Maximus Indicus

Get your dopamine from production, not consumption. -- Justin Skycak With that reminder, I'm back to writing here.

Chris Arnade on X (Feb 14, 2026): ... for the U.S., our thick culture is largely inherited from Western Europe, mostly England, and is best summarized as Caree…

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Via X/Vikhyat The diagram uses the Cynefin Framework

One of the better blog posts I have read in a while.

I read this tweet: “Finders, minders, and grinders” Partners, VPs, and analysts And it was a new perspective on how organizations are structured.

AWS's Marc Brooker offers a sober view of the evolving split in the road for software development career.

Yesterday (Feb 2, 2026), OpenAI announced their Codex App for managing multiple coding agents.

Vibe coding is the new product management.

Congratulations... your days of whining are over.

Similar notes from Peter Cundill from his two books -- "There is always something to do" and "Routines and Orgies" via The Ichanist

With the popularity of exe.dev, sprites (from fly.io), and shellbox, one wonders if there is a way to give sandboxed environment on existing, local boxes witho…

"What do you want [out of life]?"

Moltbot fka ClawdBot has been the rage among generative AI enthusiasts for the past few weeks, and I too have been caught up in it.

Ajeya Cotra goes into the "Stable Marriage Problem" algorithm to explain why Asking for what you want opens up you to opportunities that may be outside your us…

Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame.

This is a great phrase -- "Reliable Signals of Honest Intent", one that you should be reminding yourself every time you are making something for "others" to se…

The biggest takeaway from reading "Poor Charlie's Almanack" is that the late great investor Charlie Munger preached the importance of having, acquiring, and ap…

Indiana University Hoosiers Football team won the National Championship today defeating Miami Hurricanes after their toughest match of the playoffs.

I am no stranger to static site generators, having written a few of them (bari) myself(mdninja) over the years (webgen.py) and of course something I wrote and…

Observed on the stream A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute workout.

What coding agents do is make exploring your ideas accessible even when you are not al all-rounder in design, coding, administration, and other tasks associate…

What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep saying.

I thought I would resist the temptation to make the first post on this blog about the tools used to write this blog, but ironically, this news pushed me to fin…