one of my favorite things after joining google was cloudtops.
brought an old windows workstation back to life. it now runs 24/7.
crd for quick access, parsec for low-latency work.
mainly to build and sign windows apps from my mac.
love this setup.
spent the weekend stress testing technie skills while shipping a real product.
~10 hours of autonomous execution, 170m+ context tokens, and somehow managed to burn through 2x my weekly quota in a single day.
safe to say the experiment worked; more in the pipeline. ๐
spent some considerable time diving deep into the existing codex skills and realised that all of major things that had been happening all this while behind the hood were just pre-fed skills. It was just concealed for the larger audience when skills wasn't a thing to the public
Currently, I was having my canonical URL in the useEffect hook in react and so the search engine couldn't find a canonical URL when crawling the site.
This directly tied my root domain to be the "main" URL of a small product within it. Lesson learnt, index.html is the way to go
until now, I was working on a single machine and had never pushed .env files with the repo which is the usual norm.
shifted my machine and cloned the repo from cloud and I realised the importance of having .env.example and also a centralised repo with all .env files for dev mode
So far the progress:
agents/
frontend
backend
designer
product-manager
marketer
skills/
react
firebase
supabase
prompt-engineering
seo
testing
ui-review
On the surface skills just looks like .md files but it's way more than that. It helps your agent know how exactly do you prefer a particular thing to be performed like. I have a entire GitHub repo dedicated to skills and agents.
โข Confirmed SSH/Telnet support exists in firmware โข Ruled out common hidden web endpoints
Next: UART, firmware dump, bootloader analysis & signature verification.
Started reverse engineering my ISP-issued router.
So far:
โข Identified REST API architecture (/api/*)
โข Mapped firmware upgrade & backup flow
โข Found encrypted OpenSSL config backups
โข Discovered role-based access control (3 privilege levels)
one thing I truly believe is that nothing is completely secure or unbreakable. It's only a matter of how effectively engineers can increase the complexity, making it harder and more time-consuming to crack.
breaking this router has taught me far more than my CN subject ever could
spent the past 8 hrs+ deepdiving into the technical details of routers.
had a useless ISP locked router lying around since 5+ years; so far successfully managed to break into it and use it in Access Point mode. Still a lot to deep dive into
have formed a lean team of pm, frontend, and backend engineers. titles are namesake; no defined responsibilities - take a feature/bug and ship it hard. excited to see where this goes
spending the majority of time sharpening my axe; zeroing down on creating skills and agents entire week before starting to ship.
have to ensure the foundation is strong enough to before the shipmaxxing begins
The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to do things early on. Just being exposed to something early opens up so many doors you'd never even think of.
Looking back at my career journey, all the dots have started connecting ๐
Built my first workflow today using n8n. Learned the basics, wired a custom frontend to an n8n webhook, integrated Gemini, and shipped a working automation in hours. Docs made the ramp smooth. The agentic future gets stitched together by tools like this.
https://t.co/zdW3WNNKrG
Just tried n8n agents for agentic workflows via official docs. Impressive!
Monthly EUR 20 too high for exploration; self-hosting available. Found spinning own server + Docker instance costs fraction (mostly electricity). Will dive deeper.
Just tried n8n agents for agentic workflows via official docs. Impressive!
Monthly EUR 20 too high for exploration; self-hosting available. Found spinning own server + Docker instance costs fraction (mostly electricity). Will dive deeper.
@ArjunFastCode @Yahoo 2007 and 1L/month was a no-brainer; something no one would miss out on. Really loved seeing "change is necessary" practically implemented. More power to you, Arjun.