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01Educational 8 min read

Decoding the Digital Label: Building a CV-Powered Ingredient Scanner

How I fine-tuned YOLOv8 to detect cosmetic ingredient sections on product labels and ran OCR entirely on-device — no server, no API, no cost per scan.

March 2025

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02Gaming 6 min read

State Management in Kotlin: What I Learned Building Circle of Lies

A deep dive into ViewModels, StateFlow, and how clean state management made a social deduction game actually playable.

February 2025Read

03Books 5 min read

A Little Life — and Why It Wrecked Me (In the Best Way)

My thoughts on Hanya Yanagihara's devastating novel, and what it taught me about storytelling and human resilience.

January 2025Read

04Educational 10 min read

Getting Started with On-Device ML: ONNX Runtime on Android

A practical guide to exporting models to ONNX format and running inference offline on mobile devices using ONNX Runtime Mobile.

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05Data Analysis 4 min read

My Data Analysis Toolkit in 2025

The Python libraries, notebooks, and visualisation tools I reach for when exploring a new dataset.

November 2024Read

06Series 7 min read

Arcane Season 2 — A Systems Thinker's Review

Beyond the stunning visuals, Arcane tells a story about systems, decisions, and unintended consequences. Here's my breakdown.

October 2024Read

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