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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 04/10/2026

If I had a penny for every time I joined a company and ended up inheriting a messy, insecure JavaScript codebase from the same developer, I’d have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s really weird that it happened twice.

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Crona App @crona.work · 24/09/2026

Crona v1.9.0 is now stable 🎉 Alongside it, the new native macOS companion has reached v1.0.0 — bringing your current focus, timers and controls right into the menu bar. Still local-first. Still terminal-first. Still no accounts or cloud required. crona.work github.com/webxsid/crona

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 24/09/2026

Just discovered Pages CMS(pagescms.org) a few days ago and it’s pretty much exactly what I needed for my GitHub-based blog. I still get to keep everything as Markdown in Git, but I’m no longer tied to my dev machine whenever I want to write or edit something.

pagescms.org

Pages CMS

Manage content and media right in your GitHub repository. No database, no API, no extra backend.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 24/09/2026

So Astra can apparently drive a car now. At very low speeds in a controlled cone course, but still. The interesting bit is, Astra failed the first time, retained and analysed the failure to successfully finish the course in its second try. Very cool drivingbench.com/report

drivingbench.com

Report · DrivingBench

A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 22/09/2026

Rewatching Cosmos today. I first watched it 10 years ago, and I don’t think I was capable of fully appreciating just how beautiful this show is. The visuals, Alan Silvestri’s score, and the stories of all the scientists who paved the way for the world we live in today. Just amazing!

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 16/09/2026

Side projects have a weird point where adding another feature is easier than deciding the thing you already built is ready to ship.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 08/09/2026

AI has made this meme significantly worse. Because now instead of spending hours automating a 5 minute task, I can spend 30 mins asking an AI to automate it and another 5 hours fixing what AI generated

A developer crawls through a desert past a sign reading “Try automating it for several hours — 25 miles,” while ignoring a nearby sign reading “Do the thing manually in 5 min.”

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 06/09/2026

Got the next piece of the project working today. Posting to bluesky. Anything published through Standard.site can now be picked up by the CLI and posted to Bluesky with a simple `pdg post`. Next I'll be working on integrating fediverse as a new vertical.

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Crona App @crona.work · 04/09/2026

Crona has grown quite a bit since I made the original website, and the design was starting to feel left behind. Spent some time rebuilding the visual identity to better match the product. New website, new logo. Same local tracker. crona.work

crona.work

Crona | Make the workday readable

Make the workday readable with Crona, a local-first tracker for issues, focus sessions, habits, and history.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 31/08/2026

Got the base Standard.site publication flow working today. The CLI can now scan a generated static site, publish the relevant pages to Standard.site, and inject the resulting AT URIs back into the HTML for verification. First example: exp1.projectdg.org/blog/hello-a...

exp1.projectdg.org

Hello Atmosphere

An all-target blog article.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 30/08/2026

Building a small utility in Go to make my portfolio part of the atmosphere. I know sequoia exists, just wanted to get my hands on #atproto and try it out myself

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 30/08/2026

Figuring out how to make the CLI discover all the publishable pages in a website without making it the dev's problem to configure individual pages & publish to standard site Sequoia relies on md file based discovery, but that feels too limiting. I don't see a better option right now though.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 09/08/2026

Spent the entire weekend working on the next beta release of @crona.work No flashy new features, just a lot of quality-of-life improvements, plenty of bug fixes, and laying the groundwork for the macOS companion app. The kind of release that makes the next few releases possible.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 07/08/2026

What a great way to end the week

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 06/08/2026

Got the first issue reported on @crona.work's GitHub. I’m not exactly thrilled that there’s a bug, but I am thrilled that someone is actually using the app enough to find one. That’s a milestone I’ll happily take.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 05/08/2026

Pushed a new beta out for @crona.work Added new events to handle skipping pomodoro sessions from the TUI and the Mac Compnaion app github.com/webxsid/crona

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 03/08/2026

So it turns out the MacOS menu bar companion for my TUI app Crona works fine on my machine running MacOS 27 dev beta but on OS 26 it’s CPU usage shoots up to a staggering 77%. I doubt it has anything to do with the OS version but that's the first difference I can see

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 01/08/2026

I’m planning to build a DB client for MongoDB, out of pure spite for Compass. What stack would you choose? 1. Go + Wails 2. Rust + Tauri 3. Flutter Desktop 4. Qt 5. Native (Swift, WinUi)

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Crona App @crona.work · 01/08/2026

Built myself a terminal-first, local-first work tracker because every other one eventually became another chore. Go + Bubble Tea + SQLite No accounts. No cloud. Just a keyboard and a terminal. It’s been my daily driver for the past few months. Curious what other TUI folks think.

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Crona App @crona.work · 15/06/2026

My biggest regret with Crona so far is opting for direct curl script installation rather than a package manager. Well that is changing with the upcoming releases. The new beta already works on brew, more coming up soon.

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Crona App @crona.work · 09/06/2026

As a developer my day starts and ends in a terminal. But every time I wanted to track my work, I had to switch into a completely different world of browsers, dashboards, and GUI-heavy productivity apps. So I built Crona, a local-first work tracker that lives in the terminal. crona.work

crona.work

Crona | Local-first work tracking for developers

Crona helps developers plan issues, run issue-scoped focus sessions, review Rollup and Wellbeing, and keep checkout context local from one system.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 16/05/2026

Building a native MacOS app for Crona in Swift. Did anyone ask for this? No. But I’ve been meaning to learn Swift for a while, and rewriting a terminal-first app as a native Mac app felt like a good excuse.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 15/05/2026

Set-up up an on-boarding flow for Crona this weekend. New release coming soon. Checkout the app - crona.work

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 12/05/2026

Any open-source devs here, how do you deal with the lack of user insight for your projects? My app, Crona (crona.work) is mostly stable now. A few friends and I use it regularly and it has become part of my workflow. But outside that circle, I have no visibility.

crona.work

Crona | Local-first work tracking for developers

Crona helps developers plan issues, track habits, run focus sessions, and review the day from one local-first system.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 09/05/2026

Pushed a new stable version for Crona, a local open source work tracker that stays in your terminal. What's New: - Configurable Date Display - A dedicated view for your habit history - Better Input Prompts - Pin issues to your daily view - A permanent place on the internet - crona.work

crona.work

Crona | Local-first work tracking for developers

Crona helps developers plan issues, track habits, run focus sessions, and review the day from one local-first system.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 03/05/2026

New beta for my terminal-based work tracker for devs is up on GitHub. This version includes - bug fixes - better input prompts - redesigned daily view - configurable date display formats Check it out github.com/webxsid/crona

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 02/05/2026

Building my own little “AWS clone” to host and manage my projects on my own infra. Planned Arch - Single manager -> multiple agent nodes - Containerised with Docker - Loadbalancer (maybe auto scaling) - Web dashboard - Support for tunnels like Ngrok I plan to open source once it’s stable

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 25/04/2026

Spoiler: [One piece Ch 1181] Never in my life did I think I’ll see Imu like this 😂😂

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 25/04/2026

Been busy building #Crona recently, a local #opensource work tracker that stays right in your terminal. Check it out github.com/webxsid/crona

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GitHub - webxsid/crona

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 26/10/2025

> be me > plan to work on side projects on the weekend > fever hits on Friday night > spend the weekend in bed next to the workstation > both running hot, neither productive

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 17/08/2025

Doing this on all my servers going forward

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 17/08/2025

The ai-fication (read: enshitification) of the internet is one of the saddest affair in the history of web

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 17/08/2025

Set up the “mautrix-meta” bridge on my synapse server today. Keeps me connected to Instagram DMs without unlocking the app (and falling into doom scrolls). Also a pretty fun little bridge to tinker with 👾

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 15/08/2025

Ordered a new MacBook Air today, no more 8GB throttles soon 🥹

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 13/08/2025

One more step to de-googling life, Setup SFTP on my home server last night, interesting learning experience, maybe I’ll write a quick blog post about it.

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 11/08/2025

Been off here for 5 months. In that time I’ve: - Stashed some projects, started new ones, and resurrected a few old ones - Launched a new blog → blog.webxsid.com - Set up a home server and started de-googling my life wherever possible Back to building. 🚀

blog.webxsid.com

Sid's Blog

This blog is mostly for documenting things I’m working on: \- Bugs I’ve hit \- Tools I’ve built, \- Patterns I’ve liked (or ), \- and notes I...

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Chirag Purohit @oichirag.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

b&b // good morning w/ @webxsid.com

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Siddharth Mittal @webxsid.com · 17/02/2025

I'm working with nestjs for a project and couldn't find a centralised "error registry" package, so I took a little detour and built one. Check out www.npmjs.com/package/@web... If you use NestJS, give it a try and let me know what features you’d like to see added!