WhatsApp is slowly becoming a spam infested wasteland. I receive at least 5 promotional messages every day, even from services where I never signed up. Meanwhile Meta doesn't give a flying fuck about user privacy and is happy minting money.
Siddhartha Golu
@siddharthagolu.com
I read books to understand myself. Infrastructure nerd. Co-Founder & CTO, one800.help. Writes sporadically at siddharthagolu.com
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.
GitHub - rayfish/rayfish: P2P mesh VPN powered by iroh
P2P mesh VPN powered by iroh. Contribute to rayfish/rayfish development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
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?
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.
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.
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2mo agoThere is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period. Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true
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...
Archivers AT
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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.
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.
writing is an inherently dignified human activity
the case for starting your own newsletter ✦ and reflections on 2 years, 52 posts, and 31,000 subscribers
personalcanon.com
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.
fastlog
An opinionated, fast, native android app for Logseq
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Siddhartha Golu@siddharthagolu.com · 12mo agoI'm building a native android app for Logseq. Logseq, the desktop, is an amazing app and has been my daily driver for the past 3 years. However, I found the mobile app to be extremely lacking in performance. Here's my attempt at making a better companion app 1/n
Going through the treesitter main branch switch nightmare after updating neovim to 0.12. Fu....
Added Wander to my website at www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/ Such a neat way to browse the small web
Wander Console - Browse the Small Web
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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.
In search of the best filesystem for cross-platform compatibility (or at least b/w MacOS and Linux), and turns out there's no "best" solution, even in 2026. exFAT is what gets usually recommended, but it trades off on performance on both Linux and Mac and recovery/repairs are uncertain.
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.
GitHub - notune/android_transcribe_app: Offline voice input keyboard & live subtitle tool for Android
Offline voice input keyboard & live subtitle tool for Android - notune/android_transcribe_app
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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...
Writing as fitness exercise
This is the first-part on writing as necessary friction.Jean-Baptiste Oudry (from Getty Open Content)It makes sense that many writers, when faced with the existential dread of generative AI, return to...
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Discord going ape shit with their policies was the best thing to happen to XMPP. I'm noticing so many fresh voices in the community chat, trying to adopt and hack around the protocol for different use-cases.
I got a taste of how addictive it could be if I just kept the autoplay videos setting turned on. I used to use Twitter sparingly to get the day's highlights for AI world. And today I realized how dramatically my feed had shifted from text-only to videos-only. No wonder TikTok/Reels are addictive.
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.
Siddhartha Golu@siddharthagolu.com · 7mo agoI just tried Supertonic 2 on my Mac, and surprised by the quality of the French sounds. I can see this being very useful for my language learning, especially to generate high quality listening materials.
