Writing on software engineering, infrastructure, systems design, and occasional personal essays.https://adityarsingh.in/en-ushttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/paying-bills-without-giving-away-your-inbox/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/paying-bills-without-giving-away-your-inbox/A small side project for generating UPI IDs to pay credit card bills — without handing over inbox access to a fintech app.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/creating-a-security-resource-site-the-building-of-nologs/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/creating-a-security-resource-site-the-building-of-nologs/How I built NoLogs.in — a curated, static privacy-tools directory using Hugo, Cloudflare Pages, and manual editorial curation.Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/scalable-systems-beat-smart-hacks-every-time/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/scalable-systems-beat-smart-hacks-every-time/Why scalable systems always outperform clever hacks, and what it actually takes to build processes that hold up under pressure.Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-finite-state-machine-of-spending/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-finite-state-machine-of-spending/Using the Finite State Machine model from computer science to debug impulse spending and write cleaner financial logic.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/your-financial-operating-system-is-due-for-an-update/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/your-financial-operating-system-is-due-for-an-update/Stop budgeting like a punishment. Here's how I redesigned my financial life as a system I actually want to live inside.Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/why-your-read-later-list-is-where-ideas-go-to-die/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/why-your-read-later-list-is-where-ideas-go-to-die/The 'Read Later' list is a graveyard of good intentions. Here's how to switch from digital hoarding to digital gardening.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/selfhost-n8n-linode/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/selfhost-n8n-linode/Step-by-step guide to deploying self-hosted n8n on a Linode VPS using Dokploy — your own unlimited Zapier for ~$24/month.Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/how-to-sync-your-obsidian-notes-using-linode-object-storage/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/how-to-sync-your-obsidian-notes-using-linode-object-storage/How to sync your Obsidian vault across devices using Linode Object Storage and the Remotely Save plugin — no Big Tech required.Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-claude-learning-curve-i-cracked/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-claude-learning-curve-i-cracked/The prompting techniques that actually worked: variable-based prompts, the CLEAR method, and how to fix Claude's corporate-robot voice.Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/bramhatal-trek-experience/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/bramhatal-trek-experience/A day-by-day account of the Bramhatal winter trek in Uttarakhand — frozen lakes, Mt Trishul views, and what it feels like at 12,250 feet.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/i-trained-an-ai-on-100-self-help-books/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/i-trained-an-ai-on-100-self-help-books/What I found after training a custom AI on 100 self-help books: universal principles, dangerous patterns, and why context beats raw wisdom.Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-automation-revolution-how-ai-agents-are-quietly-stealing-your-to-do-list/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/the-automation-revolution-how-ai-agents-are-quietly-stealing-your-to-do-list/AI agents are quietly automating away the mundane. What that means for productivity, autonomy, and what we're actually optimizing for.Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/mcp-the-protocol-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-ai/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/mcp-the-protocol-that-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-ai/The Model Context Protocol lets AI models dynamically discover and use external services. Here's why it's a big deal — and what could go wrong.Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://adityarsingh.in/blog/can-ai-write-seo-content-that-ranks/https://adityarsingh.in/blog/can-ai-write-seo-content-that-ranks/An honest breakdown of where AI-written SEO content succeeds, fails, and where humans still have the edge.Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT