Inkantate
PersonalA reading companion for physical books. Point your phone at a word and it's kept with the sentence you found it in, so recall comes from your own reading rather than a flashcard. Local-first.
- Expo
- React Native
- TypeScript
- SQLite
I'm Aashish K C, a software engineer who likes to read, build, and wander.
I build backend systems and the occasional tool I wish existed. This site is where I keep projects, writing, and a running log of what I'm reading.
- Based in
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Focus
- Go, distributed systems, self-hosted tools
- Reach me
- hello@kcaashish.com
Selected projects
All projectsarrstack
PersonalA twelve-container media stack on one old laptop: Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf for playback, the *arr services for library management, and a Cloudflare tunnel for access without a routable address.
- Docker
- Caddy
- Debian
- Cloudflare
- Jellyfin
Recent writing
All postsTwelve containers on a 2017 Dell Inspiron that had sat unopened for three years. What the path layout has to look like, why the auto-updater is commented out, and why the certificate setup I built first got thrown away.
#homelab#docker#caddy#self-hosted
A relative's phone had an app on it that could not be uninstalled, could not be found by name, and blocked a factory reset. Finding it meant searching by what it could do rather than what it was called.
#android#security#adb#debugging
Managing several SSH keys on one machine gets much simpler once you stop thinking about keys and start inventing hostnames.
#ssh#git#macos
