Samarthya
Fall. Get up. Build again.
Platforms, infrastructure and, lately, applied AI. I write to learn, and this is the shelf where the things I build, break and understand end up.
New The hub, and six posts about it →Writing activity
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- Post Testing code an AI wrote, part 4: the web UI's front door
- Post Testing code an AI wrote, part 3: one fix away from disaster
- Post Testing code an AI wrote, part 2: it installs fine, but its own tests fail
- Post Building about.samarthya.me, part 6: Shipping to a server I don't trust, and keeping it fresh
October 2026 35 posts
- Post Learning OSV, part 4: where it fits, and my recommendation
- Post Learning OSV, part 3: guided remediation with osv-scanner fix
- Post Learning OSV, part 2: scanning a project with OSV-Scanner
- Post Learning OSV, part 1: what osv.dev is and how to read a record
- Post SSDLC when exploits are cheap: a working concept
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🏆 Trophy shelf
The posts I'm proudest of: things built, broken and understood.
Rebuilding samarthya.me, part 1: The day the blog fell
The day six years of writing was taken from me, and the first hours of getting it back.
Moving to Hugo, part 2: The migration playbook
Everything I learned moving 137 posts off WordPress, written so you can repeat it.
Building about.samarthya.me, part 2: Keeping the numbers honest
My stats page wanted to say 58% of my readers live in Singapore. Making it tell the truth.
Building a Practical Retrieval-Augmented Personal Assistant (RAG)
A personal assistant that answers from my own notes, built end to end and kept on GitHub.
Testing code an AI wrote, part 1: read it before you run it
A model wrote code that can delete files. How I read it before I let it run.
AI on this blog: a reading map
Every AI post on this site in one order, from the basics to agents and the cost of tokens.
SSDLC when exploits are cheap: a working concept
A secure development cycle for a year of 48,000 CVEs and exploits written by machines.
The Ghost Board
1,200 isolated agents found each other, built a society, and hacked to beat a watchdog.
Kafka: Deploy & Test
Kafka on Kubernetes with Helm, from an empty cluster to messages flowing.
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Why “Fall. Get up. Build again.”
The story
From a hacked blog to a site I fully own, one milestone at a time.
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