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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 16/09/2026

Upgrading to macOS 27 feels like a relief, especially the ability to tone down all that liquid glass nonsense. I’m glad Apple backtracked on this one.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 26/08/2026

People, if you could stop making all the app icons white on black, that'd be great.

macOS app icons of Zed (code editor), Zen (web browser), Paseo (agent orchestrator), Linear (project management tool), and OpenCode (AI harness)

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 11/08/2026

Upgrading homebrew packages over the weekend broke my site build. Here’s a quick post on how I got things working again. sgoel.dev/posts/upgrad...

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Upgrading to Zola version 0.23

Running brew upgrade broke my site build. Here's how I fixed the three errors Zola 0.23 and Tera v2 threw at me.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 14/07/2026

Day 1 of training for the Munich Marathon 🏃🏻 Last year was so much fun that I decided to sign up this year too. Next 3 months are going to be tiring but good! #runsky

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 12/07/2026

Living close to water is such a life hack.

View of a river with trees on both sides

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 11/07/2026

Hey Bluesky, @atprotoalternatives.com is live on @uneed.best today and I'd love for your support. And If you find it helpful, an upvote would mean a lot. Thank you! 🦋 #atproto #buildinpublic

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 08/07/2026

Is there a German word for facing an avalanche of Slack notifications after two weeks of vacation? If not, there should be.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 05/07/2026

A non-technical acquaintance is looking to replace their Windows OS with something based on Linux. What’s the 2026 recommendation?

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 01/07/2026

The Finland countryside has some beautiful trails to go running on. 🇫🇮🏃🏻

Gravel path with trees on either side and blue sky with some clouds in the background

A few trees with a lake and blue sky with clouds in the background

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 24/06/2026

Installed the Instagram app on my phone after a really long break and I don’t think I’ve seen a worse mess of a thing lately. Almost instantly removed.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 12/06/2026

After weeks on my to-do list, Open Graph images for @atprotoalternatives.com (for product pages) are finally done. LLMs are especially handy for tasks that you understand but prefer to automate instead. Here's the code: tangled.org/atprotoalter...

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main.py at main · atprotoalternatives.com/atprotoalternatives.com

A repository on Tangled

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 08/06/2026

Interesting how it’s ok to merge thousands of lines of unreviewed AI-generated code, but if you include a tiny little “feat:” in your commit message, that’s where the line gets drawn.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 05/06/2026

Potentially anecdotal, but migrating my static sites away from Netlify to a self-hosted Caddy instance has made them noticeably snappier.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 30/05/2026

Fun Saturday evening project: Moved @atprotoalternatives.com from Bunny CDN to an Ubuntu VPS running Caddy. Deployment used to be a hassle earlier with a clunky deployment script and API keys. Now deployment is just rsync - simple, fast, and glorious.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 27/05/2026

GitLab could really own the “reliable alternative” story during GitHub’s (multiple) outages. Instead, their H1 reads “Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle”. 🫢

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 25/05/2026

A few weeks into writing Go: it's a workhorse that lets you get things done *fast*, but boy those err checks are everywhere. 😅

The "X, X everywhere" meme from the Toy Story with the caption "if err != nil everywhere"

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 16/05/2026

I just gave @atprotoalternatives.com a redesign using only ~$3 in tokens (GLM 5.1 using OpenCode Go). The entire process took literally 5 minutes and the design no longer screams "I'm a backend developer". Honestly, it's very impressive.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 02/05/2026

Experimenting with Go lately and its static binary story (especially embedding files in the binary at build time) feels like magic, especially after working with Python.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 29/04/2026

GitHub seems to be having a rough day online. The internet water coolers are tearing in to them (for valid reasons).

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 24/04/2026

Maybe it’s observer bias, but I’m seeing new ATproto apps launch every few days since I started working on @atprotoalternatives.com.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 19/04/2026

Hey @tangled.org I’d love to use a custom domain for a static site. Any hint if this is coming? 👀

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 11/04/2026

GLM 5.1 (on Opencode Go) is my new favorite side-project driver. Sonnet 4.6 performance at half the price. 🫠

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 03/04/2026

Developers, what’s your preferred tool for writing your CVs? Google Docs, LaTeX, or something else? #buildinpublic

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 03/04/2026

The "one account every app" messaging here is incredible. 💯

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 03/04/2026

Anyone know a good CLI for generating Open Graph images?

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 02/04/2026

I've been building @atprotoalternatives.com recently - a list of AT protocol alternatives to mainstream products. It’s still a work in progress, but curious what the crowd thinks! #buildinpublic

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 28/03/2026

Interesting that GitHub is advertising using *my* code to train *their* models as a "feature".

The "Allow Github to use my data for AI model training" settings dropdown from Github settings showing "Enabled" and "Disabled" options

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 25/03/2026

Kicking things off with @tangled.org today 🧶

Console output from running git push to a repository hosted on Tangled

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 19/03/2026

Picking up another domain this week, this time for an AT Protocol project. Let’s see how far I get!

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 16/03/2026

tfw you're building something and add a library (that you maintain) as a dependency but still need to check its README to recall how it works.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 14/03/2026

Honestly, I had a little FOMO seeing everyone move over to @eurosky.social, so I made the move too. My Bluesky PDS is now in the EU and the FOMO has also vanished. 🇪🇺

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 11/03/2026

Vibe coding is going great.

Claude Desktop unable to start because of syntax errors in its JSON configuration file

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 22/02/2026

Claude Code API credits ran out so I've been trying out Mistral's Vibe CLI and it's not bad at all! It struggles a bit with UI tasks but seems to handle rote coding tasks just fine.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 22/02/2026

I'd forgotten how fun web dev could be until I started building @txtcv.com with a pure server-side setup, using *only* Django and Htmx. Minimal JS build steps, no framework fatigue, just shipping and enjoying the process.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 14/02/2026

“Throughput is how much you produce. Yield is how much of it survives.” 🎯

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 14/02/2026

Garmin's badge idea today is a little corny.

Garmin's "Be My Valentine 2026" badge for activities recorded on 14th of February

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 07/02/2026

My new Garmin Forerunner 165 arrived today! 🎉 After logging almost 3000km of runs, the Forerunner 55 was starting to show signs of age. Excited to take the 165 for a spin tomorrow!

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 13/01/2026

Open-source maintainers: how do you handle PRs containing code that's obviously written by an LLM? Reviewing thousands of lines of code is very tedious, and I’m not entirely clear on the licensing implications of merging in LLM-generated code. How do you approach this?

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 10/01/2026

Great writeup! Over the past year, Claude has steadily become part of my own workflow. Plus, it’s gotten easier on the pocket too (ymmv but Haiku 4.5 feels good enough for side-projects).

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 02/01/2026

Hit the front page of Hacker News. Happy New Year indeed!

Screenshot from the front page of Hacker News showing the top 5 stories

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 30/12/2025

Claude Code building features in my side-project while I do chores around the house feels surreal. I didn't sign up for this, but I'm here for it, I think.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 22/12/2025

January 2026 will be 10 years since I started tracking my finances in plain text files using Python and Beancount. I wrote a quick blog post looking back on the experience! sgoel.dev/posts/10-yea...

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10 years of personal finances in plain text files

I've been tracking my finances using Beancount in plain text files for 10 years. Here are the numbers, the workflow, and why I believe plaintext accounting will outlive any app.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 21/12/2025

I found a new toy to play with over the holidays: pyinfra.com. Early experiments are looking very promising. If it continues to deliver, I'll most likely throw out the Kamal deployment setup in favor of PyInfra.

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pyinfra - Fast Python Infrastructure Automation Tool

Fast, Python-based infrastructure automation. Deploy to SSH servers, Docker, and local machines. 10x faster than Ansible.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 19/12/2025

A few weeks ago I started using @atuin.sh and it’s easily one of the best things to happen to my shell lately. 10/10 would recommend.

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