Index
Every star, as a list
The chart is a constellation you fly through. This is the same thing written out flat, for search engines, for screen readers, and for anyone who would rather just read.
The centre
- Ansh ChaturmohtaEngineer by trade, wanderer by wiring. I build systems at work and tools for myself, and I am always chasing the next uncomfortable thing.
- NowRight now, the honest current state.
- ContactFind me, or just say hi. I answer.
- TimelineMy life, read the other way: a chronological chart from the beginning to now.
- GuestbookLeave a mark on the sky.
- MissionWhat I am actually optimising for.
- SightingsWho has been looking at this sky, how long they stayed, and which stars they opened.
- AskAsk the chart anything about me. It reads what is written here and answers from that, or tells you it does not know.
Work
Where I sharpen the craft, from a last mile intern to owning real engineering end to end.
Built for me
Tools I build for myself instead of buying, plus the two that outgrew me and went to other people.
- byhandbyhand: a workshop, not a library. The classic engineering books and build your own X tracks, learned by actually building the thing.
- Dev PipelineAn autonomous dev assistant I built at work. Hand it a task, it plans, reads the code, and comes back with a pull request.
- AssistantA terminal AI chief of staff that runs my day.
- Second BrainAn Obsidian knowledge graph over the assistant. Everything linked.
- Memory MapMemory Map: a vintage atlas travel log where I pin every place I have been and who I was with.
- HealthHubA personal health tracker: sleep, workouts, diet, energy at a glance.
- FinanceHubA net worth tracker with behavioural nudges on how I spend and invest.
Writing
Field notes from building and living: what I figure out, what I read, what sticks. Two engineering deep dives so far, with more (life, learning, quick things I learn) to come. Filter by Tech · Life · Learning · TIL.
- byhandbyhand: a workshop, not a library. The classic engineering books and build your own X tracks, learned by actually building the thing.
Learning
What I am getting better at, on purpose.
- Technical ReadsThe engineering books I am working through. What each one is, where I am with it, and (soon) what I make of it.
- Non-fictionThe non fiction I read for the ideas. Some finished, some in flight, one still shrink-wrapped. A short note on each; my fuller takes to follow.
- CompetitiveCodeforces Expert, CodeChef 5 star. The ratings are old news; the habit they built is not.
- GuitarA guitar I bought, and have not yet learned to play. This one lives on the vision board, not the résumé.
Sports
Movement: the things that get me off the screen.
- TennisPlaying since I was six.
- BadmintonPicked it up after moving to Bangalore.
- Table TennisStrictly an office hours affair.
Horizons
The pull: where I am headed when I let myself dream.
- BikingA Royal Enfield Hunter 350: accessorising it now, long open road trips on the horizon.
- Cielo NocturnoThe jazz bar I want to open one day. I even named it: Cielo Nocturno means night sky.
- SumizumiHelping a founder tell her story to the world, in my free time, for the love of it.
- Seek DiscomfortA standing promise to keep choosing the harder, stranger road.
- TrekkingTrekking is a pin on my vision board. I have not done it yet, and that is the honest truth.
- TravelI love to travel, and this year I started doing it solo.
Writing
- Building Resilient HTTP Clients: A Deep Dive into Retry LogicMost distributed-system incidents aren't caused by hard failures. They're caused by transient ones handled badly.
- How Django's get_or_create Quietly Solves Race Conditions You Thought Were Your ProblemWhen concurrent requests race to insert the same record, most teams reach for retry logic. Django's get_or_create handles it in one line.