Right now
Araon, now
I am working at ToneTag, building software, and spending the rest of my useful attention on small systems projects, local AI experiments, writing, photos, music, and the occasional attempt to make sense of life through machines.
This is the page I would point to if a friend asked, “what are you up to these days?”
Updated July 2026 from India. Next update: when this starts lying.
Building
older workLocal-first AI tools
Small browser and desktop experiments where the interesting work happens on the machine, not on somebody else's server.
Tiny language models
Training small models from scratch, learning CUDA the hard way, and trying to understand what the GPU is actually doing.
Systems-shaped side quests
Schedulers, scrapers, simulations, bots, and other projects that start with “what if I just built a small version of this?”
Learning
- CUDA, memory, and why GPUs make simple ideas complicated
- Database internals and distributed systems
- Local embeddings, semantic search, and browser automation
- How to write about technical things without sanding off the weird parts
Current stack
- Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, Prisma
- PyTorch, CUDA, local embeddings, and small models
- Chrome extensions, scrapers, schedulers, bots, and simulation code
- An RTX 3080 that keeps teaching me humility
Writing
latest ramblesLately I keep circling the same themes: computers as a way to understand the world, games as memory, grief as a recurring process, and the strange optimism required to keep building things anyway.
Recently shipped
all workOffline
- Taking more photographs before they disappear into the hard drive
- Riding my bike when the weather and my calendar agree
- Listening to music loudly enough for Spotify to build a personality profile
- Trying to keep games as a way to stay close to old friends, not another backlog
Avoiding
- Pretending every side project needs to become a startup
- Turning every hobby into a content pipeline
- Buying another domain before finishing the thing that needed the last one
Music
more tracksCurrent soundtrack is whatever helps me stay at the desk a little longer. This changes with whatever I have been looping lately.
Open to
- Backend, infra, AI tooling, hardware, and weird software ideas
- Photography walks, music recommendations, and thoughtful internet friendships
- Small collaborations where the scope is clear and the curiosity is real
Not open to
- Vague startup pitches
- Meetings without a reason
- Anything that needs me to pretend I am more polished than I am