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About me 🪪

I'm Rahul Sivananda (he/him), the Internet knows me by the name Coding Otaku (they/them). I used to work as a Full-Stack Developer in London, now actively looking for a job after being laid off.

I care about Accessibility, Minimalism, and good User Experiences. I create small tools and scripts to make the life easy. If you need help or support with GNU/Linux system, or making your website accessible, you can reach out to me!

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Subscribe to my web feeds if you like what I post and want to read them without visiting this website!

You can also find me on Mastodon, Codeberg, or Peertube.

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

Supporting me 🫂

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 💰.

About this website

This is my personal website containing my 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.

To know more about how I develop this website and to build it for yourself, checkout the project page.

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 site preferences form after clicking the toggle preferences option at the top of every 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.

Clubs

This website is part of the following clubs. If you would like me to be part of one of your clubs, please let me know via email.

Webrings

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