What Story Points Were Hired To Do
In 2022 I coached my team into story points with LEGO. AI has changed what makes software expensive, and I'd now lead teams out of them, carefully.
Notes from the Dungeon
I build products for a living. The rest of the time it's the home lab, Linkin Park on repeat, F1, LEGO, books, comics, and more fanfiction than I'll admit to.
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What Story Points Were Hired To Do
In 2022 I coached my team into story points with LEGO. AI has changed what makes software expensive, and I'd now lead teams out of them, carefully.
Breaking the Habit
B2B users live inside our decisions. Seven years after a newsroom roadshow, this is how I weigh a product change against what it asks people to relearn.
The Dungeon Has a Look Now
A personal site should look personal. Every post here is now a tilted index card, and the light switch is a lightsaber.
Probably the Cat
My blog lives on a NAS in a cabinet at home. Now, when the house goes dark, the site doesn't.
Pages Per Rupee
As a kid I bought books by the page count, because that was the only way I could afford them. A school library and a best friend since LKG did the rest.
32GB RAM in a NAS Rated for 16
ASUSTOR rates this NAS for 16GB of memory, and mine has run on 32GB without complaint. This is the rest of the hardware inside, and how lucky I got with the timing of buying it.
My Home Lab Started With a Borrowed Raspberry Pi
A borrowed Raspberry Pi, a NAS that mostly sat there, and AI as the way in. How my home lab actually started.
Letting Claude Log My Meals and Watch Data Into NutriTrace
I've logged every meal by chatting with Claude for months. Now the same chat writes straight into my own server.
Self-Hosting My Food Diary and Health Data
I have been tracking food, steps and weight since April, and until now the data lived in an AI chat. This is how I moved it onto my own NAS with NutriTrace, what broke along the way, and why Kerala home cooking is the real problem with calorie tracking.
The Long Way to the Barricade
I found Linkin Park in 2004, doing college in a small Kerala town that was mostly a village. In 2026, I was the first person through the gate at their first ever show in India. Some full circles never end. They expand.
Self-Ghosting this blog runs on self-hosted Ghost
Hiran said Hugo would be simpler. He was right. I went with self-hosted Ghost anyway, for reasons that have nothing to do with the software.