https://kirtansoni.com/ Blog posts and notes by Kirtan Soni. en https://kirtansoni.com/posts/resume-that-compiles.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/resume-that-compiles.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Treating a one-page résumé like a software artifact — content as data, layout as code, a renderer, and a linter that measures how well every line is used. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/automata-job-pipeline.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/automata-job-pipeline.html Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Automata — a daily pipeline that scrapes Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple postings, asks a local 3B model one question about each, and only pings my phone when the answer is good. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/ortho-diary.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/ortho-diary.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Ortho Diary — clinical records for one orthopaedic surgeon, where every form is 195 lines of JSON, a saved visit can only be amended (never edited), and Claude reads discharge PDFs without ever getting write access. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/forge-context-management.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/forge-context-management.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A git-like CLI that gives AI agents a senior engineer's memory of your codebase — automatically, incrementally, and always in sync. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/xeno-chat.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/xeno-chat.html Sun, 24 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Xeno Chat — built in one overnight session on May 12: a LangGraph agent over my family's retail SQL Server that answers plain-English questions, draws charts mid-conversation, shows its running cost in rupees, and grades its own answers every morning. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/word-weave.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/word-weave.html Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Word Weave — a word game where you steer a streaming GPT-3.5 completion toward a quote you're never allowed to type. Prototyped at 2:44 a.m., deadlocked the first time someone won, rewritten five weeks after its "final prod version" into a single Go binary. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/reverse-proxy.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/reverse-proxy.html Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 I wanted every side project behind one domain without ever editing a config file, so I wrote a Go reverse proxy whose route table is edited from the server's own stdin. Go's ServeMux refused to forget a route, and autocert made my best-tested package redundant. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/forwarding-streaming-response.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/forwarding-streaming-response.html Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 How to forward an HTTP/1.1 chunked streaming response through a proxy server in real time, in Go. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/pyapply-cli-job-applications.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/pyapply-cli-job-applications.html Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0000 PyApply, a CLI tool that automates job applications and generates AI cover letters. https://kirtansoni.com/posts/spotipy-currently-playing-flask.html https://kirtansoni.com/posts/spotipy-currently-playing-flask.html Thu, 19 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000 Using the Spotipy API in Flask to display the song your Spotify account is currently playing.