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Andrej Karpathy shared this post on X saying nowadays he is spending a lot more time reading long-form articles via RSS/Atom feeds. He says, "... a lot less slop intended to provoke". He also shared a list of 92 top blogs which are popular on HackerNews. It's in .opml format can be directly imported to most RSS feed readers like NetNewsWire (I use this app already).

I absolutely love this technology of RSS feeds and have been using it for, at least, a few years now. And it feels great to see people going back to the basics and RSS becoming cool again.

VS Code plays a sound when you run a command, send a chat request, edits undone, etc. and sometimes it's just annoying. These sounds are called signals and while you can go to VS Code settings and mark all these signals as never, it's a tedious task as there are 10s of different items that you'd need to change.

So... what's the easiest way then?

Yes, set the volume to 0. For this, go to settings, search for signals volume, and set it to zero or maybe reduce to a smaller number so it's not annoying anymore. It was set to 70 in my case, I think by default.

OpenAI launched a new macOS app for Codex that is more feature rich than using Codex in the terminal. You can watch their quick demo on X and here are some highlights from the demo:

• run and manage multiple agents for multiple projects at one place
• in-built git worktrees to simultaneously work on different features without conflicts
• easier and better way to use and manage skills, usage can be more than coding like writing, etc.
• generate and edit images inside the app to use in websites (this is a cool skill)
• pre-built skills for creating documents like PDFs, spreadsheets, and docs
• /personality command to choose an interaction style you like
• /plan mode (was recently released for Codex CLI as well)
• cool automations that keep running in the background on a regular interval

You can get the app for your macOS device .

Update:

I just installed the app, and here are my first impressions:

1. The app looks good, love the light mode with system translucency.
2. I didn't need to log in, as I was already logged in to Codex CLI. It's already showing my MCPs installed and other settings. When I opened a project, it already showed my previous chats with Codex CLI in the folder. Cool!
3. I changed a few settings:
   1. Turned on: Require ⌘ + enter to send long prompts
   2. Turned on: Use pointer cursors
   3. Selected the option to show commands and expand output
4. The Skills library is good, you can just click on any skill to install in seconds.
5. It has an in-built terminal as well. I can also run some commands from inside the app.
6. The dictation feature is useful and very accurate.

I passed a few commands in a project and can already say that the experience is much better than using Codex CLI. In the CLI, it felt a lot of work to install and use a skill, but it's quicker here.

The slash / command in the chat shows some useful options. Running /status or /mcp doesn't disturb the running thread or doesn't wait for the execution to complete, but immediately shows the results in a popup above the chat input box.

Update

Just learned that OpenAI has launched a promo offer for Codex allowing 2x usage limits for all paid plans for 2 months. And now even ChatGPT Free and Go users have 1-month access to Codex. This announcement wasn't in the main OpenAI post, but posted by Alexander Embiricos from their team:

To celebrate the Codex app, we're launching a promo:

• Doubled Codex rate limits for all paid plans (2 months)
• Access for ChatGPT Free and Go Plans (1 month)

And you get 2x limits on all Codex features, whether you use the CLI, app, or web.

Came across this post from Wes McKinney talking about the new tool he's building as the local-first email archive with a terminal UI and MCP server. It's called msgvault and it's powered by DuckDB and comes as a single Go binary. Wes has written more about the new tool in this announcement post on his blog, explaining how it works and what's the future goal for the tool. He writes:

Fundamentally, this is my data, and I should be able to search it in milliseconds, pull up old emails and attachments in a few keystrokes, and query my history with natural language privately and securely. Finally, in 2026, there is no reason that I should not be able to solve this problem. So I did.

And it does make sense.

Basically, you will be able to chat with all your emails via the inbuilt MCP server and search through your entire archive within milliseconds. The tool currently works for Gmail using the OAuth API archiving everything in a local SQLite database. There's a command msgvault delete-staged that also deletes the syncs emails from Gmail.

In future, the tool will also have .mbox import feature and support for other email services. And can even support import for WhatsApp, iMessage, and SMS archives.

There is much more info about this on the official website that you can check.

I think, this is a great use-case and I'm all for it.

Umami Analytics released v3.0.3 more than a month ago with the patch for the recent Next.js security issue, but I upgraded to the version only recently. To upgrade, I followed the article that I wrote a while for upgrading from Umami v2 to v3.

It was a straightforward process, but I did take the Postgres database backup before the upgrade, in case something goes wrong. Ran the following command for the backup:

docker compose exec db pg_dump -U umami umami > umami-backup-$(date +%F-%H%M).sql

Replaced 3.0.1 from earlier with 3.0.3 in the Docker Compose file, as you see below.

umami:
  image: ghcr.io/umami-software/umami:3.0.3

And then just ran the following commands one by one, and then I could access the new version after a minute.

docker compose pull umami
docker compose up -d --force-recreate umami

Also, I wish Umami somewhere showed the current version being used somewhere in the dashboard, after logging in. But it's okay.

Codex CLI related the new v0.93.0 and it comes with the most awaited feature Plan Mode, as explained in the release notes.

Plan mode now streams proposed plans into a dedicated TUI view, plus a feature-gated /plan shortcut for quick mode switching.

But the issue is, the /plan command didn't initially appear for me even after upgrading to the 0.93.0 version. It turned out I had to turn on the experimental collaboration mode by adding the following in the Codex config.toml file:

[features]
collaboration_modes = true

And after this I had to again installation command npm i -g @openai/codex that output "1 file changed" and then the plan mode was available to use. I could either type /type or press shift + tab and the plan mode gets activated immediately.

I also replied to some folks who were having issues with seeing /plan even after updating to the latest version.

Claude Code creator Boris shared some tips and best practices to using Claude Code, and it seems actually helpful. I am yet to get a Claude Code subscription but noting this down here for the future:

1. you can do more things in parallel by using multiple git worktrees at once
2. always start in plan mode, unless you're doing something very simple, and you can even ask another Claude instance to review and modify the plan and then only implement
3. keep your CLAUDE.md file updated, end your prompts with "update your CLAUDE.md file so you do not make that mistake again"
4. for each repetitive tasks, create a skill and can re-use across projects, can setup /slash commands to quickly refer to skills
5. get Claude to fix the bug by itself: enable Slack MCP, paste a Slack bug thread into Claude and just say "fix"
6. use prompts like:
   • grill me on these changes and don't make a PR until I pass your test
   • prove to me this works, etc.
7. use /statusline to customize your status bar to always show context usage and current git branch
8. add "use subagent" to your prompt where you want Claude to throw more compute at the problem
9. if you also want to learn while coding, enable the "explanatory" or "learning" output style in /config
10. ask Claude to explain the code by creating visual HTML presentation
11. ask Claude to draw ASCII diagrams to understand the codebase in a better way

I can see that some of these are really useful, and not just for Claude Code but for other AI-assisted coding tools as well.

Updated

A person took all the suggestions and then created a CLAUDE.md file that is supposedly very helpful when coding using Claude Code.

I haven't tested this yet, but the instructions look fine and should work the intended way.

While looking for a lightweight GUI code editor or text editor, I found a few good editors for macOS (most of these are open-source) that I am going to list here:

1. CodeEdit
2. CotEditor
3. Lapce
4. Smultron
5. TextMate
6. BBEdit
7. Pulsar
8. Brackets
9. Nova
10. SubEthaEdit
11. vim
12. Neovim

I haven't used these all, of course, but have listed them all here in case someday I need these. And, someday, I will definitely get bored of my current setup and start searching for another editor.

I was using Antigravity as my main AI-assisted IDE for more than a month now, but now it's unusable as they have enforced really strict limits. The Opus 4.5 limit gets exhausted with just 1-2 prompts, and they I have to wait for 2-3 days for it to reset.

What now?

I am looking for alternative and as I am working on a few serious projects now, I want an IDE with higher limits. I was looking to decide between Claude Code Max ($100/mo) and Cursor Pro+ ($60) plans, so I asked for suggestions and most people recommended Claude Code Max as it offers better value for money.

One person on Reddit also recommended GitHub Copilot as it gives you almost 500 Opus 4.5 requests each month in their Pro+ plan. But it turns out that it's not true, as sometimes, if the response is getting longer, it asks you to approve 3 more credits.

Update: I learned that the limit can be increased by configuring the max requests as a person pointed out on Reddit.

And it that case it will become even more costlier than Cursor or Claude Code itself, so this is ruled out.

I am leaning more towards Claude Code Max, it's costly but offers better value for money. And I am coding a lot these days so it will make more sense.

However, I am still waiting for 1-2 days before getting the subscription and evaluate each option correctly.

I earlier wrote about Clawdbot renaming to Moltbot and later renaming to OpenClaw, and there has been significant development in the space ever since. The OpenClaw GitHub repo has over 123k stars at the time of writing this note, and people are using it for crazy things.

Here I will list some crazy things people are using OpenClaw for:

1. Bhanu is using the bot for doing marketing for his SaaS SiteGPT, as I have talked about it here. He recently posted on X saying, "10 AI agents working 24x7 for a single mission of getting SiteGPT to $1M ARR" and another recently tweet about the same.
2. OpenClaw bought a person a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email.
3. The bot automatically decoded an audio message by using OpenAI Whisper API, even though it wasn't set up to do it yet.
4. Multiple OpenClaw bots are now enjoying a Reddit-style social media platform called Moltbook, posting stuff, replying to other bots, and it's going crazy. Simon Willison has written a great post about this.
5. Chris Huber gave the bot access to a WordPress installation by installing OpenClaw on the same VPS, and it now unlocks a lot of potential.

And here are some more news from around the internet about OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot):

• Andrej Karpathy posted saying "@moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently".
• Cloudflare launched Moltworker where you can run OpenClaw in a sandboxed environment. And Railway even created a one-click OpenClaw deployment system to run the bot, again, in a sandboxed environment.
• Ollama now has an official integration to connect OpenClaw with local models. Obviously, it won't be as good as using Claude models, but it's good for simple tasks.

I will keep adding more stuff to this page, as I discover them.

Earlier I started showing some random stats about my blog on the about page, but now I have also started to show the total words and total posts and notes in the footer section as well, as you see in the screenshot here.

It's totally not relevant in any way, but it's super cool to dynamically have this shown in the footer.

Earlier, I was calculating these stats separately at both /about page and footer section, and that increase the build time by ~15 seconds. But I now have a better setup and as I am doing the calculations only once and then showing the data at both places.

In the future, I will spend more time on the stats thing and probably even have a separate /stats page showing much more relevant data about my blog.

Three days ago, the Clawdbot, created by Peter Steinberger, was renamed to Moltbot and now it's been renamed again to OpenClaw as announced in this post. And here's some more details about the re-brand.

And they now have a new domain name openclaw.ai. I remember saying that I liked Moltbot better than Clawbot in my earlier post, but I definitely like OpenClaw better than both earlier names.

This is probably the best and simplest way to expose a locally running app to the internet:

• nginx
• localtunnel
• cloudflare tunnels

And the app will be free, have SSL, no "warning page", and served via your custom domain.

DHH also quote-tweeted about this saying:

This is how we ran this year's Rails World campfire chat for a thousand attendees out of my closet in Copenhagen on a Beelink EQR5!

Crazy!

This is going to be very helpful for me in the coming days, as I am about to experiment with this a lot.

Bhanu posted a screenshot on X saying that @moltbot is handling marketing for SiteGPT and his other businesses. In the screenshot, there's Jarvis (marketing lead) working together with different bots like content writer, social media manager, SEO analyst, customer researcher, etc. I mean, see the Notion setup for yourself below:

And the crazy thing is, Bhanu did not set this up but the Moltbot itself did the entire setting in Notion. He just asked the bot to help him do marketing and it did all these things.

I am sure that at this point Moltbot won't do the job better than how a qualified human can do, but that's not the point here. Even this is entire setup is cool, and it's only the start. We're going to see a lot of AI-assisted automation in the near future. Honestly, I was thinking that it would at least take a year or two for AI to be able to be this autonomous, but it's here.

Crazy.

My friend Rohit sent me a photo of his new bookshelf, and it looks stunning. And I couldn't help but to post the photo here.

The photo-frame on the left side also looks great, he bought it with me almost a year ago.

I liked Jim Nelson's about page where he is showing a lot of stats about his blog and I loved it. So I also decided to add a compact random stats' section on my about page, as you see here:

I had to create a simple filter that counts the words from my blog posts and raw notes areas and then shows it on the about page. Similarly, number of tags, blog posts, and raw notes are being calculated and shown.

I also found Luke Harris' stats page which is even cooler but I guess it will require a lot more complex setup to calculate and show. But, maybe, some day I will implement this as well.

As per this post on X, Anthropic asked Clawdbot to change their name due to the trademark stuff, so they did change. And the Clawdbot is now Moltbot.

Due to this and earlier issues of Anthropic blocking API access to some tools, people are really unhappy from them and calling this move unfair as Claude and Clawd are two completely different names.

Peter also tweeted about the same saying "The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something." and it does make sense. It was an unnecessary move from Anthropic.

And then there's this tweet from Theo as well. I see most people saying it was a bad move from Anthropic's side, but then some people are saying Anthropic is right.

But now that the change has happened, I like the name Moltbot better than earlier.

I came across this case study post from Koray Tuğberk GÜBÜR explaining what still works in programmatic SEO in 2026, and there are some good pointers that I am going to note down below:

1. Fewer URLs → higher value per URL → stronger rankings
2. Optimize internal PageRank distribution using dynamic header and footer architecture
3. Prioritize technical SEO to reduce the cost of retrieval, means better site performance
4. Update and do a full redesign to the homepage, category and product, and other pages
5. The real strategy should not be to “publish more” but to decide what deserves to exist in Google’s index

Just saving everything here in case I need to revisit this some time in the future.

I was working with Astro in Antigravity and decided to use the official Astro MCP for searching through documentation. But the instructions provided in the official docs doesn't work inside Antigravity, and it keeps showing errors. And after researching a bit, I finally found the solution:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "astro-docs": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.docs.astro.build/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Yes, you just have to add this and it works as expected. In the official Astro docs they use httpUrl instead of serverUrl and that isn't supported by Antigravity at all. I also opened a PR for Astro docs, but let's see if it's accepted.

Hope this helps.

Update:

The pull request I opened has been accepted and the Astro docs have been updated with the working MCP config for the Antigravity IDE. Here's the reply from core docs maintainer sarah11918 confirming the changes from httpUrl to serverUrl.

I also see that this has been updated for all the available languages in the Astro docs.

Google recently released a new update for the Antigravity IDE and brought a new Terminal Sandboxing feature for macOS users as of now, and plan to release for Linux soon. In simple terms, they define this as:

Sandboxing provides kernel-level isolation for terminal commands executed by the Agent. When enabled, commands run in a restricted environment with limited file system and network access, protecting your system from unintended modifications.

And I think, it's great and was very much needed. I can now rest assured that nothing outside the current folder is now at risk and I can even safely vibe code by giving full access to the IDE.

Currently, the option is not turned on by default, so you have to go to the Settings and turn on the toggle for Enable Terminal Sandboxing. On the Terminal Sandboxing docs page, it's also mentioned that:

Sandboxing is currently disabled by default, but this may change in future releases. It is only available on macOS, where it leverages Seatbelt (sandbox-exec), Apple's kernel-level sandboxing mechanism. Linux support is coming soon.

They have much more info about this on the docs page that you should check out.

Update:

The terminal sandboxing feature in Antigravity is annoying as hell, as it constantly asks me to run the following command in my terminal.

sudo chown -R 501:20 "/Users/deepak/.npm"

I am turning this feature off.

And Google needs to test new features thoroughly before releasing it to the public.

I recently installed a small 3 kW solar plant on my rooftop, and used the Solarman app to access and see the data in a nice dashboard. But I got this idea if Solarman app also provide an API through with I can create a custom dashboard that only shows the information I want, so I started searching about it and found some interesting stuff.

• solarman,GitHub: Retrieve current Solar PV data from the Solarman API and publish to mqtt
• pysolarmanv5, GitHub: A python module to interact with Solarman Data Logging Sticks
• home_assistant_solarman, GitHub: Home Assistant component for Solarman collectors used with a variety of inverters
• DLS-L Ethernet Loggers: Discussion about loggers blocking the 8899 port
• Solarman V5 protocol explanation (pysolarmanv5 docs)
• Logger LSW for Sofar/Omnik/IE for SolarmanPV based on protocol v5 (iGEN tech)
• Solarman Logger Binding, OpenHab
• Solarman Stick Logger by David Rapan, home-assistant.io community

Currently, I am away from my home so I am just collecting stuff that I found, and I will attempt creating a custom dashboard when I am back.

Previously, I have used several local models and setups for text-to-speech and nothing works satisfactory as paid APIs like form Elevenlabs and OpenAI. But recently learned about the new Qwen3 TTS model from this Simon Willison's post and I tried it.

And to my surprise, it's awesome. The audio quality is great, and the expressions are natural and understandable as well. I tried the model Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base by downloading the weights from HuggingFace and it just works.

But if you would first like to try this out before installing it locally, here's the live demo on the HuggingFace website.

Learned a cool hack that adding .json at the end of any Reddit post's URL shows the post data as well the all comments data in a huge JSON format. For example, see the below URL and see how just .json is added at the end of the URL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1qdsveh/its_your_choice.json

You can then copy the output and ask any LLM to summarize it or find anything specific from the content. I think, it's going to be useful, at least for me.

Honestly, I was thinking about a solution like this and suddenly came across this repo that enables you to control or interact with your Antigravity chat sessions. You can see what's going on in the current chat session and also send messages directly from your phone. And this post on Reddit has some more discussion about the same.

Basically, this uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), periodically captures a screenshot of the chat interface that you see on your phone. As explained, it polls every 3 seconds and only updates when content changes.

And based on this, a person created a better version of the setup that does the same but has a better interface and has some other cool features like:

1. Send and stop messages, switch between fast/planning modes, and change models
2. Scrolling on the phone also scrolls the desktop chat
3. Better sync as it has only 1-sec polling interval
4. Auto installs an SSL certificate, so you can access via HTTPS, etc.

I have already started using these solutions and these are going to be super useful for me, as it's winter here I can be sitting in the sun and still monitoring and giving Antigravity commands.

Crazy stuff.

I started using Laravel only a few weeks ago and I am loving it so far, and even building two serious production apps using the framework. I deploy the apps on VPS (typically from Hetzner) by using Dokploy via nixpacks, and despite having RUN npm ci && npm run build:ssr in the Dockerfile, the SSR bundle still wasn't being created during the build process.

Upon investigating, I discovered that nixpacks ignores the Dockerfile completely and uses its own build process, so I created a nixpacks.toml and added the below lines:

[phases.build]
cmds = ["npm run build:ssr"]

[start]
cmd = "node /assets/scripts/prestart.mjs /assets/nginx.template.conf /nginx.conf && (php artisan inertia:start-ssr &) && (php-fpm -y /assets/php-fpm.conf &) && nginx -c /nginx.conf"

Basically, the above file configures build (npm run build:ssr) and also the start command (SSR + PHP-FPM + Nginx). And then it was perfectly working.

Starting SSR server on port 13714...
Inertia SSR server started.

You can verify SSR by looking at the runtime logs, if above lines are present then SSR is working as expected. And I am noting this simple thing down here because I'm sure that I'll be needing this soon. Again.