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Essays and notes on building, AI, music and everything in between.

18 posts

Six Workspace Apps, One Login

Project Anvil is a self-hosted set of Drive, Docs, Video, Maps, Search and Mail apps that share one sign-in.

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Eleven Songs in Two Languages

A debut single in 2024, ten more in 2025, in Malayalam and Hindi. What the discography looks like when you list it plainly.

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Steady Hands

I shoot pistol, 10 m and 25 m, and I won state gold in 2024. What a sport that rewards stillness has in common with debugging.

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The Model Decides. The Runtime Allows.

Palaka Lite is a Rust agent harness. Its central rule: a prompt injection can make the model ask for anything, but the runtime decides what executes.

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A Subdomain Is a Pull Request

Mynd Domains hands out yourname.mynd.my.id subdomains. The only way to get one is a merged pull request in a public repository.

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Ternary Weights, 10.8 GB on Disk

I ternarized Intern-S2 after training and shipped the result as 24 files. What TQ2_0 stores, what the byte counts say, and what they do not.

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This Site Refuses to Go Down

Most personal sites are one dead CMS away from a blank page. Mine treats the CMS as optional. The architecture behind founder.myndlabs.tech, and why a name deserves infrastructure that cannot fail.

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69 Projects, One Person

The counter on my homepage says 69+ original public projects. There is no team behind it. What building in public, alone, from Kerala actually looks like, and what the reps teach you.

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Why I'm Building a Programming Language

INDU is my answer to a question every serious system keeps asking: why choose between a language that is pleasant, one that survives failure, and one that is fast?

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