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.

TL;DR

Stuck with “No pubspec.yaml found” when building Flutter APKs in a multi-root VSCode workspace? Fix it in 3 steps:

• perfect workspace naming,
• cwd overrides,
• emulator-ready URLs.

The Problem

• Top-level folder with 2 separate Git repos:
  • flutter_app/ (Flutter)
  • fastapi_backend/ (Python)
• Flutter .vscode/tasks.json ignored in parent.
• Tasks fail: “Must be run from root of Flutter project” or “No pubspec.yaml found”.

There was a post on LinkedIn about how asking DeepSeek to list states of India is not answered. ¹

First of all, why would you ask such a trivial question to it , when you can just search.

We need to consider the difference between search engine and “thinking model” like DeepSeek

It is like asking Einstein help with 10th class Physics exam 😃 - while he may be able to help, his abilities are better suited for more difficult tasks.

Yesterday, I was trying to access Bard API via Rust

The task is WIP because :

1. I’m still learning Rust (Although on Day 5 I was able to access a URL from rust code)
2. I didn’t know how to access Bard API

It started with a Youtube video that:

• Uses python code which uses Bard library
  • Not sure if it is official one or third party one
  • In either case it won’t be directly useful in rust code
• Uses a hack to get session cookie from browser (which will expire sooner or later)

At that time, I didn’t know whether Google has made Bard API accessible via an API