iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/06/2026

So... i built a new font. Introducing Moxy. Moxy = Recursive + Lilex's glyphs kau.sh/blog/moxy/

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/06/2026

June update of AI model choices Kimi 2.6 has been the blow away surprise for me; often it keeps pace with GPT-Medium. Also OpenCode + OpenChamber is another sleeper hit. This harness combo is allowing me to do a lot more. Full post @ kau.sh/blog/ai-mode...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 27/04/2026

Love how Mitchell said of the current AI hypsters: If there's all this great value being created with AI... where are the actual products? Full episode: Youtube: youtu.be/pKrsF3eQQnQ?... Website: fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0zht...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/03/2026

and it's even faster for me to switch windows/sessions with an fzf powered window switcher. i simply type the name of the thing i'm doing and i'm popped right in.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/03/2026

i know cmux is the rage but a highly customized tmux still feels 👑 for power users. it's quicker for me to get a sense of the sessions and windows just by looking at them in one shot (ofc they're completely rename-able) updates or alerts in the session? the panes light up.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 18/03/2026

Here's my list of reasons for using OpenCode 1. Switch between models on the fly 2. client-server architecture (a.k.a built-in remote control) 3. Subagent + mode features 4. Opinionated UX 5. “Highly” customizable via plugins kau.sh/blog/opencod...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 12/03/2026

i like a lot of the new tmux-ish emulators like cmux but the smoothest workflow i've found is just using ghostty & one main tmux session. ☝️ one window for each task i'm working on with name "i" recognize quickly. then use fzf to search the tmux window list pane & switch ⚡

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 05/02/2026

people out there be complicating their claude code statusline. keep it simple and clean !

Public gist at https://gist.github.com/kaushikgopal/d92cd6a483c8b8683a2cd04137257866

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 15/01/2026

So MCP & AGENTS are under AAIF (Linux Foundation): "open" in the true governance sense. Agent Skills is different though: it's a public spec on a github repo but still "maintained by Anthropic".

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 13/01/2026

AI model choices as of today! kau.sh/blog/ai-mode...

A common question I get is, “Which AI model should I use for X task?”

Models evolve so rapidly that I never felt like I could give an answer that would stay relevant for more than a month or two.

This year, I finally feel like I have a stable set of model choices that consistently gives me good results. I’m jotting it down here to share more broadly, and to trace how my own choices evolve over time.

GPT 5.2 (High) for planning and writing, including writing plans
Opus 4.5 for anything coding, task automation, and tool calling

Gemini’s range of models for everything else:

Gemini 3 (Thinking) for learning and understanding concepts (underrated)
- Gemini 3 (Flash) for my go-to quick-answer questions
- Nano Banana (obv) for all image generation
- NVIDIA’s Parakeet for voice transcription

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 21/11/2025

⋅ ~8 minutes drafting the "exec-plan" ⋅Opened two tabs one for each app ⋅/exec-plan 38 minutes later: 2 apps migrated (And it only took 8 minutes of my own time) Codex + ExecPlans, friends... 😎

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 16/11/2025

Go with monthly AI subscriptions friends. kau.sh/blog/ai-mont...

Go with monthly AI subscriptions friends.

I can’t remember where I read this tip, but given how fast the AI lab models move, it’s smarter to stick with a monthly plan instead of locking into an annual one, even if the annual price looks more attractive.

I hit a DI issue on Android and was too lazy to debug it myself, so I pointed two models at it. GPT Codex gave me the cleanest, correct fix. Claude Sonnet 4.5 found a fix, but it wasn’t idiomatic and was pretty aggressive with the changes.

A month ago, I wouldn’t have bothered with anything other than the Claude models for coding. Today, Codex clearly feels ahead. Google is about to ship its next Gemini model and, from what I’m hearing, it’s going to be absurdly good.

In these wonderfully unstable times, monthly subscriptions are the way to go.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 30/10/2025

Product vs Model Innovation kau.sh/blog/product...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 14/10/2025

Do you use VSCode or Cursor? ... you're welcome 😎

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 11/10/2025

Quick way to get much better results from your LLM powered searches. Mike Caulfield wrote an excellent post on this: mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 07/10/2025

agents.md actually lists this out well. > extra, sometimes detailed context coding agents need: build steps, tests, and conventions that might clutter a README or aren’t relevant to human contributors.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 06/08/2025

Why thank you Claude 🙏 Migration from Compose Navigation 2 → Jetpack Navigation 3 ✅ #AndroidDev

claude migrates my android app from compose navigation 2 to jetpack navigation 3

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/08/2025

Google still knows how to really swag 😍 #Gemini

decommissioned TPU v4 that Google used from their 4th/5th gen AI accelerators

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 22/07/2025

Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme). kau.sh/blog/shorts

Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme).

Often, I find myself wanting to post a quick thought or note without the ceremony of a full-blown “blog post”. That’s usually when I’d post to Bluesky, X, Threads, or Mastodon.

But as I’ve said before, I prefer investing in a feed I control. With Henry, I can effortlessly post a quick thought, and share it from a feed I own.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 17/07/2025

you can customize Firefox with CSS. my Firefox actually looks similar to this: github.com/rakhalfps/gw... I've been vertical tabbing for quite sometime now and have it almost as clean as Safari.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 17/07/2025

what is stopping you from heading to 🦊 at this point? Chrome has removed uBlock Origin - only the most useful extension on the planet.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 15/04/2025

arr but when I go to a new tab they move the existing open tas + search back to the top. guessing there's a flag that avoids this

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 05/04/2025

Adding Dark mode to my Henry theme kau.sh/blog/automat... all on a ✈️ ride back home.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 12/03/2025

Here's a quick example of how i used #Cursor today for some #AndroidDev. It got about ~85% of the way. But importantly it took almost no 🧠 headspace and I could just sit back while it combed through the gradle files figuring things out.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 28/02/2025

Cursor @cursor.com.web.brid.gy (for AI coding) and @warp.dev (for Terminal-ing) has really started to spoil me. Especially with Warp, there are things that annoy me about it but dang it's so nice to just talk to your terminal and not have to recollect the command contortions on my own.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 24/02/2025

If you haven't used the "Emoji Workshop" when picking a wallpaper for your Pixel phone, I highly recommend it. I initially dismissed it as a what er feature but I tried it on a whim and it's brilliant, with a live twist that works well for Android. Wish I used the feature sooner !

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 20/01/2025

Nope. Looks like it's "paused".

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 28/12/2024

Final phase of @fragmentedpodcast.com's reboot is nearly done! 📬 Newsletter drops early Jan with some fun exclusive meta talk on how some of the episodes came about. Subscribe for free → buttondown.com/fragmentedca...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 18/12/2024

This is on a warm start (fwiw) and I closed some of those tabs (given what I saw in the last screenshot)

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 18/12/2024

Pretty cool! Didn't know about this setting.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 26/11/2024

🎧 Episode #252 of Fragmented is out. Everyone needs a starter template! We also talk to @zsmb.co from @jetbrains.com about #Amper (their new build & config tool). Listen here: fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/252 #AndroidDev #Podcast

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 04/06/2023

Am I missing something? This is the image picker folder structure on my Android phone now. 😒. This is the kind of experience that's just such a turn off in terms of quality and polish.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 03/06/2023

@bsk.bsky.social btw has an advantage because of React Native but the Android apps violate some basic stuff. (My pet peeve)

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 08/05/2023

Bluesky. Not Turquoisesky 🙄

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