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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 11/09/2026

I appreciate you! 🙏

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 10/09/2026

Thanks for linking my page, and I completely agree with you.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 07/09/2026

This week I have made several UX improvements to the home page and comparison page of Stackipedia.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 27/08/2026

On the plus size, TIL that font rendering out of the box still has a long way to go in KDE, especially on low resolution screens, definitely needs work :)

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 27/08/2026

I know right. 1st img firefox, 2nd was brave-origin. It's an old laptop belonging to a friend of a friend that was lying useless so linux is obvious choice. More research led to this project and thankfully it fixed most github.com/maximilionus...

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GitHub - maximilionus/lucidglyph: Improvements for the Linux font rendering stack

Improvements for the Linux font rendering stack. Contribute to maximilionus/lucidglyph development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 27/08/2026

Can you help me fix this abysmal font rendering on KDE 6.6.6? Fresh system, 100% scaling, no hinting, sub-pixel rendering at RGB and anti-aliasing is enabled? Google can't seem to help. Everyone apparently has 4K monitors with scaling, I use a 1080p monitor and can't get it right. #kde #linux

bad font rendering on kde on cloudflare's page

#linux #gnome #kde #linuxmint #sysadmin #arch #design #fedora #debian #ubuntu

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 21/08/2026

Here are some pictures I clicked at home recently 🙏💗 #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses #garden

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 18/08/2026

Thank you! Adblockers are actual lifesavers now.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 18/08/2026

Thank you for sharing my article. It's crazy how many people relate to this daily struggle. Truly a universal issue.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 11/08/2026

One shotted apps and websites are the bane of my existence. Same goes for overtly verbose emails clearly lengthened by AI

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 09/07/2026

Clearing out the shelves and realizing 80% of my personality is just hoarding ex-university library sales from like a decade ago 📚 Time to pass these classics along to someone else. #reading #books

some used and well read books in a shelf

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 06/07/2026

Can I request a treat from my side for this cute goofy ball please! 😄

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 06/07/2026

Love the color combination!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 19/05/2026

Thanks for your perspective on this!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 19/05/2026

To me, a big factor in deciphering longevity is how much the manufacture supports the software updates. In that regard, unfortunately Moto falls apart. As long as the device is maintainable and performs decently, it should be nice. I've narrowed down my list even further now.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 19/05/2026

Very cool. I've been reading lots of good things about Pixel phones recently. Which is nice cause I treat the phone as a phone, not gaming device or the likes. Plus, like you know, enjoy occasional photography with it.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 19/05/2026

My current phone, the Galaxy A52 is a gone case. Will be updating soon, I am looking at Motorola's Edge 60 Pro. Is that a good choice? I've going to ditch Samsung this time around. Are Pixels 10 or 10a good for the extra cost? What about the phones by One Plus? Vivo's T4 Pro is also close.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 15/05/2026

‪Yes! There's clean water supply at home now. Straight from the ground. This might seem a like a trivial post to most, but to me it's such a relief. No more week-long summer rationing mandated by the government, no more dirty water 😊

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 11/05/2026

A few more days for the muddy water to full clear out and hopefully, I won't have to worry about purchasing water to drink anymore. Screw the system that enables this. Never voting for these scums in my life.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 11/05/2026

19 days now. Thankfully, we called a private contractor who completed a boring here. They found the water level and like most of my neighbourhood, we have a submersible system set up.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 30/04/2026

8 days now, buying water to drink. Showering in the gym. Ordering food from restaurants 😔

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 27/04/2026

Lovely flowers, I would spend hours in a place like this. Thanks for sharing!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/04/2026

Losing my mind since there has been no water supply in my area for 3 days now. The perks of living in India.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 14/04/2026

Before you buy that nice hoodie online, ask yourself, "Am I willing to delete one extra email every day for the rest of my life?"

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 14/04/2026

Appreciate the share, glad you found it insightful!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 14/04/2026

This is just unjustified, either it's indifference when they ought to make their PAID users have a premium experience or they just haven't figured it out. Thanks for sharing my article!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 04/04/2026

I completed a long due book called Piranesi today. The author has elected for a slightly different story-telling style, with the entirety of the text being in the form of a journal by the protagonist. There are elements where the writing shines but it wasnt for me. Not bad, not good either. #reading

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 04/04/2026

Thanks for the share Jonathan, appreciate you.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 04/04/2026

Thanks for the share Matt, appreciate that it's still driving conversation.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 04/04/2026

Appreciate the share! 🙏

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 25/03/2026

The year is 2026 and yet it remains impossible to simply drag and drop an events.ics file directly into my Google Calendar and have it block a time-slot. Dear Alphabet, not all our meetings happen in the realm of the Gmail/Meet combo, please add this 😭

A sample screenshot of Calendar from Google's blog

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 25/03/2026

Good observation, there is a market for that. Although, there exist a good many desktop applications, the collaboration-friendly tooling is what people increasingly prefer. Someone who nails that aspect with low overhead and a user-friendly feature set will be incredibly popular.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/03/2026

It's incredible how vastly hardware has improved. Going by standards from 20 years ago, we would have instantaneous web, but here we are. Thanks for the share.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/03/2026

Appreciate the share, Paul. I'm glad folks from all corners of the world are finding this analysis relatable.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/03/2026

Incredibly humbled to have been featured in Harvard's Nieman Journalism lab and Adexchanger this weekend. Do read. www.adexchanger.com/daily-news-r... www.niemanlab.org/reading/the-...

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The JavaScript Overload; Whatever, AI Will Handle It | AdExchanger

Why do individual web pages now require as much memory to run as an entire operating system did 30 years ago? Ad tech, baby.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/03/2026

I've never really liked notion. It's doing everything Google docs does but much much worse. And google docs isn't very good to begin with. Thanks for sharing my article.

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 24/03/2026

The real flaw in your students' calculations is assuming the people of the far future haven't already built a tachyon deflector shield specifically to bounce them right back to us!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 23/03/2026

Appreciate the share Tim, I'm glad you found the breakdown helpful. Thanks!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 22/03/2026

Author here, I truly appreciate your kind words Robert. While researching this piece and improving the draft, I knew this was an issue people might relate to...because I was one of them. But the conversation it has generated around the web blew my mind about the scope of it all. Thanks for reading!

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 22/03/2026

I ought to have included this comparison 😭

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 19/03/2026

An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 22/03/2026

For the status quo to shift, we need collective action from subscribers and casual visitors alike. Possibly vote with their wallets or voice their opinions online, preferably a mix of both. High bounce rates may finally trigger introspection about shifting to a more user-friendly model. Thanks!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/03/2026

"The reader is not respected enough by the software. The publisher is held hostage by incentives from an auction system that not only encourages but rewards dark patterns."

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Pheonix @thatshubham.com · 22/03/2026

Author of the article here. Thank you so much for the kind words, Lauren! Your observation about these dopamine-friendly video apps winning over the static web is spot on and adds a great layer to this. Thanks for reading!

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

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The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

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