The machine I got has macOS Sonoma. This is from 2023 - almost 2 years old. There was Sequoia - in 2024 and now there is Tahoe - in 2025
I wanted to upgrade to the latest.
But quick check on the internet suggested that I may be better off staying on Sequoia. Tahoe seems unstable ¯_(ツ)_/¯
So I decided to make USB bootable for Sequoia. When installing via the app store, it directly starts the install (I think) So I decided to stick to the terminal (a good thing too IMO)
I had been meaning to upgrade my early-2015 MBP for quite some time.
Then I got one from office, so did not need to upgrade.
then something or the other kept coming up.
Few months ago, I visited a shop to get battery replaced for my MBP
The service was good.
The shopkeeper also told me that he has some used MBP for sale.
Usually these come from corporate customers (I think) and are in good condition.
As I wrote earlier I’m doing Flutter Development on a Windows 10 machine.
The configuration of this machine is as follows :
Intel i7-6600U @ 2.60GHz 16GB RAM 224 GB SSD AMD Radeon R7 M360 (2GB) So on paper this looks impressive.
But it feels so sluggish.
But “feels” is very subjective. (My other machine is 10-year-old-MBP) So I decided to gather actual timing.
Starting Visual Studio Code took > 1 minutes 51 seconds (After which I gave up) Gemini Assist was still not done loading.
Recently, I started working on a flutter project. I started on my own 10-year old MBP. (running Linux mint 22.1 BTW) It has “just” 8GB RAM. Flutter development is (near) impossible on this machine.
As per the documentation Android Studio requires 8GB and with Emulator 16GB, while 32GB is the “recommended” configuration.
But it is not just the documentation. I tried to push through. Decided to use Physical device rather than Emulator.
During Ganeshotsav, Jnana Prabodhini Prashala organizes a variety of workshops for students. For these 10 days, there are no regular classes — instead, students immerse themselves in learning new skills.
This year, I had the privilege of conducting a Mass Media workshop for 20 boys from 5th to 7th standard (a mixed group).
I don’t need to emphasize how bright these children are — after all, they are among the 80 selected out of 1200+ who appear for the entrance exam.
This Linkedin post, reminds me of the following dialog from the movie “I, Robot”
“That was somebody’s baby. 11% is more than enough. A human being would’ve known that.”
No, I don’t mean to say losing uncommitted work is same as someone’s life.
But more “we” (society) trusts machines, such scenario are going to be more and more likely.
(If you haven’t seen the movie, narrator is in an accident, there is another girl in another car - both cars are drowning.
The tile of the post comes from Cheat code #3 of this post.
I had a good streak writing here for a long time. Then in late April, I went on a week long trip. (Not vacation, it was a volunteering trip. I should have posted about it here. I did write about it in marathi, but shared it with closed group.)
Long story short, that broke my streak, and it occurs to that I wrote 1 post in May, none in June, and this is my 2nd post in July.
This morning, I got an email notification that polywork.com shutting down.
Polywork was a good idea.
I never updated it regularly because I was worried about such thing (it going
away) But I liked the idea of putting regular “updates” and I started this
microblog.