Sun, Jan 11, 2026 | Anand S - Things I Learned

Software Heritage is a non-profit that archives software. You can submit any Git repo for archival. Over 400 million projects have been archived so far. #github

The purpose of a featured image in a blog post is to help readers decide whether to read it. Share the article's output/focus (e.g. for data stories, products). Else a visual summary (e.g. sketchnote, comic capturing the essence). Else skip. Avoid stock photos. # #features #image-generation

Liberalism => economic growth, peace and expanding rights. Also colonial violence, exclusions (women, slavery, ...), and eroding community. It is vulnerable to authoritarianism (e.g. emergency powers, recessions). Since 2006, democracy has consecutively declined, reversing half the progress since WW2. But alternatives are unclear. Claude #future

Notes from The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
- Pure Zinc does not dissolve easily in sulphuric acid. An impurity like Copper Sulphate pulls electrons from Zinc and offers them to Hydrogen ions, speeding up the reaction. Impurities, foreign bodies, etc. have a purpose, too.
- Discomfort = Information. Overcoming discomfort = Capability. Capability = Freedom. Therefore: Seeking discomfort (carefully, purposefully) = Building freedom.
- Simple != Easy. Simple = Clear. Clear = Actionable.
- Analogies have limits. (The Map is not the Territory.) When using analogies, always explore where, when and why they will break. Pay close attention there.

"There's about 300-400 that were corporate assets. One watched them all the time. These are people who in 15 years could be CEO. There's something about them that caught your fancy when you were in a meeting... brilliant ideas that challenged your thinking... We called them "Corporate Assets" and tracked them, to make sure we game-planned them, give them the right assignments." Indra Nooyi, The Knowledge Project

The accesskey attribute works a bit like magic. Adding an accesskey="h" on a home page link, or an accesskey="t" on a theme toggle button automatically enables keyboard shortcuts Alt+H or Alt+T to activate them. (Varies by browser and OS, but hovering shows the shortcut!) #html