PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF
Aarav
Mehta
Engineer · Pune · b. 2001
Aarav
Works
11 items · 2019–2026
AC. UDS·2025·011
RECEIVED 03.II.2025
CONDITION · GOOD
Threadwell — an opinionated reader for long essays.
Provenance. Built solo over six weeks in late 2024; private launch to a closed list of forty readers in February 2025.
- EXTENT
- ~14k LOC; TypeScript, Postgres, Bun.
- FORM
- Web application, server-rendered.
- NOTE
- Largest single artifact in the collection. Preserved as built; only typographic revisions since launch.
AC. UDS·2024·007
RECEIVED 11.IX.2024
CONDITION · FAIR
Fieldnotes — a writing tool for engineers who keep notebooks.
Provenance. A weekend prototype that grew into a six-month project. Open-sourced under MIT in October 2024.
- EXTENT
- ~6k LOC; Svelte, SQLite, Tauri.
- FORM
- Desktop application, local-first.
- NOTE
- Some minor wear: outdated icons in v0.2 retained for historical reference.
AC. UDS·2023·004
RECEIVED 22.III.2023
CONDITION · ARCHIVED
Marginalia — a study in editorial typography on the web.
Provenance. Personal essay site, hand-typeset over two months in early 2023. Retired in late 2024; preserved here.
- EXTENT
- ~3k LOC; static HTML, no framework.
- FORM
- Twelve essays, one footnote system.
- NOTE
- The first work in the collection to take typography seriously. Direct ancestor of the present catalog.
AC. UDS·2022·002
RECEIVED 09.VII.2022
CONDITION · POOR
Earlier works (consolidated)
Provenance. Eight student and weekend projects, 2019–2022, grouped under a single accession for finding-aid brevity.
Available on request to the custodian.
Writings
14 items · 2021–2026- UDS·W·014 17.V.2026 On knowing when a piece of writing is finished. 12pp.
- UDS·W·013 02.IV.2026 The website as a small private museum of the self. 8pp.
- UDS·W·012 28.I.2026 Notes on building software you have to live with. 17pp.
- UDS·W·011 14.X.2025 In praise of the long maintenance period. 9pp.
- UDS·W·010 02.VIII.2025 What I learned writing a tool for myself. 6pp.
- — earlier Nine further pieces, 2021–2025. Available on request. —
Provenance
Biographical note on the creatorAarav Mehta is an engineer and occasional writer based in Pune. He has, since 2019, been making things and keeping the things he has made — sometimes well, sometimes poorly, always honestly.
He is interested in software you can live with, writing that earns its length, and the small daily craft of building both.
He may be reached at hello@aarav.me. He answers slowly. He responds to most things eventually.