hi, i’m pulkit pareek
i make computers do things
apparently 21-ish years old, forever a student, and still trying to understand computers beyond just making them do things. i spend a lot of time building, breaking, reading, and asking questions that probably could've been answered five tabs ago. mostly interested in how software works, why it works the way it does, and what happens when you push it a little too far. i like learning by making things, getting stuck, taking things apart, and eventually figuring out why they work. the goal isn't really to know everything — just to understand a little more than i did yesterday. somewhere along the way, i've become interested in developer tooling, interfaces, systems, and all the tiny details that make software feel good to use. forever learning. occasionally building. almost always wondering “but why?”
recently written
things i kept thinking about until writing them down became easier than letting them go, mostly to find out whether i understood them at all
Agents - Orchestration, Swarms and much more
Everyone's talking about AI agents. Nobody's explaining the plumbing. Here's what's actually happening under the hood.
Next.js: A Comprehensive Guide
Master advanced Next.js patterns
docker and some questions
my personal learnings from docker.
React Unfolded
A comprehensive guide to React fundamentals, hooks, and patterns.
Why I Ditched Windows and Went Full Linux
Why am I using Linux.
i spend a lot of my time building things for developers, then a little more building things for myself. the two overlap more than that makes it sound. something i learn while working might become a project simply because i want to know whether i can make it work.
attention map
the last 30 days on my computer: 23 days, 6 hours, 33 minutes of tracked time across 92 apps and 12,175 sessions, which explains a few things.
arc
chatgpt
cursor
slack
live
tuple
the map is only a rough record of where the time went. it can't tell the difference between a productive afternoon and several hours spent making the wrong thing work, but the hours count all the same. when i'm not making something, i'm usually reading, listening, or keeping track of things i don't want to lose.
things that stayed
books, records, movies, and stories i remember for the feeling, question, place, or moment i found them in. maybe you'll enjoy them too.
kubuntu setup
2025an environment that gets out of the way, zippy even on old hardware.
s.
2013a book that is actually a reading lens. marginalia, letters, and maps inserted between pages.
mignonne
1978taeko onuki's masterpiece. i listen to this whenever i need to focus or reset my brain.
the little prince
1943one of the first books i remember reading from beginning to end, and still the most important.
meme_1.jpg
2024proof that the web is still very funny, and we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously.
mr. robot
2015–2019a rare piece of fiction that gets technology right while telling a deeply human story about isolation.
on my side of the screen, it is 18:30, and it is 28.4°C in Jaipur, the city I'm from (not necessarily where I am) but it actually feels like a nice 30.2°C ! the air is thick under overcast skies. ☁️
you're roughly 11,250km from Jaipur and reading this at 1920x1080. neither number is especially useful, but here they are. this place has been years in the making and refuses to be finished.
it holds work, experiments, stories, other people's fingerprints, and a few things that don't entirely belong anywhere else. not everything needs to. anyways, i hope you enjoy :)