On a recent trip with my colleagues, I realised how bad I am at the emoji game. I just can’t make sense of the conversations that take place.

So I added another tool emojidict to my pocket-tools list. This should come in handy now. And here’s the emoji that triggered this.

I pushed a minor upgrade to the post stats plugin today to fix the build issues with Hugo v0.158. It should now work for all the Hugo versions supported by Micro.blog. Reinstall or look out for an upgrade.

The v2 upgrade also introduced a f... https://amitg.blog/2026/03/28/i-pushed-a-minor-upgrade/

Project Hail Mary Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

Watched: Project Hail Mary 🍿

Oh, I haven’t had this much fun in the theatre for a while now. Went with family, with a few folks not generally interested in scifi. They enjoyed it as well. Ryan Gosling played the lead perfectly – he made the whole theatre laugh out loud at multiple moments.

So glad you like it. You did budge me to start the revamp. It has been sitting as a plan for a while. So thank you as well! :)

15 Mar 2026 at 9:51 PM I have lost all interest in blogging. Both to read and to write. This space does not interest me. Or the form that attracted me a lot no longer does. I do not know the reason for this sudden loss of interest. But I am not judging myself. Losing touch

15 Mar 2026 at 9:51 PM: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/15-mar-2026-at...

I have lost all interest in blogging. Both to read and to write. This space does not interest me. Or the form that attracted me a lot no longer does. I do not know the reason for this sudden loss of interest. B...

Making Sense The whole world looks distracted now. There is so much news to consume, if one decides to. My always-open-to-be-distracted mind chomps on such crazy periods. Puts all my creative drives on the back burner. The uncertainty marks everything else futile. What is the point of anything when a few minds

Making Sense: https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/making-sense/

A pleasant drive to the outsirkts. And I see the life that matters. Pune is blessed that way!

Spent an hour today writing a post that eventually felt inauthentic. I only realised after writing it that I had no opinion on the topic. Why did I think I needed to have one?

It happens a lot when I read meta posts on writing. I tend to get swayed and believe that I ought to contribute. I don’t.

On Handwriting I have terrible handwriting—often, even I can't read what I scribble. But how I write tells me more than what I write.

On Handwriting: https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/on-handwriting/

The First Thing That Gets Left Behind Whatever I say or feel about writing, it remains a hobby for me. I need to find time for it. And the thing about hobbies is that they tend to get left behind while life happens.

The First Thing That Gets Left Behind: https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/on-hobbies/

While I Wait My current ritual is to refresh my email. Once I realise there's nothing in there, I refresh a news website. I hate the news, and yet the futility of the task feels perfect in the moment.

While I Wait: https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/while-i-wait/

I keep writing about the same thing I have been documenting my struggle to systematise everything. But what if I'm creating the problem by writing about it? Maybe I'm just writing about the wrong things.

I keep writing about the same thing: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/writing-about-...

Email and Calendars I don't know how to do email and calendar. The latter troubles me more.

Email and Calendars: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/email-and-cale...

A peaceful corner at a hospital that I had to visit recently - much needed calm for people going through a lot within.

Unsubscribe Spree Continues After changing a few apps and services recently, it was time to revisit my use of the read-later service.

Unsubscribe Spree Continues: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/unsubscribe-sp...

Losing Patience with Reading I am bored with what I am reading these days. My RSS feed no longer inspires me. I know the problem is not them. It's me.

Losing Patience with Reading: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/losing-patienc...

I suck at routine I should be deep asleep at this point. Instead, I am wasting my time reading stuff I had no inclination to catch up on. I opened the editor and then started reading older drafts. Anything but put some words on paper. It's so frustrating when I let that happen, because

I suck at routine: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/i-suck-at-rout...

Updates on App Defaults: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/updates-on-app...

4 Jan 2026 at 4:33 PM I am back on Safari after a month of exploring all the browsers

4 Jan 2026 at 4:33 PM: www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/4-jan-2026-at-...

I generally do not enjoy rock or rap songs. But I am enjoying the soundtracks from Dhurandhar. Good vibe.

While stuck at a traffic signal, I captured the mode of travel I’d prefer.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

Watched: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning ★★🍿

The weakest MI movie. The story is weak. The antagonist is weak. Even action only works in parts. The submarine part felt stretched. Just no tension, and that’s the biggest fault.

I have been away from the Arc browser for a while now—basically, the sidebar interface. I tried going back to it with the Zen browser, and it’s frustratingly ineffective. It’s not the best view for the tabs. Kinda limits me.

Where Do the Children Play? On the need for a world without us

Where Do the Children Play? ⚓︎

"But that doesn’t change the fact that kids need their independent peer cultures. If we can’t provide physical spaces for them to form, then we must accept that they will often form in digital spaces instead... amitg.blog/2025/12/09/where-do-the-...

We had a nice unplanned walk around the neighbourhood last night. Some charm in the usualities at night.

Movie night with family - Zootopia 2 at IMAX 🍿

It’s long past midnight and I am still unable to go to sleep. There’s a lot of noise outside and within. I have got nice sleep music playing in my ears, but when has that helped to cut the noise within? This is rare, but I hate when this happens.

An Evening Walk in Chennai: amitg.blog/2025/11/27/an-evening-wa...

Google just launched Antigravity, an AI-first IDE to challenge the growing popularity of Cursor and Windsurf among developers. I spent time testing it against Claude Code. Here are some of my early impressions. dev.amitgawande.com/2025/antigra...

Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai Sonia and Rohit love each other but Rohit is mysteriously killed. When Sonia moves to New Zealand, she meets Raj, Rohit's lookalike who helps her trace Rohit's killer.

Speed watched: Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai for n’th time🍿

I like to remind myself how cheesy Bollywoodish the 2000s were. And how crazy in love I was with the phase.