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Coding Otaku

Hi, I’m Rahul Sivananda (he/him), the Internet knows me by the name Coding Otaku (them/them) or sometimes as Rua (she/her).

I care about Accessibility, Minimalism, and good User Experiences. I create small tools and scripts to make the life easy.

Get my cURL card with curl -sL https://codingotaku.com/cc.

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Email: [email protected]

About This website 🪪

This is my personal website containing my notes, blogs, projects, stories, other things I do, and ways to contact me. It partially supports the IndieWeb while keeping accessibility, minimalism, and your privacy in mind.

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If you would like to help me to keep this site and my silly projects running, you can now donate to me through Liberapay or Stripe 💰.

Accessibility

If you are having difficulties navigating this website or accessing its content, please contact me with details so that I can fix it for everyone.

You should be able to customise this website to your liking by using the theme selector page.

You can read my accessibility statement to know more about how I ensure the accessibility, the technical specification, and the known issues.

What made me create this website.

The Internet used to be a lovely place where people could share their views and ideas in the public domain. But it has now become a slow and bloated mess made by developers who are following the latest buzzwords for resume-driven development.

I also believe that it is acceptable to use buzzword technologies as long as the people using/visiting the project/site are not burdened. It is too easy to create bloated and heavy software and too difficult to make slim and light ones.

I am hoping to inspire new and young developers to take the right path by making this website, showing that you can still make a functioning, beautiful, ethical, and light-weight website without making it the size of doom.

Behind the name

I like watching Anime just as much as I love tinkering with software. So, I wanted to choose a name that’s related to both programming and Anime.

I had a few candidates for a good name, but none of them rolled out of the tongue like Coding Otaku. To my surprise, no one bought “codingotaku.com” as a domain name, and I could not find anyone on social media going by that name.

While what I do is programming and not coding, the name stuck with me long enough that I’m not bothered by it any more.

Otaku is a Japanese term for people with consuming interests, In modern Japanese slang, the term Otaku is mostly equivalent to “geek” or “nerd”. But it is now widely used as a term to refer to people who are obsessed with Anime and Japanese culture (though that’s not the proper way to use it).

Elsewhere

You might be able to find me on the wild, the clubs and webrings below are websites I willingly added myself to after careful evaluation. To find other places I have account on, visit my contact page.

Webrings

This website is also part of a few webrings. If you would like me to be part of one of your webring, please let me know via email.

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Recent Posts by Coding Otaku

Recent Blogs

Blog posts

Ownet

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I had to explain what ownet.org is to someone non-technical recently, this is what I could come up with.

Recent Projects

These are just some of my projects, to see more, checkout mycodeberg repository.

Themeinator

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A customizable Firefox extension that automatically adapts your browser theme to match your system's light/dark mode preferences.

Bloat Ness Monster

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The Bloat Ness Monster is a monster that lurks around on the internet. It was made unintentionally by web developers who don't know what they are doing.

Recent Short Stories

This is a collection of short stories, I initially split them into individual stories but merging them into a collection makes more sense

Recent Transformed

Samantha and her young 6-year-old daughter Jane found that a few mysterious creatures had invaded in their home which can transform into anyone. They attacked her and Jane so she ran away with her daughter to find help and shelter.

Chapter 1: Evil Jane

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An uninvited guest and the imaginary friend.

Recent Utopia in My Dreams

Beware what you fantasize about! Dream world meddling with the reality.

Chapter 9: The Thin Line

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Confused between reality and dreams, when will all this end?

Chapter 8: The Vessel

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Maybe it is time to give myself up, just like last time, it's better this way.

Recent Merged

This story is born from a thought experiment about a species sharing a common brain as they evolve.


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