August 6, 2026
· 14 min read
Sidebar — assembling a ham radio-like for my son
A parent excited by his childhood Hollywood movie portrayal of kids using ham-like radios chatting away to glory wanted to provide that experience to his son and his friends.
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February 6, 2026
· 9 min read
Building a Unified Library Search: A Journey from Frustration to Solution
Back to itch my scratch and build for n=1
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November 24, 2025
· 13 min read
Building “Your World Last Week”: Something my son may benefit. Not sure if anyone else will.
Or: I Built a News Publication for My Son Using AI. One Tool Worked. One Didn't.
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November 4, 2025
· 8 min read
From Tamil to German: Building Language Tools For Languages You Don't Speak
When your college friend's teaching workflow hell becomes your weekend project.
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October 4, 2025
· 8 min read
Building a Tamil Learning Assistant: A Weekend Project for My Son
When it comes to family, there is always time. And that time was spent to build something for the son.
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September 26, 2025
· 8 min read
The Joy of Building: A PM's Journey from 'Why Not?' to Production
How a casual browse led to an 8GB container, semantic chunking experiments, and eventually a ~250MB production container—and why the journey was worth every iteration
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July 28, 2025
· 13 min read
Building What Doesn't Exist: I have an app for that
Scratch your own itch
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July 17, 2025
· 19 min read
An Engineer-turned-Product Manager's return to Building
When AI removed the friction and rekindled my engineering passion
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