the names keep getting shorter
loki, then lokesh, then loks. a brief history of deleting vowels until a hostname finally fit.
17 Aug 2026names, this site
hi, i'm loks
apparently this particular spelling is fortnights old. before this i was loki on a .xyz i treated like a houseplant, then lokesh on a red domain that looked like a startup and felt like a nickname. now i'm loks on a shell. the names keep getting shorter. eventually i'll be a single glyph and an mx record.
the longer version: i'm an advocate, enrolled with the andhra pradesh bar council, out of dsnlu with cyber law and data protection as the specialisation. i work on legal technology, and the rest of the time i build neethix, a case management platform for advocates who do not have an it department standing behind them.
which means most days there is a statute open in one window and a stack trace in the other. legal software in india tends to arrive as either a spreadsheet someone loves a bit too much or an enterprise contract with a two year rollout. i would like there to be a third option, and i am slightly too stubborn to wait for one.
i'm at my best when the room is small, the loop is tight, and someone will tell me the thing is ugly before it ships. i like software that stays readable after it starts working. i like websites that still have fingerprints on them.
if you look closely enough, though, you'll see that most of what i do is rename files, read judgments, and preferably remove a personal site that looks like a template. sometimes i answer to 505, which is an error code i decided to keep.
what i'm building
mostly legal software, mostly for people who cannot afford the enterprise version of it. a couple of these pay rent and a couple of them are arguments i am having with myself in public.
neethix, 2026
telangana high court, invite only
a privacy first case management platform for solo and small firm advocates. reliable cnr sync, a morning digest of what actually moved in your matters, and nothing about a client leaving the country. i am the only person building it, which shows in the good ways and the bad ones.
convex, next.js, ecourts, solo founder
nibandana, 2026
1.6 crore judgments, 1950 to 2025
a search layer over sixteen million indian judgments, running on hardware i own. renting search for a corpus this size gets expensive faster than you would think, and the latency you can buy back by being close to the disk is worth the trouble of owning the disk.
meilisearch, next.js, self hosted
vigil, 2026
a regulatory intelligence scraper for supreme court and high court judgments. it does the boring half of staying current so that the interesting half has somewhere to start.
python, scraping, regulatory
judge inclination classifier, 2026
about 99% cheaper to backfill
three tiers for information technology act cases. regex first, gemini flash for the middle, claude haiku only for the genuinely hard remainder. the accuracy held and the bill collapsed, which is the entire trick.
classification, cost, evaluation
recently written
things i kept thinking about until writing them down became easier than letting them go. there are law papers back there too, in a considerably stiffer voice.
the cheapest way to read a judge
a three tier classifier for it act cases, and the small realisation that made the backfill about ninety nine percent cheaper.
18 Aug 2026legal tech, models, cost
i spend a lot of my time making rooms for myself, then a little more making them public enough that a stranger might leave a drawing. the two overlap more than that makes it sound.
this visit
a clock for this tab only. v0.1 had a fake computer-time chart. i deleted it. if a number here is wrong, you just arrived.
0s in this tab
- homenot yet
- wrotenot yet
- builtnot yet
- keptnot yet
- nownot yet
- booknot yet
- 505not yet
deepest scroll on this page: 0%. stored in the tab. gone when you close it.
things that stayed
objects, names, and one page i saved because it felt like someone was in the room. the shelf grows when something refuses to leave.
tool
things 3, still
the reference point for taste. i keep opening other task managers and closing them again, usually within the hour.
object
pioneer ddj-flx4, still
the dj controller. the fastest way i know to stop thinking about work, which is the only reason it has survived three moves.
object
astell & kern sp3000 ultra, still
a dedicated music player in the year of the phone. indefensible on paper. i have made my peace with that.
object
adam t7v, still
monitors that tell the truth about a mix, which is not always what you want to hear at one in the morning.
object
two watches, one wrist, still
an apple watch ultra 2 and a garmin marq gen 2, in rotation, for reasons i can no longer reconstruct honestly.
name
loks.sh, 2026
the one that finally fit in a hostname. i am trying not to buy another domain about it.
on your side of the screen, it is , and a place the edge will not name is keeping the weather to itself for a moment.
you are reading this at . neither number is especially useful, but here they are. this place is new and already refuses to be finished.
it holds a few names i outgrew, one website i am still arguing with, and a guestbook for proof you were here. not everything needs a category. anyway, i hope you enjoy :))
since you read all the way down here, you might as well leave a little proof you were here in the guestbook
if the drawing fridge is empty, email l@loks.sh and complain. that also counts as a visit.