Sharad BapatExperiments and writing.https://sharadbapat.com/2026-09-25T00:00:00ZSharad Bapathttps://sharadbapat.com/https://sharadbapat.com/favicon.svgEvery cover here is CSShttps://sharadbapat.com/writing/every-cover-here-is-css/2026-09-25T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZThe moving covers on this site are painted by the browser from eight CSS recipes and ten palettes with Hindi names. No images, no JavaScript.Interactive lessonshttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/lessons/2026-09-25T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZThree five-minute lessons where you predict first and find out second: Monty Hall, Simpson's paradox and why √2 is not a fraction.Scan or text?https://sharadbapat.com/experiments/scan-or-text/2026-09-25T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZA 110 KB WebAssembly classifier that decides whether a PDF needs OCR in about a millisecond, without rendering it. 525 of 525 right. Try it here.Briefhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/brief/2026-09-24T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZA calm, newest-first reader that merges RSS, Atom and JSON feeds into one queue and opens the full article, running on Cloudflare Workers.Before History, Chapter 0https://sharadbapat.com/experiments/before-history/2026-09-23T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZA 67-second narrated documentary about India's deep past, drawn with Canvas and scored with Web Audio. Every frame and every sound is code.Jev evalhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/jev-eval/2026-09-22T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZAn evaluation of TypeSafe's Jev judgment model: 97.7% accurate, with one real flaw and a one-line fix. Give the model the rule, not just the request.Latchhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/latch/2026-09-20T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZCan a model reword text while provably keeping its facts? Seven verifier designs and two blind tests said not reliably, so I stopped.Blind spreadsheet benchmarkhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/blind-spreadsheet-benchmark/2026-09-13T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZTwenty real UK public spreadsheets, three editions each, labelled for what changed between editions. In a third of cases, a careful reader should stop.NDA clause modelhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/nda-clause-model/2026-09-04T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZA 184M-parameter model that reads an NDA, rules on 17 standard clauses and quotes its evidence. Tested once on a sealed set: 84.5% accuracy.ALTXIhttps://sharadbapat.com/experiments/altxi/2026-08-23T00:00:00Z2026-09-25T00:00:00ZCricket between people you know, played out by a seeded simulator. The result is fixed before the first ball, and your browser can check it.The best AI strategy is sometimes no AIhttps://sharadbapat.com/writing/the-best-ai-strategy-is-no-ai/2026-08-19T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZA client wanted AI in their workflow. I told them not to: the problem was deterministic, and intelligence would only have added cost, latency and doubt.A typing animation with zero JavaScripthttps://sharadbapat.com/writing/pure-css-typewriter/2026-08-16T00:00:00Z2026-09-24T00:00:00ZA typewriter effect that types, pauses, deletes and starts again, built entirely in CSS. No JavaScript, no timers, no libraries.