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Design For Millions

28-01-2026

The principles, patterns, and real-world engineering decisions that make systems possible at humongous scale

Distributed Systems Cloud Scaling
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Week 11 Progress Report

17-08-2025

Finishing deployment of SugarAI with nginx proxy, SSL certificates, and A record creation.

GSoC Progress
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Week 10 Progress Report

10-08-2025

Setup AWS for LLM deployment - SugarAI. Deploying the Docker container and configuring EC2 instance.

GSoC Progress
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Week 09 Progress Report

03-08-2025

Fixed mouth movements in Speak, UI enhancements for Kokoro, and integrated SLM + TTS into Speak.

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Week 08 Progress Report

27-07-2025

Audio pipeline optimizations with Kokoro and GStreamer, OS-agnostic GGUF inference, and profanity filters implementation.

GSoC Progress
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Week 07 Progress Report

20-07-2025

Adding SLM variations to benchmark, completing Kokoro streaming with GStreamer, and working on UI enhancements.

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Week 06 Progress Report

13-07-2025

Improving the dataset and fine-tuning the model again. Working on voice switching mechanics inside Sugar.

GSoC Progress
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Week 05 Progress Report

05-07-2025

Interesting demos this week! These blogs can be found in the SugarLabs website as well.

GSoC Progress
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Week 04 Progress Report

29-06-2025

Things are starting to take shape! These blogs can be found in the SugarLabs website as well.

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Week 03 Progress Report

21-06-2025

Damn it's been 3 weeks! These blogs can be found in the SugarLabs website as well.

GSoC Progress
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Week 02 Progress Report

14-06-2025

Week 02 progress report goes live! These blogs can be found in the SugarLabs website as well.

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GSoC Week 1 Progress Report

06-06-2025

Kicking off the GSoC blogs! This is the progress report for first week. I was not able to get a bunch done because of my exams though.

GSoC Progress
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VM's Article - HSP Linux Drive

02-03-2025

This article was written for a college club event - HSP Linux Drive. This was meant to be an introductory blog to VM's along with how to install it.

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Why Does This Site Exist

13-02-2025

This article explains why I built this site

Personal Website
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GSoC & Open Source

24-01-2025

In this article I'll be talking about my experience with GSoC and open source and why you should try it out, too.

GSoC Open Source
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