Nirav Nikhil Baral's personal website: By Nirav. Displays his programming and electronics projects, and write ups on things he finds interesting.https://new.bynirav.com/https://new.bynirav.com/miti-today/https://new.bynirav.com/miti-today/A minimal Nepali calendar: a static page redeployed nightly by a Cloudflare Worker, then iOS and Android widgets.Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/router-ups/https://new.bynirav.com/router-ups/A Yarsa Tech UPS built for a single home or small-office router, keeping the internet up through power cuts.Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/keeb/https://new.bynirav.com/keeb/A keyboard I designed from the PCB up, to practice the ancient art of bespoke keyboard building.Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/auth-multiplexing/https://new.bynirav.com/auth-multiplexing/Running Basic Auth and bearer-token auth side by side through Nginx and Caddy by renaming a header on the way in.Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/seven-segment/https://new.bynirav.com/seven-segment/A small model-view web tool for designing animations for a row of seven-segment displays driven by shift registers.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/microkeeb/https://new.bynirav.com/microkeeb/A compact macropad Simon and I made: my first keyboard, and my introduction to PCB design and QMK.Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/playdate-clock/https://new.bynirav.com/playdate-clock/Turning the Playdate into a low-power desk clock that shows the Nepali (BS) date alongside the time.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/nightless/https://new.bynirav.com/nightless/can't sleep won't sleep: a prose poem about fever, incandescent light and the ancient night.Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/tms-captcha/https://new.bynirav.com/tms-captcha/Nepal Stock Exchange's TMS login captcha is purely cosmetic. A few lines of JavaScript, and a Chrome extension, fill it in for you.Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/octopus-game/https://new.bynirav.com/octopus-game/A one-day browser game experiment that grew into a small HTML5 canvas game engine: physics, collisions, a camera and pixel-art animation.Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/parkhirachhu/https://new.bynirav.com/parkhirachhu/I keep on waiting for a relief; she'll come barefoot. A poem about waiting on a terrace at 11 pm.Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/flappy-millennial/https://new.bynirav.com/flappy-millennial/A Flappy Bird clone built on my own canvas game engine, a 60-line version, a sub-1KB version, and a tiny Azure analytics backend.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/mansa/https://new.bynirav.com/mansa/Building a compiled Nepali programming language from scratch in C++: lexer, recursive descent parser, website, IDE and Arduino support.Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/nepali-keyboard/https://new.bynirav.com/nepali-keyboard/A phonetic Nepali keyboard layout for Windows, designed to be learnt in half an hour, and how to install it.Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/visualize-cpp/https://new.bynirav.com/visualize-cpp/Debugging an abstract syntax tree by generating Graphviz DOT from C++ and rendering it as a picture.Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/nepali-unicode/https://new.bynirav.com/nepali-unicode/How Nepali text went from font-specific ASCII hacks to Unicode, and what that means for typing, fonts and compound characters.Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/linux-sandboxing/https://new.bynirav.com/linux-sandboxing/What it takes to safely run user-compiled programs on a server: namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, and a tour of sandboxing tools.Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/animating-walle/https://new.bynirav.com/animating-walle/A hand-etched ATmega32 board, a flipbook-style animation tool in JavaScript, and time-multiplexed firmware for a P10 dot-matrix display.Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/pixel-skeleton/https://new.bynirav.com/pixel-skeleton/Learning to draw the human skeleton, then distilling it into a short pixel-art walk cycle in Piskel.Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://new.bynirav.com/huffman/https://new.bynirav.com/huffman/An all-nighter implementation of Huffman coding in C++: prefix codes, a priority queue, a bit-packing stream, and how it compares to gzip.Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT