Hey ,
I hope you’re having a productive week.
This week I wrote about some practical stuff like blocking disposable emails in Laravel and using a Raspberry Pi to back up my GitHub repos. Also covered some AI updates, a new platform I’m working on called Vemgram.
Blocking disposable email sign-ups in Laravel
Blocking disposable email sign-ups in Laravel with a custom validation rule and a 72,000+ domain JSON blocklist, but removed it later.
Backing up important GitHub repos
How I am using my small Raspberry Pi 4B device to keep additional copies of code for my important GitHub repos.
Vemgram is a platform that helps connect Indian manufacturers with retailers, gives them an online identity.
Preventing Docker and journal cache bloat on VPS
Preventing Docker cache and systemd journal logs from bloating my VPS disk space with automated cleanup.
LLM Knowledge Bases post by Andrej Karpathy
Thoughts on the post from Andrej Karpathy about using LLMs to manage personal knowledge bases using Obsidian.
List of 187 Claude spinner verbs (leaked)
From the leaked Claude codebase, here’s the list of all, 187, spinner verbs that you see when Claude Code is working.
OpenAI launches Codex plugin for Claude Code
Totally unexpected but OpenAI has launched a new plugin that lets you use Codex inside Claude Code.
Claude Code is hitting limits fast
After lots of users complained for a week about Claude Code hitting limits quickly, they’re now finally investigating and working on it.
Gemini introduces import memory and chats feature
Just like Claude, now Gemini also lets you import memory as well as chats from ChatGPT, Claude, and other providers.
Got a bunch of different things this week-dev stuff, AI news, and random life lessons. Let me know if any of these posts helped you out or if you liked the Raspberry Pi backup approach.
Until next time,
Deepak