What this is

A working journal across three project threads — music, games, and LLM foundations — plus reflective pieces that don’t fit any single project.

The structure is simple: each post belongs to a pillar (or to “journal” if it doesn’t). The pillar pages collect posts from one thread; the home page surfaces recent work across all of them.

Who I am

Shankar Arunachalam. South Indian, based in the UK. Carnatic musician working with my own tradition. Composer and creator more than performer. I’ve been writing software for a long time and writing publicly less consistently than I’d like.

This blog is the more-consistent attempt.

Colophon

Built with Hugo. The theme is axiom — quiet editorial typography with one pillar-adaptive device: a post’s section breaks render in a glyph vocabulary chosen by its pillar. A music post breaks in Carnatic tala notation; a games post in roguelike map glyphs; an LLM post in a small computation graph. The two marks above are the neutral journal variant.

Hosted on GitHub Pages. Source on GitHub. RSS feed in the footer.

If you want to reach me, email is best.