Kaushik Gopal

decommissioned TPU v4 that Google used from their 4th/5th gen AI accelerators

Google still knows how to really swag 😍

#Gemini

it's super appreciated 🙏. and your content very clearly stands out from AI regurgitated content 😊

one of the reasons I love reading posts, on the same topic, by different authors, is that it hones my understanding. oh and coroutines is a maze that requires constant honing.

each author brings their outlook and i pick up more nuggets of info along the way.

looking forward to the next posts!

Reclaiming em-en dashing back from AI and lowercasing

A personal (and yes petty) manifesto to reclaim em/en dashes and lowercase writing from the clutches of AI-generated sameness. 🤖 🕺

kau.sh/blog/reclaim...

The official Android docs on test doubles are quite needed today. Please write fakes 🙏 , avoid mocks as possible. Assert output state, not behavior. Think of a program or a logical part of it as: input->output https://developer.android.com/training/testing/fundamentals/test-doubles

The official Android docs on test doubles are quite needed today.

Please write fakes 🙏 , avoid mocks as possible. Assert output state, not behavior. Think of a program or a logical part of it as: input->output

https://developer.android.com/training/testing/fundamentals/test-doubles

so i basically just found it more flexible and easier to not install MAC at all, but use that about:config setting + Containerise.

lmk if that makes sense! sorry for the post storm

i also found MAC domain rules hard to manage:

- `google.com` in Container 1
- `mail.google.com/u/0` in C2
- `mail.google.com/u/1` in C3

also if i click links in one container and _need_ it to open in a specific container - doing it with Containerise is super simple (just csv/regex rules).

if you enable the about:config setting i pointed to, notice you already have 4 containers! and can manage containers - basically allowing you to create different containers without MAC 🤷

for case 2 (container isolation same domains) - this is where you want to be able to open different gmail accounts in tabs with isolation

this is the advertised feature with MAC and does it well. but you see FF internally is built on containers. so you already have containers without MAC

for case 1 (container isolation different domains) - this is the case where you surf facebook and it doesn't try to meddle with cookies from other websites.

Firefox actually does this by default now with a feature called TCP (total cookie protection). no MAC needed for this.

🙏 for the kind words.

yes! i tried to briefly go into this in the post. but let me add more details here:

what does MAC actually give us?

1. container isolation (btw different domains)
2. container isolation (for the same domains) powerful !

that makes sense 😊. different strokes.

The slow pace is not everyone's cup of tea but that's one really good way to build characters and the story. Many say the same thing about Breaking Bad.

My God. #Andor is fantastic. You don't have to be a fan of Star Wars at all and it's fantastic cinema.

The story telling, the build up of tension... these characters don't bear the Star Wars halo and yet is the best TV show in that universe.

Tony Gilroy & team have weaved magic with this series.

Getting Into Flow State with Agentic Coding - Kaushik Gopal's Website I recently found myself in a deep state of flow while coding — the kind where time melts away and you gain real clarity about the software you’re building. The difference this time: I was using Claude...

Getting Into Flow State with Agentic Coding

I recently found myself in a deep state of flow while coding with agents. I put together a workflow that seems to work for me, and I’m sharing the details and exact prompts I use in case it’s useful to others.

kau.sh/blog/agentic...

very cool! demonstrates the power of those custom filters.

excellent option! for me, no Android app (and therefore no mobile tab sync) would be the blocker 😢

not anymore?

Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme). Often, I find myself wanting to post a quick thought or note without the ceremony of a full-blown “blog post”. That’s usually when I’d post to Bluesky, X, Threads, or Mastodon. But as I’ve said before, I prefer investing in a feed I control. With Henry, I can effortlessly post a quick thought, and share it from a feed I own.

Introducing “shorts” for Henry (my Hugo blog engine/theme).

kau.sh/blog/shorts

damn! I didn't know this. will give it a shot and try this out.

Zen browser is absolutely gorgeous.

the only switching challenge for me is the mobile sync story for tabs. I find myself moving between mobile and desktop a lot.

ah I mentioned this in the post but you actually don't even need MAC now. with a config change it works natively.

🦊 How to Firefox

kau.sh/blog/how-to-...

Vulpophiles unite!

Zelda - Dynamic Wallpaper Club Looking for Dynamic Wallpapers for macOS? Download "Zelda" on dynamicwallpaper.club or create your own.

Also, in the event the person in that story’s comments who asked about the wallpaper sees this: sorry I never answered. It’s this one: dynamicwallpaper.club/wallpaper/g3...

fair but i'm (misguidedly?) hopeful that under the eventuality where all funds are pulled:

1. more people would donate to Firefox alone
2. forces Mozilla to reallocate much of those funds to product efforts.

they made it this far 🤷‍♂️.

recently there was a thread on the Mozilla forums where people asked - just let me pay for Firefox alone (there's some weirdness with how Mozilla allocates funds).

I bet if FF were under true existential threat and just opened up donations to FF, they can do it w/o G$

the AI browsers are tempting for sure but relegate them to secondary browser status.

#Firefox is the way to go. stick it to the big guys.

🦊

nifty power-user shortcuts like just typing `/` and searching for text in a webpage.

but dig this: hit `'` and you can search just text of hyperlinks 🤯

you can customize Firefox with CSS.

my Firefox actually looks similar to this:
github.com/rakhalfps/gw...

I've been vertical tabbing for quite sometime now and have it almost as clean as Safari.

Containers and built in site isolation. instead of managing 3/4 profiles, i can open multiple gmail accounts in simple tabs.