Monthly Highlights: April 2024 – Solar Eclipse, Cancun, and New Tools

April 2024 was an eventful month filled with exciting travel adventures, a rare celestial event, and some great new tools I discovered. Let’s dive into the highlights!

Total Solar Eclipse in Austin, TX: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Event

• On April 24th, I had the incredible opportunity to witness a total solar eclipse from Austin. Watching the sky go completely dark in the middle of the afternoon was an otherworldly experience. It’s not something you see every day, and it's a memory that will stay with me forever

Exploring the Field of Bluebonnets in Texas

• Every year, Texas parks bloom with vibrant bluebonnets, and this year was no exception. The field of flowers was breathtaking, and it seems to get better each spring.

Cancun, Mexico: Visiting the Ancient Wonder of Chichen Itza

• In April, I visited Cancun and made my way to Chichen Itza, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. With this visit, I’ve now seen 3 out of the 7 wonders. Cancun also marked my first trip to Mexico, and it was an unforgettable experience!

Recommended Reads for April 2024

• What's the best way to join a team. Reach out to the people who build the product

• We think people want to hear about exciting stuff we did without them (“I went to Budapest!”) when they actually are happier talking about mundane stuff we did together (“Remember when we got stuck in traffic driving to DC?”)
• The main reason we don’t create more affordances, however, is pure egocentrism.

Tools I came across

• https://www.stackradar.co/tools - Best tools of internet, curated
• Devo - A Chrome and Firefox extension that displays GitHub Trending, Hacker News, Product Hunt and Designer News on every new tab. I have been using this for couple of years now
• Linkwarden. - Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages and articles. Perfect solution which I have been trying to build for years and came across online