January Journal

01 Jan 2026 Anshul Raj Verma

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Weekly Journal by ARV of January 202

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Week 01 Journal

  1. Came home on 23 December.
  2. Learning and exploring CNNs concepts like Object recognition, object detection. Also recalling fundamentals like filters, channels, padding, pooling, etc.
  3. IDEA: A CV project for student attendance using Object detection technique from video input.
  4. Explored Burn and actually understood something (but not much).
    • Wrote couple of lines and able to build a pipeline to train a simple NN model with Iris dataset.
  5. Performed cleanup in:
    • GitHub Stars: Removed dead, un-useful (personally) repositories.
    • Folo RSS: Replaced some rsshub:// feeds with open-source maintained projects like RSSBridge, GitHubTrendingRSS. Also added rss feeds.
  6. Hero Hockey India League 2026 is streaming for free on YouTube 😉.

Week 02 Journal

  1. Disabled Prettier for dprint in Zed editor.
    • The dprint extension in Zed is not maintained wisely as the language configuration is not full featured. The maintainer copied the configs of biome-zed extension’s config.
  2. I stumble upon a very nice video on Object Detection by YOLOv8 by “Murtaza Workshop” YouTube channel. Now I can easily work with YOLO models and can build some CV projects.
  3. Thinking of creating content or documenting my learning journey or my projects on YouTube. That’s why I installed OBS Studio to record and stream videos.
    • Requested for live streaming on my YouTbe account. Let’s see how it goes?
    • First I will start non-face cam live sessions, only audio.
  4. I sometime write the Journal in Raycast Notes so the sentences might become present tense as I am writing and thinking/doing at same time or going to do.
  5. There’s a /blog in main website which I use for technical notes and references. Now, I want to write my thoughts, random small thoughts (if I get time for it). So I’ll use new /diary/page endpoint for that.
    • I am tweaking the /blog for better visibility or for no reason.
  6. Updated and fixed Zed editor VS Code Dark Modern theme. Put it in my dotfiles.
  7. I got suspended by GitHub in the morning and just after automatically resumed, but why? I don’t know. Although I got an email about it but there is no clarification. They just instructed to reset the password.
    • Now, my hosted websites (arv-anshul.github.io) are not working.
    • I am able to commit into my repositories and raised an issue in other repository successfully.
    • My issues are not visible in public, checked from incognito.
    • I have created a new ticket (#3999489) at GitHub Support on 2026-01-08T23:29:00.
  8. Successfully, configured mdformat in arv-anshul/diary repository to format the Markdown files as expected.
    • Not able to do so for arv-anshul/arv-anshul.github.io repository due the formatter’s behavior of replacing   (like HTML tokens) with corresponding UTF-8 character, which I don’t want. There is no option to disable it.
  9. SG Pipers won Hero Hockey India League (Women) tournament and I’m supporting them ;).

Week 03 Journal

  1. Amazing video on Model Distillation for Query Intent Classification. He doesn’t distill any LLM or SLM instead a simple-small NN using the data generated by GPT 3.5 model.
  2. Wrote a new page Review of 2025.
  3. Explored codebase of Presenton, to learn how to create an AI to generate or edit PPTX documents. And I have to say there is a lot going on not only in Python (Backend) side in fact on TypeScript (Frontend) side too. I want to review it once more soon.
  4. IDEA: A CLI which fetches release notes of provided GitHub repositories and displays the notes in terminal.
    • Now I am learning Rust programming through this.
    • Check rlog in arv-anshul/thrust repository.
  5. Oooh! Got the full access of my GitHub account. Support assisted to privatize to delete the arv-anshul/dotfiles repository, I changed the visibility to PRIVATE. See diary page to know in detail.
  6. Ordered Google Arcade gifts. I got a T-Shirt, a Water Bottle, some Magnetic stickers, and an Arcade Stickers Sheet.
    • Although, I may have been gotten some more but I got distracted by Jaipur trip and then College.
  7. Wrote a new page Follow a Routine.
  8. I am planning to migrate my website (from mkdocs-material) to some other framework maybe Mintlify, Astro, etc. First I’ll do arv-anshul/diary then eventually (if I like it) migrate arv-anshul/arv-anshul.github.io.

Week 04 Journal

  1. Continued learning Rust from rlog project.
  2. Working on the work given by @Sarvesh.
  3. Explored Fumadocs for personal docs migration alternative.
    • It is quite intriguing but hard to figure out what’s happening in the files. All the functions are scattered, but now able to navigate. I know they are in there but with new eyes it’s hard to figure out.
    • Read page Migrate Docs to Fumadocs.
  4. Installed Zorin OS on home laptop (DELL) it is working fine for now, but the laptop’s display is too bad to stare, not good as Mac’s.
  5. Store SSH Keys in BitWarden.
  6. Used LocalSend for file transferring between Phone and Mac.
  7. IDEA: Create a web app (specially static web app if possible) to convert a photo into passport sized photo and the convert it into A4 size PDF for printing.
  8. Updated dotfiles. See page Dotfiles Management.
  9. Came Patna for JEE test of @Akansha.
  10. Stayed in Patna for three days (24 Jan to 26 Jan).

Week 05 Journal

  1. Kalinga Lancers won HIL tournament. I supported them ;)
  2. My priorities:
    • Website
    • Learn the Burn framework
    • Excel Deep Learning
    • Improve the yt-watch-history
    • Or new project.
  3. Worked on website migration (Fumadocs + Tanstack Start + Vite + Bun). Currently I am not very confident to migrate.
  4. Trying to book train ticket to return with @Himanshu.
  5. Trying Astro to create the website from scratch. I got some progress with it and I am liking it, planning to stick with it.