01 — Nirmit Aggarwal, writing slowly

Notes worth the slow read, from Nirmit's desk.

Notes on code, math, and making things — written in plain markdown, compiled to a fast static site. No trackers, no feed, just paper.

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02 — Latest writingall →

Bash: Defensive Wizardry

Part 11 of the bash crash course: making scripts trustworthy — the four-letter ward set -euo pipefail, trap for cleanup magic, and bash -x for seeing what the spell actually casts.

Wizardry of Bash · 11

bashdebuggingrobustness

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Forks in the Road

Part 07 of the bash crash course: conditionals — if/elif/else, the test brackets and their gotchas, file existence checks, and case, the most readable spell in the book.

Wizardry of Bash · 07

bashifcaseconditionals

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Jobs & Signals

Part 12 of the bash crash course: process control — background jobs with &, the Ctrl-Z suspend dance, fg/bg/jobs, kill and the signal ladder, nice, and nohup for spells that outlive their summoner.

Wizardry of Bash · 12

bashjobssignalskill

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

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Learning Rust

A from-zero Rust series — why Rust exists, how to install it, and then the language one honest topic at a time. Part numbers are the reading order, not the calendar.

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Wizardry of Bash

A magical journey where you summon commands from the terminal, sacrifice your sanity to syntax errors, and eventually discover that `rm -rf` was, in fact, a terrible idea. 🧙‍♂️💀.

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04 — Topics

Everything is tagged. Follow a thread, or read about the machine that compiles the markdown.