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Aarav.
A small body of work, photographed.

Twenty-seven shipped artifacts, fourteen essays, seven years of slow output, treated as if they were a roll of film someone forgot in a desk drawer and finally got around to developing.

FRAME 22 · FEATURED WORK · 2025

Threadwell.

An opinionated reader for long essays, built solo over six weeks in late ’24 and launched quietly to forty readers in February. Still the artifact I think about most when I think about the year. Operational.

TS · POSTGRES · BUN · ~14k LOC

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FRAME 21A · WORK · 2024

Fieldnotes.

A local-first writing tool for engineers who keep notebooks. Open source. Six months. Still my daily driver. Maintained.

SVELTE · SQLITE · TAURI · ~6k LOC

FRAME 20 · WORK · 2023

Marginalia.

A study in editorial typography on the open web. Twelve essays, hand-typeset, no framework. Retired in ’24; preserved as built. Archived.

HAND-WRITTEN HTML · ~3k LOC

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SHEET 02 · CONTACT PRINTS · SELECTED WRITING

Sheet of essays.

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17 MAY 26

On knowing when a piece of writing is finished.

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02 APR 26

The website as a small private museum of the self.

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28 JAN 26

Notes on building software you have to live with.

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14 OCT 25

In praise of the long maintenance period.

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Find me at
hello@aarav.me

I answer slowly. I answer honestly. I keep most of the things I make.

UDS · PUNE · STILL SHOOTING