Hi!

I'm Rakhim.

• 🔭 I’m currently working at IQM Quantum Computers as a staff engineer at the quantum control software team.
• 🌱 Outside of work, I'm currently building
  • Minifeed: curated blog discovery and search engine (TypeScript)
  • Exotext: blogging platform (TypeScript)
  • Textpod: miniamlist note-taking app (Rust)
• I blog at rakhim.exotext.com and sometimes hang out on Bluesky

Some other small side-projects:

• Knight Ride: puzzle game (JavaScript)
• Listen-later text-to-podcast generator using OpenAPI's TTS (TypeScript, Cloudflare workers)
• Dystopian Chat: a chat where your messages are edited and paraphrased by AI (TypeScript, lightweight llama-3.2-3b-instruct model)
• Bluesky100: a hundred most popular words in the last 5 seconds (JavaScript, Bluesky firehose API)
• Underblog: extremely simple, fast static blog generator (Go)
• DNS Health Analyzer: Node library (wrapper on top of dig) for gathering health metrics from DNS records
• That Word: find that word on the tip of your tongue
• Dall-E Web Client: bring your own OpenAI API key
• Timeless HN: 30 random good Hacker News posts from the past
• LobHN: How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN?
• skyshelf.app: Collect links from your liked posts on Bluesky in one place (TypeScript)
• EV vs Petrol Cost Calculator: Simple calculator for comparing the cost of driving an EV vs. driving a petrol car