2025 Week Notes

# Week 3 (2025-01-18)

• productive week; productive weeks give you momentum
• Paid for Coursera plus & completed 3 modules of Introduction to Management Consulting
• Preached God's Army in church
• After Sunday service, we hosted lunch in memory of mother
• Released bug fixes and updates to ThoughtToNote
• Completed Study on the book of Revelation. DP brings Biblical concepts alive through his multi-disciplinary approach. Took lots and lots of notes
• Published You can’t optimize your way to being a good person, Is It Time for Businesses to Create a GenAI Division, Delta Dollar Decision Rule, How Tailscale Co-Founder Codes With LLMs, Adding Bluesky Comments to 11ty Blog, Gitlab Action As Cron
• Using Open WebUI for everything since it is local and hence no limit on chats. Using it to optimize blog posts, create twitter threads, learning concepts etc. Great investment of time and effort in installing Open WebUI.
• 4 yrs back, we started a daily meditation on our church. Each member will share their thoughts on a NT chapter for 3 min. This year, we included teens too. Both of my boys shared their thoughts on verses that are their favorites.

# Insights

• BlueSky has a single RN codebase that powers web, native iOS, and native android apps
• The word "secular" has 2 meanings: pertaining to the world; belonging to a long period
• It is time to create a GenAI division in companies

# Blog stats

• Y-T: 1041; 30 days pv: 1686 📈; 7 days pv: 357 📉

# Week 2 (2025-01-11)

• Was a fantastic week
• published Running LLMs on your Mac with Open WebUI, Display Plausible statistics on your 11ty blog, Take notes the way our brains work, Changelog, Is It Time for Businesses to Create a GenAI Division, & Homeschooling Essay Challenge - "Role of Software in Taking Man to the Moon"
• Plausible post was listed on 11ty Bundle and now I have [my own author page there](https://11tybundle.dev/authors/joseph-jude/.
• created a page to display a Github styled graph of posting streak.
• Been using Open WebUI for all my GenAI work. I am still figuring out all the different settings there. I need to find where it stores models, how I can delete models, and few other stuff. But so far, I'm happy with it.
• Trying PocketPal AI on my iPhone 11 with 6 cores and 3.8 GB; I can install it but can't use even the lowest model because there is not enough memory. Going to continue to use ChatGPT & Claude on mobile until I get better phone.
• I continued to improve this blog. I am enjoying tinkering with designing this blog, writing commonplace notes, and experimenting with traffic.
• Participated in Lohri celebration in office. I am not a party-person. But as a CXO, it is better to participate in these events. Some of the colleagues also invited (read "forced" ;-)) me to dance. Danced for couple of minutes.

# GenAI Insights

• It is both inherently unreliable & incredibly powerful at the same time.
• I knew GenAI can make up stuff. I didn't expect it would go the other way too.

# Homeschooling

As part of homeschooling, today (11th) my boys had a essay writing challenge. They aced it.

They had to research, validate facts, write an essay, post it on their blog, and critique the sibling's essay, and post on their social media. The essay was: "The role of software in taking man to the moon".

They took help of my sister (who writes plenty of research papers and hold more than a dozen patents) in understanding the research process, taking notes, writing essay.

Today in about 3 hours they wrote the essay, posted on their blog, and critiqued the other one's essay.

Here are the links:
• The elder one's essay: https://blog.joshgarrett.xyz/the-role-of-software-in-sending-man-into-the-moon/
• The younger one's essay: https://blog.jerrygarrett.xyz/the-role-of-software-to-get-man-to-the-moon/
• Elder's critique: https://bsky.app/profile/joshgarrett.xyz/post/3lfhb5ocxjc22
• Younger's critique: https://mas.to/@jerryg/113808788373581982

# Blog stats

• 30 days pv: 1524; 7 days pv: 391

# Week 1 (2025-01-04)

Promise of the year:

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised! - Deuteronomy‬ ‭1‬:‭11‬

• A wonderful start of the year: started the day in church; worked on my blog; went out with family for lunch; attended a tax planning session. Glad to start the year with momentum.
• published If I play good cricket, I don't need PR, Embrace GenAI, Anantya Resorts By The Lake, GenAI Prompts
• Integrated Plausible API with 11ty. If you go to homepage, you can see the popular and trending posts
• Implemented search. Goto posts, and you will see a search bar
• Implemented Obsidian callouts. If you go to GenAI Prompts, you'll see it in action
• 11ty + obsidian + windsurf is so addictive & makes me so productive
• NMDC's 2:1 bonus issue has made it my largest holding.

# What didn't go so well

• Downloaded msty, gpt4all and tried using them to generate a twitter thread out of blog posts. The output was so bad. Didn't make any sense at. When I tried the same with windsurf or chatgpt the output was far better. Don't know what I'm doing wrong.
• Tried running open webui via docker but I couldn't get it run at all. May be I should try via a different method.
• Wanted to implement webmention. But dropped inbetween since it seems too many hoops with not much benefits

# Blog stats

• 30 days pv: 1345; 7 days pv: 355