Blog archive
This page lists all the blog posts I've published since 2025. You can find my older writing at archive.ankursethi.com.
2026
- Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
- Data locality (sometimes) beats algorithmic complexity
- Your analytics are lying to you
- Deno Desktop
- What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
- Nobody clicks your share buttons
- So you want to write a GUI framework
- Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026
- The "land and expand" strategy explains why software grows unnecessary features
- Selling to practitioners vs. selling to technical decision makers
- Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
- Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs
- A broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces
- I'm no longer using coding assistants on personal projects
- Waiting is fun
- I built a programming language using Claude Code
- I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries
- The only correct recipe for making chai
- Write quickly, edit lightly, prefer rewrites, publish with flaws
- Generative AI and the era of increased gatekeeping
- Pushing the smallest possible change to production
- I'm not listening to full albums anymore
2025
- Tech predictions for 2026, presented without nuance, context, or evidence
- Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
- My first online shopping experience, at the tender age of twelve
- Using LLMs for web search
- The solace of work
- Everything is index cards
- Just read
- Tech hot takes presented without nuance, context, or evidence
- The ducks incident
- PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information
- How to avoid writing
- I'm trying to change my relationship with my desk
- Writing without a plan
- How I use my computer and phone while minimizing distractions
- Social media is a threat to my psychological sovereignty
- Results are a side effect of doing the work with love
- ChatGPT is not a reliable source of information, but also web search sucks
- I learn best when I'm part of a community
- Re: The question of language
- There’s no rational explanation for why I want to make art
- The tools I love are made by awful people
- It only gets worse from here