The Lab

Things I've built,
broken, and learned from

The blog tells you what I think. The Lab shows what I actually build. Each project here started as a question I couldn't answer without getting my hands dirty โ€” so I did.

Projects & experiments

A mix of demos, tools, and build logs. Some are polished, some are rough โ€” all are real.

Local LLM on โ‚น5000 hardware

Running a quantised language model on a budget single-board computer. What's actually possible โ€” latency numbers, model sizes, real-world use cases tested. See the full write-up on the blog.

Docker Compose production patterns

A reference repository of Docker Compose configurations for common production setups: Nginx reverse proxy, multi-service apps, volume management, health checks. Clone and adapt.

India smart city data explorer

A simple tool to visualise publicly available data from Indian smart city initiatives. Built to understand what's actually being measured vs. what gets announced.

LLM prompt toolkit

A collection of reusable prompt patterns for technical writing workflows โ€” research summarisation, draft expansion, and structured output generation. MIT licensed.

All code is open source

Everything in the Lab lives on GitHub. Fork it, adapt it, or open an issue if something's broken.