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I'm moving to Berlin. captnemo.in/blog/2025/12/1…

Last day to apply. ~~~~ Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2026 Open for Applications thejeshgn.com/2026/01/15/nag…

@TheDeepSYadav Maybe I should send a legal letter asking for attribution under our license.

@captn3m0 I think they are using this in their SAM Pro/Enterprise Module. I recently saw its demo somewhere I had a hunch they are pulling data from here because the answer they gave for data source was full of BS.

Currently serving 1.2TB of Windows version/EOL information every month, more than a tenth of it to ServiceNow. And I can’t even figure out where they are using us. #discussioncomment-16028424" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/endoflife-date…

@kernel_trick All code is open: github.com/endoflife-date… The hard part is documenting and not giving up even if it can’t be automated.

@captn3m0 how do you scrape this eol info

@theothervenkat A lot of their requests error out, so it is badly written. I don’t think it’s CI based on the volume. But Netlify doesn’t let me dig deep and filter by a single UA or IP Address. Might file an abuse request to find a contact.

@captn3m0 Looks like they might have a check for product/package EoL checks as part of their CI pipeline so every commit triggers a request. Explains the traffic

Oh, and shoutout to @Netlify for our open-source plan so we don’t have to worry about Bandwidth or terrible API clients.

Three clear takeaways on DigiYatra at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: (1) It's "use case" beyond aviation has always been the intention. As per remarks of its CEO it is intended to be expanded across public transit and entry gating. thewire.in/rights/digiyat… (2) The delays and downtime of DigiYatra as being reported by attendees at the Summit will not be catalogued or put to any audit or accountability exercise. This is because first, DigiYatra is a private entity and second, as a technology deployment it has been reasoned repeatedly that the system will improve through such faulty deployment. In effect participants are part of a beta test. (3) The Delhi High Court has an active petition on the data ownership of DigiYatra. internetfreedom.in/digiyatra-who-…

@kingslyj @Squeal github.com/rishirishhh/IG… Slightly more updated.

@Squeal @captn3m0 Thanks!

Anyone have a current/updated list of all .gov.in domains?

@dagnytaggart_v1 @imbevda Diet Coke (India) has Aspartame + Acesulfame-K. Coke Zero (India) has Sucralose and Acesulfame-k. Both have artificial sweeteners. coca-cola.com/in/en/brands/c… coca-cola.com/in/en/brands/c…

@imbevda Artificial sweetners are in zero not diet. Diet coke madhye ekdum phenyl chi chav yete direct because no sugar 😆

zero has artificial sweetner in same quantity as sugar in real coke while diet has very less sugar that too in artificial sweetner not actual sugar. I love Diet coke.

Went around #fosdem today and showed the endoflife.date pages to all the stands and asked for feedback. (Also pitched floss/fund). Collected all the stickers!

Correction: Ua4.218

Around at #fosdem today as well, hosting a BoF on “FOSS in India” at 1100 in Ua.4228. Come join or catch me at the @FOSSUnited + #flossfund stand in K.2

Plugo.io, the powerbank rental service in India passed away on the 27th Jan. The servers are down, and the apps have been pulled from the playstore. The writing was on the wall since 2023: captnemo.in/plugo (I tracked their metrics for 4 yrs)

@abh1sek Planning to publish the Claude Session soon.

@abh1sek It is just grid views from the playdate SDK. I’d used them before, so was easier. A lot of alignment and styling (font/spacing) I tweaked personally. Had to use Gemini for the B&W dithered maps, but will replace them with something simpler. See SPEC.md on the repo

captnemo.in/kurbelfahrplan/ I made a #fosdem schedule app for the #playdate. Made with help from Claude Code. If you find bugs, please report them in person next week.

@mehulved @hijunedkhatri Wasn’t me but I remember the list. Will link if I can find it, but a list of (very subjective and opinionated) examples isn’t enough IMO.

@hijunedkhatri There was a very nice repo on lala companies. iIRC it was maintained by @captn3m0. Can't find it right now.

Help me put up a guide on What is a Lala company and how you can avoid one. What is a common trait of a Lala Company?

@mehulved @RohanPaliwal7 I’ve been tracking them for many years. Growth flatlined since the last two years: captnemo.in/plugo/

@RohanPaliwal7 There was a startup doing this. plugo.io not sure of the current status.

Hear me out: power bank as a service. Why is no one doing it in India? It’s so popular in China.

I answer about a dozen or so emails every week from students and early stage founders. One of the most common red flags I see are people who want to be a founder for the sake of it and are chasing ideas or guessing. It's so common I have a canned response. Here it is: (Starting the canned response here) I’m sorry to say it sounds like you’re searching for an idea. Or, you have a solution in need of a problem. Or, you just like the idea of being a founder (for whatever reason). This isn’t what you want to hear, but go get a job and work for awhile. If you have a solution that needs market validation, then work in the industry that you think that market exists. Immerse yourself in some industry, it really doesn’t matter what one, because they’re all so filled with problems that need to be solved that you can choose anything. It only takes one or two years. Then your problem isn’t going to be wondering “is this a good idea?” “What is a good idea?” Etc. The problem is going to be: which of these 10 obviously good ideas won’t be solved unless I do it, and which do I want to spend the next 10 years of my life working on? That’s the real hard question. Remember, the key questions a VC is going to ask you and you should ask yourself is: “Why this? Why now? Why you?” You should have full confidence in all of them. The easy part is confidence in all of them. Then the hard part is executing fast enough and hoping the market moves with you with external factors that are mostly out of your control. :) Don’t search for an idea. Let one come to you. Go get a job. I’m sorry to tell you that, but it’s the advice I think you need to hear. Like I said, it won’t take long, one or two years or so. But that one or two years of working is going to save you more years of your life most likely wasting your time on the easy part (finding the idea). Plus, you’ll get paid for it.

@shantanugoel Make something for my new Pebble and launch a few games for the Playdate.

What's your 2026 tinkering resolution? What things are you going to learn or build? Mine is to build a miniature autonomous robot by the end of 2026.