The Curious Engineer

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Sahil Parikh

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Thoughts on business, tech and life.

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238 from 10 Nov 2010 to 30 Oct 2026
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2026 16

  1. By My Own Standards - My SaaS Journey (2007-24)
  2. Mo AI, Mo Software
  3. Software is about to eat the world much faster by Marc Andreessen
  4. The State of Tech in 2026 by Gergely Orosz
  5. The Goalpost
  6. Now Entering The Era Of Bleh
  7. Vibe-Coded Flattery
  8. The Leap
  9. What do you build when you can build anything?
  10. What Loss Teaches Us About Living
  11. Deep Work, AI and Software Dev
  12. Apple & AI
  13. 10X Advantage for Developers
  14. The Solopreneur Revolution Is Here - Interview with Ben Cera, founder of Polsia
  15. AI-crafted Emails
  16. How do you open a mac terminal from a VS Code terminal?

2025 11

  1. JavaScript Ecosystem
  2. Unreasonable Hospitality
  3. Pavements
  4. WhatsApp Hack - What to do?
  5. Developer Replacement Hype Cycle
  6. Building or Buying Software
  7. Writing
  8. Source Code
  9. Less is More.
  10. AI Prompting
  11. Writing = Thinking

2024 22

  1. Four Thousand Weeks
  2. 30 Minutes Plank
  3. Self-discovery via ChatGPT
  4. Optimizing Keyboard Shortcuts
  5. Software Teams & AI
  6. Learning vs. Edutainment
  7. Tsundoku
  8. For What It’ll Make Of You
  9. Constants
  10. Software Experience
  11. Daily Standups
  12. Patek Ad
  13. Emotional Health
  14. 6 luxuries in life
  15. Maccy
  16. Depth Of Understanding
  17. Writing & AI
  18. Mechanical Watch Servicing
  19. Devin & AI
  20. Same as Ever (in Software)
  21. Same as Ever
  22. Year compass 2024

2023 27

  1. Elon Musk
  2. Money, Frugality, Independence, Respect & Admiration.
  3. TypeScript Origins
  4. Capacity
  5. OpenAI DevDay 2023
  6. Getting Rich
  7. Rails World 2023
  8. Stage Manager. Yuck.
  9. Supercharged Developers
  10. Building Features
  11. Reading Books
  12. Test RSS
  13. My React Native Journey
  14. Klack
  15. ChatGPT New Line
  16. Empathy in Software
  17. Pure Bliss
  18. How to Dev
  19. TypeScript
  20. Paperlike
  21. Not Mumbai
  22. Software Evolution + Technical Debt
  23. Mysterious Japanese Joinery
  24. Go Deeper
  25. The React Story
  26. Software Materialism
  27. Build

2022 20

  1. The Best
  2. iOS 16
  3. Version 1.0
  4. Think Again by Adam Grant
  5. Light vs Dark Mode
  6. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
  7. VSCode's Git
  8. Kaketsugi
  9. Kgc
  10. Mechanical Watch
  11. Spend On
  12. Born to Create
  13. React Native
  14. Programming
  15. Inner Power
  16. Disconnect
  17. Do Nothing
  18. Writing
  19. Apple Wallpapers
  20. Overcoming Fear

2021 31

  1. VPN Not Needed
  2. My Desk Setup
  3. Understanding Apple
  4. Thoughts on the Apple Product Launch
  5. Serendipity
  6. A Psychologically Rich Life
  7. iCloud Reminders Syncing Issue [Fixed]
  8. Producer vs. Consumer
  9. Upgrading RAM on an iMac
  10. Consuming Information
  11. An Elegant Defense
  12. Watches & the Pandemic
  13. Big Timber
  14. Boredom
  15. WhatsApp or Email
  16. Daily Journal Prompt
  17. Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
  18. Fractional CTO
  19. Wwdc21
  20. Being a Beginner
  21. Work From Home
  22. Inward
  23. A Man & His Watch
  24. Website Performance
  25. My Mediocre Skills
  26. Sky Gradient
  27. Security Catch-22
  28. Soundscapes
  29. Setting up Netlify CMS with Eleventy
  30. Create Less Friction
  31. 20 Things I Learnt and Experienced in 2020

2020 17

  1. Always Be Learning
  2. The Way I Bullet Journal
  3. Focused Product - Kindle
  4. Yin and Yang - Can My Apple and Mechanical Watches Co-Exist?
  5. Digital Detox
  6. 6 Days Being Superhuman
  7. Setting up the iMac - zsh, Oh My Zsh & Dracula
  8. Tip - Disable cmd+q for Safari
  9. Goodbye Squarespace. Hello Eleventy, Tailwind CSS and Netlify!
  10. In Code
  11. First Impressions of HEY.com
  12. Weathering the Storm
  13. Highlights from Coders by Clive Thompson
  14. Learning and Coding
  15. Puzzle Time
  16. New Kind of Daily Spam
  17. Facebook Is Evesdropping

2019 16

  1. Tech Friend
  2. Blockchain Reading
  3. The Obstacle Is The Way
  4. Fast Software
  5. The Great Hack
  6. Simon Grimm of Devdactic
  7. Company of One by Paul Jarvis
  8. iPad Pro & iPhone 5
  9. Maxim Ananov of HazeOver
  10. System + Processes
  11. Matthias Gansrigler of Eternal Storms Software
  12. Nike Fit
  13. Apple Watch 4 Complications
  14. Remote Dev
  15. A Fresh Start
  16. A Month Without Instagram

2018 2

  1. AAPL Today
  2. Summer

2017 7

  1. Coding as a Founder
  2. Build it for yourself
  3. Add one more feature or else…
  4. Simon Sinek - The Finite and Infinite Games of Leadership
  5. Living in the moment
  6. 4 Months of Android
  7. Hello, Google Pixel

2016 4

  1. Having Conviction
  2. Pay for Software
  3. One Trait to Look for When Hiring Developers for Your SaaS Product.
  4. WhatsApp Is Eating Productivity

2015 3

  1. Interview Process
  2. Not Selling Responsibly
  3. Twitter Consumption

2014 3

  1. Playing Golf Makes Me a Better Leader
  2. Digital Omnivores
  3. Beach Art

2013 21

  1. Building a Business at the Cost Of What?
  2. Do.com Shuts Down, Transparency & Alternatives
  3. The Other Lens
  4. Free Software?
  5. Getting Feedback for Your SaaS App
  6. Learn to Change & Don’t Program Everything Yet
  7. Biz Thoughts - Think Today, Not Tomorrow.
  8. 8 Things I Learnt After Launching My SaaS App, Brightpod
  9. 12 Tips for a Stress-Free Vacation From a SaaS Entrepreneur
  10. Productivity Hacks of a Startup Dad
  11. Doing Things in Context
  12. Minimum Viable Daily Tasks for Founders
  13. Building a SaaS Business — 2007 vs 2013
  14. You Should Pay for the Software You Use
  15. Goodbye Google Reader
  16. A Marketer’s Guide to Speeding Up Your Website
  17. How Brightpod Got Featured on TheNextWeb and GigaOM Pro?
  18. How Happy Was the Brightpod Team Last Month?
  19. Making Money or Making a Living?
  20. Do You Make Your Customers Feel Special?
  21. Building a Simple Routine

2012 15

  1. 2 Things to Keep in Mind When Starting a SaaS Business
  2. Access to Same Software
  3. Startup lessons from a Sushi Chef
  4. Being a Freedom Entrepreneur
  5. Details Matter
  6. Saas In India
  7. Dealing With Anxiety
  8. Building Gracious Software
  9. Do SaaS Founders Enjoy a Good Work-Life Balance?
  10. Enjoy a Recurring Revenue Business
  11. What I Want to Build
  12. Evenings
  13. You Win Some, You Lose Some
  14. Procrastinate Reading to Save Time
  15. Simplicity

2011 19

  1. Is Your Business a Feature?
  2. First 100
  3. Answering Emails
  4. Success
  5. Code of Conduct for SaaS Companies
  6. Key Takeaways - The Angry Birds Story
  7. Startup Dad
  8. Killer Startups From India
  9. Before Social Media
  10. Ticket to SaaS
  11. A Developer I Wouldn’t Hire
  12. Your Idle Time
  13. Gmail’s Fiasco - It's Not Cloud Computing to Blame
  14. Are You Playing in a Crowded Space?
  15. Small Businesses Rock
  16. Simple Software
  17. Starting a Web Product Company From India?
  18. What Goes Into Writing a Book
  19. How I Managed Running a Startup & Writing a Book

2010 2

  1. Knowledge Vapor
  2. 90 Days

Undated 2

  1. Stack
  2. Random