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kOrc.me

I develop software where needed, but am mostly figuring out how to evoke a sense of enjoyment through things I make. I care about games, learning, and creation.

Contact

I am best reached by email. Hit me up at keerthiko[at]gmail[dot]com or on social.

Cold emails work. I love to meet/mentor people who may be interested in what I know or would like to collaborate. I follow a maker’s schedule and prefer in-person, timeboxed to other media.

Activity

Tools You Can Use

  • I use Dropbox and obsidian.md for digital/creative logistics management
  • I use Airtable for modelling life choices and tracking data for sharing
  • I lived solely out of Airbnb listings 2013-2015
  • I prepare media for airplane mode consumption using yt-dlp
  • Browser plugins I can’t live without:

Geography

I was born in picturesque Thiruvananthapuram, in south India. I grew up in quaint Muscat, Oman. I went to college in Boston, then moved to the bay area as employee #1 of BitGym, which I ended being a cofounder of through a major pivot.

I was forced to be a digital nomad December 2013 - August 2015 due to the wonderful machinations of US immigration – I lived out of {{ site.abnb }} listings around Asia while I mostly wrote code as a cofounder through bouts of depression.

After wrangling an O1 and eventually a green card I was based in SF city [2015 - 2019], but find myself outside the country about a third of the year by choice.

This site

This site primarily houses my long-form writing. I am a fledgling writer, so bear with me.

// TODO: defunct while my jekyll -> hugo migration is WIP This site secondarily serves as an index of my [projects] and prototypes of web apps and toys.

Built Using

  • [hosting] Github pages [link]
  • [code] Markdown, HTML, CSS Repo: [link]
  • [content] ~Jekyll~ Hugo for static site generation [link]
  • [editor] VS Code [link]
  • ~[analytics] umami instance~ [link for posterity]
  • ~[analytics hosting] Railway~ [link for posterity]
  • [font] Open Sans for body [link]
  • [font] Fira Mono for code [link]

History

2007 - 2009: I first made a long-form blog site on Wordpress with a few plugins from the wild.

2009 - 2010: I switched to tumblr for easier access to modifying site-wide HTML, CSS, js, etc.

2010 - 2014: While learning Ruby on Rails, hosted my own code on heroku. I developed the fascination while taking a class at Olin college that introduced me with modern back-end development.

2014 - 2023: After sufficient familiarity with front- and back-end webdev, I decided static sites are the way to go. Jekyll became my weapon of choice, and I still happily vouch for it. I started working on this while nomad-ing in Thailand. There was a pretty chill coup going on there at the time of this writing (May/June 2014).

2023 - present: I decided I shall be switching to hugo as part of an overall website refresh.