After banging my head against pgAdmin and phpPgAdmin for more than an hour, finally found Adminer. Pretty basic but it’s tidy and works well. Is there a better free alternative?

Trying out Google’s Antigravity IDE. Early thoughts: love the UI/UX tweaks on top of VS Code, inline code hints are laggy and noisy, browser integration looks promising, visual feedback to agents for a web project is a game-changer, agent manager looks cool.

It’s rare these days that I get excited about a movie from its trailer. Well, Project Hail Mary has got me excited. Can’t wait to watch it. The book was a fantastic read. I hope the movie turns out to be as fun as the book.

https://anurock.dev/_astro/project-hail-mary-title.DCMgHxec_Z4P5UW.webp

I often use my text editor as a rubber duck when I need to clarify my thoughts. Steve Huynh’s latest post gave me a cool idea: rubber ducking with LLMs. Sounds interesting! Have you done that?

I was wrong. Job postings do not lie: Java is still going strong. During the server-side JavaScript revolution of early 2010s, I was convinced of Java’s impending demise. In 2025, Java remains dominant in enterprise applications and large-scale systems.

Welcome back run. A bit unpleasant but felt great to be back on the road. Decent timing after 6 months of not running at all.

https://anurock.dev/_astro/strava-run-2025-11-10.BIzV1jsB_Z1Sws1C.webp

Upgraded to iOS 26. Apple’s liquid glass is way more glassy and exciting on iOS than on macOS! My eyes are having a hard time adjusting to the real world without glassy things.

What a shitty PDF export in Apple’s Notes app! Bullet points are often misaligned. Basic formatting comes off easily. Trying out Obsidian. Typewriter theme is 24K gold. PDF export working perfectly so far. File sync via iCloud is cherry on top.

https://anurock.dev/_astro/obsidian-typewriter-theme.CypSf96Y_Z1UnyM.webp

Vitest’s new Visual Regression Testing feature looks so slick! What used to be a jungle mess of unreliable Selenium scripts a few years ago is now as trivial as snapshot testing your components. Well done Vitest team! Can’t wait to try it out in my next project.

On this day of lights, wishing you a bright and healthy day. Eat well, do the reps, and enjoy. If you are reading this in office, 🫡 If you are at home, ✌️ In both cases, Happy Diwali! 🪔

https://anurock.dev/_astro/diwali-2025.D85NOact_1PUL1R.webp