Programming

A bidirectional relationship — users know their rooms, rooms know their users — has to be updated under a single lock, or readers will catch it half-done.

When a client library wraps ~25 near-identical HTTP endpoints, describing them as data instead of writing 25 methods pays off — with one real trade-off.

A single catch-all exception forces every call site to over-handle. Two types in a hierarchy let each caller pick its own granularity.

Typed response structs are the default advice. For a one-person library wrapping a churny upstream API, `(any, error)` was the cheaper long-term choice.

A thread-safe Go library providing a reusable Room–User architecture for real-time systems like chat and multiplayer games.

An open-source unofficial REST API client for the WazirX crypto exchange in Go, acknowledged by WazirX's co-founder.

An open-source unofficial REST/WebSocket client for the WazirX crypto exchange in Java, acknowledged by WazirX's co-founder.

A patched fork of OpenVoice that clones a speaker's voice for short subtitle lines and runs on CPU — the TTS stage of the Video Translator pipeline.

A local AI dubbing pipeline that transcribes a video's audio, translates it, and re-synthesizes speech in the target language using open-source models.

A Chrome extension for saving, organizing, and listening to notes from any webpage, backed by a Go/Fiber API and a React admin panel.

Relaxed the minimum-segment-length check in se_extractor.py so sub-1.5s lines can be cloned, and made the pipeline run on CPU (Apple M1).

The canonical Go book — worth a proper read now that Go is my main language.