What I'm doing now

What am I up to this month

• Got into the residency to rebuild how on-call works at Vader.

  

• Krishna Shamiji is crushing content for BrainDump; I need to pick up the pace and finish the engineering quickly.
• I launched a beta of my one-click online 3D printing-on-demand service autofab and test drove it at Hardware Hackathon 2.0 by PCB Cupid. The platform crashed mid-hack, so I debugged and fixed it while traveling (fun). I found issues in a few implementations and I'm fixing them now so they're resolved in the final build.

2025

2025 was a year of realizations for me. I'll write about them soon, but spoiler: one of them is about how on-call should feel, and I want to write more about it.

• Went back to Malaysia for the second time with friends for a well-needed break.
• I bought land!!!
• Partnering with Krishna Shamiji to build BrainDump, a fresh take on note-taking that keeps ideas fast, searchable, and shareable.
• Designing a decentralized, one-click online 3D printing-on-demand service that I plan to launch alongside local maker collaborators.
• Redefining how on-call should feel with, Vader.
• Our team at Absurd worked really hard getting everything ready for our booth at IndiaFOSS.
• My annual pilgrimage to IndiaFOSS 2025, cracked a lot of jokes at the Open Hardware Devroom there and gave a talk on CoryDora: A Macropad, A Supply Chain, and A Case for Local Manufacturing too. I also moderated the Birds of a Feather session on Revitalizing the Bengaluru FOSS United Community.
• Attended the Maintainer Summit 2025 on 19th Sept; it was fun, you can read more about it (here)[].