# Karan Janthe

> Karan Janthe's personal site contains essays, notes, poetry, and reading links about software, systems, biology, hardware, art, culture, and the ideas connecting them.

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## Core pages

- [Homepage](https://www.karanjanthe.me/): Identity, current interests, recent writing, and profiles. Request with `Accept: text/markdown` for a clean Markdown representation.
- [About](https://www.karanjanthe.me/about/): Background, subjects, and purpose of this personal site.
- [Contact](https://www.karanjanthe.me/contact/): Public channels and guidance for reaching Karan.
- [Posts](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/): Index of essays and technical writing.
- [Sitemap](https://www.karanjanthe.me/sitemap.xml): Complete index of public pages.

## Writing

- [Inaction Is Easy](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/inaction-is-not-an-option/): Published May 26, 2026.
- [The Bunny in 100 Holes](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/bunny-hopping/): Published March 6, 2026.
- [You want to do everything?](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/optionality-curse/): Published March 5, 2026.
- [What I learned building a vector database on S3](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/vecpuff/): Published December 9, 2025.
- [My Experience of building bytebeat player in Zig](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/zig-beat/): Published November 1, 2025.
- [SAT problems are kind of cool!](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/boolean-satisfiability-problem/): Published October 8, 2025.
- [Making Enzyme AutoDiff Stable on Rust (GSoC 2025)](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/enzyme-autodiff-rust-gsoc/): Published September 5, 2025.
- [Optimizing a RISC-V Emulator](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/risc-v-emulator-optimization/): Published January 15, 2025.
- [My Cursor Setup](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/How%20to%20make%20cursor%20experience%20better/): Published December 27, 2024.
- [Zeta: Solving financial literacy through AI](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/Finnovate%20Zeta/): Published July 9, 2024.
- [Writing things from scratch?](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/Writing%20from%20scratch/): Published June 24, 2024.
- [like minded](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/like%20minded/): Published January 29, 2024.
- [Pretending](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/pretending/): Published January 12, 2024.
- [How to do meaningful Open Source?](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/opensource/): Published January 8, 2024.
- [Un explored Territory and rough ideas](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/exploring/): Published August 31, 2023.
- [Ai and Bio stack](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/Ai%20&%20bio%20stack/): Published August 16, 2023.
- [Indoor Navigation using AR](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/AR%20navigation/): Published March 31, 2023.
- [Creativity](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/creativity/): Published October 29, 2022.
- [Code On Paper](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/code%20on%20paper/): Published July 11, 2022.
- [A Solution to World Hunger?](https://www.karanjanthe.me/posts/human%20photosynthesis/): Published July 2, 2022.

## Optional

- [Poetry](https://www.karanjanthe.me/poetry/): Poetry published on the site.
- [Reading roll](https://www.karanjanthe.me/roll/): Karan's evolving reading trail and worldview notes.
- [Atom feed](https://www.karanjanthe.me/feed.xml): Machine-readable feed of published posts.
- [JSON feed](https://www.karanjanthe.me/feed.json): JSON Feed representation of published posts.
- [Privacy](https://www.karanjanthe.me/privacy/): Privacy and third-party service disclosures.
- [Homepage Markdown](https://www.karanjanthe.me/index.html.md): Static Markdown fallback for the homepage.