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pravj

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About pravj

https://plugthat.in

Annoying little battery charging reminders for MacBook that save you time and embarrassment

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Website/Blog - https://hackpravj.com GitHub - https://github.com/pravj Twitter - https://twitter.com/hackpravj

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How Not to Use AI at Work [2025]

https://hackpravj.com/blog/how-not-to-use-ai-at-work/

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Setting up personal OKR [JFM-2021]

https://hackpravj.com/blog/personal-okr-2021-plan/

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Breaking into the Indian E-commerce

http://pravj.github.io/blog/indian-ecommerce/

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Jump in to ride all the Bangalore taxis, at once

http://pravj.github.io/blog/bangalore-taxis/

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Open Source Presence Infographic of Indian Startups

http://pravj.github.io/blog/open-source-presence-infographic/

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Implementing an intelligent version of the classical sliding-puzzle game for Unix terminals using Golang's concurrency primitives

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08345

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    I've been working on two projects. ## Tab Highway: Browser extension focusing on the UX/process of decluttering It turns tab cleanup into a game. When you pile up too many open tab…

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    Strongly agree with this. Long before 2022 (ChatGPT), I remember saying to someone at work, "We need to build a reading culture for a writing culture to thrive." I used to envy and…

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    I reached 0.05% and retired for the day. https://postimg.cc/MXBQqrXf

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    I remember reading a book a long time back, titled something like "non-linguistic analysis of call center conversations". One main takeaway from the book was that "you can just loo…

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    Wisdom of the crowd at play. The popularity ranking matches the quality of content produced, and people are spending more time than anticipated on Grok and Roll to confirm if they …

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    Comment #47748296

    Grit Garden: https://grit.garden ( https://github.com/pravj/wordle-garden ) Recently shipped this personal art project that turns daily Wordle attempts into gritty / struggle-fille…

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    Extending on the same line, we will see programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC) getting a massive revamp, or they will stop operating. From my failed attempt, I remember that - …

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    https://hackpravj.com Using this to maintain my writings, projects, readings, and curated photo collections.

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    Comment #46445440

    Wrote a blog on my personal website about rediscovering the joy of coding after five years.

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    Glad you found it relevant, and thanks for sharing the feedback. Not going to deny that it was a bummer to read your second line, lost all the Endorphins earned from reading the fi…

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    Plug-That-In [ https://plugthat.in ] (Mac App; Paid) An annoying little laptop charging reminder utility that does the job. --- There are times when I'm deeply immersed in focused …

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    Plug-That-In [ https://plugthat.in ] (Mac App; Paid) An annoying little laptop charging reminder utility that does the job. --- There are times when I am deeply involved in a focus…

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    Tinkering with a tiny macOS app that gives me proactive reminders about the low battery and imminent shutdown. Standard system notification comes at about 10%, and most of the time…

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    This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of wh…

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    Jotted down a few thoughts based on a pattern I’ve started noticing; AI is often getting used inefficiently. Users in a white-collar setup are limiting their relationship with LLMs…

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    I'm working on restoring my website/blog. I stopped writing right after college when I moved to full-time work, but I want to change that now. Just as I started, I realized the web…

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    Comment #25615306

    It includes: - 50 jumping jacks [3 sets] - 25 knee-highs [3 sets] - 30 mountain climbers [2 sets] - 25 pushups - 1 minute plank I stopped doing it after I was able to meet my weigh…

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    Comment #25614434

    Agree that a quality-sensitive metric can't be modelled fully in the structure. This is something I'm even observing in the work-environment also. Do you have any learnings to make…

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    Glad you liked the structure/goals. All of them are for January-February-March 2021. Does that cover the time-bound aspect you're talking about?

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    Thanks for informing. - I assumed everyone here on HN would be familiar with him. But lesson learned that it was just another assumption. I've added the details about him. - I've f…

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    Ask HN: When is it a bad idea to shield your team?

    It's a practiced notion that managers should get out of the way (don't take it literally) after helping the team visualise the expected outcome and the potential path to reach ther…