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Notes on systems, products, and tools I am building or testing.

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35 articles

Frontend

Building an ASCII Ocean Around My Name

How we turned the footer wordmark into interactive ASCII art, shaped the background into ocean waves, and fixed a slow pointer response without adding an animation library.

9 min read

Archives

Destockd Made Public-Domain Footage Usable

5 min read

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Bear Blog vs My Astro Site, Measured

7 min read

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Searching My Astro Blog with Ternlight

7 min read

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The $100,000 Bug Bounty Lesson Was Not a Better Prompt

7 min read

LinkedIn

What LinkedIn Comment Impressions Taught Me

6 min read

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Why Bear Discover Feels Refreshing

6 min read

AI

Copy Context and Ask AI

5 min read

Product Design

The Book a Call Button I Added Too Late

6 min read

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How This Site Went From 7 to 100 for Agent Readiness

8 min read

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Why Pangolin Feels Like Five Infrastructure Tools in One

9 min read

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I Wanted Shorter AI Replies, Not Caveman Replies

7 min read

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Worth More Than the Demo

5 min read

Cloudflare

I built a Cloudflare agent that starts with a snapshot

7 min read

Design

Redesigning abhiigatty.com

9 min read

Design

Why I Like Unicorn Studio

5 min read

Hackathon

Day Two of CIDECODE, the Results and What They Actually Rewarded

6 min read

Hackathon

Day One of CIDECODE, the CID Karnataka Police Hackathon

8 min read

Design

A Bento Box Link-in-Bio Page for Instagram

5 min read

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A Jan Aushadhi Generic Medicine Finder

6 min read

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An SEO Audit of My Astro Website

10 min read

Todo

Adding Priority Tiers and Notes to My Todo App

2 min read

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A Browser-Only Todo App with No Signup

7 min read

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An OTP Generator Built with Playing Cards

7 min read

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What a Lighthouse Performance Audit Found

7 min read

Cloudflare

Fixing the www Subdomain Redirect on Cloudflare

5 min read

Cloudflare

Auto-Deploying to Cloudflare Workers from GitHub

3 min read

Web

Semantic HTML for AI and SEO

4 min read

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Applying for Government Grants as a Startup

6 min read

CLI

DevTools CLI Suite

5 min read

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A Fast Website Built With AI, Astro and Cloudflare

9 min read

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Starting a Startup with Zero Business Knowledge

6 min read

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The Hidden Cost of “Free” Hiring Platforms for Early-Stage Startups

6 min read

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Using AI Tools in My Daily Work

5 min read

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Starting a Startup as an Engineering Student with Just an Idea

6 min read

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