2025 · OPERATIONAL · PRIVATE BETA
An opinionated reader for long essays.
Built solo over six weeks of nights, launched in February to a closed list of forty readers, still my favorite thing I made this year.
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UDS · STUDIO · 2019 — 2026
Aarav
Mehta.
Engineer and occasional writer based in Pune. Building small things since 2019, and keeping most of the things I have made.
CURRENTLY ›
building Threadwell v0.4
· maintaining Fieldnotes
· drafting essay no. 15
Selected work, 2023 — 26.
2024 · MAINTAINED · OPEN SOURCE
Local-first writing tool for engineers who keep notebooks.
A weekend prototype that grew into a six-month project. I am still its only daily user, and I think that is allowed.
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2023 · ARCHIVED · PRESERVED
A study in editorial typography on the open web.
Twelve hand-typeset essays, no framework, two months in early '23. Retired in late '24; the first work I made that took typography seriously.
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2019 — 2022 · WITHDRAWN
Eight student and weekend pieces.
Grouped under a single entry for finding-aid brevity. Available on request to the custodian.
see archive/ for the long version.
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Recent writing.
| W·14 | 17.05.2026 | On knowing when a piece of writing is finished. | 12 pp. |
| W·13 | 02.04.2026 | The website as a small private museum of the self. | 8 pp. |
| W·12 | 28.01.2026 | Notes on building software you have to live with. | 17 pp. |
| W·11 | 14.10.2025 | In praise of the long maintenance period. | 9 pp. |
| W·10 | 02.08.2025 | What I learned writing a tool for myself. | 6 pp. |
| — | earlier | 9 further pieces, 2021 — 25. Available on request. | — |
Brief.
I am Aarav — Pune-based, twenty-five, an engineer who has been making things on computers since the autumn of 2019. I write essays when I have something to say, build software when I have something to use, and keep most of what I have made online, when I remember to.
I am interested in software that you can live with, in typography that knows when to stop, and in the small daily craft of building both. I am less interested in shipping fast for the sake of speed, in decorative animation, or in being rushed.
If you would like to write to me — about a project, an essay, or just to say hello — my address is hello@aarav.me. I reply slowly. I reply honestly.