Sarath S·Nov 5I Re-Tested My Best-Selling Prompts on Opus 5.5 and GPT-6. Half Didn’t Need Prompting Anymore.I sell prompt packs on Gumroad, so this post is awkward for me. I raced ten of my structured templates, the long ones with roles…
Sarath S·Nov 16 Mac Apps That Keep Your Hands on the Keyboard and Your Work FasterI was debugging a race condition in a Node service when my hand left the keyboard, drifted across the desk, and landed on the mouse. The…A response icon4A response icon4
Sarath S·Oct 295 conversations I avoided for years. Having them fixed more than therapy did.The part that changed things wasn’t any therapy, it was five conversations I’d been dodging for most of my adult life, each one maybe ten…
Sarath S·Oct 27IWSET #9: How a vaccine works (and why you keep needing another shot)Part 9 of “I Wish Someone Explained This” (IWSET), where one genuinely complex thing gets explained in plain words, one small step at a…
Sarath S·Oct 25uv vs pip vs Poetry vs pdm: I benchmarked install time, lockfile resolution, and CI costI reinstalled the same 58 Python packages into a fresh virtualenv four times, once with each tool, on a warm cache. pip took 12.07 seconds…A response icon5A response icon5
Sarath S·Oct 225 Backup Tools for a Home Server, Ranked by How Fast I Restored After Wiping a DriveI wiped the same data drive again and again and timed a full restore with each tool. Medians ran from 8.7 seconds to 32.5. A sixth tool…
Sarath S·Oct 21IWSET #8: How Ctrl+Z remembers what you didPart 8 of “I Wish Someone Explained This”: one genuinely complex thing per week, explained so plainly anyone can follow. Last week I…A response icon1A response icon1
Sarath S·Oct 19I put 6 digital products on Gumroad. Here’s the break-even math for each one.Five prompt packs, one bundle, and how many sales each needs to pay back the time, worked out from Gumroad’s fees.
Sarath S·Oct 1815 self-hosted apps that quietly replaced my paid subscriptionsAdd up the list prices of the subscriptions below and you get $125.57 a month. ChatGPT Plus and Zapier are about $20 each, and Acrobat is…A response icon18A response icon18
Sarath S·Oct 15Ghostty vs WezTerm vs Alacritty vs Kitty vs Warp: I benchmarked startup, memory, and render speedI went into this expecting Ghostty to win. It’s the terminal everyone on my timeline switched to this year, it renders with Metal, and its…A response icon3A response icon3
