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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 08/04/2026

Is it just me or do you also see the “Invalid Handle” on the profile?

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 05/11/2025

It’s wild that the word “AI” can be slapped on to literally anything these days. Even a standing desk.

Landing page screenshot of the Autonomous Desk, highlighting the words “Now with AI”

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 21/10/2025

Interesting, Codex has a personality now? I don't think I've had agentic tools "hey ask" me clarifications before.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 18/09/2025

TFW for a moment you can't tell which one is the code editor and which one is the web browser

macOS app icons of Zed (code editor) and Zen (web browser)

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 12/06/2025

Just finished updating the contents of personalfinancespython.com to use Beancount 3, and the git diff is sitting at over 10,000 changes 😅

Screenshot of a Github PR with the title "Update book to reference Beancount 3", showing 46 commits, 70 files changes, 5537 additions, and 5381 deletions

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 13/05/2025

LinkedIn and I have a *very* different definition of the phrase “Great news”.

LinkedIn notification with the text: “Great news: we’re making identity verification available.”

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 04/05/2025

The first four chapters have been updated and so far it's been smooth sailing. It's fun to revisit something you wrote four years ago, and bring it up to date.

Screenshot of a GitHub pull request titled "Update book to reference Beancount 3"

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 09/03/2025

The sky was clear last night, which meant perfect moon-watching conditions. Buying the telescope was a very good idea. #astrophotography

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 12/02/2025

Paddle finally approved the domain! Next up: enabling checkouts. 🎉 #buildinpublic

Screenshot of a domain approval email from Paddle

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 10/02/2025

Google Search Console is now flagging 5xx errors as well. And this is on a *static* site. I wonder if it’s time to move away from Netlify for hosting static sites.

Screenshot of a Google Search Console email notifying about potential indexing issues caused by 5xx server errors

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 24/01/2025

Made it to the Hacker News front page 🫠

A screenshot of the Hacker News homepage showing a list of top articles. "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim" is at the first position.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 30/12/2024

One of the best parts of living away from the city is the incredible night sky. 🌌 On clear nights, you can see thousands of stars, the Milky Way, planets like Jupiter and Saturn, and even small satellites! This photo isn’t the best quality, but you can still spot Jupiter (at the top!) and Orion.

A night sky filled with stars above a dark landscape. The Orion constellation and a bright Jupiter are visible.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 16/12/2024

I imported my November transactions into my Beancount-backed ledger yesterday and realized that this thing now holds data all the way back to January 2016! That's 8 years worth of personal financial history contained in ~40,000 lines of plaintext files, fully human-readable and SQL-queryable. 🎉

Terminal screenshot showing a breakdown of Beancount ledger files and their line counts, spanning years 2016 to 2024

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 01/12/2024

The first half-marathon is officially in the books! 🏃🏻‍♂️ The weather was freezing cold but that made the mountains look all the more crisp. 🏔️ Next up: working on shaving minutes off that 21km time!

Garmin Connect screenshot of a 21.09 km running activity

Frosty, gravel covered path bordered with a wooden fence with snow-capped mountains in the backdrop and a clear blue sky

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 28/11/2024

It looks like Fastmail is having an outage right now. 👀

Fastmail login form displaying a "service unavailable" message

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 28/11/2024

Just locked in my slot ✅

"Thanks for your order" screenshot after going through the Lemon Squeezy checkout

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 21/11/2024

It’s unfortunate to see Honeypot — a reverse job platform primarily in Europe — shut down. COVID and the economic pressures in Germany appear to have taken their toll.

Screenshot of an email that Honeypot sent their users announcing their shutdown

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 10/11/2024

Nothing says “we care about your privacy” as telling me you and your 855 partners store and access personal data on my device.

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 10/11/2024

Nice and steady Sunday morning run 🏃🏻‍♂️ The weather was quite foggy when I started out, but halfway through, the sun broke out, casting a beautiful glow over the Alps — making for a great run with an incredible view. ☀️🏔️

Garmin Connect screenshot of a 12.64 km running activity

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 03/11/2024

After this morning's run, the couch is officially my home base for the rest of the day.

Garmin Connect screenshot of an 18.34 km running activity

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 01/11/2024

I did expect speedups when moving from poetry to uv but this is honestly game changing. 😅

`uv lock` running on the terminal, indicating that 49 packages were resolved in 1 millisecond

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 01/11/2024

`poetry lock` has been running for more than 10 minutes now, which means it's probably time to (finally!) look into uv.

`poetry lock` running on the terminal, indicating that the "resolving dependencies" step been ongoing for more than 600 seconds

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Siddhant Goel @sgoel.dev · 21/10/2024

I finally unleashed Redact.dev on my Twitter/X account (should've done this a long time ago). Good thing is that it deleted most of my Twitter/X content. What's weird though is that it then prompted me to tweet about it on Twitter. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"Deletion Completed" modal from Redact.dev

Redact.dev asking me to tweet about successfully deleting content from social media

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