iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/09/2025

Giving some serious thought to beelink and framework computer I need that form factor!

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 14/09/2025

it costs way too much to run LLMs locally

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 05/06/2025

Y'ALL ARE MISSING OUT ON ALL THE DRAMA

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 18/05/2025

Mine is 22 months old. She's been using this since she was 6 months old.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 16/05/2025

Do you know how much fucking free time you have in your 20s before you have a family & kids? And you waste them on naps and Netflix, when you should go out and plant 5 trees every single day. There is nothing that represents lost time like a tree that’s 2 yrs old instead of 20.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 16/05/2025

Life would have compounded so hard if I had been as good at things in my 20s and 30s as I am in my 40s. I was good at my job, sure, but I’m an incredible generalist now man what the hell. I used to be like “just planted a tree need a nap”. Literally incomprehensible to me now.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

THIS WAS SO COOL. I watched it twice.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

Who else do you want me to care about…?

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

Mixed together some dough during my lunch break. It should be a nice surprise for my wife when she comes home. An afternoon delight.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

Yesterday I worked for a bit, ran 5 miles, went to my violin lesson, worked while I walked on my treadmill all day, dinner, ran 1.5 more miles (with dog), then showered before bed. Was I smelly? Yes.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

Going to watch this right now! I do a thing where I lift and write code between sets, and this sounds even cooler.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

I ran twice yesterday, and just showered before bed (as I always do). She likely did the same as she’d run between meetings sometimes.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

Another simple thing I’d not thought of- Friend was doing a “2024 miles in 2024” challenge. Told her I simply don’t have time most days to run 6 miles at a time. She said “that’s why I break it up into 2 to 3 shorter runs”.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 15/05/2025

I was on a call with another principal engineer and I said "okay we both have that other call now" and they said "you don't have to go to every meeting you're invited to" and I admit I had seriously not considered just ignoring invites. But honestly no other way to scale.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 02/05/2025

I told her to write me a 1-page apology note, read it aloud, and repeat until I was satisfied. She succeeded in one try, but next time I'm going to impose restrictions on font, size, spacing, and margins.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 02/05/2025

My 10 year old yelled at me yesterday. I was angry and hurt, and wanted to ensure she didn't do it again. Unlike our parents' generation, I don't hit my kids, so I had to resort to making unkindness highly inconvenient.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 29/04/2025

in the 9-5 world right now, admitting you used ai to do your job is like when people first started using dating apps

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 25/04/2025

I've actually never used it. Can I...do image gen / sora?

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 24/04/2025

We already have blackout curtains! But no matter when I go to sleep I'll wake up at 7, so...the only way to get more sleep is going to bed earlier. Hate it.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 24/04/2025

claude: - doesn't do image gen - has been laggy multiple times this week that I gave up and restarted the request - doesn't have voice chat i've found myself reaching for grok and chatgpt more and more so... ❌

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 24/04/2025

didn't think this day would come so soon but i've canceled claude and am going back to chatgpt to be clear this is about the chat ui. i already use claude-3.x-sonnet via my ide (and people are saying to give gemini 2.5 a shot).

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 24/04/2025

Of all the things I’ve tried to improve the quality & amount of sleep I get, the one that works best is just going to sleep earlier It’s just hard when there’s so much to do!

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 23/04/2025

china can remain irrational longer than america can remain solvent

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 23/04/2025

I...don't know about that omg

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 23/04/2025

It is 00:52. I am done. I have switched to pageless mode.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 23/04/2025

there may or may not be redis in this architecture

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 23/04/2025

Invited a teammate to review a 1-page architecture plan with me at 9am, so here I am still writing it

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

yeah, it's just some moving around. if it doesn't work for me (for example if I am unable to run in the morning because I'm not fueled enough), I'm just going to change it up. maybe running days have more calories in the morning vs non days.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

An analogy here probably is to be more mindful of your spending budget during the week when you're solo, because you go out with friends on weekends and have slightly less control over restaurant bills.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

In my case I eat breakfast and lunch by myself, and dinner with the family. It's easier to perfectly weigh my breakfast/lunch/snacks because they're simpler foods, than dinner which is usually far more complex recipes like honey garlic chicken or meatloaf.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

Watched a video where this guy (Mario Tomic) talked about a "strategic calorie buffer". He eats a smaller breakfast + lunch, and saves up 50% of the calorie budget for dinner because it's easier to make up a deficit than going "oh crap I have 150 cals left". I like it.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

Yeah- I'm happy to pay for it.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

I wish Bluesky supported long form content so I don’t have to artificially break up posts into threads. I think that has ultimately been a good decision on Twitter (though I think it’s only a thing for paid users).

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

so for anything complicated, i try VCing once, and then give up and go old school and use my brain obviously this is a lot harder to do if im rocking a baby or running around making dinner or whatever

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

you enter a death loop of: claude: here you go! you: it doesn't work claude: you're right, i've fixed it you: no you didn't over and over

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/04/2025

my current disastrous experience with vibe-coding is that it's been really good for creating crud apps and singular pages that contain all necessary context but i've given up on building complex artifacts.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 21/04/2025

Opening up the mysql console after a weekend with mongodb

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 14/04/2025

“do you know how much you owe this year honey?” — my accountant I thought it might be bad but when she called me honey I knew I was fucked.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 09/04/2025

Last week I picked up some grab n go sandwiches at an airport store and the cashier said “please note that we are paid $2.13 per hour plus tips as you consider the next question” before turning the ipad toward me. So brazen that I was caught off-guard & made him repeat himself.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 08/04/2025

unfortunately I spent my time last night before bed playing Call of Duty instead of beating her at Mario Kart.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 08/04/2025

last night my 10yo came over to me with the nintendo ds & she had beat my time at rainbow road then she ran around screaming “THE BEST PART WAS THE LOOK ON HIS FACE” i’m going to take the day off while you’re at school you little shit

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 07/04/2025

LITER IS FRENCH FOR GIVE ME SOME FUCKING GASOLINE BEFORE I BREAK VOUS FUCKING LIPS

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 07/04/2025

you guys i'm an engineer who went to school outside the US, i know what the fuck a liter is

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 07/04/2025

I don't know what that is.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 07/04/2025

gas is so cheap in puerto rico now THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/03/2025

> honey will you please not touch the tripod? daddy's emptying the dishwasher. > please stop screaming out the my little pony theme song when i'm recording myself vibe coding a b2c saas.

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Vic 🌮 @vicvijayakumar.com · 22/03/2025

I want to do a "a day in the life" video but it looks like so much freaking work setting up and moving around a tripod over and over.

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