Travel14 min read
The real economics of taking a Uttarakhand homestay online
OTAs make you visible. Your own website makes you profitable. Here's the data — the real costs, the gains, and the honest downsides nobody mentions.
Writing
11 posts across 4 categories.
Engineering15 min read
Compliant, and completely down
The only region our customers let us run in went dark, and took its backups with it. We were fully compliant — that's exactly why we were stuck.
AI8 min read
We hallucinate too
We worry about whether AI makes things up. We rarely ask whether we do — rewording, regenerating, or filling the gap until it tells us what we wanted.
AI7 min read
The hard part of AI-DLC isn't the framework
We've been trying to actually run an AI-driven development lifecycle — a real process the AI follows, not prompt-and-hope. Here's the honest state: what we've learned, what we're really after, the gap we keep hitting, and the options we're weighing.
AI8 min read
When typing gets cheap, judgment gets expensive
AI made writing code nearly free. The value didn't vanish — it moved to what was always the real job: judgment, architecture, and holding the bar in review.
AI5 min read
How I use AI every day to build and ship
Not toy prototypes — shipping. The working loop, habits and guardrails I use to build with AI every day, and where my own judgement still has to take over.
Engineering2 min read
How this blog is built
A clean, content-first Next.js engine: MDX files, a tiny taxonomy, static search, GitHub-backed comments, and likes that survive a redeploy. A tour of the moving parts.
AI2 min read
Playing with AI almost every day
These days I use AI daily to build and test new product ideas. Some notes on what that actually looks like — equal parts thrilling and humbling.
Photography1 min read
Learning to see: notes from thirty years behind a camera
I've been making photographs since 1996. It never really taught me to use a camera — it taught me to pay attention. Notes on light, patience, and seeing.
Travel1 min read
Renovating an ancestral home into a homestay
My wife Roma and I are renovating our ancestral property in Kunja, Almora into a small homestay — to keep the old place alive and running. Notes from the work, in a life mostly made of software.
Travel1 min read
Why I'd rather drive
Flights get you there; road trips let you arrive. A few notes on why the best part of any journey, for me, is the getting there — by car.