About
Namaste, I’m jainam.
This is my small home on the internet — a place for things I build, things I learn, and things I probably spend too much time thinking about.
I’m a software engineer. I like building things that are fast, simple, and thoughtfully made. I care about the details — the architecture underneath, the interface on top, and all the tiny decisions in between that make software feel good to use.
I’m especially interested in AI, systems, the web, Apple platforms, design, and understanding what’s happening a few layers below the abstractions I use every day.
Outside the editor
My curiosity is somewhat poorly contained.
I can start with a perfectly ordinary question and somehow end up much further than I intended — wondering how airplanes stay in the sky, how anyone first figured out what light actually is, why a piece of music can hit so hard, or how humans managed to understand any of this in the first place.
One question usually leads to five more. Somewhere along the way I lose the original plot, open far too many tabs, and learn something I absolutely did not set out to learn.
I consider this a feature.
Music occupies an unreasonable amount of my brain. I’m an Anjuna boy at heart, with plenty of room for Pink Floyd. I’m drawn to music that takes its time — melodies that build, breathe, and eventually make you feel something you can’t quite put into words. Some songs are entertainment. The best ones feel more like places you can return to.
I grew up in Bombay, which probably deserves some credit for my inability to sit still intellectually.
I’m also hopelessly attached to FC Barcelona, fascinated by science, history, spirituality, and whatever else I knew absolutely nothing about three hours ago.
This website is where some of those rabbit holes will end up.