By day I manage security design and variable data printing at the Security Printing Centre - the Government of Nepal's national security press in Panauti - the backbone of the nation's path to self-reliance in security printing. It's the desk where National IDs, passports, driving licences, excise stamps and, in time, banknotes get their defences: guilloché that won't survive a scanner, microprint that won't survive a photocopier, serialization that makes every single document accountable. The presses are HP Indigo 6K Secure machines; the tolerance for "almost right" is zero. I'm a certified Corvina designer - Jura's security-design suite, the pen this trade is written with.
That work rewires how you think. Once you've designed against adversaries who profit from a single successful fake, you stop trusting anything you can't verify - including your own software stack. So the tools I build lean small and inspectable: standard library over frameworks, plain files over databases, code you can read in an evening. If my VPS manager needs no dependencies, nothing upstream can quietly change what it does. That's not minimalism as fashion - it's the same threat model as the day job.
The open-source shelf is where that shows: touch-bar resurrects the Touch Bar on T2 MacBooks running Linux, Fleet manages a fleet of servers from the Omarchy bar, nWriter is a Rust writing app with its own spreadsheet engine and PDF typesetter, and football and type exist because I wanted them to. Most of it orbits Omarchy, the Linux setup I run daily. And it's an AI-heavy workshop - some fifty billion tokens burned through my terminals in 2026 alone. The judgment stays mine; the typing doesn't have to be.
I also run Envision Analytics Pvt. Ltd., a one-person product company in Kathmandu. Its public face is HamroSkill, a service marketplace for Nepal; behind it sit agricultural data products and internal tooling that aren't ready for daylight. And with an MBA and years inside government systems, I consult on public procurement of consulting services - the paperwork side of trust.
Different rooms, same job: make the thing that can't be quietly faked.
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This site practices what it preaches: hand-set HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript - no framework, no build step, no analytics, no cookies, and zero third-party requests: even the typefaces (Space Grotesk and IBM Plex Mono, both SIL-licensed) are served from this folder. The guilloché is drawn in your browser from parametric rose curves, so every visit gets a fresh plate. The thin rules are microprint. The footer MRZ follows ICAO 9303 with honestly computed check digits. And like any genuine document, it keeps a layer you can only see .
View source. That's the point.