AnuRock

Devtool Obsession

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:11:05 GMT

First Bun + Anthropic. Now Astro + Cloudflare. The devtool space is heating up in a very AI world!

2025 In Books

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:45:47 GMT

Seasons changed and so did my shelf. Indeed. May and July were two of my toughest months in 2025. I fell short of my target of 12 books. But I finished 9! They spoke to me, supported me, transported me. Here’s to more stories in 2026.

Hire Dan

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:46:38 GMT

Humbled by Dan Abramov’s resume. It could simply have been 5 words: “The most famous React guy”. Instead, he described his experiences — including his time at Meta working on React — just like any other candidate. Love his cherry-picked pull requests from each role.

Adminer

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:05:04 GMT

After banging my head against pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin for more than an hour, finally found Adminer. Pretty basic but it’s tidy and works well. Is there a better free alternative?

Antigravity

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:58:22 GMT

Trying out Google’s Antigravity IDE. Early thoughts: love the UI/UX tweaks on top of VS Code, inline code hints are laggy and noisy, browser integration looks promising, visual feedback to agents for a web project is a game-changer, agent manager looks cool.

Hail Mary

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:11:43 GMT

It’s rare these days that I get excited about a movie from its trailer. Well, Project Hail Mary has got me excited. Can’t wait to watch it. The book was a fantastic read. I hope the movie turns out to be as fun as the book.

Rubber Ducking

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:10:47 GMT

I often use my text editor as a rubber duck when I need to clarify my thoughts. Steve Huynh’s latest post gave me a cool idea: rubber ducking with LLMs. Sounds interesting! Have you done that?

Java

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:10:00 GMT

I was wrong. Job postings do not lie: Java is still going strong. During the server-side JavaScript revolution of early 2010s, I was convinced of Java’s impending demise. In 2025, Java remains dominant in enterprise applications and large-scale systems.

Running

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome back run. A bit unpleasant but felt great to be back on the road. Decent timing after 6 months of not running at all.

Liquid Glass

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Upgraded to iOS 26. Apple’s liquid glass is way more glassy and exciting on iOS than on macOS! My eyes are having a hard time adjusting to the real world without glassy things.

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

What a shitty PDF export in Apple’s Notes app! Bullet points are often misaligned. Basic formatting comes off easily. Trying out Obsidian. Typewriter theme is 24K gold. PDF export working perfectly so far. File sync via iCloud is cherry on top.

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Vitest’s new Visual Regression Testing feature looks so slick! What used to be a jungle mess of unreliable Selenium scripts a few years ago is now as trivial as snapshot testing your components. Well done Vitest team! Can’t wait to try it out in my next project.

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

On this day of lights, wishing you a bright and healthy day. Eat well, do the reps, and enjoy. If you are reading this in office, 🫡 If you are at home, ✌️ In both cases, Happy Diwali! 🪔

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Turn on TV. IND 123/8. Turn off TV. Didn’t work. 124/9. Turn off TV. Still didn’t work. Week battery? All out 🤦‍♂️

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

OrbStack is as lovely as they say. Snappy Docker engine and slick UI! I’m gonna use it for a while and see how it goes. Bye Colima (for now).

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:25:00 GMT

Redoing a website is hard work, even in the age of AI. It took me a whole day. Now using Astro v5 and a new theme.

Peppa Pig: “Will you finish it today?”
Mr. Bull: “Oh, no! You can’t build a house in a day. It’ll be finished… tomorrow.”