I build things people actually use, then write about what broke. DevRel at Workers IO (YC F26), working on deterministic simulation testing. Most of my time goes into breakscale, an open source system design simulator that shows you where a design falls over.
- DevRel at Workers IO (YC F26): building on breakscale, writing about system design and simulation testing
- Maintaining breakscale: 1,000+ stars in its first week, 11 contributors, sponsored by Workers IO
- Completed Google Summer of Code 2026 with KDE: three Kdenlive widgets merged, shipping in 26.08
- Building in public at xevrion.dev
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breakscale · live · docs
Build a system, load it until it breaks, and watch why. A system design simulator with a real discrete-event engine: 33 components, measured percentiles, retry storms that collapse on their own. MIT, runs in the browser. |
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Photon · blog
Nanosecond-scale NASDAQ ITCH 5.0 feed handler and matching engine in C++20. 38ns median parse on real market data, measured over loopback. |
Kdenlive · write-up
GSoC 2026. Three effect widgets in the C++/Qt codebase, all merged and shipping in Kdenlive 26.08. One fixed a bug reported in 2015. |
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Grindmap · live
The LeetCode questions companies actually ask, ranked by frequency. Rust static site, progress tracking at the edge. |
cutback
Version control for Kdenlive projects. Commits every save to a local git repo and describes what changed in plain English instead of MLT XML diffs. |
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wallglow
Makes a cheap Bluetooth LED strip follow the desktop wallpaper palette. Holds the connection open like the phone app does, so a colour change lands in 0.12 seconds. |
Flock · live
Embeddable real-time presence and multiplayer-cursor SDK. |
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k8s-mesh-mcp
Read-only MCP server for Kubernetes service-mesh introspection in Go. Three tools over stdio and streamable HTTP, built as groundwork for Kmesh's LFX MCP server project. |
Peek-a-Repo · live
GitHub file browser extension using GraphQL and DOM interception. No clicking into folders. |
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nova
Real-time GPU compute particle simulator in C++20 and Vulkan. Millions of particles, N-body gravity and boids, audio reactive. |
ignis
Real-time internal combustion engine simulator with physics-driven audio synthesis. |
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gbemu
Hand-written Game Boy (DMG) emulator in C++20. CPU, PPU, sound, and cartridge mappers implemented from scratch. |
DaemonDoc · live
AI documentation engine that auto-updates READMEs on every push via webhooks and Redis queues. |
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Antaran
Native Linux tray daemon that watches your dev folder for dirty git repos and zombie dev servers. |
IITJ LAN Auto Login
Reverse-engineered captive portal daemon with encrypted credential storage. |
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Chronapse
Timelapse recorder with Go TUI, Python capture, and FFmpeg rendering. |
DocuMentor
Fully offline RAG pipeline with FAISS and 4-bit quantized LLM inference. Used by 15+ students. |
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Macpool
Turns a Mac someone already owns into a safe, temporary dev environment for building and testing macOS/iOS apps from Linux or Windows. |
arr-stack
Self-hosted media automation stack with Docker Compose. Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr, and Jellyfin, plus real-world setup guides. |
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utsushot
Supersampled Wayland screenshots. Spins up a temporary high-resolution phantom output, captures it, tears it down. |
doubletake
A gateway that gives every AI answer a second look before the user acts on it. Accenture Innovation Challenge 2026. |
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notionX
Chrome extension that adds a native-feeling Save to Notion button on X. One tap captures the post, author, link and image into your Notion inbox. |
noctalia-github-contributions
GitHub contribution graph as a desktop widget for Noctalia Shell. |
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ruleflow
Programmable rule engine and policy evaluator for Node.js. |
depgraph
Dependency auditor and graph visualiser for Node.js and Python projects. |
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Motixion
Gamified productivity tracker. Log tasks, hours, streaks and points, and compare progress with friends. |
macodoro
A tiny Pomodoro timer in the macOS menu bar, built with SwiftUI and Liquid Glass. |
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Vibe Check API · live
A fake but real-looking REST API that vibe-checks anything you send it. |
honestcommit · live
You type what you actually did, it types the lie your team lead wants to read. |
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Tab Shamer · live
A new-tab extension that counts your open tabs and judges you for them. |
obs-zoom-to-mouse-wayland
Wayland was the one place obs-zoom-to-mouse refused to work, so I forked it. |
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diary
A native GTK4 app for recording a daily video/audio diary that uploads itself straight to YouTube. |
image-to-ascii
Turns images into colored ASCII art, printed straight to your terminal. |
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lore · live
Self-hosted meme host for a friend group. Click to copy, paste in Discord, it renders inline. Runs free on Cloudflare. |
obsidian-termina
A TUI-style Obsidian theme. |
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obsidian-youtube-links
Paste a YouTube link in Obsidian and it expands into Channel: Video Title. |
the-hive
A resource dump site for the batches after mine. |