AI & ML

BoxAgnts Tool System (6) — Multi-Provider Adaptation and the Agent Query Loop

BoxAgnts' tool system, from the bottom-level WASM sandbox to the top-level Tool trait, has solved "how tools run safely." But tools ultimately need to…

The 360K-Star AI Assistant Nobody in the West Is Talking About — And What It Reveals About Cross-Platform Tooling in 2026

You're staring at your third AI assistant setup guide of the week. Cursor, Copilot, some obscure terminal tool that promises to "revolutionize" your w…

The Dev Tools I Actually Use as a Solo Rust + Tauri Developer in 2026

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Not a listicle of everythi…

MDL 0.1.9: optional TypeScript behavior scripts without a TypeScript project setup

MDL 0.1.9 adds optional external TypeScript behavior scripts. The important word is optional. MDL is still: .mdl -> structure and content .css -&gt…

There Is Life Before and After Main in Rust

merman: Mermaid.js, but headless, in Rust

Ig my own operating system? CottonOS

I'm Building an OS From Scratch in Rust — And It Already Has a Desktop, Filesystem, and Networking A deep dive into CottonOS: a hobby OS written entir…

What Designing a Binary Protocol Actually Taught Me

Most developers never have to design a network protocol from scratch. You use HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets, or something else that already exists and has be…

PII masking in Polars: MaskOps 2.0, and two metrics that lied to me

MaskOps 2.0 shipped this week. Before I told anyone, I looked at my own numbers. Two of them were lying to me, in opposite directions. MaskOps is a Ru…

My $0/Month AI Stack as a Solo Mac Dev — What I Actually Use in 2026

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. I've shipped 7 paid Mac ap…

Rust Crate 'onering' Compromised: Malicious Code Exfiltration Risk Mitigated with Updated Version

Introduction and Background The Rust ecosystem, celebrated for its memory safety and performance, relies heavily on crates —its package management sys…

Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #023 — Rust Raw Pointer Recursive Layout Boundary

Target: rust-lang/rust Issue: rust-lang/rust#157047 Status: ready-for-review PR opened PR: rust-lang/rust#157724 Branch: https://github.com/scarab-sys…

I Built My Own API Gateway in Rust — Here's What I Learned

Every backend project I've worked on eventually hits the same wall. You start clean — one service, simple routes, everything works. Then slowly the re…

RPGMapEditor.com: A Free Browser-Based Battle Map Maker for D&D and VTTs

Making a good tabletop RPG map should not require installing a heavy desktop app, learning a complex tool, or spending an hour just to draw a simple d…

A line-by-line translation of the OCaml runtime from C to Rust

Why I Stopped Paying for Tunnels and Built My Own (in 500 Lines of Rust).

Why I Stopped Paying for Tunnels and Built My Own (in 500 Lines of Rust) We’ve all been there: you’re working on a project, you need to show it to a c…

rscrypto v0.4.0: Verifying Constant-Time Behavior Instead of Assuming It

Every cryptography library says it's secure and performant. Very few can explain how that security is validated and how that performance is proven aft…

Storing API Keys Safely in a Tauri App — Don't Just Use LocalStorage

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Users enter their Gemini A…

Visualizing the Slope: Introducing the m-vis Real-Time Leak Delta Chart

Debugging memory leaks by watching a wall of flashing text numbers is a guessing game. You can see the numbers moving, but you entirely miss the trend…

The 4-layer voice-agent latency stack, traced with OTel spans

** How I instrument ASR, LLM, TTS, and the client with OpenTelemetry, and which number in each layer I actually look at ** TL;DR. A voice agent is fou…

Stop Feeding Agents Raw Data

I used to think the problem was the agent. I would hand it a large JSON export and ask a reasonable question: what changed, what looks risky, what sho…

Product Hunt Launch for an Indie Mac App — What I Did and What Happened

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. I've launched three apps o…

Rust Ownership Made Practical — Patterns I Use in Every Tauri App

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Rust's ownership system is…

SCPN Fusion Core: A Control-First, Neuro-Symbolic Software Stack for Tokamak Plasma Control

SCPN-FUSION-CORE ON GITHUB We built an open-source software laboratory that treats tokamak plasma control as a compiler problem. Control logic is expr…

BoxAgnts Tool System (1) — Design Motivation & Architecture Overview

The AI Agent framework landscape has reached a state one could fairly describe as oversaturated. The Python ecosystem has LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoG…

I built a state management library for Rust called GLoC

Hey, I built a state management library for Rust called GLoC (Global Logic Component) — it's basically Bloc from Flutter but for Rust. Just published …

BoxAgnts Runtime (7) — Sandboxed Execution, Rebuilding Agent Infrastructure

The AI industry is moving fast. Every week brings a new agent framework, coding assistant, autonomous workflow engine, or multi-agent platform. Most d…

Making Star Stable 1 Multiplayer

Introduction For those who aren't familiar with the Star Stable titles, they are split into sections: Star Stable [1, 2, 3, 4] - Singleplayer games St…

How we built a gate-accurate Game Boy emulator in Rust (and got dmg-acid2 pixel-perfect)

We are Zaiq, an engineering studio. We built Revenant , a Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator, from scratch in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, with a …

I was rewriting the same database plumbing in every Electron app, so I built NookDB

Every Electron app I built reached the same fork: "okay, now add a database." And every time, that one sentence quietly turned into three separate job…