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1.1 What I do

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1.2 Highlights, so far
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Fig. 1. Aashish Nandakumar.
1.4 An excerpt A.N.

Say hi.

I reply faster than my code compiles.
02 Chapter 02, Experience

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Two roles at Rocketium: an internship from January 2025, then full-time since July 2025.
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03 Chapter 03, Workbench

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Built on weekends, mostly because I wanted them to exist and nobody else was going to do it.
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3.2 Upstream

Open source.

Pull requests to the tools I use every day. Some merged in a day, some after forty review comments.

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Chapter 03 is in the workshop

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The next batch of projects is still on the bench. Some of them even work.

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04 Chapter 04, Solved

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Real complaints from the internet, and the software or hardware I built to answer them. Six fixed. 305 to go.
The complaints file
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People are still complaining. The fixes are still compiling.

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05 Chapter 05, Library

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The books on my shelf and the podcasts in my ears. Inputs, roughly.
Oldest on the left, newest on the rightHover a spine to pull the book out.
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New books and podcasts are on their way. Mostly the books.

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06 Chapter 06, Writing

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Essays, build logs and the occasional rant. Roughly monthly, occasionally finished.
Latest · Nov 2026Essay · 9 min read

The list of 311 things someone should build

Every time someone online says "I wish this existed," I write it down. Here is what six years of that list taught me about what people actually want.

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Drafts in progress

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The first notes are still being edited. Possibly over-edited.

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