ABOUT
I'm Arjun Nambiar, a dev who's slightly obsessed with how things work under the hood.
I built this blog as a digital notebook for my late-night experiments.
No fluff, just honest thoughts on code, design, and building products that actually feel good to use. Thanks for stopping by. Follow me on socials if you like what you read!
Technology Used
[12_ITEMS]Astro 6
Static-first framework with Islands Architecture
Tailwind CSS 4
The latest utility-first styling engine
React 19
Interactive islands with concurrent rendering
Keystatic
Git-based local content management
Turso
Distributed SQLite database for the edge
Drizzle ORM
TypeScript ORM with focus on type safety
TanStack Query
Declarative data fetching and state management
Pagefind
Static zero-config full-text search
Giscus
GitHub Discussions powered comments
Bun
Blazing fast JS runtime & package manager
Shiki
Beautiful dual-theme syntax highlighting
Satori
Dynamic SVG and OG image generation
Architecture
Leveraging Islands Architecture, the site maximizes performance by delivering static HTML and hydrating components only as needed.
Every content update is a git commit, processed through an automated CI/CD pipeline and deployed to a global Edge Network.