General·July 2026·8 min read
When the Internet Goes Dark: A Protester's Guide to Briar
A geofenced internet shutdown, a protest with no signal, and the offline-first messenger that keeps people talking when the network goes dark.
Infrastructure·July 2026·8 min read
The Kernel Panic That Wasn't What It Looked Like
A silent DKMS failure, a missing initramfs, and the debugging journey that uncovered the real cause behind a misleading Linux kernel panic.
AI / ML·June 2026·3 min read
Fine-Tuning Chatterbox TTS for Indian Accents Using LoRA
How I adapted an open-source TTS model for Indian English and domain-specific dental terminology using LoRA fine-tuning on call transcripts and synthetic data.