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30 Sep 2026 Apple Pay is finally live in India - but what was the hold up? With Apple Pay going live in India today, good time to share my rabbit hole from last month, when I realised: GPay on Android allows Visa tap & pay, but GPay on iPhone doesn’t. US-issued Brex cards worked via Apple Pay on Indian POS terminals. But Apple Pay didn’t accept Indian cards. My Garmin watch wallet still doesn’t accept Indian cards. The timing is interesting too. UPI MDR kicking in 15 days and a potential…
28 Sep 2026 Tangled earphones were a feature, not a bug. My parents gifted me a Sony MP3 player in 10th standard, in boarding school. A bright red Walkman. Actually I got it because my elder brother had been demanding one for a while. So we both got one at the same time. But everyone from my generation will tell you the same thing about that era. We hated the earphones. Not the music. The wires. They had a superhuman ability to tangle. Throw them in your bag, tangled. Pocket, tangled. Leave…
11 Sep 2026 Meta Muse ships with payment insurance Meta’s new Muse agent has a built-in insurance if the agent makes a wrong payment. Offered by Stripe - the Link Purchase Protection is such a fantastic product, i had NO IDEA. It allows Muse to make any payment mistakes. Tried to go deeper into what that actually means: The Stripe Link Purchase Protection Policy got a new clause added specifically for Meta Muse. The policy already covered (a) damage/theft (b) price drops (c) return fees. First…
06 Sep 2026 Letting AI agents pay for you on UPI NPCI is expected to launch the Unified Agent Protocol at the Global Fintech Fest next week in Mumbai. Basically, an agentic payments protocol over UPI. Reportedly, it will let an AI agent pay for you, without you approving every transaction. From all my experience with x402, and my understanding of Stripe’s MPP and Google’s AP2, here’s my best guess at what will actually be announced. This is of course one full year after last year’s GFF where we…
17 May 2026 Speaker: Graham Weaver Original Link: Stanford GSB Last Lecture Series on YouTube How to Live an Asymmetric Life My Reflections Aim to live an asymmetric life. Doing the linear returns life is not what you are meant for. The four key things to live an asymmetric life – do hard things, do your thing, do it for decades, write your story. Don’t see where you are going and make it your story. Write your story and then go make it happen. Suffering will happen - that’s just the point of…
16 May 2026 Author: Jason Fried Original Link: signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes My Reflections You may be right when you think someone else is wrong. But spend time thinking about it. “Give it 5 mins.” The two most easy things in the world: spending someone else’s money, and dismissing an idea. Dismissing an idea is the easiest thing in the world. Anyone can do it. There are 1000+ reasons why something will not work. Be the person who can still try to see why something may work.…
22 Apr 2026 Author: Alex Komoroske Original Link: komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Slime Mold My Reflections Two kinds of cultures: top-down (military) and bottom-up (slime mold). Tech industries are the slime mold model. Probability of success of a project in a slime mold: (a) effort individuals will put in to meet a great outcome and overcome obstacles (b) friction that will erupt between teams. Organizational headwind rises extremely quickly with the number of different teams involved What you…
13 Apr 2026 What Happened After My Vercel Plugin Post Hit #1 on Hacker News Context: This is a follow-up to The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts! A seemingly innocuous question - “The Vercel plugin collects …. Would you like to also share your prompt text…?” - popping up on a Claude Code project with zero Vercel connection sent me down a rabbit hole. I published what I found. The tl;dr was four things: Vercel Claude Code plugin was asking to read every prompt you…
09 Apr 2026 The Vercel Plugin on Claude Code wants to read all your prompts! Update (Apr 14): All 4 concerns from this post are now fixed. Vercel deleted 24,677 lines in PR #47. Read the follow-up → I was working on a project that has nothing to do with Vercel. No vercel.json, no next.config, no Vercel dependencies. Nothing. And then this popped up: “The Vercel plugin collects anonymous usage data… Would you like to also share your prompt text?” Every single prompt. On a non-Vercel project.…
