Writing

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Deep dives into projects I've built — the architecture, decisions, and problems I ran into along the way.

Finance PWA Single-File

RafiFinance — Personal Finance PWA

How I built a complete personal finance tracker as a single HTML file — budgets, saving goals, 6-month analysis, and a financial health score. No npm. No build step. No server.

5 min read 5 sessions Read post

RAG LLM Self-Hosted

PaperMind — Local RAG Paper Analyzer

I built an AI that reads and answers questions about research papers — running entirely on my own hardware, zero cloud dependency. RAG, ChromaDB, Ollama, and a campus firewall that blocked everything.

12 min read 6 sessions Read post

Machine Learning Transfer Learning

Crop Disease Detector

An AI that identifies plant diseases from a single leaf photo. Built with MobileNetV2 + Transfer Learning, trained on PlantVillage, and deployed live on Hugging Face Spaces.

8 min read 6 sessions Read post