debarkak

a letter from someone special :)

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

this blog post is something different, not usually what i post in my website but i wanted to share this with you all, it’s a letter from someone who’s very special to me, and my life friend, i won’t write much here now, because i am just too focused on reading the letter over and over again becasue i love this so much.

My Dearest,

For I write with my quill,
Your absence gives me heartache still,
Your presence—like the moonlight,
Guiding me through the darkest night.

new stuffs! (new minecraft & discord server)

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

hello there,

so as my friends were telling me to make a minecraft server because i had too many servers and also they wanted to play on a multiplayer server, and also since i recently got a copy of minecraft as a birthday gift from a friend, i decided to make a new minecraft server, while at it i also made a new discord server as well!

so basically both things for everyone, so yeah.

arkanaos package manager

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

i’m gonna be quite short with this one because i don’t have much to write, but i just wanted to share this and my current project.

and oh btw before i proceed, i do wanna mention that i wrote this blog post by myself and no ai is writing this. however, the package manager i wrote is made 100% using ai, which i will give reasons for later on.

so i have been discussing with celunah about arkanaOS because it’s quite empty and unmaintained. i was gonna ask him if i could contribute to the project because, well, i wanted to learn something and do something else instead of just working on my nothing x for pc.

arkanaos package manager architecture

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

format & structure

an .ark package is literally just an lz4-compressed tar archive with the extension changed to .ark. decided to keep it simple instead of writing a custom binary format from scratch.

no config file. no remote repositories or pacman -Sy. just local install, remove, list, and search.

everything is plain text.
/etc/arkpkg/package.db
list of installed packages

/etc/arkpkg/packages/<package>.arkinfo
installed package information

<package>.tar.lz4
actual package archive

package contents

inside an .ark file (like bash-5.3.0-x86_64.ark):

nothing ear reverse engineering

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

note

just to be transparent, majority of this notes is written with AI. i didn’t really have that much time to write all of this. so i just let the ai write most of this note, however i will try to make the actual docs of this project 100% written by me (i won’t be able to, i only know how to code.)

ok so this literally started because i wanted Nothing X on desktop. thought it’d be a weekend project. ended up learning way more bluetooth than i ever intended to.
first repos i found
https://github.com/DaanHessen/earctl
https://github.com/radiance-project/ear-web
https://github.com/Bestello/dms-nothingx
had all 3 open side by side basically the whole project.
earctl = cleanest implementation.
ear-web = “how th does this even work in a browser”.
dms-nothingx = easiest place to quickly change packets.
started with ear-web because browser implementation was probably going to reveal transport immediately.
opened bluetooth_socket.js.
expected

/about

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

i’m Debarka Kundu.

professional overthinker.

class 9 student.

i enjoy linux, self-hosting, photography, travelling, open source, random hardware, music, and building things that probably didn’t need to exist.

this website is basically my notebook.

if i’m working on something, thinking about something, or accidentally breaking something…

it’ll probably end up here.

check out my blog to read more :)

or if ur lazy here you can click here and read my first blog post. (it’s not that good though).

/hosts

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

i originally wanted to host this website myself. not on GitHub Pages.

i already have an Oracle Cloud OCI VM that’s online 24/7 (free tier of course, because i am broke), so it would’ve worked just fine. i usually prefer hosting my own projects myself. it gives me a level of control that i honestly can’t explain. (autism moment.)

another reason was that my brother, @preetamsad, has also been considering self-hosting his own website. i remember him asking me (and a few people in his discord server) whether he should host it on a Raspberry Pi 5 or on his VPS.

/projects

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

help, soon.

/uses

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

software

os: endeavouros + windows 11 pro (main os’es), and windows 11 ltsc 2024 (for gaming)
editor: nano/lazyvim
code: google antigravity

hardware

laptop: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ASUS Vivobook 14 M1407KA_M1407KA
phone: Xiaomi REDMI Note 15 5G
audio: Apple Airpods 4 ANC

laptop specs

Model: ASUS Vivobook 14 M1407KA
CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 (4 cores / 8 threads, up to 4.5 GHz)
GPU: AMD Radeon 820M (integrated)
RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5X-7500 (soldered)
Storage: 512 GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD
Display: 14" 1920×1200 (16:10), 60 Hz IPS
Battery: 42 Wh
Wireless: Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth 5.3
OS: EndeavourOS (main), Windows 11 Pro, and Windows 11 LTSC (gaming, external 512 GB SSD)

customization (gnome, endeavouros)

browser

Firefox

terminal

GNOME Console

shell

bash (forever)

font

Noto Sans
JetBrains Mono

theme

Adwaita-dark + Qogir icons

currently running linux 69% of the time.

hello world!

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

hello there! welcome to my website!

if you’re new here,

i’m Debarka Kundu. i’m 16 years old and currently in class 9 (CBSE) at SVAEE.

i spend way too much time messing with linux, self-hosting, photography, travelling, random projects, learning new things, music, and building stuff that probably didn’t need to exist in the first place.

this website is basically where i dump everything i do. projects, blogs, random writeups, photos, opinions, experiments, and whatever else i find interesting enough to write about.