Atharv Parlikar

Building real-time infrastructure and developer tools. I care about type safety, clean abstractions, and making WebSockets not suck. Writing Rust and TypeScript.

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Projects

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Zap-Socket

2025

Type-safe WebSocket library. tRPC DX with WebSocket power for real-time features without the headaches.

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Perpetra

2025

Blazingly fast perps exchange backend written in Rust.

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Technical Writing

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GenAi Jargon for Non-Technical Founders

Dec 31, 2025

Understanding the difference between training, inference, and fine-tuning will help you make better technical decisions and communicate your AI product more clearly. Here's what you need to know

My attempt at fixing websockets

Jun 4, 2025

Issues I faced with websockets and how I tried to solve them.

Essays

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Fear of Free Time

May 25, 2025

A personal essay about why I quit Instagram, why YouTube scares me, and the strange anxiety that comes with having too much free time in a world built to distract us.

Be Bored

May 24, 2025

Boredom isn’t a bug—it’s a signal. Here’s why we should stop killing it.