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Linking Manton Reece - Clunky rollout for Inkwell iOS: dev.amitgawande.com

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Linking - Local AI Needs to be the Norm: dev.amitgawande.com

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Slowing down: amitgawande.com

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📚 Finished reading: A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I enjoyed the book—it never got boring. But is it a great mystery? I can’t say that.

\n

The plot is too thin and hence needed two different ones, connected eventually, albeit. That means none of the central characters in either is fleshed out. It...

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Podcasts are the pickle ball of journalism.

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Wow! From Vir Das.

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Moving off Ghost: amitgawande.com

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Finished reading: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman 📚

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I liked the book for the most part. Humour was nice. But there are too many characters – no longer a close-knit club. Plus, the plot, especially the mystery, is too thin. The last sixth of the book is just mid. A lot is revealed, but nothing...

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Linking Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub: dev.amitgawande.com

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Linking Deep Blue: dev.amitgawande.com

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A Simple Puzzle That Fooled Every AI Model I Tried: dev.amitgawande.com

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On a recent trip with my colleagues, I realised how bad I am at the emoji game. I just can’t make sense of the conversations that take place.

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So I added another tool emojidict to my pocket-tools list. This should come in handy now. And here’s the emoji that triggered this.

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I pushed a minor upgrade to the post stats plugin today to fix the build issues with Hugo v0.158. It should now work for all the Hugo versions supported by Micro.blog. Reinstall or look out for an upgrade.

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The v2 upgrade also introduced a few customisation options.

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Plugin Settings

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Two settings are available...

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Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿

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Oh, I haven’t had this much fun in the theatre for a while now. Went with family, with a few folks not generally interested in scifi. They enjoyed it as well. Ryan Gosling played the lead perfectly – he made the whole theatre laugh out loud at multiple moments.

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Revamping Post Stats: amitg.blog

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AI Slop and Effort: dev.amitgawande.com

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15 Mar 2026 at 9:51 PM: amitgawande.com

","summary":"I have lost all interest in blogging. Both to read and to write. This space does not interest me. Or the form that attracted me a lot no longer does. I do not know the reason for this sudden loss of interest. But I am not judging myself.\n\nLosing touch","url":"https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/15-mar-2026-at-9-51-pm/","date_published":"2026-03-15T16:30:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Amit Gawande","url":"https://amitg.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F35%2F2885.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amit"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-15 16:30","date_timestamp":1773592227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85422856","content_html":"

Making Sense: amitgawande.com

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When LLMs Interview Each Other: dev.amitgawande.com

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A pleasant drive to the outsirkts. And I see the life that matters. Pune is blessed that way!

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Spent an hour today writing a post that eventually felt inauthentic. I only realised after writing it that I had no opinion on the topic. Why did I think I needed to have one?

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It happens a lot when I read meta posts on writing. I tend to get swayed and believe that I ought to contribute. I don’t.

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On Handwriting: amitgawande.com

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The First Thing That Gets Left Behind: amitgawande.com

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While I Wait: amitgawande.com

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It finally happens - Ads in ChatGPT: dev.amitgawande.com

","summary":"Ads in ChatGPT ⚓︎ Conversation privacy: We keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers and we never sell your data to","url":"http://dev.amitgawande.com/2026/it-finally-happens-ads-in-chatgpt","date_published":"2026-01-18T12:37:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Amit Gawande","url":"https://amitg.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2023%2F35%2F2885.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"amit"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-18 12:37","date_timestamp":1768739836,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://me.dm/@amit/115916143244788038"]}},{"id":"82163270","content_html":"

Open Responses: dev.amitgawande.com

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