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Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook

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Personal website of Ankur Sethi, writer and independent frontend engineer living in Bangalore, India.

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  1. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
    Aug 2, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="lhbu2"Despite a href="https://ankursethi.com/blog/coding-assistants-personal-projects/"what I said in April/a, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects./pp data-block-key="3o2k5"Using them to one-shot entire features leaves me unsatisfied and disoriented, but I do enjoy using them to
  2. Data locality (sometimes) beats algorithmic complexity
    Jul 10, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="dm76c"I've been a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system"ECS/a-curious ever since I learned about it in a href="https://bevy.org/learn/quick-start/getting-started/ecs/"the Bevy game engine documentation/a./pp data-block-key="cgp0u"The ECS architecture predictably improves performa
  3. Your analytics are lying to you
    Jun 26, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="obryn"Alistair Davidson writes about a href="https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/"migrating a form-heavy web application from a React SPA to a traditional server-rendered HTML-first website/a. The entire article is worth reading, but I want to draw attention to this bit about analytics (empha
  4. Deno Desktop
    Jun 24, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="23hru"From a href="https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/"the iDesktop apps/i section of the Deno documentation/a:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key="execq"codedeno desktop/code turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contain
  5. What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
    Jun 20, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="zwfdr"Among tech and design folks of a certain vintage, there is a fondness for the design language used by Windows from Windows 95 to Windows 2000./pp data-block-key="1q9id"While you could argue that this is mere nostalgia, I've always thought there is more to it than that. The Windows 95 UI was famo
  6. Nobody clicks your share buttons
    Jun 15, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="1924j"(Via a href="https://buttondown.com/cassidoo/archive/u1f69a-innovation-comes-out-of-great-human/"rendezvous with cassidoo/a.)/pp data-block-key="4isdj"I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs./pp data-block-key="cu6
  7. So you want to write a GUI framework
    Jun 11, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="lx3cb"There are a handful of technical blog posts in my bookmarks that made me go ioh, I never thought of it that way/i when I first read them./pp data-block-key="cbtkv"I'm talking about posts like a href="https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/"Parse, don't validate/a, a h
  8. Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026
    Jun 8, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="9y85i"a href="https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/"Paulo Andrade/a, creator of a href="https://secrets.app"Secrets/a and a href="https://shopie.io"Shopie/a:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key="akks7"There was a time when Mac apps felt unapologetically Mac. Panic, O
  9. The "land and expand" strategy explains why software grows unnecessary features
    May 16, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="d2hg0"a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition#c_dzrja0"Mitchell Hashimoto/a (founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) commenting on why software products often lose their core identity and grow irrelevant features:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key
  10. Selling to practitioners vs. selling to technical decision makers
    May 16, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="141ok"a href="https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition#c_dzrja0"Mitchell Hashimoto/a (founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) commenting on Lobste.rs about how software products are sold:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key="3b1fh"For software solutions, the
  11. Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
    May 12, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="p8574"a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/"Daniel Stenberg/a, creator and lead developer of cURL:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key="itphf"My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype arou
  12. Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs
    May 11, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="55iq9"a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/"Jake Edge/a, LWN.net:/pfigure class="captioned-quote" blockquote p data-block-key="1cc7l"[…] Hobbyist Daniel Diniz used Claude Code to find more than 500 bugs of various sorts across nearly a million lines of code in 44 extensions; he has been working wi
  13. A broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces
    Apr 18, 2026 · original
    div class="callout callout--note" role="note" div class="callout__label"Note/div div class="callout__content"p data-block-key="ge09m"I wrote this post as an exercise during a href="https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-24/758"a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore/a./p/div /div p data-block-key="xlh67"I recently migrate
  14. I'm no longer using coding assistants on personal projects
    Apr 4, 2026 · original
    div class="callout callout--note" role="note" div class="callout__label"Note/div div class="callout__content"p data-block-key="eaee8"I wrote this post as an exercise during a href="https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-23/747"a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore/a./p/div /div p data-block-key="ii39o"I’ve spent the las
  15. Waiting is fun
    Mar 21, 2026 · original
    div class="callout callout--note" role="note" div class="callout__label"Note/div div class="callout__content"p data-block-key="zgl7g"I wrote this post as an exercise during a href="https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-22/740"a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore/a./p/div /div p data-block-key="dkh6n"I enjoy waiting. I
  16. I built a programming language using Claude Code
    Mar 10, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="uane9"Over the course of four weeks in January and February, I built a new programming language using Claude Code. I named it Cutlet after my cat. It’s completely legal to do that. You can a href="https://github.com/s3thi/cutlet"find the source code on GitHub/a, along with a href="https://github.com/s
  17. I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries
    Feb 13, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="e1fjk"In 2025, I wrote 162 journal entries totaling 193,761 words./pp data-block-key="3nfmv"In December, as the year came to a close and I found myself in a reflective mood, I wondered if I could use an LLM to comb through these entries and extract useful insights. I’d had good luck extracting structu
  18. The only correct recipe for making chai
    Feb 8, 2026 · original
    div class="callout callout--note" role="note" div class="callout__label"Note/div div class="callout__content"p data-block-key="fu38j"I wrote this post as an exercise during a href="https://underline.center/t/indiewebclub-19/708"a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore/a./p/div /div p data-block-key="5xlgx"All my friends hav
  19. Write quickly, edit lightly, prefer rewrites, publish with flaws
    Feb 6, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="5yuys"Over two years of consistent writing and publishing, I’ve internalized a few lessons for producing satisfying—if not necessarily “good”—work:/polli data-block-key="7ojvs"Write quickly/lili data-block-key="o8lc"Edit lightly/lili data-block-key="27fkg"Prefer rewriting to editing/lili data-block-ke
  20. Generative AI and the era of increased gatekeeping
    Jan 30, 2026 · original
    p data-block-key="8beuf"Generative AI models can create text, images, code, and music faster and in larger quantities than our ability to absorb them. Before ChatGPT was introduced to the world in November 2022, producing a piece of media took longer than consuming it. In 2026, the equation has been turned on its head.

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