About this site
This website supersedes my existing static site which had been around for a while but I did want good email integration (thanks to the Substack trend) so that I could deliver new posts directly to the peoples’ inboxes. I found Ghost pretty nice and decided to set it up for myself, hopefully I can keep it up and running for a while!
The publication is made available free and without any advertisements as it's meant to be a personal, not a commercial place. Please enjoy my writings!
About me
I could describe myself as part technologist and part artist. My technologist side designs hardware and builds software for a living and also as a passion. My personal projects and explorations feed my inner soul and my employment work (which is also pretty exciting) helps me get resources to be able to sustain my projects and pay the bills to keep this site running and all content available to you, unencumbered and unpaywalled.
My artist side mostly sings, can play songs and covers on the piano with a lot of practice and is now also learning the guitar - it has performed at Open Mics in the city of Bengaluru. It has also written a bit of poetry and dabbled in contemporary and social dancing but does write reasonably good prose too, even without the use of LLMs [although most of it has been journal entries for its eyes only, too personal to share]. It can also do voice acting, impressions and readings but this part has not been given enough attention and the necessary spotlight yet. Hopefully this site will serve as a host for some impressions of these over time.
A part of me also loves travelling and being in planes and at airports. It is fluent in aviation terminology, loves passing through immigration checkpoints, sitting in lounges and could probably watch planes land and take off all day. It has also tried flying planes in simulator (mostly FlightGear) and can take them off the ground but has still found landing them tricky. It'll eventually learn and figure it out, but not as a professional pilot but mostly as someone who is just excited seeing the action that happens inside the closed crew doors of an airplane and wants to relive the experience in a controlled environment.
There are smaller parts that love food and reading books as well.
My previous publication, The Embedded Kitchen just covered the technical/personal side of me and left out all the rest. The second attempt never really took off - and is now superseded by this site. I will get the articles up at their original links over the next few days using the permalink model.
If you like what you just read and would like to stay connected, the interface should make it pretty easy to punch in your email here and after confirming it, be able to receive updates on anything new published.
Short privacy policy
Your email addresses stay with me [on the servers that host this site] and only ever touch the service providers who send you the email containing updates on my behalf - that's all. The emails all have an option to unsubscribe to remove yourself from the list should you want to leave the list at any time.
LLM Use Policy and Disclosure
This is a first - given that LLMs are now being used to help with productivity while writing, I want to put out a policy on this site on the extent to which I will be utilizing LLMs to write things here and as of now, TL;DR - minimal usage only.
If you're interested to read my stance or policy, feel free to navigate to LLM Policy / Disclosure page.