About

Hi!

My most starred repo is Karui so I assume that’s my identifier. I am the developer behind it. My goal was two-fold:

Make a simplified version of Google Tasks with retro linux-feel aesthetics
Make it privacy friendly, foss with easy reproducible builds, any user ever can easily add features without any fuss

And I believe that goal-set sort of describes the things I focus on:

Building educational tools for low-bandwidth regions
- I’m no stranger to low bandwidth, poor internet connections. A major dream of mine is to one day fix all govt web services that our people rely on.
- And so the best place to begin with was learning to make usable UI myself, started with interactive fiction, then simple Sumerian Game type simulations, participated in game jams
- Learned from users, played around with different designs, landed on the aesthetics I use for everything that while accessible also feel cozy to use
Computational humanities and social simulations
- The more we age and the more we talk and interact with people, the more we learn about human nature and what drives us, makes us do what we do. It also helps us navigate the world by predicting how everyone will react to present state, and how we are to prepare for the upcoming state that everyone’s action will lead to
- I try to build computational models of historical processes, cultural transmission, cooperation, translating qualitative theory in testable simulations

Apart from those, I often come up with ideas to quantify mundane things to analyse so this is my place to publish those research too. Most of those mundane things focus around productivty and self improvement, as I strive to be one step better than I was before.

For quick thoughts I generally post to my https://dev.to/ronynn account, the posts here on this blog are more detailed in nature, often with data to back up my claims, so if you are putting this site to your rss feed, expect detailed posts but only couple times a year.

This site used to be “Overthinking Analytically”. Few lines of description from the earlier version of this about page that I changed for being too whimsical yet I find it to be funny:

I believe that life is too important to be taken seriously—yet, paradoxically, I have chosen to examine it with the utmost seriousness. This blog is my digital salon, a space where I invite you to join me in the whimsical and wondrous world of over-analysis.

But what, you may ask, is the purpose of all this meticulous tracking? It is, quite simply, to become the best version of myself. To optimize my activities, avoid distractions, and understand my inner workings with the clarity of a crystal ball. Through the medium of stats and charts, I strive to create a life that is both efficient and delightful.

For in the words of Wilde, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Here, we do not merely exist; we thrive.

For updates specific to the apps you can follow the github releases feed linked in the respective readme.md files.

My favourite post here: https://ronynn.github.io/blog/doomsday-programmer