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Akshansh.net
My personal corner of the internet since 2013: notes, design work, blog, and everything I've built.
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This site started in twenty thirteen, in an undergrad hostel room. I wanted to share my handwritten notes. That was enough. For years it ran on Weebly, then took a detour through Webflow.
In March twenty twenty-six, I rebuilt it from scratch. Eight hours. One agentic sprint with Claude Code and Codex. It is now a hand-coded Astro site on Vercel, and the code is the single source of truth.
You are on it. It holds sixty-two notes, fourteen design projects, nearly two hundred blog posts, and eight easter eggs. Type the Konami code and a secret terminal appears.
Next: a brand identity, from logo and typography to sound.
Learn. Share. Repeat.
Narrated in my own cloned voice, generated with ElevenLabs v4.
This site started in 2013, in an undergrad hostel room. I put my handwritten notes online, and it grew from there: through BITS, through Parsons, into something that now holds sixty-two sets of notes, fourteen design projects, nearly two hundred blog posts, a design portfolio, and a products gallery of things I’ve built.
For years it ran on Weebly. Then a Webflow detour. In March 2026, I rebuilt it from scratch in a single eight-hour agentic sprint with Claude Code and Codex, with Codex carrying the heavy execution. It’s now a hand-coded Astro site on Vercel. The repo is the single source of truth.
The site also has a quieter layer. Eight easter eggs, a Konami-code terminal, collector states, and a quiet sound layer, restrained and easy to miss. None of it is necessary. It’s there for people who stay and look.
Six media features live here too. Coming next: a personal brand identity, from logo and typography to texture and sound, detailed to the thousandth artifact.
Status: launched and live.
Learn. Share. Repeat.
The making
- Astro
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vercel
- p5.js
- GSAP