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Weather.com Retro 👏🏽: aakar.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://aakar.blog/2026/04/02/weathercom-retro-bravo-to-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-02T11:42:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Aakar Shroff","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F3801.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"aakar"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 11:42","date_timestamp":1775130154,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86250388","content_html":"

An ex-Microsoft, Twitter, Snap PM who is helping to shape the governments AI push. A voice in the room perhaps:

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Another ambition, said others, is a desire to be “in the room” where decisions are made.

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Reminds me of a little song

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youtube.com/...

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Also, I ran into Sriram on a flight to London in 2024. I wasn’t sure it was him so I tweeted him. He responded with an affirmative. Sadly, he deleted this message. If cancel culture has taught us anything: you gotta scrub your reply history. Especially if you plan to work with the government.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://aakar.blog/2026/03/15/an-exmicrosoft-twitter-snap-pm.html","date_published":"2026-03-15T14:14:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Aakar Shroff","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F3801.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"aakar"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 14:14","date_timestamp":1773584079,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86189431","content_html":" Creative Intellectual Projects \n

Sam Rinko on how to crave hard books

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Attach your reading to exciting, creative intellectual projects. A project is one of the best ways to increase a book’s gravitational pull on your psyche.

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Feels like classic Apple.

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Hello, MacBook Neo - YouTube

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youtube.com/...

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Snowstorm vs. Blizzard: aakar.blog

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Follow your fears:

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Those of us who are optimistic like to say, “Follow your dreams.” I do not disagree.\nBut what about following our fears?\nWe hide from them. We minimize them or avoid them altogether. It feels uncomfortable. Who would willingly move toward fear?\nWhat if fear holds the answer? What if it is a gift, a signal, a compass pointing exactly where you need to go to transcend your current self?\nI believe it is.

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🇺🇸 🥇🏒: aakar.blog

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Password managers less secure than promised | ETH Zurich

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Concerning

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The team conducted a study to scrutinise the security architecture of three popular password manager providers: Bitwarden, Lastpass and Dashlane. Between them, they serve around 60 million users and have a 23 per cent market share. The researchers demonstrated 12 attacks on Bitwarden, 7 on LastPass and 6 on Dashlane.

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The end of sickness?!?

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A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, say US researchers.\nThe team at Stanford University have tested their “universal vaccine” in animals and still need to do human clinical trials.

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Am I the only one asking during this flu season: how fast can we get this through clinical trials?

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This post on what it’s like to work at OpenAI is fascinating. A wealth of great insight into the craziness of one of the world’s fastest-growing companies. One thing that stood out to me was this about CODEX:

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From start (the first lines of code written) to finish, the whole product was built in just 7 weeks.

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Now, to be fair, they’d been thinking about it since November 2024, but still just “7 weeks”! I’ve been using CODEX for the last few weeks instead of Cursor or Claude Code to tinker around, and it’s really fun to just have it go off and do work.

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An interesting look at the way Medium got back to profitability. Being able to get a first-hand view of the turnaround provides great insights:

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We owed those investors $37M for loans that were overdue. Folks, on paper that means we were insolvent.\nThe investors also held an additional $225M of liquidation preferences.

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I hadn’t heard about the idea of recapping, so that was new.

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Cool Cool Cool 🔗: aakar.blog

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Clorox and AI - WSJ 🔗: aakar.blog

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The Bear - Season 4: A Return to Form: aakar.blog

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How I Extract Synced Kindle Highlights (and Send Them to Readwise): aakar.blog

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Graphing Calculator 1.0: aakar.blog

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🔗 Why People Feel Nostalgic for Terrible Times: aakar.blog

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🔗 My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts: aakar.blog

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ChatGPT has Jokes: aakar.blog

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Venomous Snake Bite? No Problem: aakar.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://aakar.blog/2025/05/05/venomous-snake-bite-no-problem.html","date_published":"2025-05-05T12:01:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Aakar Shroff","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F3801.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"aakar"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-05-05 12:01","date_timestamp":1746446463,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"62603583","content_html":"

“Boom, here comes the pizza!”: aakar.blog

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Corporate Spy Netflix Series I’d Definitly Watch: aakar.blog

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Fun times here in NYC the next few days. ☔️🌧️

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Rippling Sues Deel, a Software Rival, Over Corporate Spying - The New York Times

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Rippling said it obtained a court order last week forcing D.S. to turn over his phone. But when a court-appointed lawyer showed up at Rippling’s Dublin office and demanded that the employee hand over the device, D.S. locked himself in a bathroom. He later fled the scene, it said.

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Hard to say you aren’t guilty after doing that.

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