Long-running thoughts on building, logic, freedom, and the occasional detour into Tamil and philosophy of mind.
The universe doesn't owe your software a reason to exist. That's not despair — it's the most freeing license a builder can be handed. A note on authoring your own fixed point.
Reaching the Legendary Arena at 9000 trophies with a deliberately annoying, super-defensive deck — central building kill zones, elixir math, mind games, and a Suspicious Bush.
What if black holes are regions where vacuum decay already happened, and the event horizon is a fabric of cosmic strings? A thought experiment from a self-declared non-physicist, hedged accordingly.
A back-of-the-envelope proposal: concentrate sunlight with a massive lens to boil seawater from the center out, settle the salt as sediment, and ask the internet to poke holes in it.
A benchmark of four Python compression libraries on a real-world dataset — compression ratio, compression time, and decompression time, with a companion repo.
Why Rust's Actix actor model plus Protobuf serialization beats Python, Node.js, and Go for high-throughput real-time WebSocket servers — with a minimal implementation.
Years of keeping Sun Conures, Green Cheek Conures, parakeets, lovebirds, and pigeons — what hand-raising, adult adoption, and bird size taught me about avian trust.
Archival, 2022 — written between Reckonsys and the next chapter. Kept for the honesty: the post where 'VP of Engineering' got corrected to 'a glorified Tech Lead that took on a part-time VPE role'.
