google-groups on S Anand

What I don't post on LinkedIn

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:55:10 +0530

I don’t post all my writing on LinkedIn. For example:

Fewer strategy posts, e.g. “Where Enterprise AI is Headed”, “How My Innovation Team Works”, etc. aren’t on LinkedIn.
Fewer developer posts, e.g. my AGENTS.md, my SKILL.md files files, CLI tools, evals, etc. aren’t on LinkedIn.

I also shorten content because of LinkedIn constraints. For example:

No links, e.g. the list of all my AI-in-education resources
Short content, e.g. my full advice for teams using AI is much longer than the LinkedIn post.
Trimmed prompts, e.g. how to convert meeting transcripts into a personalized org-consulting report
Snipped chats, e.g. the full moves of GPT-5.5 playing chess

I filter the LinkedIn posts, sharing what’s most useful for most people.

But some people asked if I can share the full content over email.

So, I’ve set up my full blog, by email (free, via Google Groups): https://groups.google.com/g/s-anand

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Get this blog via email on Google Groups

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:50:35 +0800

TL;DR: Join this Google Group to get my blog updates via email.

My blog is over 25 years old. At first, people had to visit it to read it. Then I added an RSS feeds. Then email subscriptions. Then via social media, cross-posting on Twitter, now LinkedIn.

The RSS feed remains. But I feel it’s time to bring back email subscriptions. It’s the oldest of the technologies, the most robust, and the one I believe will last the longest.

My blog might last another 25 years. I’m willing to bet email will outlast RSS and certainly the social media platforms.

So, I’ve created a Google Group: s-anand@googlegroups.com where I will post new blog entries. You can join the group to get email updates whenever I post something new.

For now, I will post updates manually. After a few weeks of testing, I’ll automate the process.

PS: I use a htmlemail.py script to send blog posts as HTML emails via the GMail API. It was vibe-coded by Claude and taught me a few things:

The frontmatter package is a clean way to parse YAML frontmatter from markdown files.
LLMs aren’t familiar enough with the markdown2 package, which is the new standard for processing Markdown. They prefer markdown instead.
premailer is a well-maintained package to inline CSS for HTML emails.
pygments is the de facto standard to generate CSS for syntax highlighting code blocks.

How to access Gmail even if it is blocked

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:00:00 +0000

If you just want to check if you have new mail on Gmail, use Google’s personalised home page and add Gmail to the homepage. This shows new mail and a few words as a snippet.

If you want to read your mail, and don’t want to forward it to another account, use Google Groups as a backup to Gmail. Create a private Google Group and forward mails from Gmail to it. Google Groups often is not blocked, even if Gmail is.

Comments

DufusMaximus 2 Apr 2007 7:36 pm: Or you can use an web-based IMAP client … http://roundcube.net/ looks like one.
Sundar R 3 Apr 2007 6:17 am: Or you can use http://www.netvibes.com and add the email module using email widget.
ma 7 Apr 2007 10:17 am: Anand, what happened to ur songs search page?
Danny 2 Apr 2007 12:00 pm: unblock anything with this. http://www.mysecureisp.com
anand 30 Oct 2008 1:06 am: Hi!

I am not still access gmail,blocked websense message comes on to screen.
give any other tips from where i can show mail from another way.

Pls help as early as possible.

thanks.

Google Groups out of beta

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Google groups archive is out of beta.