Avinash Gosavi
Engineering Leader
Recent Posts
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What Should You Actually Use to Build Your Next Hobby Project?
I recently built daylog — a personal diary app where you speak or type your thoughts and they get encrypted and stored privately, with AI transcription happening server-side using Whisper. The inte...
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Live Audio Transcription on a $0 Server Using Whisper
While building daylog — a private voice diary app — I needed a way to transcribe audio from a phone in near real-time, running entirely on my own server. No OpenAI API, no Google, no third-party se...
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Attractor: Building a Memory Engine Inspired by How the Brain Works
I’ve been thinking about memory — not human memory, but how machines store and retrieve it. Most systems today are either key-value stores (fast, exact, dumb) or vector databases (semantic, but sti...
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VaultMem Part 3 — Hiding PII from Your LLM Provider
Part 1 covered the core encryption model. Part 2 covered multi-modal ingestion and pluggable backends. This post covers v0.3.x — a new layer of privacy that addresses a problem encryption at rest c...
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VaultMem Part 2 — Multi-Modal Memory, Temporal Search, and Pluggable Backends
Part 1 covered why I built VaultMem, how the encryption works, and the core memory model. This post covers what came next in v0.2.0 and v0.2.1 — the parts that took the library from a solid foundat...