xydac

Hi, I'm Deepak.
I work on ad-serving infrastructure at Amazon by day, and at night I tinker: small tools, self-hosted services, whatever rabbit hole is open that week. I like systems small enough to fit in my head, and I run most of my own stack on a home server.

Based in Palo Altoxgithub

projects
ridgeline Self-hosted intelligence platform for indie devs. Single Go binary, DuckDB-powered, pluggable connectors in any language. xbridge A single Go binary that turns a Mac into a locked-down iOS build API. Drive Xcode builds, simulators, and screenshots from Linux, CI, or plain curl, over HTTP. case study homebrew hn-persona Renders a persona card for any Hacker News username by summarizing their comment history into interests, tone, and active topics. live xydacshell Opinionated zsh setup with two profiles (classic oh-my-zsh; modern starship + nvim + fzf + lsd) and a single `x` command for install, update, doctor, and storage. xylo-gatsby-bulma-starter Gatsby v2 starter wired up with Bulma CSS, Sass, and Netlify CMS. From the pre-Astro JAMstack era.

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