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Arash's blog (→ digital garden soon!) to share experiences, thoughts, and stories about tech as an individual and student.

Welcome to my corner of the internet! I hope to use this as a place for me to share what little I have with the world. Writing is a craft I want to continue developing further, and I believe that there is no better way to develop the skill than to write. I'm slowly finding my voice and how I approach things as I go!

I'm also interested in the concept of digital gardens. I'm still learning more about them now, and I'm hoping to implement my own version once I have it down. Feel free to reach out if you're into these kinds of things!

Two halves, one ecosystem

I’m trying out something new to bring this and my digital garden together as sister projects that frequently interact with each other. Watch this space as I move things about and figure stuff out!

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Syncthing + Rclone, the poor man's 3-2-1

Protecting your data doesn't have to be expensive. You just have to be a bit scrappy in making sure your data's never lost.

6 September 2025

Code Learning Log

Takeaways from Detroit: Become Human

A game about androids and humans co-existing peacefully (or at least trying to). There's a lot of lessons and things to think about in this game!

28 May 2025

Reflection Game

Music as a function of memory

Music can sometimes take you back to a moment in time, or invoke a feeling you've felt at a moment in time. Why is that the case?

23 May 2025

Reflection

Finding the love for games

A collection of games that have some emotional impact on me, along with what I feel about games and how I explore them.

24 March 2025 (first published 24 December 2024)

Experience Reflection

Dead Internet Theory

How close are we to the conspiracy theory-turned-potential reality?

11 January 2025 (first published 6 January 2025)

Tech Reflection

VS Code's remote tunneling feature

Turns out, VS Code has a pretty helpful and easy-to-use feature allowing you to code remotely through another computer.

13 September 2024

Learning Log Code

Breaking out of prose

How do we write with emotion instead of facts, with flexibility instead of structure, especially through an environment that raises and champions rigid prose?

2 September 2024 (first published 29 August 2024)

Reflection

Perfectionism and friction in creating

Looking back at perfectionism: how has it affected my work, and how can I work on it?

10 August 2024 (first published 18 March 2023)

Reflection

Blog burnouts

Have you come across many deserted developer blogs with a countable-on-one-hand number of posts?

28 July 2024

Reflection

Project graveyards

RIP to the projects never coming to fruition.

10 July 2024

Experience Reflection

Your intranet over the internet

Tailscale + your devices = anywhere access. Here's how I used Tailscale to access my devices from anywhere.

14 April 2024

Code

Building a PC, by a newbie

I got to build a PC during the semester break, how fun!

4 June 2023

Experience

GenAI's introspection

A fun experiment with a generative AI model writing a blog post about itself. How cool.

19 April 2023

Experience

Hack Club's Epoch: an opportunity of a lifetime

I got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a go at helping out in a hackathon thousands of kilometres away from home. I left anxious, but returned with so much to share.

26 January 2023

Experience