Parth Kabra

Currently

Software engineer @ Wayfair

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About

Full-stack engineer building at the intersection of AI, product, and UX. From tools used at scale to AI-powered consumer products, I like turning ideas into software people actually use. Read more

Work

Wayfair	2025–now
Alignable	2024
Boston Red Sox	2023

Recent Projects

Hyperlocal : Collaborative map-making for day trips and events; Google Docs, but for maps
Command-F : Inventory app to help you find things using computer vision
CivicConnect : Platform to build chatbots to enhance constituent engagement
Husker : Information portal and links aggregator for Northeastern University students
NextBus SG : Bus timings in a simplified manner

Posts

Categories

All, AI, Astro, Blog, CLI and Terminal, Firefox, Git, HTML, JavaScript, LeetCode, Mac, Maps, Meta, Origami, Python, Restaurants, TypeScript, UI and UX, VS Code

Now

2026/04 Working on a personal agent that lives in a VPS and improves itself

Microblog

Claude is good at design

Claude Code (not Claude Design) is really good at helping you choose a design and theme. I embded the “grill-me” skill in my AGENTS.md and told it what I wanted. I asked it to try a regular theme and a playful Duolingo-like theme.

This is what it came up with, after asking me a few questions:

I think the winner is clear: The “Duolingo” one is unique and buttons feel super pressable. The hybrid one doesn’t have much going on and is too forgettable. The Retro one is kinda cool, I guess, but it has the AI-piss filter.

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Remix v3 Beta Preview

Super excited that after a year of waiting, Remix v3 finally has a beta preview! I love how it’s actually a full-stack framework with libraries for auth, database models, s3, and everything else you end up assembling yourself.

Nextjs is a full-stack framework too, but it leaves a lot of the data-fetching and app architecture decisions up to you. That freedom is nice, but in practice every project ends up inventing its own stack out of a bunch of libraries.

Remix v3 feels more like Rails in a good way: opinionated enough to help you build quickly, but still composable enough that you can swap out their libraries when you need to.

I am a little surpised that there’s only discussion on Twitter. I was hoping to see more on Reddit or Hacker News.

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Better microblog preview images

The images in my “microblog preview” sidebar widget are way too big:

I thought it would look good if I put them inline:

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My old essay tool

I found my previous essay tool that I built over 5 years back.

IMO, the “repeated words” tool is the most useful, especially because it groups words like “organize” and “organized” as the same word.

The readability score would probably be more useful if done by paragraph rather.

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Astro has been great

So far, everything’s been great with Astro. Great break from React. In fact, I’ve realized that only 20% of web dev I’ve done in my life ACTUALLY needs React. That being said, React’s component model was what kept me in, and Astro is similar.

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TIL: Preview.app has a background remover

Preview on Mac has a built in background remover. If it’s not in the toolbar, you can add it:

Next on my wishlist is a way to convert images within Preview. The option exists when you right click, but I’m lazy.

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Restaurant blog

I want to start a mini restaurant blog on my site. I eat out a lotta nice places but when someone asks me for recommendations, I can’t remember any.

I’ll make it simple: make a micropost each time I got to a memorable restaurant. Purposely keep it unstructured so I don’t get lazy and stop updating it.

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window.globalStorage

Just like window.localStorage, I wish window.globalStorage was a thing. An easy for way all apps to have a database. No need to set up a database, etc for every little app. Just ship index.html.

I haven’t really thought about how authentication would work though. Would each browser store data sandboxed by website under a unique ID? Would users have to authenticate somehow before using it? Who is storing this data, and where?

Okay, I see why this doesn’t exist. Yet.

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Boston.gov's no BS census form

Today I had to fill out this form for Boston’s Census. This website is probably older than me and the UI could be considered dated:

But it worked so well! I finished the form within 30 seconds. No random fancy autocompletes, no AJAX, no overcomplicated ever-engineered date pickers.

I guess the only issue is that it isn’t responsive.

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Essay Tool rebirth

A few years back, I had an idea to make a college essay analyzer. It would help you find duplicate words, read the essay out to you, help you find synonyms, etc. This was back in 2019, pre generative AI.

Out of all these tools, I think the repeated word finder would still be useful. It should not only work for exact repeated words, but also similar forms of the same word, like “thing” and “things” or “organize” and “organizing”.

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