Flipkart Grid and a Game Boy Emulator

Big week for good news, and a genuinely absurd amount of shipping.

What I worked onCopied!

• gbemulator (private, not ready to be released yet): a Game Boy emulator, CPU core, PPU, APU, the works. Genuinely one of the most satisfying builds I've done.
• nova (private, not ready to be released yet): started a real-time GPU compute particle simulator in C++20 and Vulkan, raw, no engine. Went from a triangle on screen to 1,000,000 particles at 1ms of GPU time in the same week, orbiting gravity wells and reacting live to whatever's playing on Spotify. Still needs a lot of visual polish, but C++ is undefeated.

• ignis (private, not ready to be released yet): a real-time internal combustion engine simulator with physics-driven audio synthesis.
• macodoro: a tiny Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar, built with SwiftUI and Liquid Glass. State machine and phase model, a glass panel with a progress ring and session dots, notifications, the works.
• Opened a PR to zeal, the offline docs browser, to persist zoom level across restarts. Still open.
• macpool (private, not ready to be released yet): a tool to turn a friend's idle Mac into a safe, temporary dev environment for testing macOS/iOS apps from Linux or Windows. Early days.
• thy-xev (this site): fixed the homepage meta description, some missing canonicals, gaps in the sitemap, and noindexed the auth pages. Boring but overdue SEO cleanup.

The big newsCopied!

Cleared Round 2 of Flipkart Grid and gave the OA.

Also got some good news on the open source front this week, roughly $1,200 worth, more on that once it's actually official.

Not everything landed though, didn't get shortlisted for the Google SWE on-campus internship. Ain't going to stop me, just means more grinding. Also got the blue checkmark on X this week, small thing but felt nice.

What I found interestingCopied!

• oh-my-pi : an AI coding agent for the terminal with hash-anchored edits, an optimized tool harness, LSP, Python, browser, subagents. Want to try this out.
• homarr : a modern self-hosted dashboard, 40+ integrations, 20K+ built-in icons, no YAML. Might swap this in for my homelab dashboard.
• readest : a modern, feature-rich cross-platform ebook reader. Looks genuinely nice.
• zeal : offline documentation browser, this is the repo I ended up sending a PR to.
• SigNoz : open-source OpenTelemetry-native observability platform, logs/metrics/traces in one tool.

RandomCopied!

Checked the grindmap launch post's numbers again and they're still climbing, 225K impressions, 351 likes, 26 reposts on the pinned tweet alone. Still can't quite believe it.

Also reposted Anish's launch of Rezum, a resume editor that connects to any AI via MCP, chats to edit your resume, and outputs clean LaTeX. Launched on Product Hunt this week, go check it out if you're job hunting.

Finally got a proper setup done, too messy right now to photograph, but the grind is officially on.

Watched Star Wars Episode 4 for the first time, way ahead of its time.

Made progress in Elden Ring too, defeated Radahn during the festival, killed Godrick, and now I'm deep into Ranni's questline.

Also somehow ended up deep in a Hollow Knight bestiary, staring at Moss Knights for way too long.

Mostly just heads-down building otherwise. dsa-final prep is ongoing for interviews, added a batch of questions there too.