About
I’m Sumit — a programmer, traveller, and photographer based in Tampa, Florida. I’ve been building things and writing about them on this little corner of the web since 1995, back when it lived on a university server and I was a student at USF. Three decades later I’m still doing more or less the same thing: taking stuff apart, figuring out how it works, and occasionally putting it back together.
If there’s a thread that ties the programming, the travelling, and the photography together, it’s plain curiosity. I like understanding how things work and making something with my hands (or my keyboard). This site is where I write it all down — mostly so I remember how I did something, and partly in case it helps the next person searching for the same answer at 2 a.m.
A few things I’ve built and written up
- A DIY Level 2 EV charger built from off-the-shelf parts for a fraction of a commercial unit.
- The philosophy behind my home automation — reliable, private, and pleasant to live with.
- A scalable, caching image server designed from scratch.
- Automating my swimming pool so the chemistry takes care of itself.
- A pile of telephony write-ups from my OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH days.
It all started with an image-processing course at USF that turned into the ImagePro software still on this site today. The full story of the website — every redesign, plus the years I lost the domain entirely — is worth a read if you like that sort of thing.
Photography
I shoot with a DSLR, my phone, and a drone — mostly portraits with off-camera flash, travel, and the occasional abstract. Travelling is half the reason I pick up a camera; over the years that’s meant Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, Argentina, India, and plenty of closer-to-home Florida.
These days
I’m very excited about the potential of using LLMs to speed up programming, help with everyday tasks, and improve quality of life in general. Things that used to take days can now be accomplished in a fraction of the time — ipmutton.com is purely generated by an AI!
I have also become an avid biker. I try to go for a ride every weekend — typically 20 to 30 miles on paved trails. The longest I have ridden is 50 miles on my gravel bike.
More about me
Say hello
I’m easy to find — my GitHub, Instagram, and other links are over in the sidebar. If something here was useful, or you just want to talk shop about EVs, home automation, VoIP, or where to point a camera, drop me a line.
This site is built with Jekyll — static, fast, no trackers, system fonts. It should still load in another thirty years.