I read books to understand myself. Infrastructure nerd. Co-Founder & CTO, one800.help. Writes sporadically at siddharthagolu.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mio2xnqw6c25Going through the treesitter main branch switch nightmare after updating neovim to 0.12. Fu....04 Apr 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mio2xnqw6c25https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mhifvwa5nk2iFinished reading The Age of Faith. Some notes here: https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/the-age-of-faith/20 Mar 2026 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhifvwa5nk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mhgnoqt5ok2yAdded Wander to my website at www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/ Such a neat way to browse the small web https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/19 Mar 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgnoqt5ok2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mhgnjpmijs2yI used to love reading engineering blog of Facebook. Now I just can't bring myself to care about their endless optimisation of the doomed algorithm. Their latest blog post is called "Enhancing social discovery on Facebook Reels". Man I couldn't care less.19 Mar 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgnjpmijs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mgtmchbmdk2yIn search of the best filesystem for cross-platform compatibility (or at least b/w MacOS and Linux), and turns out there's no "best" solution, even in 2026. exFAT is what gets usually recommended, but it trades off on performance on both Linux and Mac and recovery/repairs are uncertain.12 Mar 2026 04:55 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgtmchbmdk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mftaysmevc2zPersonalized captchas FTW27 Feb 2026 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftaysmevc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mfr4273onk2tTrying out Android Transcribe app: https://github.com/notune/android_transcribe_app Uses a quantized Parakeet V3, but runs surprisingly well on my ancient 6 years old phone.26 Feb 2026 11:34 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfr4273onk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mflazbtdts2aI've seen lots of people getting disheartened by the impact of AI tools on writing, including myself, and this comes as a good reminder to shift your focus on the first principles - the act of writing itself. https://vivqu.com/blog/2026/02/22/writing-as-fitness-exercise/24 Feb 2026 03:47 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mflazbtdts2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mfk2au543s24Discord going ape shit with their policies was the best thing to happen to XMPP. I'm noticing so many fresh voices in the community chat, trying to adopt and hack around the protocol for different use-cases.23 Feb 2026 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfk2au543s24https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mfcnyijpas2kI got a taste of how addictive it could be if I just kept the autoplay videos setting turned on. I used to use Twitter sparingly to get the day's highlights for AI world. And today I realized how dramatically my feed had shifted from text-only to videos-only. No wonder TikTok/Reels are addictive.20 Feb 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcnyijpas2khttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mf5dhr2cd223Well put. I wish there were more Wes Andersons out there.18 Feb 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5dhr2cd223https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3meg3jb4d6c23Building a web UI which connects to a locally running mlx-audio server and allows you to download the generated speech.09 Feb 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3meg3jb4d6c23https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3meg3fdsxek23Tested this for a few days, and sad to say, another one of those overhyped launches. It would skip some words consistently and would break the flow for long sentences. I shifted to using Qwen3-TTS instead and the quality of the voices are much better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2026 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3meg3fdsxek23https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3me6gaoi4fk2rI'm on the fence about using Agents, and while Mitchell's post was quite grounded and illuminating, I found myself agreeing more with this POV. TLDR: unless you're Mitchell Hashimoto and can work on hard technical problems by yourself, keep the ability to think to yourself.06 Feb 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3me6gaoi4fk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3me5zounnec2yHow is it that even after such a monumental change with `uv`, the python ecosystem is still giving me headaches when trying to run machine learning models?! I've done all sorts of sorcery of using `venv`, `uv tool ...` and yet still facing errors.06 Feb 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3me5zounnec2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdzhz6jmoc25Matt Levine is always a pleasure to read04 Feb 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzhz6jmoc25https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdzgpye24s2sMIT-licensed song generation model released, and honestly this thing is bonkers. The 4 min demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixZYMEH6RY&list=RDyixZYMEH6RY&start_radio=1&pp=ygUMYWNlIHN0ZXAgMS41oAcB04 Feb 2026 08:16 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdzgpye24s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdxxokaxpk2zIndian startups are obsessed with 10-min deliveries and block fonts03 Feb 2026 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxxokaxpk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdxeaq52xc2sI was listening to Acquired's Google part 3 episode and the play about Waymo genuinely fascinated me. I couldn't manage to take a ride when I was in Salt Lake City last November, but I've heard unanimously great things about Waymo. Excited about its future!03 Feb 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdxeaq52xc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdszarpcvk27Subtitle Edit is finally on Mac! https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/issues/81#issuecomment-382817573801 Feb 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdszarpcvk27https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdshscevls27Love this Bertrand Russell quote01 Feb 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdshscevls27https://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdmgsxp3pc2eThe joy of open-source [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jan 2026 04:13 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdmgsxp3pc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mdisxm73qs2fI'm learning to play the Piano and this website has such a great UX for its lessons: www.musictheory.net/lessons https://www.musictheory.net/lessons28 Jan 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdisxm73qs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mctczkc7kk2gGithub has become a spam inventory now. I keep getting such emails every week. Those inflated star numbers are really doing the work now.20 Jan 2026 04:28 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mctczkc7kk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mcjozkjvh22sI just tried Supertonic 2 on my Mac, and surprised by the quality of the French sounds. I can see this being very useful for my language learning, especially to generate high quality listening materials.16 Jan 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcjozkjvh22shttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mch4atryg22mLearnt about @igalia.com today. Honestly surprised to see such a cracked team patiently doing the best hardcore engineering work, and everything is open-source!15 Jan 2026 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mch4atryg22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mcf5mmkkus2pWhatsApp has started inserting ads (!) in status updates. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to be part of Zuckky's shittified universe.14 Jan 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcf5mmkkus2phttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mccqqudle22fI think this is the central problem with community chat apps. I hate Discord to the core, but they got this UX absolutely correct. Zulip does a lot of things correct, but requiring separate accounts for separate communities is my biggest UX frustration.13 Jan 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccqqudle22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/siddharthagolu.com/post/3mccmaa5rk22pI enjoy reading about others' reading habits. This post was a great read: https://vivqu.com/blog/2026/01/12/reading-habit/13 Jan 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:i7n5wclszxmbw5a773jgbvcf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccmaa5rk22p