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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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.