Ankit S

A good for nothing Comp Sci & Data Viz enthusiast, an amateur musician, and a noob Dota2 & AoE player.
I know. The combination doesn't make sense to me either

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@arindam___paul The more air you have in your lungs, easier it is to float. Take a full breath in & sit, there's no way you'll be able to sink.
As for kicking, it has to happen as 2nd nature. If you can solve math problms in ur head while still being able to kick, then moving to arms gets easier

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3.5b tokens burned this year

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

making things true:

design is the practice of seeing through the surface of things to understand their underlying structure, then rearranging those elements into new forms that didn't exist before.

most people think design is about aesthetics – making things look good, choosing colors, polishing interfaces. but underneath, design is a way of thinking about the world. it's about decomposition and recomposition. you take something complex, break it down into its fundamental components, understand the relationships between those parts, and then rebuild it in a way that's simpler, more powerful, or reveals something previously hidden.

this is why i've always been drawn to tools and systems rather than just products. a product solves one problem. a system gives you the building blocks to solve infinite problems. when i was working on Notion, we weren't trying to build another task manager or note-taking app. we were asking: what are the atoms of software? what are the irreducible elements that, when combined, can create any tool you need?

we landed on blocks, databases, views, relations. everything else is just different arrangements of these primitives. once you see this, you realize that all those single-purpose apps – Asana, Linear, Evernote, Airtable – are just rigid, pre-configured assemblies of the same underlying concepts. they've solved for one specific arrangement and called it a product.

but why lock people into one configuration? give them the components and let them build exactly what they need. Notion is lego blocks for thought and work.

Cursor is doing something similar but at a different layer. for decades, the barrier between human intention and working software has been enormous. you need to know syntax, frameworks, design patterns, debugging. most people with ideas never cross that chasm because the cost is too high.

Cursor changes this. when you can describe what you want and the system understands not just the words but the underlying structure – the patterns, the logic, the architecture – then you're no longer translating between human thought and machine language. you're working directly with concepts, and the AI handles the decomposition into code.

this philosophy extends beyond software. language is a finite set of sounds or symbols infinitely recombined to express any thought. music is twelve notes in endless patterns. DNA is four base pairs that encode all of life's complexity.

the universe is fundamentally modular. simple rules, endlessly recombining, creating emergent complexity. design is the human practice of participating in that process consciously. we look at the world, identify the patterns, extract the rules, and use them to build new realities.

when i look at the history of computing, the most important moments weren't new features. they were new primitives. the command line gave us composable programs. the GUI gave us direct manipulation. the web gave us hyperlinks. the smartphone gave us sensors and connectivity. each unlocked entire ecosystems because they provided new atoms that could be infinitely recombined.

AI isn't just a feature. it's a new primitive. it's a new way of decomposing and recomposing reality.

design is philosophy because it forces you to ask: what is this thing really? what are its essential properties? what can i remove before it stops being itself? and once i understand that, what new things can i build?

this is the work. not making things pretty. making things true.

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@tharun571 Absolutely. Seven fishes too

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@tharun571 When out of tokens, switch to gemini cli.

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@tharun571 Wtf you cooking. That too in a ... cafe?

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2026 is when I finally go to theaters again

[Jesabel @JesabelRaay]

My most anticipated films. Cinema incoming.

Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY
Matt Reeves’ THE BATMAN: PART II
Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE: PART THREE

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With all this cursor fiasco going on, I thought I was safe because I explicitly remember setting my spend limit to 5 dollars and then turning the usage based option off. Turns out it was reset to 50$ and turned on and I ended up spending most of it.

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Login page for Teachers, for an AI Assistant platform

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The best landing page I've made so far

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As I make more and more products, the one thing I keep battling against is time. If only there was an endless supply of it...sigh

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"Being in tune is overrated. Being out of tune is where it's at" : Jacob Collier

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School boy version

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Login page for school students for a computer course

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Login page for school students for a computer course

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Gemini 2.5 (while coding): This is where the plot thickens

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Despite working with Cursor for 6 months, I still get surprised by how good AI has become at handling even the most complex of coding tasks

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My cousin just did his first ever solo trip. Not for sightseeing, not for work, not for exploring places or food. Not even for a girl. He flew to Mumbai for a Pokemon Go event.

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Finally a good pizza place in Goa, with my cousin caught in the act of devouring it

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No longer summer.

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@tharun571 Stop smoking or I'll break your keyboard