About

Howdy! I see you've ended up on my website and were curious enough to get to the About page.

I am Akhil. I currently reside in Bangalore. By day, I work as a Python developer. By night, I am kept awake by the sheer number of opinions I have. I have quite a few opinions, but not enough practice in putting them to words. There was a time when I used to write. Fiction, essays, and the occasional self-serious high-brow short story. Those works are lost to time and link rot, thankfully. Creating this website is a half-serious attempt at getting back into writing.

As of April 2026, current topics of interest include the enshittification of everything, the rise of rent-seeking, and creating mental models for everything. Writing about my opinions sometimes takes the form of a personal essay. Sometimes short fiction. Sometimes it's a literary analysis of the themes of a book. More often than not, I'm just complaining. This website is a public-facing facet of my Obsidian vault - stuff that cleared the quality check. Most of my notes didn't make it.

The following topics have also been occupying a sizable chunk of my mind as of late. Walkable cities and the hostility that urban planners have towards them, and the resultant emergence of car-centric infrastructure. The function of third places, their slow disappearance from everyday life, and what it's doing to people. Spaced repetition systems as a way of remembering what I read, centralizing the highlights and annotations from books and articles I read, and my experiences using Readwise.

I cycle in my free time. Whether it's because of genuine interest or a latent death wish remains to be confirmed. Once in a while, I attend meetups of the IndieWebClub Bangalore, which is a fine collection of people who still believe personal websites are worth having. Check out the webring at the bottom of this (and every other) page.

What's on here

The site has three major sections.
The blog is for longform writing - essays, rants, analyses, and things that require more than three paragraphs. The books and movies section is a tiny "reviews corner". It serves as a self-hosted StoryGraph/Letterboxd alternative, because I love building and maintaining things. /s

If you're new to this website, why not explore it a bit?

Get in touch

I'm kinda active on Mastodon: @akhiluk@mastodon.social. Or email me. I do check my inbox.

Knick-knacks

Attribution, licensing, and other administrative information are on the colophon page.