Today: Building nnn in the mornings. Lockr support tickets in the evenings. Sleep is a hypothesis, not a fact.
srivtx. Polymath, first-principles thinker, tinkers with hardware. He builds software the way other people build furniture: by hand, on a bench, with the joints visible. Most of his work sits at the seam between systems software and the interface — Rust binaries that serve markdown, Zig frameworks for Solana, language servers, agent loops, CSS preprocessors. The recurring question is the same one: what does this look like if i stop reaching for a framework?
↳ the project
A team of agents, on the laptop.
Five agents on one local model. Architect plans, developer writes, bugfixer runs the code, researcher reads the workspace, websearcher hits the docs. They pass a shared scratch directory back and forth.
The point is not the agents. The point is that they run on a 7B Qwen, locally, with no API key and no cloud. The agents do not invent the architecture or pick the stack. They execute. The human still decides.
↳ the loop
↳ more on the bench
↳ shipped · live
live · in the world
Escrow for Indian freelancers, fiat in, USDC out.
Client pays by card or UPI. Dodo converts to USDC. Funds lock in a Solana PDA. The freelancer gets paid in about three seconds after the client approves a milestone. The 14-day Upwork hold dies here.
↳ the redesign · shipped
live · in the world
A matchmaker's CRM redesigned as a private-banking brief.
Three-column compare canvas, AI-drafted composer where the AI's job is bounded to one sentence, a 10-dimension weighted matching engine. The matching logic is reused from v1; the design system, layout, and most components are new.
↳ npm · bun · live
live · in the world
Generate code snippets and social cards from the terminal.
Bun-fast, runs locally, no API calls. Publishes as @srivtx/snip.
↳ current obsession
A photo in, a 3D model out.
FastAPI server runs InstantMesh to give you a coarse preview in 30 seconds, then refines the mesh in the background while you keep working.
↳ rust + language tooling
Lexer, parser, AST, analyzer, symbols, interpreter — each in its own Rust file.
Built to learn how a language tool works end to end, not to ship an LSP. Same thesis as the Zed Zettelkasten work — language tooling is something I keep coming back to, sometimes from the editor side, sometimes from the parser side.
↳ zig + solana
A substrate for writing Solana programs in Zig.
A comptime layer that knows the SBPFv3 ABI and stays out of the way at runtime. A full PDA vault — state, three instructions, every edge case — fits in under a hundred lines of Zig.
↳ webgl
Drop-in WebGL shaders with a ⌘K palette.
Six-plus shaders, single-file export, no build step. Designed to be copy-pasted into other people's projects, not adopted as a framework.
↳ npm · vite
Write CSS like you think, get a stylesheet.
A preprocessor that reads more like prose than utilities. `body: pad 4, bg cream` is the whole idea. Ships with a Vite plugin as @srivtx/tomato-css.
↳ rust · cli
`cd` into a folder, type one command, get a docs site.
Faster docsify alternative. No mkdocs.yml, no config files. ~2MB Rust binary.
↳ wip
A planner for the kind of thinker who runs six threads at once.
Holds state across contexts, surfaces the thread you lost, gets out of the way. Not a chatbot, not a productivity app.
+ a dozen more repos on github / srivtx.
↳ merged upstream
Built and merged a Zettelkasten language server into Zed. First-class LSP for plain-text note-taking in a modern editor.
Patched the user-operation hash flow in wevm's Vim plugin. The kind of fix that only happens if you actually use the tool daily.
Made Vocs hot-reload Tailwind classes inside MDX. Opened the issue, shipped the fix.
↳ practice
Mostly TypeScript, Python, Rust. Zig and Go when the system asks for it.
↳ the job
Backend Engineer, goquant · Oct 2025 — Jan 2026
trading + market-data services. order execution, exchange integrations, real-time flows. production debugging, architecture work.
↳ the school
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University · 2023 — 2027
b.tech, computer science & engineering.
↳ reach
↳ signed
sribatsha dash, bhubaneswar
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sribatsha dash · mon 15 jun 26