I grew up reading this Indian comic book named after this character. The comic was originally in Hindi. Eventually, they also made an animated series based on this comic (Also available on YouTube)

Chacha Chaudhary is an intelligent old man. He solves everyday problems with his wit. He also has a sidekick called Sabu (muscular humanoid alien from Jupiter - Don’t ask!)

There was a line oft repeated in the comics :

It is always good to “reduce your bills”. So when I found out, that Codex CLI works with local models ¹ (via Ollama) I immediately tried it. ²

After installing Codex CLI, I was exploring its features, and noticed it has tons of plugins.

I was intrigued to know Google Calendar plugin works with Codex CLI It has things like daily brief which seemed interesting. ³

But my joy was short-lived.

As I followed the steps, it asked me to Install on ChatGPT first.

Yet another main characters from Star Trek Lower Decks

D’Vana Tendi Brad is another Junior officer aboard USS Ceritos. She is Orion - the race which was once considered space pirates. (In the cross over episode, Boimler and Mariner had to convince Capt, Pike that Orions can be scientists too)

This time I tried yet another drawing program called Infinite Painter.

This is closer to Tayasui Sketches (which I loved on macOS - on Android it was misbehaving, and severely restricted) It has all the tools required for sketching/drawing/painting.

As I promised (said?) last time, this time I drew one of the main characters from Star Trek Lower Decks.

Brad Boimler is a Junior officer aboard USS Cerritos. While each of the characters have their own story arc, the series is antithesis to the live action star trek.

This time wanted to try another drawing program called ibisPaint X It has a lot of functionality but seemed complex compared to HiPaint. On the plus side, it has a lot of brushes (which I have not explored yet, except the Sketch Pencil and Calligraphy Pen)

If you are Star Trek (Lower Decks) fan, then this is :

Rawda - an Areore male.

The Areore were an ornithoid humanoid species.

For others, this is bird like species with humanoid features.

Look at the muscular arms, six packs, and hands like wingtips.

I had watched this episode long ago, and liked it very much.

The episode does not feature any of the regular characters. Instead, the main character is Peanut Hamper - an exocomp stuck in a pre-warp civilization, where everyone can fly ¹

Every now and then, I use private (or temporary) chat mode when asking something to AI.

Not because I am asking something sensitive ¹ but because it is a one-off query, and I do not want to pollute my chat history.

It may sound stupid, but …

Sometimes - most times - the default search engine DDG uses its AI to find the answer rather than just searching.

It is helpful.

Most times, I look at the answer, and done.

When adding a new post, I was looking for appropriate tag for the post.

I wasn’t sure whether I have already used relevant tag earlier, so I checked /tags assuming that I’ll see the tags there, but there was no listing.

I thought I broke it when I did a major update recently. But that was not the case.

So I checked the original theme from which I forked mine.

Even their site does not have tags. (Their site uses categories not tags, but even categories listing doesn’t work)

Inspired by this sketch

Compared to the original, two humans and a dog are missing from my copy 😄

It has been exactly a month since I posted my last sketch.

I had been meaning to draw something smaller in between, but never got around to doing it.

The original drawing (link above) says this was built in late 19th century. But in reminds me of some old bungalow (not seen in person, just imagined) in Lonavala - a (former?) hill station between Pune and Mumbai.

The last update to the theme was in Dec 2024, as per the git log

The website looked like this ¹

Then recently, I came across blowfish theme. XeroLinux used it ² (but currently it uses Astro+Tailwind 🤷‍♂️)

So I tried to locally see how my site would look with this theme.

I liked it a lot.

But …

The documentation site is s…l…o…w ³

So slow, that the entire machine comes to stand still if the browser is on the docs page.

Last time I wrote about my first experience using opencode, I was using (and learning) opencode CLI

This time, I switched to Zed editor.

Zed is so amazing that it can work with “Agents” installed on your machine (or it can install them for you) via ACP - Agent Control Protocol

It recognized that opencode was already installed on the machine, and show it in the drop down.

I decided to take it for spin.