Siddhant Goel

Last weekend I ran a brew upgrade on my laptop and noticed that running zola build on my personal site (what you're reading right now) didn't work anymore.

82% of all statistics are made up.

I've been meaning to put together a collection of a few different ways in which I've integrated LLMs into my workflow since they were introduced.

I operate a few different static websites, relatively low-traffic ones.

A few months ago I started working on a CV builder for software developers.

It's been a few weeks since I started building txtcv, which is a simple career management platform (CV builder, cover letter generator, job application tracker) aimed mostly at software developers.

January 2026 will mark 10 years since I started storing my personal finances in plain text files using Beancount.

I work on a few projects in my spare time, and in one of them, I recently had to implement a simple version of status polling.

A few weeks ago, I started playing around with the idea of developing a CV builder, specifically for software developers.

I ran my first marathon in Munich yesterday!

It's been a while since I integrated AI agents into my programming workflow.

Earlier this week, my wife and I welcomed our tiny little daughter in this world.

I'm currently drafting this blog post in Zed.

Building and maintaining Python libraries with extension modules can be somewhat tricky.

A few days ago, Beancount officially switched from 2.x to 3.x.

A few days ago, I finished the process of handing over the maintenance and further development of GeniePy to a new owner.

Tailwind CSS has gained a lot of popularity in the recent years, for many good reasons.

One of the most useful directories on my laptop is called finances.

Like almost everyone else in the tech industry today, I've been looking into LLMs recently.

I've historically used Vimr as my Neovim GUI.

At the beginning of May 2023, Shopify decided to lay off 20% of their workforce.

I recently discovered a neat little feature built into macOS that lets you convert multiple images from one format to another in one go.

Beancount is one of my favorite packages in the Python ecosystem.

One of my guilty pleasures is maintaining my dotfiles.

After writing and launching a technical ebook, I've had a few people ask me about the tools I used in the process.

In this post, I'd like to describe how you can track your personal finances using a workflow that is highly focused on data privacy, is 100% self-hosted, and uses only the Python ecosystem.

The very act of writing software implies that we (unintentionally) introduce bugs.

If you write software using Python and your code has third-party dependencies, you've probably heard of "wheels" before.

If you're even remotely into reading books on self-improvement or "modern" philosophy, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is the one book you absolutely must consider reading.

I spent some time last week enabling continous deployment for this site.

Mixins are quite useful.

Every now and then I like to look for book recommendations on places like Hacker News and Lobsters where the audience is primarily technical.

One of the most impactful changes I've made to my lifestyle is not following news 24x7, either from TV channels or aggregator sites.

Zola is a nice static site generator.

I'm a reasonable human being.

Last weekend I moved this site over from Pelican to Zola.

As a developer focusing primarily on writing backend software, I feel slightly anxious when I have to work with CSS.

Are you trying to find a gift for your loved one(s) but can't find anything and it's making you anxious instead?

Last week on Die Höhle der Löwen, a startup called Drive Dressy pitched their product - custom designed seat covers for cars.

About 3 weeks ago I switched my personal machine over to Debian Buster (also stable at the moment).

It's common wisdom in the software engineering world that having more screens translates to higher productivity.

People often ask me whether I enjoy hiking.

I'm probably not the first person to say this, but backups are important.

Disclaimer: this is not professional career advice and should not be treated as such.

Writing asynchronous code is popular these days.

I submitted Developer to Manager to Hacker News on 25th March.

One of the most common bugs when writing software is the classic "off by 1" error.

TL;DR I've been working on Developer to Manager for the last few weeks.

I'm not completely convinced by the current landscape of static site generators.

In the past few months I've been able to find the time and energy to open-source 5 Python projects on Github.