I started out where most developers do: relying heavily on Docker to handle my application environments. It felt seamless, right up until the moment it wasn’t. When you’re dealing with AI engineering or complex systems architecture, local containers eventually push your machine to its …

If you’ve ever tried to keep wild animals out of a garden or a farm, you know the struggle. Peacocks, wild boars, elephants, and macaques don’t really care about a pile of old clothes stuffed with straw. Traditional scarecrows are static and animals figure them out fast.

So, what if we gave …

Sometimes the biggest productivity killers aren’t massive architectural problems, they’re the tiny, repetitive tasks you do every single day. Over time, I’ve built a small collection of utility scripts to automate these minor annoyances away.

Here is a look at some of my scripts …

Like most homes, mine also has a simple split AC. No smart shenanigans whatsoever. And that really bothered me. I wanted a way to make the AC support scenes.

And since this AC is dumb, emulating its remote is the only option.

What followed was a multi-day rollercoaster of signal captures, raw …

I’ve always wanted that sweet, tactile control over my computer’s volume. Adjusting Discord volume, lowering Spotify, or muting Brave was a pain. I had to dig through a few menus to access the mixer. It was annoying, and I wanted physical controls. Something like the ones in those …

I first started homelabbing to solve one specific problem. The “copy over a movie, watch it, delete it” problem to be exact.

Since then, my homelab has grown significantly. So I wanted to show its current state and share my journey of building it.

If you have no idea what a homelab is, …

If you spend any amount of time on technical subreddits or YouTube tutorials, you know the pain. Someone posts a question—maybe their laptop is throwing a weird error code, or their code won’t compile. You know exactly how to fix it. You spend five minutes typing out a beautiful, perfectly formatted …

By M Mithul Pranav · Published in Energy Reports (2026)

So our paper just dropped in Energy Reports (Elsevier), and I figured the best way to celebrate is to break it down in plain terms — what we actually built, why it matters, and what the numbers mean. No paywalls, no dense academic prose. Just …

We’ve all been there. You’re scrolling on Instagram, you see a sick PC setup, a hilarious meme, or a life-changing career tip, and you smash that “Save” button. And then… you literally never look at it again. Your Instagram “Saved” folder becomes a black …

If you run a homelab without a traditional home Wi-Fi network, you quickly learn how frustrating network bridging can be. For the longest time, my local network was held together by a hotspot, sheer willpower, and Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).

It was time for a permanent fix. Here is …