2026 Q1: Recap
Back to journaling on my blog, but this time doing it quarterly, i.e. a total of four posts for the year, looking back at each quarter. If you see my previous posts, they were all weekly, and I helped me write better, and most importantly, reflect better and be more grateful for the day!
Professional Life
I have failed, really bad, to find a new job, and that’s still the situation at the time of writing this 😄
I don’t blame the rise of LLM Models (AKA “AI”), but the people who are severely overestimating its usefulness in their present form. This post perfectly summarizes my thoughts, although I have more polarized thoughts than just that, perhaps better for a separate post.
But not all is lost, I decided to start working on a B2B/B2B2C macOS only app, with a target of mid-year set for creating an MVP, and then try it out with a few customers, and then bring in some people to take it to the 100% mark for public release. This is the first time I’m doing something like this, and I’m excited for all the new challenges this brings.
Social Life
We hosted another wildly successfully meet-up for Swift Pune on International Women’s Day with a wholly women-led speakers panel. As the coordinator, it was so much fun rehearsing with all the speakers, especially Garima whose subtle humor in her presentation inspired me to do something similar for my future presentations.
Our venue host and sponsor, Xplor Technologies, was also overwhelmed by the response they received during the event, bringing greater visibility for their global partners post.
Personal Life
The biggest thing that happened this quarter, is we’ve been figuring out getting our son into pre-nursery (playgroup) school. He was barely 2 then, and this terrifies me as a father 😄 I still haven’t processed this fully, that my lil’dude will be going to school soon. My wife’s been dealing with the same emotions. But we’ve managed to enroll him, and they’ll be soon going in for a few orientation classes where he can get acquainted with a classroom environment.
The next one was my short trip to Bengaluru, specifically Apple’s Developer Center center, speaking on behalf all the Swift Communities in India, presenting to Apple’s Developer Relations team in India, as well as, some individuals from the global marketing team. The whole thing was put together in just two weeks, leaving me very little time to prepare, but my peer and friend, Ratnesh (of Swift Ahmedabad), came in clutch with helping me spruce up the presentation.
This was followed up by celebrating the second anniversary of Apple’s Developer Center in Bengaluru, and followed up by a massive event at Swift Chennai over the weekend.
However, the highlight of this trip, for me, was watching the kiddo’s reaction to his first flight and first long trip! Lil’dude was so nonchalant about the whole thing, as-if he’s been flying all his life. He loves airplanes, so obviously we had a toy plane while we proceeded to board the airplane 🤩
Explorations
This was the first time I got to visit Cubbon Park (finally!) and it’s really as good as people say it is!
This quarter is ending hopeful, and today we also celebrate my grandmother’s 80th birthday! Good timing, eh!