Hey, I'm Thananjhayan! 👋
I'm a software engineer building for the web. I make things with Vue and Nuxt, tinker with self-hosted tools, and write about what I learn along the way.
Everything on this site is written by me, not AI.
🧶 Featured Projects
A few things I've built. See all →
A self-hosted seedbox that turns any machine into a personal download station. Paste a magnet link, watch the download progress live, and grab the finished files from a clean web UI — Vue on the front, FastAPI driving qBittorrent behind it, all running in Docker.
Draw a digit and watch a small neural network figure out what you wrote — with the layers and activations visualised live in the browser. Built to make the inner workings of a classifier feel tangible instead of abstract.
🛠️ Tech I Work With
My day-to-day toolbox.
📚 Blog
Guides, references, and tutorials. Read all →
- Jul 5, 2026MySeedbox: From a Colab Hack to a Real Self-Hosted SeedboxRebuilding my throwaway Colab torrent notebook as a proper app — Vue frontend, FastAPI backend, qBittorrent engine, all in Docker.
- May 4, 2026Building a Personal Site with Nuxt, Content, and StudioA long-form walkthrough of how I built and shipped this portfolio.
- Nov 8, 2025Turning Google Colab into a Free SeedboxHow I used Colab, libtorrent, and Google Drive to download torrents in the cloud — no server required.
📝 Notes
Quick notes, references, and thoughts. Read all →
- Jul 12, 2026Spring Boot REST API — The Big PictureThe four pieces of a Spring Boot CRUD app and the order to build them in.
- Jul 5, 2026Spring Boot — Create the Project (Initializr)Generate the project on start.spring.io with the four required dependencies.
- Jun 28, 2026Spring Boot — MySQL Setup & ConnectionCreate the database, restore the backup, and wire up application.properties.
- Jun 14, 2026Spring Boot — The Item Entity ClassItem.java mapped to the table with JPA annotations, each explained.
- Jun 7, 2026Spring Boot — Repository & CRUD ControllerThe JpaRepository interface (free CRUD) plus an explicit REST controller.
Let's build something together
Whether you have a project in mind, a question, or just want to say hi — my inbox is always open.
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