Hi, I am Rachit (@rachitdhar). Here I am planning to share all sorts of interesting stuff that I have built or written. I have worked on various programming languages and several different kinds of software (including console apps, desktop tools, web, games, libraries), and really like exploring new and creative ideas that I often work on recreationally; with the side effect that they occassionally happen to also be useful. Personally, I like thinking from a fundamentals approach, and taking care of small but important low-level technical details that matter for performance: including memory, algorithmic time complexity, and overall system design.

Besides this, my interests are quite broad — ranging from areas like physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering, to philosophy, evolutionary biology, psychology, art, music, chess, and classic literary works. Of course, given the breadth of it all, I wouldn't claim to know all subjects to a significant depth; but I hope to keep learning!

I just happened to think it would be pretty nice to have a place to write down stuff, or just put up written material / notes of mine if I ever feel the desire to do so. Thus, I have created a posts page for this purpose.

There are a massive number of great books that I plan on reading, but it is of course impractical to buy them all at once. So I have been maintaining a personal excel sheet to help with this. It allows me to not only keep a list of several good books for the future, but also keep track of the ones that I have in my possession, and the ones that I have already finished (at least to the extent of my personal satisfaction). Here I have created a page containing this book list (in case it might be of interest to anyone).

Here are some sites that I have created. These include both tools and web games (several other tools and games can also be found in the Apps section on this page)

• Convert JPEG to Pixel Art
• Flappy Bird Game

• Dhar, R., Krishna, A., & Muhammed, B. (2024). Physics and data driven model for prediction of residual stresses in machining. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18441.