Personal Observatory

IDENTIFICATION / 01

About

a little about me and this site

My keyboard on a moon-themed desk mat RA / 03:48

Hi! I’m Ai (藍), a machine learning specialist by day and hobbyist by night. I made this site as a small personal space for the hobbies and side projects I can’t quite showcase on my professional site, ranging from art and writing to code and other websites I’ve built. Aside from those things, I enjoy reading, listening to music, playing games (video games and board games alike), watching movies and shows, and learning new things. My special interests include philosophy, anime and manga, seiyuu, languages, astronomy, and science more broadly. I’m also very much a fandom person, though I mostly only lurk now. Lately, I’ve been spending most of my creative energy on my own OCs instead.

I’m mostly active on Twitter/X and Bluesky . For work, the easiest way you can contact me is through email !

Art

I’ve been drawing since I was a kid. I got into digital art in middle school, when I used to draw with a mouse. Nowadays, I mostly draw on a tablet, with Clip Studio Paint PRO as my main drawing app. My style is heavily inspired by anime and manga (particularly by artists such as Ukumo Uiti, Hoshino Katsura, Akidzuki Sorata, CLAMP, and Inomata Mutsumi). I haven’t been drawing much lately due to some personal circumstances I’d rather keep private.

Writing

I write essays and fiction alike. I used to be a contributor to a publication run by members of my university community. As for fiction, I mostly write original fiction about my OCs since I’m not very confident writing characters that aren’t my own; I’d like to try writing fanfic someday, though. I tend to write introspective, character-driven fiction with lyrical prose, recurring imagery, and occasional psychological and body horror.

Code

I mainly code in Python since most of my work is in machine learning (mostly using scikit-learn and PyTorch), but I also know:

  • SQL (PostgreSQL and MySQL)
  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • GDScript
  • a bit of C#, C++, and Java

Some tools, frameworks, and platforms I’m familiar with are:

  • Git
  • Vim
  • Docker
  • Hugo
  • React.js
  • PySpark
  • Streamlit
  • MLFlow
  • DVS
  • Godot Game Engine
  • Unity
  • AWS

Outside machine learning, I like building websites, tools, and video games/VNs/kinetic novels; I was even a member of my university’s game dev club .

Main Fandoms

  • Tales of series (played all of the mothership titles, most fav: Destiny 2)
  • Digimon (mostly Survive and Time Stranger now, though Adventure and 02 are still my all time favs)
  • Idolish7 (ŹOOĻ oshi; also very into La Danse Macabre)
  • D.Gray-man
  • .hack
  • Honkai: Star Rail
  • NieR (Automata and Replicant)
  • Project Sekai
  • Persona 3-5
  • MILGRAM
  • seasonal anime (currently watching Tenmaku no Jaadugar)
  • seiyuu (favs: Hirose Yuuya, Ootsuka Takeo, Saiga Mitsuki, Irino Miyu, Kimura Ryouhei, Midorikawa Hikaru, Saitou Souma, Ishikawa Yui, Enoki Junya, Hayami Saori, Kouri Arisa, Hondo Kaede, Minagawa Junko)
  • Vocaloid / SynthV
  • Arashi (JP idol group)
  • Hinako (singer)

Other trivia

  • Birthday: January 11
  • Languages: ID / EN / JP / a bit of DE (fun fact: I once represented Jakarta in the National German Olympiad).
  • I used to play the violin, so I’m familiar with a bit of music theory.
  • 腐 through and through, though I’m more of a character person than a shipper (not 夢 either)