Siddhartha Golu

FastLog is on Fdroid now: f-droid.org/packages/com...

Everyone's hungry for data. And of course there's now a "AI Data Procurement Executive" role.

The latest release of HeliBoard brings support for contributing gesture data which will be released under an open-source license. HeliBoard has been the best open-source keyboard I've tried so far. Excited to contribute in any way I can.

Rayfish looks pretty interesting: github.com/rayfish/rayf... NAT hole punching via encrypted relays, powered by Iroh. I'm behind a CGNAT, so unfortunately the connection always requires a relay. I've been wanting to self-host Iroh Relay to see how it works in the wild.

It still seems wild to me that the most popular feed on Bluesky runs off of somebody's home computer. And that Discover is still so bad!

A thread, because things are feeling rough at present. 🧵👇 I'm not quite sure where to go or what to do. I'm watching my peers slowly burn out, go quiet, quit the industry, or struggle on hoping it'll get better in time. Even if the storm is weathered, what comes out the other side?

Curated some recommended readings: www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/curate...

It's a delight reading Matt Levine's columns

I think the biggest threat that is not being talked about more is what the AI craze would do to the next generation of programmers. My niece is learning how to program and just asked me how do I *download* Replit. It's going to be a wild ride for anyone learning to program right now.

What happened to Spotify's Discover Weekly?

Agreed. But I'm also concerned about the $14 million/year that it costs them to run Signal infrastructure: signal.org/blog/signal-... Open-source libraries (OMEMO which is based on libsignal) for self-hosted encrypted chats, using XMPP for example, looks to be the only sustainable solution.

Extremely rough alpha version, but if you ever wanted to make your PDS also a tiny Internet Archive... we can just do things! archiving.at/view/3mmncuc...

Found this to be an interesting analogy. On the one hand, I do believe AI will lead to a lot of "personal-itch" apps; on the other hand, I also believe that humans are extremely lazy creatures and a ready-made solution will always win over one which requires effort.

Some recommended links: www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/curate...

Loved reading this: www.personalcanon.com/p/writing-is... Reading it gives me hope that this intellectual hunger is only going to increase the more AI becomes commonplace.

Added support for mu.social in Zen Social extension: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... For a moment there, it felt like I was in a completely different land, despite being in the same territory. Those numbers really do a number on my head!

Announcing the first public release of FastLog - a native android app for Logseq: codeberg.org/siddharthago... Had lots of fun building this.

Going through the treesitter main branch switch nightmare after updating neovim to 0.12. Fu....

Finished reading The Age of Faith. Some notes here: www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/readin...

Added Wander to my website at www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/ Such a neat way to browse the small web

I used to love reading engineering blog of Facebook. Now I just can't bring myself to care about their endless optimisation of the doomed algorithm. Their latest blog post is called "Enhancing social discovery on Facebook Reels". Man I couldn't care less.

Personalized captchas FTW

Trying out Android Transcribe app: github.com/notune/andro... Uses a quantized Parakeet V3, but runs surprisingly well on my ancient 6 years old phone.

I've seen lots of people getting disheartened by the impact of AI tools on writing, including myself, and this comes as a good reminder to shift your focus on the first principles - the act of writing itself. vivqu.com/blog/2026/02...

Well put. I wish there were more Wes Andersons out there.

Building a web UI which connects to a locally running mlx-audio server and allows you to download the generated speech.

Tested this for a few days, and sad to say, another one of those overhyped launches. It would skip some words consistently and would break the flow for long sentences. I shifted to using Qwen3-TTS instead and the quality of the voices are much better.

I'm on the fence about using Agents, and while Mitchell's post was quite grounded and illuminating, I found myself agreeing more with this POV. TLDR: unless you're Mitchell Hashimoto and can work on hard technical problems by yourself, keep the ability to think to yourself.

Matt Levine is always a pleasure to read

Indian startups are obsessed with 10-min deliveries and block fonts

I was listening to Acquired's Google part 3 episode and the play about Waymo genuinely fascinated me. I couldn't manage to take a ride when I was in Salt Lake City last November, but I've heard unanimously great things about Waymo. Excited about its future!

Subtitle Edit is finally on Mac! github.com/SubtitleEdit...

Love this Bertrand Russell quote

The joy of open-source

I'm learning to play the Piano and this website has such a great UX for its lessons: www.musictheory.net/lessons