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Logged at IST: 2026-10-09 19:42 IST What it is: Anton Frolov's account of commissioning an environment artist to draw his house and turning the artwork into an interactive Home Assistant dashboard. Gist: The illustrated floor plan is the interface: Home Assist…
Logged at IST: 2026-10-05 14:38 IST What it is: F-Droid 2.0 is the largest update to its official Android app in ten years, rebuilt with Kotlin Compose. Gist: The app reorganizes its main navigation into Discover, Search, and My Apps. The release expands categ…
Logged at IST: 2026-10-05 14:38 IST What it is: Alexander Romance argues that overthinking is potential energy that needs to be converted into output. Gist: The post frames overthinking as a force that can turn into anxiety, passive consumption, and procrastin…
Logged at IST: 2026-10-05 14:38 IST What it is: A short note on making practice a daily decision rather than a fragile ideal. Gist: The excerpt argues for deciding when and where practice happens, keeping fallback "emergency exercises" for disrupted days, and …
Logged at IST: 2026-09-18 20:45 IST What it is: Baldur Bjarnason's essay on why TikTok-style short videos are weak learning media, using montage versus long-take visual exposition as the central analogy. Gist: Bjarnason argues that short video platforms do not…
Logged at IST: 2026-09-18 02:43 IST What it is: Thomas Ptacek's essay on how to use LLMs for writing without letting them flatten your prose into model-output voice. Gist: Ptacek's two rules are blunt: do not use a single word the LLM suggests, and avoid its e…
Logged at IST: 2026-09-10 12:00 IST What it is: Relativity Park is an interactive browser demo where the speed of light is 5 km/h, roughly a brisk walk. Gist: Moving around the park makes special relativity visible at everyday speed. As you accelerate, the dem…
Logged at IST: 2026-08-14 12:26 IST What it is: Jordan Dworkin's interactive scrollytelling essay about ordinary household abundance, built as a walk through a modern apartment. Gist: The page asks the reader to move through a modern home and notice how much o…
Logged at IST: 2026-07-29 10:03 IST What it is: Sidu Ponnappa’s speculative fiction story about a man walking into a future Bengaluru where the Singularity has happened but not resolved into anything easily explainable. Gist: A dying engineer of Mysuru ancestr…
Logged at IST: 2026-07-19 16:22 IST What it is: Caleb Friesen’s reflection on Skyroot’s Vikram-1 orbital launch as a before-and-after moment for India’s private space sector Gist: This is not a second factual report of the launch so much as the industry-contex…