Headlines
Pulls Google News for 70+ regions and topics, from Kerala to Centrafrique, cleans and de-duplicates it, and hands the desk a short list.
Live
The Lab
TheLab
What runs behind kranthiboggula.com: built, hosted and looked after by me.
The pages come from a global edge network. The news, sign-ups and the Monday brief run on my own automation server. Everything below is live and measured from your browser, right now. Server addresses, keys and readers' data stay private.
Live status
Checked from your browser.
Each check runs every 30 seconds while this page is open. Green is healthy, amber is slow, red is unreachable.
Website edge
—Pages and images from the nearest Cloudflare data centre.
My automation server
—Self-hosted workflows, UK data centre. This check asks it for world headlines.
Rates source
—Daily currency rates for the money in each city.
AI model catalogue
—OpenRouter, for "New AI models this week".
What's not shown
Server addresses, passwords, keys and the list of readers. The server only answers the few public doors below.
How it fits together
Small parts, each doing one job.
Your browser talks to the edge for pages, to my server for news and sign-ups, and straight to open data sources for weather, rates and AI models.
On my server
The workflows doing the work.
Monday brief sign-ups
Adds you to the list on my own server, not a mailing company. Your email isn't shared or sold.
LiveOne-click unsubscribe
Every brief carries a signed link. One click, a confirm, and you're off the list for good.
LiveThe Monday brief
Every Monday at 05:30 Bangui time: the best day to send money home, fares, five stories and new AI models, in one short email.
In testingHouse rules
How I build for the field.
Slow networks first
Everything is cached in your browser, so the desk still shows the last news and rates when the connection drops.
Your settings stay yours
Your cities, currencies, news regions and links are saved on your device only.
No ads
No ad networks and no selling data. Open sources are credited at the bottom of every page.
Small and owned
Plain HTML and JavaScript, my own server, no heavy frameworks. Easy to fix from a field office.
Build log
Shipped, step by step.
- Jul 2026
kranthiboggula.com goes live
Own domain on Cloudflare's edge, code on GitHub, deploys on every commit.
- Sep 2026
My own server
A small Linux server in the UK, set up from scratch: Docker, automatic HTTPS, and n8n for workflows.
- 23 Sep 2026
The desk learns every region
News for 70+ regions and topics, with a "Near you" tab picked from your time zone.
- 24 Sep 2026
Open to everyone
The site opens to the public, with the Monday brief sign-up and a signed one-click unsubscribe.
- 25 Sep 2026
Version 4
A home page led by my name, a terminal you can talk to, a scroll journey, "Your cities" for time and money together, and this Lab.
- 25 Sep 2026
The desk gets its own page
The home page now leads with my work. News, cities, flights and the Monday brief moved to /desk, and the site switches off heavy animation on Save-Data and 2G connections.
- Next
On the bench
The first Monday brief goes out. Then fare-drop alerts for BGF routes and practical guides: sending money from CAR to India, transit visas and AI tools for office work.
At work I build the same way.
Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and SharePoint for 12 UN field offices, designed for weak connections and busy people. Described in general terms only; no operational data is shown here.