Data engineer. Builder. Indie web. Personal essays and notes. 2025-03-10T00:00:00Z https://capnsketch.xyz/ Aravind 2025-03-10T00:00:00Z https://capnsketch.xyz/blog/first-post/ <p>The algorithm doesn't need to know everything. So I keep a corner of the web that's mine: no engagement metrics, no recommended-next, just words and links.</p> <p><strong>Indie web</strong> culture got me thinking—owning your content, syndicating outward instead of posting into someone else's database. This site is a small experiment in that. Eleventy, static HTML, a feed. It's fast and boring in the best way.</p> <p>I'll write here about data engineering, scraping, distributed systems, and whatever else doesn't fit in a tweet. Thanks for reading.</p>