Short notes, links, and thoughts – shared as I go through my day.
I just updated to the Codex macOS app Version 260206.1448 (565) and now the keyboard shortcut for entering plan mode has changed. Earlier, it was shift + tab but now it's cmd + shift + p, as you see in the screenshot here.
I don't think this was needed to change, as earlier the shortcut was easier to enter the plan mode. Now, pressing shift + tab is highlighting clickable elements in the app, just like how it behaves on a webpage.
These days I am mainly using Claude Code or Codex CLI from inside VS Code for coding, and GitHub is sometimes too pushy towards using Copilot. I wanted to disable all AI features inside the IDE, and found a quick solution to do that:
As you can see in the screenshot here, you can just go to Settings, search for @id:chat.disableAIFeatures, and then check the checkbox to turn it off. Now, it doesn't automatically open or show the sidebar AI chat when I open VS Code.
If you want additional AI related settings, just search for ai and you will find other settings that you can control.
I first used Remotion almost a year ago to create some animated text videos, and it became my favorite way to create cool videos programmatically ever since. Recently, I came to know that Remotion is collecting some cool prompts that you can use to one-shot different style of quick videos.
You can visit Remotion prompt library and use these with Claude Code or any other AI model. They also have Agent Skills that are super helpful when creating these videos.
One cool thing I saw on X, where a person created really professional and cool product launch or announcement video using Claude Code. It will take me at least two hours to manually edit such a video. And just take a look at this stunning product launch video, can't believe it's creating using AI.
I am definitely exploring Remotion a lot more soon.
I started adding this instruction in my CLAUDE.md file to update itself after every major change and now it's more consistent and hallucinates less as well.
Self-Maintenance Rule
After every major change (new model, new page, new controller, route changes, migration changes, new test files, architectural shifts), update this CLAUDE.md file to reflect the current state. Specifically:
- Add new models/controllers/pages/routes to the relevant tables below
- Update test count if new tests are added
- Add any new gotchas or patterns to the "Gotchas & Pitfalls" section
- Update the "Current State" section if the status changes
- Keep this file as the single source of truth for AI sessions working on this project
I am working in Laravel, so this rule has significantly improved the quality of the code and the model is now a lot more consistent. And this works great with the newly launched Claude Opus 4.6 as well.
Both Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT Codex 5.3 are trending on HackerNews, as you see in the screenshot below:
Yes, it's a rare sight!
OpenAI launched the new model just after 30 minutes of when Anthropic launched the new model. It seems they had some insider knowledge about the launch. It's crazy amount of cutthroat competition going on in the AI industry, especially between these two giants.
Today, Anthropic released the new Claude Opus 4.6 model, and it's already available in the Claude Code CLI. I have also posted about the same on X, with a screenshot. Yesterday, I posted about the possibility of Opus 4.6 launching soon, by quoting a Reddit post.
As claimed in their launch post, Opus 4.6 is only slightly higher than GPT Codex 5.2 but considerably higher than Opus 4.5. And here is what their API pricing looks like:
I am still looking into it, and will keep this page updated with new learnings.
Also, OpenAI's GPT-Codex-5.3 was also launched today.
Update:
I saw a person talking about this on X, and then this is in their launch post:
Looking more into it.
Apart from this, I just came across the above banner of Claude offering $50 worth of extra usage for testing and exploring the newly launched model. I saw this on the Claude usage page.
Today, OpenAI launched the new GPT-Codex-5.3 model, and it's already available in the Codex CLI and in the newly launched Codex macOS app. You can see my post on X about the same, I have included screenshots there.
OpenAI claims for the new GPT-Codex-5.3 model to be a lot better than the previous 5.2 model. As you can see in the above screenshot and can also read what they have to explain here:
GPT‑5.3-Codex also better understands your intent when you ask it to make day-to-day websites, compared to GPT‑5.2-Codex.
At the time of writing this, there's no mention of the new model on their models page.
I'm still trying this out, and will keep this page updated with new info.
Also, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 was also launched today.
Update
Matt Shumer had early access to the new GPT-Codex-5.3 and he has written a detailed review of the model. He claims:
Runs can go 8+ hours... and I come back to working code + live deployments.
Very interesting.
Unable to see the new model in the Codex CLI?
I see some people complaining about not seeing the GPT-Codex-5.3 model in the Codex CLI, so first, you need to update the CLI tool by running the following command:
npm i -g @openai/codexAnd then the new model will automatically start showing when you run /model in Codex CLI.
Saw multiple posts talking about possibilities of Anthropic soon planning to launch the Claude Opus 4.6 model. One person on Reddit posted the following:
The leaks are real and we are getting Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 5.0 soon, could be today, tomorrow or even the next week?
Just to verify the findings of the Macintoch from X I created a new project enabled Vertex AI and verified the results myself, without using the project credentials I was getting 403 but after using my project credentials the results varied real models would return 200 (expected) but opus-4-6 and sonnet-5 returned 403 which means I am not authorized and unsurprizingly completely made up models returned 404.
This is great time for them to launch, because I have subscribed for Claude Code Max time. Haha.
Let's see how real this is. 🤞
Came across this interesting use case of Tailscale installed on a AppleTV with the exit node to a router in a different country, while the AppleTV itself stays in a different country.
This post was shared by kitze on X.
Andrej Karpathy shared this post on X saying nowadays he is spending a lot more time reading long-form articles via RSS/Atom feeds. He says, "... a lot less slop intended to provoke". He also shared a list of 92 top blogs which are popular on HackerNews. It's in .opml format can be directly imported to most RSS feed readers like NetNewsWire (I use this app already).
I absolutely love this technology of RSS feeds and have been using it for, at least, a few years now. And it feels great to see people going back to the basics and RSS becoming cool again.
VS Code plays a sound when you run a command, send a chat request, edits undone, etc. and sometimes it's just annoying. These sounds are called signals and while you can go to VS Code settings and mark all these signals as never, it's a tedious task as there are 10s of different items that you'd need to change.
So... what's the easiest way then?
Yes, set the volume to 0. For this, go to settings, search for signals volume, and set it to zero or maybe reduce to a smaller number so it's not annoying anymore. It was set to 70 in my case, I think by default.
OpenAI launched a new macOS app for Codex that is more feature rich than using Codex in the terminal. You can watch their quick demo on X and here are some highlights from the demo:
You can get the app for your macOS device .
Update:
I just installed the app, and here are my first impressions:
I passed a few commands in a project and can already say that the experience is much better than using Codex CLI. In the CLI, it felt a lot of work to install and use a skill, but it's quicker here.
The slash / command in the chat shows some useful options. Running /status or /mcp doesn't disturb the running thread or doesn't wait for the execution to complete, but immediately shows the results in a popup above the chat input box.
Update
Just learned that OpenAI has launched a promo offer for Codex allowing 2x usage limits for all paid plans for 2 months. And now even ChatGPT Free and Go users have 1-month access to Codex. This announcement wasn't in the main OpenAI post, but posted by Alexander Embiricos from their team:
To celebrate the Codex app, we're launching a promo:
- Doubled Codex rate limits for all paid plans (2 months)
- Access for ChatGPT Free and Go Plans (1 month)
And you get 2x limits on all Codex features, whether you use the CLI, app, or web.
Came across this post from Wes McKinney talking about the new tool he's building as the local-first email archive with a terminal UI and MCP server. It's called msgvault and it's powered by DuckDB and comes as a single Go binary. Wes has written more about the new tool in this announcement post on his blog, explaining how it works and what's the future goal for the tool. He writes:
Fundamentally, this is my data, and I should be able to search it in milliseconds, pull up old emails and attachments in a few keystrokes, and query my history with natural language privately and securely. Finally, in 2026, there is no reason that I should not be able to solve this problem. So I did.
And it does make sense.
Basically, you will be able to chat with all your emails via the inbuilt MCP server and search through your entire archive within milliseconds. The tool currently works for Gmail using the OAuth API archiving everything in a local SQLite database. There's a command msgvault delete-staged that also deletes the syncs emails from Gmail.
In future, the tool will also have .mbox import feature and support for other email services. And can even support import for WhatsApp, iMessage, and SMS archives.
There is much more info about this on the official website that you can check.
I think, this is a great use-case and I'm all for it.
Umami Analytics released v3.0.3 more than a month ago with the patch for the recent Next.js security issue, but I upgraded to the version only recently. To upgrade, I followed the article that I wrote a while for upgrading from Umami v2 to v3.
It was a straightforward process, but I did take the Postgres database backup before the upgrade, in case something goes wrong. Ran the following command for the backup:
docker compose exec db pg_dump -U umami umami > umami-backup-$(date +%F-%H%M).sqlReplaced 3.0.1 from earlier with 3.0.3 in the Docker Compose file, as you see below.
umami:
image: ghcr.io/umami-software/umami:3.0.3And then just ran the following commands one by one, and then I could access the new version after a minute.
docker compose pull umami
docker compose up -d --force-recreate umamiAlso, I wish Umami somewhere showed the current version being used somewhere in the dashboard, after logging in. But it's okay.
Codex CLI related the new v0.93.0 and it comes with the most awaited feature Plan Mode, as explained in the release notes.
Plan mode now streams proposed plans into a dedicated TUI view, plus a feature-gated
/planshortcut for quick mode switching.
But the issue is, the /plan command didn't initially appear for me even after upgrading to the 0.93.0 version. It turned out I had to turn on the experimental collaboration mode by adding the following in the Codex config.toml file:
[features]
collaboration_modes = true
And after this I had to again installation command npm i -g @openai/codex that output "1 file changed" and then the plan mode was available to use. I could either type /type or press shift + tab and the plan mode gets activated immediately.
I also replied to some folks who were having issues with seeing /plan even after updating to the latest version.
Claude Code creator Boris shared some tips and best practices to using Claude Code, and it seems actually helpful. I am yet to get a Claude Code subscription but noting this down here for the future:
I can see that some of these are really useful, and not just for Claude Code but for other AI-assisted coding tools as well.
Updated
A person took all the suggestions and then created a CLAUDE.md file that is supposedly very helpful when coding using Claude Code.
I haven't tested this yet, but the instructions look fine and should work the intended way.
While looking for a lightweight GUI code editor or text editor, I found a few good editors for macOS (most of these are open-source) that I am going to list here:
I haven't used these all, of course, but have listed them all here in case someday I need these. And, someday, I will definitely get bored of my current setup and start searching for another editor.
I was using Antigravity as my main AI-assisted IDE for more than a month now, but now it's unusable as they have enforced really strict limits. The Opus 4.5 limit gets exhausted with just 1-2 prompts, and they I have to wait for 2-3 days for it to reset.
What now?
I am looking for alternative and as I am working on a few serious projects now, I want an IDE with higher limits. I was looking to decide between Claude Code Max ($100/mo) and Cursor Pro+ ($60) plans, so I asked for suggestions and most people recommended Claude Code Max as it offers better value for money.
One person on Reddit also recommended GitHub Copilot as it gives you almost 500 Opus 4.5 requests each month in their Pro+ plan. But it turns out that it's not true, as sometimes, if the response is getting longer, it asks you to approve 3 more credits.
Update: I learned that the limit can be increased by configuring the max requests as a person pointed out on Reddit.
And it that case it will become even more costlier than Cursor or Claude Code itself, so this is ruled out.
I am leaning more towards Claude Code Max, it's costly but offers better value for money. And I am coding a lot these days so it will make more sense.
However, I am still waiting for 1-2 days before getting the subscription and evaluate each option correctly.
I earlier wrote about Clawdbot renaming to Moltbot and later renaming to OpenClaw, and there has been significant development in the space ever since. The OpenClaw GitHub repo has over 123k stars at the time of writing this note, and people are using it for crazy things.
Here I will list some crazy things people are using OpenClaw for:
And here are some more news from around the internet about OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot):
I will keep adding more stuff to this page, as I discover them.
Earlier I started showing some random stats about my blog on the about page, but now I have also started to show the total words and total posts and notes in the footer section as well, as you see in the screenshot here.
It's totally not relevant in any way, but it's super cool to dynamically have this shown in the footer.
Earlier, I was calculating these stats separately at both /about page and footer section, and that increase the build time by ~15 seconds. But I now have a better setup and as I am doing the calculations only once and then showing the data at both places.
In the future, I will spend more time on the stats thing and probably even have a separate /stats page showing much more relevant data about my blog.
Update:
I updated the stats section and now showing more info like distance traveled and books, etc. in the footer. You can also see that some menu items have been changed or rearranged in the footer.
Three days ago, the Clawdbot, created by Peter Steinberger, was renamed to Moltbot and now it's been renamed again to OpenClaw as announced in this post. And here's some more details about the re-brand.
And they now have a new domain name openclaw.ai. I remember saying that I liked Moltbot better than Clawbot in my earlier post, but I definitely like OpenClaw better than both earlier names.
This is probably the best and simplest way to expose a locally running app to the internet:
And the app will be free, have SSL, no "warning page", and served via your custom domain.
DHH also quote-tweeted about this saying:
This is how we ran this year's Rails World campfire chat for a thousand attendees out of my closet in Copenhagen on a Beelink EQR5!
Crazy!
This is going to be very helpful for me in the coming days, as I am about to experiment with this a lot.
Bhanu posted a screenshot on X saying that @moltbot is handling marketing for SiteGPT and his other businesses. In the screenshot, there's Jarvis (marketing lead) working together with different bots like content writer, social media manager, SEO analyst, customer researcher, etc. I mean, see the Notion setup for yourself below:
And the crazy thing is, Bhanu did not set this up but the Moltbot itself did the entire setting in Notion. He just asked the bot to help him do marketing and it did all these things.
I am sure that at this point Moltbot won't do the job better than how a qualified human can do, but that's not the point here. Even this is entire setup is cool, and it's only the start. We're going to see a lot of AI-assisted automation in the near future. Honestly, I was thinking that it would at least take a year or two for AI to be able to be this autonomous, but it's here.
Crazy.
My friend Rohit sent me a photo of his new bookshelf, and it looks stunning. And I couldn't help but to post the photo here.
The photo-frame on the left side also looks great, he bought it with me almost a year ago.
I liked Jim Nelson's about page where he is showing a lot of stats about his blog and I loved it. So I also decided to add a compact random stats' section on my about page, as you see here:
I had to create a simple filter that counts the words from my blog posts and raw notes areas and then shows it on the about page. Similarly, number of tags, blog posts, and raw notes are being calculated and shown.
I also found Luke Harris' stats page which is even cooler but I guess it will require a lot more complex setup to calculate and show. But, maybe, some day I will implement this as well.
Update: March 02, 2026
I updated the random stats section on the about page to show more data as you see in the screenshot here:
Apart from this, I am also showing some stats in the footer as you see here:
That's it for now.