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.

Quick notes:

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.

Introducing Vemgram

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

Hey ,

Had a busy week writing about some interesting stuff. A popular Python library got compromised, I found a really solid combo with AI Studio and Claude Code, and somehow managed to scrape 250k URLs using just Claude. Also wrote about why Cursor dodged a bullet, fixed my mailto links, and discovered arXiv has a new MCP server now.

• LiteLLM Python library is compromised
• Peak design = AI Studio x Claude Code
• Scraping 250k+ URLs using Claude Code (via Telegram)
• Cursor dodged the huge bullet about Kimi K2.5
• Better way to implement mailto: links
• arXiv now has a MCP server

Let me know what caught your eye this week. Always curious what resonates with people.

Until next time.

Deepak