Sajal Choudhary

Sajal Choudhary

Sajal Choudhary

I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.

I am also the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.

NordLetter

I send out a newsletter once a week about living in Finland + five interesting things I've found on the open web.

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Lately

Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, the shelf, and the Nordletter.

October 2026
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Better Talks and Reading Metaphors

Searching things A surprising way I use my website is for its search function. This was not an original use case for the website, the why of the thing. (I don't think I ever wrote the why of my website down anywhere. I…

September 2026
Micro3 days ago

Treat your to-read pile like a river | Oliver Burkeman

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because there aren't an overwhelming number of them, but because it never occurred to you that it might be your job to get through them all.

I feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that I need to read. It was the same reason why I tried current. I did not like the fact that it took the control away from me, but I liked the concept of it.

This provides the same mental model - something that flows and you just pick what interests you. I have a similar setup on my website - between garden and stream.

Some things feel obvious after you read them. This feels like one of those things.

Now5 days ago

Learning Local LLM Inference

Learning about hosting models locally on server infrastructure using inference engines like vLLM, and the llm-d router. 2026-09-28 15:24 Finished the KodeKloud…