Aswin Mohan

handcrafted by someone who loves code (mobile, frontend, backend), design and life.

I'm currently looking for oppurtunities in Elixir, Phoenix, React and React Native, both full-time and on a contract basis. Contact me at hey@aswinmohan.me and let's talk.

Best Work

IndiePaper

A self-publishing platform for Indie Authors.

CoronaRM

A CRM for contact tracing implemented in Pathanamthitta, Kerala.

LessPhone

A minimal Android Launcher to reduce phone use with over 250,000 downloads.

Ultron OS

A bootable Operating System as my high-school project.

Top Posts

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ MacOS like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

Learn how to setup Manjaro/Arch to get MacOS like fonts in the interface and Chrome.

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Page Specific Javascript with Phoenix LiveView and Esbuild

Learn how to split your LiveView Javascript pagewise with esbuild, so your main app.js file stays small and people only download and execute the javascript they require.

๐ŸŒŸ Superfast Webapps using NextJS, Vercel, LiveView and Fly.io

IndiePaper has a NextJS frontend which proxies requests to the LiveView backend. This means that I can easily edit and serve the marketing pages separtely and make it available even when the main site goes down. This post outlines the setup.

All Posts

Minimal Config, or How I Learnt to Love the Defaults.

2023-Oct-16 A brief post on how I stopped configuring the hell out of my tools, decided to settle for the defaults and finally started doing the work that really matters.