Samyaq
Building useful little apps and writing through the work.
A personal corner for indie products, technical essays, and reflective notes from a builder learning in public without making the work louder than it needs to be.
Featured Apps
Currently Building
A collection of apps, tools, and ongoing experiments built around problems I found interesting enough to spend time solving.
Selected Projects
Projects & Experiments
Mostly smaller projects and experiments built while learning, testing ideas, and improving through practice.
Tkinter Automation Console
A desktop command surface that groups small Python utilities behind a GUI.
Explores how far simple desktop wrappers can go before a workflow needs a full web app.
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Face Recognition Desktop Lab
A local OpenCV experiment for collecting samples, training, and recognizing faces.
Documents the rough edge between ML demos, data capture, and usable operator tooling.
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Articles
Essays & Technical Notes
Technical blogs, tutorials, project notes, and thoughts collected while learning and building things.
Systems24 min read
Why Modern Software Performance Is Mostly About Waiting
Explore the physical realities shaping software performance, from latency, memory access, caching, and queues to coordination overhead, distributed systems, bandwidth limits, and the cost of moving information.
Systems16 min read
Big-O Notation And How Software Workloads Grow
Learn how Big-O notation helps programmers reason about scalability, growth, and algorithm efficiency. Understand O(1), O(log n), O(n), O(n log n), O(n²), recursion, loops, and real-world performance tradeoffs.
Systems13 min read
Binary Search And Why Logarithmic Algorithms Scale So Well
Learn why binary search scales so well, where O(log n) comes from, why sorted data matters, common implementation mistakes, and how binary search is used beyond arrays.
Recent Notes
Observations
Things I've been reading, watching, listening to, or thinking about lately.
Need a focused product build?
The best fit is a compact app, founder prototype, technical content system, or workflow tool that needs clear execution.