About
Hi, I’m tandukuda.
I’m a graphic designer, 3D artist, and someone who keeps falling into technical rabbit holes that probably could have been avoided. This blog is where I write about those rabbit holes.
It began as a place to document my experiments with software, self-hosting, and personal tools. Over time, it became something broader: a record of how I think about computers, digital ownership, and the strange urge to build things simply because the existing way feels too clumsy, too bloated, or just not mine.
I write about:
- personal software projects like Catara, SceneShift, and other tools I build to solve oddly specific problems
- my ongoing homelab journey, from Raspberry Pi setups to lightweight self-hosted infrastructure
- digital ownership, archiving, and the desire to keep parts of my life outside platforms I do not fully control
- the tension between curiosity, convenience, and the consequences of constantly poking at systems
My technical taste is fairly simple: I like tools that are lightweight, direct, and low-friction. I would rather control something through a Telegram bot than maintain an enterprise dashboard for no good reason. I care less about doing things the “industry standard” way and more about whether the system is useful, understandable, and pleasant to live with.
This is not a tutorial blog, although some posts may be useful that way. It is closer to a field journal: part project log, part essay collection, part documentation of a brain that has been fascinated by computers for far too long.
The writing here is personal, practical, and occasionally sarcastic, especially when self-hosting starts pretending to be a lifestyle instead of a series of avoidable decisions.
If you are interested in small tools, homelabs, digital autonomy, or the kind of curiosity that starts with “I wonder if I can…” and ends with a server running in the corner of a room, you will probably find something familiar here.