on-device backups
Signal now supports on-device backups, shown on the Backups settings screen.
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Preview builds drop Cloudflare secrets
Workers preview builds are not holding secrets even when keep vars is set correctly.
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Why Meta spends and SpaceX does not blink
A reply on Grok bot versus Muse ranking: Meta subsidizes adoption while SpaceX stays the course.
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99 days to 2027
The daily countdown hits 99 days, with the same call to rage against wasted time.
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Cutting API response time by over a second
WaitUntil accounting, fewer D1 round trips, and Smart Placement reclaim more than a second per request.
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100 days to 2027
The daily countdown hits 100 days, with the same call to make the remaining time count.
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Node.js rewrites in Rust to outdo Bun
A short take that Node.js can rewrite itself in Rust and still beat Bun.
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Tweeting the government about GPU access
Wondering whether daily tweets to officials could open GPU purchases the way crypto asks once did.
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Asking Grok for an X chat number
A quick ask for help finding the new X chat number feature.
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Project TC image quality and D1 row counts
Image delivery now accepts quality 10–100, and D1 row reads will ship as a response header.
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Project L cuts monitoring check frequency
SSL, DNS, Lighthouse, and related checks across 23 projects are paced down to ease server load.
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101 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 101 days, quoting the same call to rage against wasted time.
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Cloudflare 525s and Caddy peer retransmits
Project A returns 525s while project L stays fast, and some Caddy–Cloudflare peers show heavy retransmits.
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Still on Grok 4.6, looking for 4.7
Both the X and Grok apps still show Grok 4.6 with no sign of 4.7 yet.
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Meta forks OpenClaw as MetaClaw
Meta’s Muse backend already used MetaClaw naming, and the OpenClaw fork looks like a strong execution move.
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Reviving the blog with a Grok bot
A Grok bot stores credentials securely, uploads to R2, and brings mohit.dev back online from X posts.
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BGBG on TestFlight with a public weblink
A TestFlight build and weblink for BGBG, the iOS app that frames screenshots with backgrounds and blur.
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When unreliable internet breaks the workflow
Two hours of internet trouble interrupting the workday.
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102 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 102 days: a reminder to make the remaining time count.
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Grok and Muse now track website issues in a CSV
Two bots audit four websites daily and prioritize the issues they find by business impact.
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Fixing yesterday’s issues before the bots check again
A daily deadline to resolve flagged issues before the bots review progress at noon.
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Perplexity and the arrival of Grok, Muse, and GPT
A brief observation on Perplexity as competing AI tools emerge around it.
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The Grok bot was quiet because I asked for weekends off
An apparent monitoring glitch turns out to be a bot following its weekday-only notification schedule.
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Watching iPhone settings mirror on macOS
Device appearance and text-size changes on the phone showing up on the Mac.
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Unsplash keeps overwriting my Mac settings
Tracking down a macOS settings issue and offering to help fix the Unsplash app.
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The screenshot editor’s first export
A Sunday sprint produces the first image export, with TestFlight planned next.
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A native calendar with widgets and public schedules
The calendar app takes shape with iOS widgets and schedules readable by people, bots, and agents.
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Building an iOS screenshot background editor
Planning an image editor with background blur, padding, rounded corners, and multiple output ratios.
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Apple TV: the app and the standalone product
A note on Apple TV in India and the distinction between its app and standalone product.
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103 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 103 days, with another reminder to use the time ahead.
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A 4.94 GB database copy in 70 seconds
A schema-change workflow hits a snag while copying and verifying an existing database.
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Time blocking, an MCP update, and TestFlight builds
The first of two daily sprints wraps up with MCP changes and iOS apps sent to TestFlight.
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Lessons from the gym on grit and patience
Reflections on the gym, stubbornness, moving calmly, and choosing the weight for a set.
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Who is downloading my npm packages?
Questioning npm download counts while apparently being the only person testing the CLI packages.
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Rust catches bugs early—sometimes too early
A small correction on the appeal and frustration of Rust catching bugs early.
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Saving 100 TB of RAM across a fleet
A quick appreciation of saving 100 TB of RAM across a fleet.
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CLI and MCP tools for expenses and calendars
Two working tools manage personal expenses and calendars, with organizational use planned next.
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A two-hour sprint to ship an MCP
Setting aside two focused hours to deploy a useful MCP tool.
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Finding Notification Centre on iOS 27
The top-left swipe still opens notifications, but makes one-handed use awkward.
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Applying AI until you become ungovernable
A thought on using AI extensively and how much it can help a person achieve.
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Renewing the $200 Codex plan
A welcome surprise: the $200 Codex subscription can be renewed.
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104 days to 2027
The daily countdown reaches 104 days, continuing the reminder to make each day matter.
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There is no free lunch with frontier models
Reflecting on the cost of frontier models and what a $200 subscription should mean.
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AI agents as both makers and checkers
Grok and Muse catch overlooked details and review the previous day’s work.
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Questioning three million requests in a day
Investigating whether excessive crawling or unoptimized network calls explain a surprising request count.
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The corrected Muse conversation screenshot
The correct Muse conversation image, following the earlier bot-audit update.
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What network monitoring found in Grok and Muse
Observations from monitoring the bots’ connections to API, backend, and telemetry endpoints.
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Muse meets the in-person RTO requirement
Testing a Delhi vehicle-name change reveals a remaining requirement to submit documents in person.
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Grok and Muse find their first website issues
The bots identify a copy error and a faulty link during their first platform review.
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The missing ChatGPT mute button in CarPlay
Reporting that the CarPlay mute button disappeared after the iOS 27 update.
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An e-commerce framework built for chat
Developing an e-commerce framework around chat, with MCP and CLI access first.
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A daily platform review with Grok and Muse
Asking both bots to propose one meaningful platform improvement at noon IST.
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Incoming webhooks for the Grok bot
Using events to let a bot track actions and send summaries through a gist.
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43 requests per second and a 341 ms p95
Checking CPU usage, request throughput, and latency as a backend project grows.
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Where Grok, Muse, and a remote Codex bot might lead
Thoughts on competing bot platforms, containers, and the prospect of a remote Codex bot.
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Three million daily requests on my Rust server
Comparing a custom Rust server’s growing request volume with Cloudflare Workers pricing.
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105 days to 2027
The countdown stands at 105 days, with a reminder to keep moving toward the new year.
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Monitoring Grok and Muse on my Mac
Planning a code and network review after earlier concerns about uploads from the Grok CLI.
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Bots generating their own bots
Questions about nested bots, account access inside containers, and parent-account monitoring.
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Muse arrives on macOS
A quick reaction to Muse becoming available for native use on the Mac.
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Rethinking products around MCP, CLI, and webhooks
A shift in product development toward interfaces that agents can use.
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Can MCP connect Zoho to a currency-conversion query?
Exploring whether MCP can help retrieve a precise financial-year conversion amount from Zoho.
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Testing Muse on a Delhi vehicle registration correction
Proposing a real-world test of whether Muse can handle a vehicle-registration name correction.
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Installing Grok Bot on macOS
Trying the desktop bot to explore incoming webhooks and bot resets unavailable on mobile.
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When other bots can see a stuck Grok bot
Noticing that multiple bots can observe the same bot getting stuck.
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Cloudflare makes domain searches feel instant
Comparing Cloudflare’s fast domain availability results with earlier Namecheap searches.
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Wishing for Muse on macOS
Why a mobile-only release limits access, especially where the app is not available.
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Rethinking the Rust and SQLite service architecture
Weighing the current service against a split between API workers and the database layer.
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Getting access to Muse
A short update after receiving access to Muse.
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A 24-hour window for the $200 OpenAI subscription
Suggesting a short subscription window as a way to gauge demand for the product.
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Looking for a Muse invite in India
Seeing others use Muse in India and asking for help getting an invitation.
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When Astra leaves local Git history behind
Frustration with temporary-folder edits and branch pushes that leave the local checkout outdated.
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Is the internet going down, or is it X?
A brief question about whether a connection problem is local or on X.
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When the notification swipe opens Siri instead
A familiar iPhone gesture unexpectedly opens Siri and disrupts muscle memory.
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One backend, two very different project outcomes
Trying to understand why one project works and another fails on the same backend service.
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How did Homer manage without Wispr Flow?
A tongue-in-cheek thought on Homer’s narration and modern voice-dictation tools.
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Grok bot usage after cancelling Grok Heavy
Finding remaining bot usage after cancelling Heavy and wondering if the X subscription explains it.