Siddhant Goel

Last night, I had an LLM remove more code than it added when asked to make a change. I’m choosing to believe this is progress.

As an open-source maintainer, I'm not very bothered (yet) with PRs containing LLM-generated code. It's the ones with LLM-generated *descriptions* that bother me.

I came across Uncloud (uncloud.run) yesterday and just used it to deploy a Django/Postgres app to a Linux VPS. The DX so far has been excellent. It's one of the nicest ways to self-host apps I've used lately. #selfhosting

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.

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

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...

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

Living close to water is such a life hack.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

Voice of reason, finally. lobste.rs/s/qgy6ak/can...

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.

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

Looking to self-host static sites using Caddy? Here’s a blog post I wrote about it last night. sgoel.dev/posts/self-h...

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Fun use-case for LLMs: writing simple deployment scripts. tangled.org/atprotoalter...

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

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

Anyone know a good CLI for generating Open Graph images?

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

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

Kicking things off with @tangled.org today 🧶

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

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.

Best thing I’ve seen all day (German only) klausprogrammieren.com

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. 🇪🇺

Vibe coding is going great.

Wrote and published a quick blog post the other day on setting up PostgreSQL using Kamal, including backups to S3 sgoel.dev/posts/postgr...

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.

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.

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

Garmin's badge idea today is a little corny.

Finally!

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!

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?

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).

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

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.