sid chava
founding eng @loreobsessed·internet diver
hi, i'm sid. i'm building Lore right now - a place to go deep on the stuff you're obsessed with, theory by theory, thread by thread. mostly i just like following a question until it opens into a whole world.
i study cs and finance over at nyu stern, though the more honest version is that i learn most things by building them at 2am and seeing what breaks. somewhere in there i wrote a paper on quantum PDE solvers, which still feels like a thing a different person did.
this is my corner of the internet. no pitch, no funnel - just the things i'm thinking about, in roughly the order i thought them.
# things i keep coming back to
“if you need therapy, try tennis”
the clearest hour of any week is the one spent chasing a ball nobody can fully control.
“youtube in the mid 2010s was something truly special”
a whole era of weird, earnest, hyper-specific internet that i don't think we'll get back.
“the cost of trying new things in software has pretty much gone to zero”
so the only real question left is taste - what's actually worth building.
# currently
building Lore - search & discovery for people who fall down rabbitholes on purpose.
live music. deep in the ISOxo and Baby J corner, where the bass does the talking.
a quiet, expensive thing for mechanical keyboards. switches, keycaps, the exact sound a board makes.
reading old internet - forums, fan wikis, the half-broken corners that still feel alive.
# find me
if you're building at the edge of search, fandom, or anything weird and internet-shaped - or you just want to argue about keyboards - say hi.