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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. Sometimes I write stories and draw things.

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

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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.

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 customize this website to your liking by updating the site preferences slightly.

Why?

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 are websites I willingly added myself to.

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.

Backlinks

These are some of the websites I stumbled up on with my website mentioned somewhere in them. Note that this list is not a promotion of their opinions or the things they do. To see the ones I follow, checkout my blogroll.