Hello on Shankar's Questhttps://shankars.quest/Recent content in Hello on Shankar's QuestHugoen-gbTue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Norns in hand: first power-onhttps://shankars.quest/2026/05/norns-in-hand-first-power-on/Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shankars.quest/2026/05/norns-in-hand-first-power-on/Three years of planning compressed into the moment of pressing the boot button. Notes from Phase 0 of the music dev journey.Abouthttps://shankars.quest/about/Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shankars.quest/about/<h2 id="what-this-is">What this is</h2> <p>A working journal across three project threads — music, games, and LLM foundations — plus reflective pieces that don&rsquo;t fit any single project.</p> <p>The structure is simple: each post belongs to a pillar (or to &ldquo;journal&rdquo; if it doesn&rsquo;t). The pillar pages collect posts from one thread; the home page surfaces recent work across all of them.</p> <div class="section-break" role="separator" aria-label="Section break" data-label="Section break">· · ·</div> <h2 id="who-i-am">Who I am</h2> <p>Shankar Arunachalam. South Indian, based in the UK. Carnatic musician working with my own tradition. Composer and creator more than performer. I&rsquo;ve been writing software for a long time and writing publicly less consistently than I&rsquo;d like.</p>Superbooth, in fragmentshttps://shankars.quest/2026/05/superbooth-in-fragments/Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shankars.quest/2026/05/superbooth-in-fragments/Three days at FEZ Berlin among synth makers. What I learned, what I bought, what I watched other people fall in love with.Micrograd, written by handhttps://shankars.quest/2026/05/micrograd-written-by-hand/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://shankars.quest/2026/05/micrograd-written-by-hand/The first lecture of Karpathy&rsquo;s series and what it teaches you that&rsquo;s not the math.