HOW TO : Check DNS from different locations with Cloudflare Workers
I wanted to know whether lab.kudithipudi.org resolves the same way in São Paulo as it does in Ashburn. Instead of managing VMs around the world, I used eight region-pinned Cloudflare Durable Objects to run DNS-over-HTTPS lookups from different locations and compare the answers.
Overheard : Don't be nice
A reflection on the difference between being nice and being kind. Nice is about pleasing other people. Kindness is about being authentic enough to hold boundaries and have the hard conversations that matter.
HOW TO : Use hooks in coding agents
Every coding agent has hooks. None of them agree on what to call them. Instead of memorizing eight APIs, I think in three buckets: before an action, after an action, and at the session boundaries.
Overheard : Origins of Kabuli Pulao
TIL that Kabuli pulao may not be named after Kabul after all. The dish is rooted in the cooking method known as Qabili palaw and is believed to have originated in northern Afghanistan, with strong ties to Uzbek culinary traditions.
Digg-like, Only Better - and All Yours
Bookmark is a self-hosted, AI-powered bookmarking service built with Python and SQLite. It automatically extracts metadata, generates tags and descriptions, creates local embeddings, and combines tag matching with semantic search to help you find saved links later.