Ansari Bilal · Independent software developer · India
Sales agent by day.
Builder by night.
Application builder and technology writer — shipping AI tools, desktop apps, and open-source projects, and writing honestly about what actually worked.
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InsightsCloudflare Wants You to Rebuild GitHub for 10,000 Agents (for $25K)Artifacts is Cloudflare's versioned filesystem that speaks Git — and a competition to reinvent repositories, review and merging for the agentic era. Oct 14 deadline.InsightsNothing Will Lend You Unreleased Phones — Unless You Live in IndiaNothing's Community Review Program returns with pre-launch loaners and an NDA. Applications are open now — and the fine print excludes one key market.InsightsGemini in the Car Hangs, Thinks, and Gives Up — a Field ReportGemini's Android Auto search stalls and fails for drivers across Pixel, Samsung and Motorola — and Google has not acknowledged it. What users report.InsightsYouTube's Unoriginal-Content Crackdown Is a Creator EarthquakeYouTube says Shorts recommendations will stop surfacing unoriginal content. No line has been drawn yet — here is who should worry and who should move.TutorialsYour Cheap QLC SSD Is Two Drives in a Trench CoatThat 5GB/s QLC drive collapses to 130MB/s when its hidden cache fills. How SLC caching works, the numbers that prove it, and how to buy smart.InsightsPixel 10a, Galaxy, Raspberry Pi, Shield TV: One Price SqueezeFour price hikes in one week across phones, boards and TV boxes — $599 Pixel 10a, pricier Galaxys, Pi 2GB, Shield TV at $299. The cause is shared.TutorialsAndroid 17 QPR3 Beta 1: What's New and Should You Enroll?Google is rolling out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 to Pixels — a Notes tile, Gemini Intelligence boot animation, Proactive Assistance and a long fix list.InsightsF-Droid 2.0 Finally Makes the Privacy App Store UsableThe open-source Android store rebuilt its client: Material You, search that reads descriptions instead of exact names, and installs that feel normal.InsightsGemini Skills Killed the Gems Menu — and the Slash KeyGoogle replaced Gems with skills this week, and the '@' key now opens the whole toolbox. What the migration means and how to adjust your prompts.InsightsOpenAI's Dots Are Codex for People Who Never Write CodeAlways-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, 4,000+ app plugins and approval gates. OpenAI's boldest product bet, unpacked.InsightsApple Just Told Every AI Agent Maker: Full Disk Access Is OverAfter a Meta agent read a columnist's Messages, Apple is changing macOS Full Disk Access — and admitting agent-era risks grow 'substantially'.BuildsAPIVault Makes 1,600 Free APIs a 30-Second DecisionMost API directories are walls of markdown. I built APIVault with facets, auth and CORS filters and a wizard so prototyping starts in minutes, not hours.Who is Ansari Bilal?
Ansari Bilal is an independent software developer, application builder, and technology writer based in India. If a retail salesperson can build all this, maybe you can build whatever you're thinking about.
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