I’m Aaryan. I write here whenever I feel like it and about whatever’s on my mind: sometimes about a project I’m building, sometimes about something I’ve been chewing on, sometimes about life, or about a bug that ate my whole weekend.
Posts
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What Would Python Display?
On owning five mechanical keyboards and barely typing code on any of them, and the most annoying exercise in CS 61A turning out to be the whole job.
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How a Zipper Works
On the illusion of explanatory depth, forty-two college application essays, and the one time in my life somebody actually checked.
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Names on a Page
On a decade of characters who lived on a bicycle, the lockdown that ended them, and why the only public evidence of me as a writer is the thing that cost me the rest.
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40× faster ingest in a weekend (and chasing the bottleneck all the way down to Postgres)
Notes from a weekend spent profiling Provenance's submission ingest, finding an O(n²) bug that was hiding in plain sight, and chasing the cost around the pipeline until it finally landed on the database.
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The Cost of Efficiency
On trading the wide-eyed excitement of a kid who drew dragons for the quiet competence of someone who can finally build them — and going looking for the dragons again.