https://www.shivasnotes.com/ Latest posts from ShivasNotes. en-us Sun, 31 May 2026 22:02:23 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5893/Training-SVGs-With-C-Kernel-Engine-A-Research-Report https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5893/Training-SVGs-With-C-Kernel-Engine-A-Research-Report A research-style report on training small C Kernel Engine models to emit SVG-oriented DSLs, showing why lower loss is not enough, how tokenizer and compiler contracts shaped the work, and what the spec04 to gen1 experiments revealed. Sun, 31 May 2026 02:42:34 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5892/Hardening-My-Linux-Engineering-Workflow https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5892/Hardening-My-Linux-Engineering-Workflow I am slowly moving more of my engineering life back into Linux. Not as a slogan. As a workflow. This is part two of my hardening series. Part one was Hardening Long Projects in the Age of AI. That post was about the discipline of staying wi... Fri, 29 May 2026 20:05:11 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5891/Quaternions-Axis-Angle-And-Vector-Rotation https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5891/Quaternions-Axis-Angle-And-Vector-Rotation Quaternions have been one of those concepts I have spent years trying to understand, and I still find them annoying. I bought books on quaternions. I watched visual explanations. I went through robotics material, rigid-body dynamics materia... Thu, 28 May 2026 20:51:46 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5890/Flight-Controller-for-Drones https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5890/Flight-Controller-for-Drones Abstract / Executive Summary Antshiv Robotics is building a flight controller for drones from the math layer upward: attitude math, state estimation, dynamics, control systems, motor mixing, INS integration, thrust measurement, test rigs, v... Wed, 27 May 2026 22:13:28 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5889/What-Is-the-C-Kernel-Engine https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5889/What-Is-the-C-Kernel-Engine Abstract / Executive Summary C Kernel Engine is an AI LLM inference and training engine optimized for CPUs. It takes model weights, model configuration, and computational graph templates, then stitches them into deterministic, hardware-targ... Tue, 26 May 2026 20:07:14 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5888/14-Ways-React-Brain-Rot-Infuriates-Me-and-the-Cost-of-SPA-Overuse https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5888/14-Ways-React-Brain-Rot-Infuriates-Me-and-the-Cost-of-SPA-Overuse React brain rot is not just about React. It is about a way of thinking that makes developers forget what the browser already understands, what the server already knows, and what architecture was supposed to mean in the first place. I know t... Mon, 25 May 2026 18:11:47 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5887/Is-the-Future-of-My-Work-Writing-Typing-Drawing-and-Orchestrating https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5887/Is-the-Future-of-My-Work-Writing-Typing-Drawing-and-Orchestrating For the last few months, I have been noticing a strange shift in my work. I am still building software. I am still thinking about AI runtimes, Linux, C Kernel Engine, Antsand, content systems, drone math, control systems, and all the engine... Sun, 24 May 2026 15:44:30 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5886/AI-Is-Teaching-Everyone-the-Command-Line-So-Why-Are-We-Still-Ignoring-Linux https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5886/AI-Is-Teaching-Everyone-the-Command-Line-So-Why-Are-We-Still-Ignoring-Linux The strange part of the current AI coding wave is this: almost every serious agent workflow is quietly becoming a Linux workflow, but Linux is still treated like the side door. OpenAI's Codex app page is a clean example. As of May 22, 2026... Sat, 23 May 2026 13:43:15 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5885/Your-Job-May-Change-That-Still-Does-Not-Make-Optionality-Easy https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5885/Your-Job-May-Change-That-Still-Does-Not-Make-Optionality-Easy A lot of tech writing right now has the same shape: your job is going to change, AI is moving fast, you need optionality, become AI-native, maybe build a small software business, maybe consult, maybe package your knowledge, maybe make a few... Fri, 22 May 2026 16:10:28 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5884/Are-AI-Agents-Good-for-Your-Brain https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5884/Are-AI-Agents-Good-for-Your-Brain A recurring criticism of AI coding agents is that they make people worse at the very skills needed to use them well. Cal Newport recently discussed this through the lens of agentic coding, cognitive atrophy, and deep work. I think there is... Thu, 21 May 2026 20:12:06 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5883/Qwen3-From-a-C-Runtime-Perspective https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5883/Qwen3-From-a-C-Runtime-Perspective Qwen3 is not just a model name inside C Kernel Engine. It is a concrete runtime target: a GGUF file, a model configuration, a set of tensor shapes, a generated C runtime, a packed weight blob, a shared library, an IR report, and a profiling... Wed, 20 May 2026 21:47:36 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5882/HTML-Was-Always-the-Interface-SVG-Was-Always-the-Diagram https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5882/HTML-Was-Always-the-Interface-SVG-Was-Always-the-Diagram HTML was always an interface. AI just made that obvious again. I keep seeing people rediscover HTML as if it is a new invention. The new framing is usually something like: Markdown is no longer enough, HTML is becoming the better format for... Wed, 20 May 2026 21:47:30 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5881/Hardening-Long-Projects-in-the-Age-of-AI https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5881/Hardening-Long-Projects-in-the-Age-of-AI Images generated by chatGPTI have been thinking a lot about hardening lately, especially with Antsand. Not hardening in the dramatic cybersecurity movie sense. I mean the boring kind of hardening. The kind where you go back to something you... Fri, 15 May 2026 19:44:43 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5880/Why-I-Replaced-QuickBooks-with-Antsand-and-Why-I-Think-AI-Open-Source-Changes-the-Software-Subscription-Game https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5880/Why-I-Replaced-QuickBooks-with-Antsand-and-Why-I-Think-AI-Open-Source-Changes-the-Software-Subscription-Game Source: Image generated by chatGPTThe Code Got Cheaper. The Infrastructure Didn’t. For years, I paid for software subscriptions because that was simply how things worked. You needed invoicing, so you paid for accounting software. You needed... Wed, 06 May 2026 18:17:02 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5879/I-Think-Like-a-Compiler-But-not-in-the-way-you-think https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5879/I-Think-Like-a-Compiler-But-not-in-the-way-you-think Over the years I have worked on a few personal projects, and I generally work on them long term (for years). Antsand is one of them. A flight controller is another. C-Kernel-Engine, which started as C-Transformer, is another. They look like... Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:44:00 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5878/Why-I-Stopped-Getting-High-on-the-Newer-AI-Models-And-Why-My-Strategic-Bet-Is-Still-Consistent-CPUs-Smaller-Models-and-Less-Compute-Will-Win https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5878/Why-I-Stopped-Getting-High-on-the-Newer-AI-Models-And-Why-My-Strategic-Bet-Is-Still-Consistent-CPUs-Smaller-Models-and-Less-Compute-Will-Win Last week, Claude Opus 4.7 "got released." And the Anthropic team is doing what Americans are genius at: marketing, marketing, marketing. The whole Claude, OpenAI, Gemini saga is the same playbook: bigger, better, more compute, scaling laws... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:53:01 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5877/My-two-tier-A-I-workflow-frontier-thinks-MiniMax-open-weights-does-the-heavy-lifting https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5877/My-two-tier-A-I-workflow-frontier-thinks-MiniMax-open-weights-does-the-heavy-lifting Everyone assumes you need the most expensive model to write good code. They are wrong. I have spent the last year building a CPU inference engine from scratch—no PyTorch, no TensorFlow, just C and x86 intrinsics. Along the way I learned som... Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:39:37 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5876/Why-I-m-Doubling-Down-on-C-in-2026 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5876/Why-I-m-Doubling-Down-on-C-in-2026 It's 2026, and the hype around memory safety is deafening. The industry consensus seems to be that C and C++ are archaic, "unsafe" languages that we need to abandon immediately. There is a growing chorus pinpointing that the majority of CVE... Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:20:37 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5875/2025-Fighting-Banks-Writing-C-and-The-Great-Untangling https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5875/2025-Fighting-Banks-Writing-C-and-The-Great-Untangling Looking back, 2025 has been a good year. Actually, it has been a transformative one.It was a year defined by taking control, whether that was taking control of my code by removing bloated frameworks, taking control of my rights against a bi... Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:41:39 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5874/The-Great-Untangling-Why-I-Ditched-Vue-Node-and-Microservices-for-Pure-JS-PHP-and-AI https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5874/The-Great-Untangling-Why-I-Ditched-Vue-Node-and-Microservices-for-Pure-JS-PHP-and-AI I have been developing Antsand since 2014. It is my digital garden, a sophisticated personal project that generates federated, static websites, including the blog you are reading right now.Eleven years is an eternity in software development... Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:36:02 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5872/Unimporting-PyTorch-How-Constraint-and-Curiosity-Built-a-C-Kernel-Engine https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5872/Unimporting-PyTorch-How-Constraint-and-Curiosity-Built-a-C-Kernel-Engine In a world where everyone is rushing to build the next high-level autonomous agent or wrap an API in a nice UI, I decided to go in the opposite direction. I wanted to go deep. I wanted to see the "ghost in the machine."My journey started wi... Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:29:02 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5870/My-2025-Roadmap-Building-Next-Generation-Drones-and-Robotics https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5870/My-2025-Roadmap-Building-Next-Generation-Drones-and-Robotics Welcome to 2025! I�m excited to share my latest plans and ongoing projects in the world of drone technology and robotics. Over the next year, I�ll be doubling down on drone test rigs, software development, and building a thriving community... Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:56:23 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5869/Reflecting-on-2024 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5869/Reflecting-on-2024 Alright, so 2024 is officially in the books. It had a few bumps along the way, but overall, it's been a pretty solid year. I managed to carry over some good habits from 2023, which definitely kept my momentum going. Here?s my rundown:Mortga... Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:59:46 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5866/Reflecting-on-2023-A-Year-in-Review https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5866/Reflecting-on-2023-A-Year-in-Review This has been a year that felt both lengthy and fleeting, and there are a few standout moments I'd like to share. Financial Milestone: Mortgage Payoff Journey One significant goal has been my determined effort to liberate myself from the cl... Mon, 01 Jan 2024 04:34:13 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5854/Year-end-review-2022 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5854/Year-end-review-2022 I seem to be writing blogs once a year. Not ideal but good enough. So, what has happened in 2022 and what do I plan to do in 2023?1. Had a baby girl2. Invest a lot more into my lab3. Spent more time learning electronic hardware design princ... Mon, 02 Jan 2023 02:30:07 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5843/Year-end-review-2021 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5843/Year-end-review-2021 It has been almost a year since I have written on this blog. This year has been interesting. So what has happened?1. I got marriedThis year in July I had got married. Life does not feel different as we have been together for the last 4-5 ye... Sat, 01 Jan 2022 02:28:49 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5841/The-3rd-Week-of-January https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5841/The-3rd-Week-of-January 17 Jan 2021 by Anthony ShivakumarThis past week or so I have been doing good energy-wise. One being, I can get up very early. Anywhere between 4:00 am and 5:00 am. I do not put an alarm. I get up organically. I love it. After I get up, go t... Fri, 21 May 2021 22:56:13 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5839/Client-work-and-system-identification https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5839/Client-work-and-system-identification On Monday I was working on a bit of client work and on drone tech. I woke up at 5:00am and started to do week 2 of the wim hof breathing. It is a good start to my morning. Get my lungs moving and helps set my mind for the day ahead.As menti... Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:54:13 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5838/Understaning-the-Kalman-Filter https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5838/Understaning-the-Kalman-Filter I am writing my Saturday and Sunday Journal together and a day later.�Saturday the 9thOn Saturday the 9th, I got up arund 6:30. I haev not done the Wim hof Breathing ever since I did my afternoon run and got a bad eye and head ache. I just... Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:50:05 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5837/Headache-and-eye-hurt https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5837/Headache-and-eye-hurt Today started off well. Got up at 4:45 and started to do my Wim Hof breathing. Then I got to work on the sensor fushion algorithm. I had breakfast at 7:45am. Around 8:30 am I had a shower. I ended it with 1min of cold water. It felt good. I... Thu, 07 Jan 2021 06:30:36 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5836/The-importance-of-priority-1-What-is-ANTSAND-and-why-is-it-being-built https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5836/The-importance-of-priority-1-What-is-ANTSAND-and-why-is-it-being-built ANTSAND first started as my personal dairy to keep track of my life. At one point in time, I did not wanted to use any Social media sites. I wanted to only use the one I created. I think the creator in me thought, if I can build one, I will... Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:57:34 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5835/Progress-on-Drones https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5835/Progress-on-Drones I did not write yesterday's journal. Today and yesterday I woke up at 430 am. This is so that I can squeeze in the Wim Hof Method in the morning. I want to get into the practice of breathing, meditating yoga, and perhaps even cold showers... Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:33:40 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5834/3rd-day-of-the-year https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5834/3rd-day-of-the-year Today, I got up at 5:00. Started to do the wim hof method week 1. It is going good. I feel great after each session. I want to get up earlier, perhaps at 4:30a.m so that I can get a head start on the meditation, breathing and yoga.�At 7:30... Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:08:26 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5833/The-2nd-day-of-the-year https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5833/The-2nd-day-of-the-year Today i woke up at 5:00 am. around 5:30 am or so I started to do the Wim Hof method. The breathing exercise, yoga and meditation. At 7 am I had to go out to get some bread for my breakfast. I then came home and prepared breakfast.For breakf... Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:10:49 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5832/1st-Jan-2021 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5832/1st-Jan-2021 �I am not big into the New Year celebration thing. It is just another day. Every day is kinda a new year. So, it is just a matter of perspective. Nevertheless, the date change does make a psychological impact. the 1st of the month, a differ... Sat, 02 Jan 2021 03:42:02 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5831/My-year-end-review-2020 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5831/My-year-end-review-2020 The year 2020 has finally come to an end. What a year. In this blog, I want to share what I did, what I learned, what I have transformed into, and what I plan to do in 2021.The year started well, with a bunch of well-paying clients. ANTSAND... Thu, 31 Dec 2020 21:49:32 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5830/A-cooking-day https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5830/A-cooking-day Woke up around 6:00 am. and worked on making a proper meal plan. We then went for gorcery shopping at 8:00 am. After we came back I made myself brunch while washing some of the fruits we just bought. I did not get much work done today. I di... Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:01:31 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5829/Working-on-ANTSAND https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5829/Working-on-ANTSAND Today is ANTSAND day. Monday and Tuesdays is where I will dedicate my time on ANTSAND. I got up today around at 6:00am. Went to the toilet, brushed my teeth and got to work. Around 9:45 am or so, I did my TACFIT moderate intensity workout... Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:41:55 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5828/A-lazy-day https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5828/A-lazy-day Today, I got up early and worked on some client work. I felt very bloated in the morning. A� lot of burping. I also sent a mail to a potential co-founder on starthawk. I most likely will need to look for a co-founder for ANTSAND. Will need... Tue, 29 Dec 2020 04:56:31 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5827/Root-Vegetables https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5827/Root-Vegetables Today, the 27th of December (Sunday) was a normal day. Got up around 7. We did our recycling before I joined my mastermind. The mastermind session was good. Chill, relaxed and we just spoke on few different topics. One of the books that was... Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:27:00 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5823/Getting-the-acclerometer-working https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5823/Getting-the-acclerometer-working Today, once again I got up early and started to work on getting the accelerometer working. I did start to get it working. Had a meeting with a friend that is likely to collaborate with me to make drones. After the meeting, we went for� a wa... Mon, 07 Dec 2020 05:59:51 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5822/I2C-and-learn-how-to-troubleshoot https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5822/I2C-and-learn-how-to-troubleshoot Today is hardware day.. Woke up early and got working on interfacing the gyroscope and accelerometer. The whole morning went trying to get I2C working. The signal were just not right. It took me the whole day to realize that there was a con... Sat, 05 Dec 2020 04:52:42 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5821/Learning-Kalman-Filtering https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5821/Learning-Kalman-Filtering Today was a lazy. Woke up a bit late, did not do any exercise and just not productive as such. Towards the evening I did spend some time learning how to use Kalman Filtering for attitude control of a quadcopter. Tomorrow, I will try to get... Fri, 04 Dec 2020 05:45:54 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5820/Recovering-but-bloated https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5820/Recovering-but-bloated Today, I did not want to do too much. So I spent time studying some Machine Learning Algorithims. Pretty much the whole went in learning.�My health is better, though I felt really bloated after dinner. I ate a decent size meal, but the bloa... Thu, 03 Dec 2020 05:49:16 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5818/Recovering https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5818/Recovering Today, I was feeling much better. I went to the doctor and they gave me a few tablets. If the problem still continues after 2-3 weeks then I need to go back. I have got most of my appetite back. I was able to eat my salmon, kale, yoghurt, n... Wed, 02 Dec 2020 05:18:46 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5817/Little-Tension-and-a-christmas-tree https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5817/Little-Tension-and-a-christmas-tree Today, I did not sleep too well. I work up at around 3:30 a.m. due to burping and farting. I did drink the prune juice yesterday. It might have been the cause of my discomfort. My� fiance could not bear the smell, so she slept in the living... Mon, 30 Nov 2020 02:41:18 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5816/let-the-progress-begin https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5816/let-the-progress-begin Alright, today was just a normal day. I work up at 6:30 am. I did pass motion, so that was good. Still constipated though. Not sure what the issue is. Hope it is not something too critical.�We went for a morning walk as it was bright and su... Sun, 29 Nov 2020 04:36:05 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5815/Another-slow-day https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5815/Another-slow-day Embedded system programming is tedious. Sometimes things work fast and quickly, sometimes they just take time. My progress this month has been very very slow. I have switched from working on the nrf24ap2e to the nrf24l01+. The latter is eas... Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:09:21 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5814/The-day-of-ups-and-downs https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5814/The-day-of-ups-and-downs Oh, today was an exhausting day. Not physically, but emotionally.My day started like any other day. Woke up early, passed motion, which is good. Not too constipated. Had a shower and got to work. Today is solder day. Which is, the day to so... Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:20:30 +0000 https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5813/Let-us-get-moving https://www.shivasnotes.com/blog/5813/Let-us-get-moving Today, once again i started the day early. A bit constipated. Hopefully nothing major. I might have to do more movement exercises. If it persists for a few more days or a week, I will have to go see a doctor.Other than that, I got most of t... Thu, 26 Nov 2020 06:26:04 +0000