Bi-Weekly Notes (14/15) - 2025

The past couple of weeks have been a mix of movement and pause—some travel, slow catch-ups, lots of learning, and a few changes along the way.

• Been trying out a few AI tools lately—Vibe Coding stood out. I also learned about MCP (Model Context Protocol) and found a great explanation that finally clicked. It’s exciting how MCP  can standardise context sharing and reduce LLM hallucinations.

• I added a subscription button to my blog—top right corner of the home. A friend asked for it, so I waited until it felt useful. If you subscribe now, you’ll start getting newsletters from my next post onward.

  • I moved my email backend to Resend. Integration was smooth and the service feels really light. No unnecessary bloat, just works.

  • Finally made the switch from Wix to cloudfare for hosting. Pages load faster and I have more control now. The difference is noticeable.

  • Planning to move my infra from AWS to Netlify soon. It’ll simplify deployment and integrate better with the rest of my setup.

• Learning something new takes effort. It’s not always joyful—sometimes it’s also takes pain. Wrote a post about it.

• Been enjoying others’ weekly notes too. Found Pradx via Thejesh’s blogring. His posts are thoughtful. One X quote he shared really stuck with me.

  • Interesting X thread by Conor White-Sullivan that has a provocative start in the post, “If your AI won’t help you break the law, it doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to those who make its laws“

• We try a lot of tools, but what works is what the whole team is comfortable using. We migrated completely to Notion recently, and I like their templates.

• Being misunderstood is more common than we think—it's almost the default. Being truly seen and understood, though, feels rare and fleeting. I’m learning not to chase it too hard and instead find peace in expressing myself anyway.

• This week I got curious about the petrodollar system, Ponzi schemes, and the Bretton Woods Agreement. Wild how economics shapes so much around us.

• Also came across the concept of semaphores—interesting stuff, especially in the context of concurrency and parallelism. Going down that rabbit hole next.

• I’ve been on and off with travel lately, and I’m heading to Chennai again this week. Tars has been extra clingy, he's clearly been missing me. In between all that movement, I had a really good, slow weekend with Vidhya after almost five years. It felt grounding—one of those weekends that lifted me up.