Further reading
Things I built, fixed or had to figure out, written up as honest logs.
14 min read
My mom has no salary. Just FD interest, a few dividends, and some buying and selling of shares and mutual funds. Here is what filing her return actually took, including the one screen that ate an hour of my life.
Taxes, India, Personal Finance, ITR-2
10 min read
My IdeaPad 5 was throttling every time I coded during a video call. I repasted it, cleaned the fans, and it got better. Then I bought a mini PC anyway, and here is why that turned out to be the right call, plus how I tie all three machines together with Tailscale and Deskflow.
Hardware, Mini PC, Linux, Homelab, Tailscale
13 min read
A build log of recovering a password-protected Excel 97-2003 file: the export-era crypto flaw that makes it possible, a night of hashcat dead ends, and the purpose-built tool that finished the job in one pass.
Forensics, Cryptography, hashcat, Linux, WSL
13 min read
Why I rebuilt my portfolio in Next.js 16, and an honest log of the problems that actually cost me time: an async framework, keeping two languages in sync, a loader gated on a WebGL globe, and a deploy that built fine and served nothing.
Next.js, i18n, Framer Motion, Three.js, AI