now: what nitin panwar is up to

work is ampd energy (opens in a new tab). we make batteries that replace diesel generators, and i build the software around them. most days that means the customer app people use to watch their sites, the kafka and mqtt pipelines that bring in a reading from every device every second, and the backend that turns it all into something you can look at.

after work i'm building two apps of my own. promptomato (opens in a new tab) lives in the mac notch: you hold fn and talk to write anywhere, it takes notes from your calls, and a small tomato nudges you when you drift. budly is a calm habit app for ios and android. a sprout called bud copies what you do, and after about 66 days a habit is learned and a new leaf grows. budly is coming soon.

i'm learning go and what happens closer to the metal, picking up rust for systems side projects, and building ai agents with langchain and langgraph. i keep coming back to operating systems, networking, and tools that stay out of the way.

outside of all that it's football, running as much as i can, and travelling anywhere with mountains. on a slow day it's a game i'll never finish, a good movie, or chai and doing nothing.