Sachin Nandakumar

sachinnandakumar.me

Sachin
Nandakumar

I build things for a language most tools ignore, take too many photos on trips, and I'm still not over Agüero, 93:20.

⌨ code 📷 photo ⚽ football 🍺 beer 🌐 NLP

See the blog My projects

Travel & Photo Blog

Praha — My Next Destination is Prague

Praha — My Next Destination is Prague

Kerala Floods & A New Chapter in Magdeburg

Kerala Floods & A New Chapter in Magdeburg

September 30, 2018

Mandaragiri Hill — Basadi Betta

Mandaragiri Hill — Basadi Betta

August 20, 2018

Agrasen ki Baoli — Delhi's Haunted Stepwell

Agrasen ki Baoli — Delhi's Haunted Stepwell

August 10, 2018

Historic Hampi

August 05, 2018

Hello World

@onefingerclick More photography, one frame at a time — on Instagram →

Code & Projects Blog

October 12, 2026 · Building Jayasree · Part 1 Jayasree, Part 1: Why Malayalam Deserves a Pen Animating Malayalam as handwriting, stroke by stroke. Where the idea came from, who got there first, and how this series will unfold. October 18, 2026 · Building Jayasree · Part 2 Jayasree, Part 2: A Letter Is Not a Glyph Malayalam text is not one-character-one-shape. What HarfBuzz does to it, the dotted-circle trick, and why chillu has two spellings. October 18, 2026 · Building Jayasree · Part 3 Jayasree, Part 3: Teaching a Font to Draw A font knows what a letter looks like, not how it is written. The stroke recorder, the data model, and the layers that protect hand-made data.

All code posts →

Projects

● Live · in progress

Malayalam language tools and NLP resources. A home for the language on the open web.

linguaalayam.org →

Malayalam handwriting, animated stroke by stroke. A standalone JavaScript library any website can embed, and a demo app for learning to write.

● In progress

Detect when your README has drifted out of sync with the actual state of your project.

pypi → readme-drift