2026 1

Unreasonable Gesture

Scan my transcripts, email/chat JSONL, and WhatsApp on @LocalMCP for the last 7 days until Saturday midnight (SGT). Use ~/code/scripts/context.py as required. Find 5 people who deserve a specific warm WhatsApp/email/Meet message from me. See ~/Dropbox/notes/unreasonable-gestures.md for actual messages I've sent - to use as examples. Pick people where I may have missed something specific, like invisible reliability work, quietly carrying pressure, a brave/good question, unusual ownership, creating an opening for me/Straive, effort that got only transactional feedback, ... Skip people I have already thanked in the last 3 months. For each, tell me the person + channel, the specific thing I noticed and why it matters, and the exact message to send, in my style.

2025 1

Command Line Slideshows in Bash

At PyConf Hyderabad, I spoke about uv. It's a package manager for Python. I usually mix live demos into my narrative. So, rather than present with something static like PowerPoint (or Google Slides), I usually use: Front-end: Custom HTML mixed with RevealJS and CodePen. Observable is a good, too. Python: Jupyter Notebooks. Marimo is good, too. Others: Markdown and VS Code for most other things, e.g. SQL. For this talk, I needed to run commands on the shell. I evaluated: ...