Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook

Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.

I've been ECS-curious ever since I learned about it in the Bevy game engine documentation.

Alistair Davidson writes about migrating a form-heavy web application from a React SPA to a traditional server-rendered HTML-first website.

From the Desktop apps section of the Deno documentation: deno desktop turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contained desktop application.

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.

(Via rendezvous with cassidoo.)

There are a handful of technical blog posts in my bookmarks that made me go oh, I never thought of it that way when I first read them.

Paulo Andrade, creator of Secrets and Shopie: There was a time when Mac apps felt unapologetically Mac.

Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) commenting on why software products often lose their core identity and grow irrelevant features: The cost (cognitive, time, risk, money, etc.) of adopting a new thing is significant…

Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) commenting on Lobste.rs about how software products are sold: For software solutions, there are two main groups: practitioners and technical decision makers (TDMs).

Daniel Stenberg, creator and lead developer of cURL: My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing.

Jake Edge, LWN.net: […] 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 with maintainers to get fixes upstream and his methodology serves as a g…

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

Over the course of four weeks in January and February, I built a new programming language using Claude Code.

In 2025, I wrote 162 journal entries totaling 193,761 words.

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

Over two years of consistent writing and publishing, I’ve internalized a few lessons for producing satisfying—if not necessarily “good”—work: Write quickly Edit lightly Prefer rewriting to editing Publish with flaws I covered similar ground previously in…

Generative AI models can create text, images, code, and music faster and in larger quantities than our ability to absorb them.

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

In the last few years, I’ve lost my appetite for discovering new music.

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.

Last week, I started working on a new side-project.

Note I wrote the first draft of this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore.