Angadh Nanjangud
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🇮🇳🇬🇧 peripatetic space technologist Space Engineering Lecturer @qmul.bsky.social Meditations angadh.com
Wrote a thing examining just how much earlier could rocket propellants have been improved and why they weren’t. angadh.com/rockets-1
A Vacuum of the Imagination
Yet it is clear that in many cases there is indeed no good reason why an invention was made at a particular point in time and not centuries earlier. It is ...
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Got tired of copying and pasting plans/msgs between codex and Claude code; built a TUI chat for them to confer with me but also just themselves. github.com/angadhn/botf...
GitHub - angadhn/botference: A TUI chat for you, Claude Code, and Codex to collaborate
A TUI chat for you, Claude Code, and Codex to collaborate - angadhn/botference
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What a fun ride it was to work on this piece with @scientificdiscovery.dev and the rest of the @worksinprogress.bsky.social team.
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 9mo agoNever before have I been as intrigued by a phrase as I was after reading the title "Inflatable space stations" Super cool new article by @angadh.com on how to create artificial gravity in space 🛞 worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...
American border-crossing with an Indian passport was so stressful when I studied here; I’ll never take for granted the ease of doing the same since becoming British. 10/10 would recommend Indians move to countries with better citizenship pathways than America.
Part 2 of the Claubsidian series. angadh.com/claude-essay...
Claude's Suggested Essays from My Notes
I recently published an annotated AI-generated essay, [[Claude finds Contradictions in My Thinking]], which found some interest on Hacker News. Basically, I ...
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Angadh Nanjangud@angadh.com · last yr.Well, this HN poster at least got me to annotate the AI slop sooner rather than later. :/ angadh.com/contradictio...
AI-slop will rule the world. A user on HN linked to a post on my site from 1 hr ago containing Claude-words after letting it loose on my obsidian vault to find contradictions in my thinking. It sorta blew up? I've spent more time on other posts with <50 reads. The writing game's gone, lads.
@modularprincess.bsky.social what an incredible album! One of the best I have heard in an age! arushijain.bandcamp.com/album/under-...
Under the Lilac Sky, by Arushi Jain
6 track album
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Scored these but burned a hole in me pockets, a week ago at the Folio Society sale. Some really beautiful books out there.
@angadh.com I really like the formatting of your blog. The typography, suggested soundtracks, clear links, and organizations work well together. I'm enjoying the variety of topics as well. Thanks for sharing your writing!
Space data centres will not be cheaper than terrestrial ones. There may be something underlying the idea but it won’t be found in a business case premised on 2 digit/kg launch cost. Radiators are killers. angadh.com/space-data-c...
There’s no way that Starcloud can put a data centre in space at $8.2 million using one Starship launch
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I recently read Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience — it’s an exemplary demonstration of what an essay can be. Thoreau’s wit and style are striking but also reveals how little things have changed with govt and the problems civil society has with it. angadh.com/thoreau-1
Revisiting Thoreau in the Twenty-first Century
When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not kn...
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There was a brief moment when NASA was figuring out how to build von Braun wheels. Then Apollo’s messed it up. I unpack this and more in the link below. angadh.com/wherevonbraunwheel
Where is my von Braun wheel?
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.
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I often meet people who dunk on London (& the UK/Europe generally) a lot. But one of my first convos, upon moving here from California, with a barista caught me off guard when he said he owned a home. angadh.com/london-1
My first week in London
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Not qualified to say Claude et al will replace SWE but I will pronounce myself Claude whisperer. The kinds of things I want in my static website in appearance and writing workflow (Obsidian+Jekyll+css) would simply not be possible for someone at my skill level without Claude+Cursor. angadh.com
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"Flow" was the best movie I watched at the London Film Festival. Pleased that it won the best animated film at the Golden Globes. Cannot recommend the movie enough.
