Blog archive
This page lists all the blog posts I've published since 2025. If you're interested in my older writing, going all the way back to 2009, I've archived it at archive.ankursethi.com.
2026
- 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