Working on Personal Projects from Anywhere with SSH + Tailscale

The Idea That Wouldn’t Wait You know that feeling — you’re away from your machine, mid-conversation or standing in a queue, and your brain decides right now is the perfect time to solve that problem you’ve been stuck on for days. You pull out your phone, open the notes app to jot it down, and immediately feel the frustration of not being able to just… work on it. That’s me, constantly. Personal projects don’t care about your location. Inspiration doesn’t schedule itself around office hours. ...

February 8, 2026 · 5 min · 1007 words · Richesh Gupta

CopyMan: Building an Open-Source Clipboard Manager with AI

The Clipboard is Broken Here’s a workflow that happens 50 times a day: you copy a command, switch to terminal, realize you need a URL first, copy that, paste it — and the command you copied 10 seconds ago? Gone. Overwritten. Start over. I lived with this for years. Tried every Linux clipboard manager I could find — CopyQ, GPaste, Clipman, Greenclip. Some were abandoned. Some looked like they time-traveled from 2005. All of them were mouse-first, which completely breaks the flow when you’re living in a terminal with a tiling WM. ...

February 7, 2026 · 5 min · 1060 words · Richesh Gupta

Trying Claude Code: Plan Mode Deep Dive

For those who don’t know, claude code is an agentic-terminal centric tool specifically for coding tasks by Anthropic. Recently, its equivalent from OpenAI also released with name Cursor CLI. I have been trying this tool for the last ~15 days, and I have found it to be quite good with minor cautions. It boosted my productivity dramatically. I am thinking of writing a series of blogs to present my findings which I think worked for me. ...

August 15, 2025 · 3 min · 537 words · Richesh Gupta

Domain Acquired: Navigating .in Domain Registration Challenges

Domain Acquired! 🎉 I learnt something new today, NIXI (Registrar for .in TLD) doesn’t allow encrypted Email Providers, for instance I use protonmail.com. Additionally, you need to submit aadhar for NIXI to enable your domain. Who knew registering an .in domain name has it’s own challenges, After a week got the control of the domain name. Pro tip: use cloudflare to register the domain name if you want to serve static pages. ...

July 22, 2025 · 1 min · 72 words · Richesh Gupta