10 Feb 2026#
CTFs#
you know the people i’ve met during my CTFs.
they’re so cool.
they make me realise how much better i need to be.
i wonder how they train, i wonder how much practice they put into it.
i wonder how they see the challenges, how they approach them, how they solve them.
i wonder how they think, how they reason, how they learn.
i know i won’t get there in a day or two, but i wish there was a way to quantify my progress.
i want to be able to measure my improvement, to see how far i’ve come, to see how far i have to go.
i keep stopping to try. but for what it’s worth, i also keep coming back.
i wonder if i’ll ever be able to get better if this keeps up.
that’s definitely something i need to work on.
07 Feb 2026#
yeti chiva?#
wan wan ha pyov rus chyani aamare
sahibo, myul chum na chi?
04 Feb 2026#
gaur#
added themes to gaur.
i think it’s ready for an MVP.
think i’ll publish gaur in the AUR pretty soon.
mere daag-e-dil se hai raushani#
03 Feb 2026#
gaur#
added some security measures to gaur (package validation and input sanitation).
farsi#
making decent progress learning to write.
02 Feb 2026#
farsi#
finally started learning farsi. realised farsi is better learnt in hindi, looking for resources aside from easypersian.com that walk you through it from a hindustani perspective.
logging#
thought making logs for what i’m up to would be a good idea. tried recalling and updating notable events lately and making it date accurate.
01 Feb 2026#
project#
almost done with gaur (functionality wise).
haven’t been using git on the project folder, megalithic initial commit is going to be about 4000 lines (i got no excuses atp).
i think i’ll sharpen the code up a bit before making it public.
31 Jan 2026#
site#
feeling good about my site. it now has an about page, and a technical article on RSS.
domain name#
contemplating buying a domain name.
crashed out over how namecheap baits students into signing up and giving them access to their entire github account by “offering” them a free .me domain for a year. but then immediately switches by saying “my bad bruh, ts only available for select universities in select high PPP first world countries ЁЯШЭ. rich are good for money and poor for their numbers amirite? wompfuckingwomp ЁЯдгЁЯл╡”.
27 Jan 2026#
smoking#
decided to quit smoking today. focusing on better health.
bronchitis#
hit with a relapse of bronchitis later in the day. funny how that works.
19 Jan 2026#
project#
i’ve been super productive with vibecoding, not sure if it’s opus 4.5 being so good or i’m just built different.
i did manage to exhaust all of my free credits tho ЁЯШЭ.
guess i’ll be resuming development next month.
18 Jan 2026#
project#
decided to start working on a TUI based AUR helper frontend, written in go.
think i’ll call it Gaur or gAUR? maybe just gaur. idk, one of those.
i’ll be vibecoding this: this is a prototype + i don’t even know go.
you know what would be really fun tho?
i will be writing the same thing in rust (mix of vibecoding and manual work) and i’ll call the rust version raur.
16 Jan 2026#
problem#
i got 99 problems and being trapped in a decaying body in a money hungry society on a dying planet in a mysterious dimension may be one.
10 Jan 2026#
life#
been a few weeks since i’ve been managing the household chores while mum recovers from surgery. calling this phase my diploma in househusbanding.
07 Jan 2026#
cabin fever#
stuck in a bit of a loop lately. really looking forward to getting back out there and actually meeting people again. the walls are getting a little too familiar.
05 Jan 2026#
yearning#
рд╣рдо рддреБрдо рдХрд┐рддрдиреЗ, рджреВрд░ рд╣реИрдВ рдХрд┐рддрдиреЗ, рдкрд╛рд╕ рд╣реИрдВ рдЪрд╛рдБрдж рд╕рд┐рддрд╛рд░реЗред
ham tum kitne, dur hein kitne, paas hein chaand sitare.
24 Oct 2025#
1984#
“he was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. but so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. it was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”