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Coding Otaku

Hi, I’m Rahul (he/him), the Internet knows me by the name Coding Otaku (them/them) or sometimes as Rua (she/her).

I care about Accessibility, Minimalism, and good User Experiences. I'm currently working on ownet.org, my pet project.

Get my cURL card with curl -sL https://codingotaku.com/cc.

About This website 🪪

This is my personal website containing my notes, blogs, projects, stories, other things I do, and ways to contact me. It partially supports the IndieWeb while keeping accessibility, minimalism, and your privacy in mind.

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Accessibility

If you are having difficulties navigating this website or accessing its content, please contact me with details so that I can fix it for everyone.

You should be able to customise this website to your liking by using the theme selector page.

You can read my accessibility statement to know more about how I ensure the accessibility, the technical specification, and the known issues.

What made me create this website.

The Internet used to be a lovely place where people could share their views and ideas in the public domain. But it has now become a slow and bloated mess made by developers who are following the latest buzzwords for resume-driven development.

I also believe that it is acceptable to use buzzword technologies as long as the people using/visiting the project/site are not burdened. It is too easy to create bloated and heavy software and too difficult to make slim and light ones.

I am hoping to inspire new and young developers to take the right path by making this website, showing that you can still make a functioning, beautiful, ethical, and light-weight website without making it the size of doom.

Behind the name

I like watching Anime just as much as I love tinkering with software. So, I wanted to choose a name that’s related to both programming and Anime.

I had a few candidates for a good name, but none of them rolled out of the tongue like Coding Otaku. To my surprise, no one bought “codingotaku.com” as a domain name, and I could not find anyone on social media going by that name.

While what I do is programming and not coding, the name stuck with me long enough that I’m not bothered by it any more.

Otaku is a Japanese term for people with consuming interests, In modern Japanese slang, the term Otaku is mostly equivalent to “geek” or “nerd”. But it is now widely used as a term to refer to people who are obsessed with Anime and Japanese culture (though that’s not the proper way to use it).

Elsewhere

You might be able to find me on the wild, the clubs and webrings below are websites I willingly added myself to after careful evaluation. To find other places I have account on, visit my contact page.

Webrings

This website is also part of a few webrings. If you would like me to be part of one of your webring, please let me know via email.

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Recent Posts

Recent Notes

Small posts that doesn't need to be a blog/article.

Collapse is Targetted at the Future

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2026-Jun-26 at 10:22:59

Remember that the Age verification, VPN ban, degradation of services, degradation of equality, are NOT targeted at the current generation. They know that we will find ways to survive because, there will always be people who help us.

These policies and laws are targeted at those who can help and the future generation who won't be told that there are alternatives.

The changes make our lives difficult, and for the coming generation, impossible. So the right approach to this is not just find alternatives and workarounds, it is to organize, and fight.

Keep Android Open

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2026-Jun-25 at 07:21:22
Last updated on: 2026-Jun-25 at 07:22:06

A reminder that if the VPN ban hits the UK, Google will have their developer verification thingy silently installed in almost all androids. This enables them to silently uninstall your VPN apps too.

You won't have much choice if you are using Apple, they already have this malware.

If you can, get a used pixel phone and install GrapheneOS in it. If not, and if you can go without the Google apps, have a look at custom ROMs.

Recent Blogs

Blog posts

Why LLM Writing is Easy to Spot

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2026-Jun-23 at 11:12:35

I don't usually write about LLM on my blogs, the reason is simple, people don't really care about is as much the media make it to be.I bit the bullet and asked a few well-known AI agents, (with subscription), to write a few things for me. These are what I noticed.

After 10 Years, I Am Adding JavaScript Back to This Website

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2026-Apr-29 at 07:46:52

I removed JavaScript once to pursue a fully semantic HTML, but it is very hard to keep it accessible without JavaScript when some components are involved.

Recent Projects

These are just some of my projects, to see more, checkout mycodeberg repository.

Ani-Gui

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2026-May-11 at 14:49:55
Last updated on: 2026-May-24 at 17:18:42

A modern, accessible GUI anime streaming client for Linux built with Rust and egui. Based on the popular ani-cli but with a native desktop interface.

Themeinator

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2025-Nov-09 at 19:29:39

A customizable Firefox extension that automatically adapts your browser theme to match your system's light/dark mode preferences.

Recent Short Stories

This is a collection of short stories, I initially split them into individual stories but merging them into a collection makes more sense

Immortal: The Controller

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2024-Mar-19 at 17:34:23

An advanced, futuristic world.

The patient: Space Programme

Coding Otaku

Published on: 2024-Feb-03 at 13:09:02

An optimimstic patient.

Recent Transformed

Samantha and her young 6-year-old daughter Jane found that a few mysterious creatures had invaded in their home which can transform into anyone. They attacked her and Jane so she ran away with her daughter to find help and shelter.