AI & ML

Tauri v2 vs Electron After 6 Months of Real Development — My Honest Take

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. I've shipped multiple Mac apps with Tauri v2. I evaluated Electron seriously before choosing Tauri. Here's…

Why I Built a Native Mac App Instead of a Web App — and What I'd Do Differently

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. When I decided to build a PDF tool, the obvious choice was a web app. I built a native Mac app instead. He…

A 150-Line `whentime tokyo london ny` CLI in Rust — and Why You Need IANA tzdata, Not 'UTC + N'

When you're working across time zones and someone asks "what time is it in Tokyo?", the answer should be one terminal command away: $ whentime tokyo l…

I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine

I wanted jq with memory, time ranges, and filters. So I built logdive

Your app is in production. Something broke at 2am. Your options are: grep through a rotated log file, squinting at terminal output. Chain together hal…

Building PDF Stamp Placement Without a Framework — Click to Place, Drag to Move

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Sign & Fill lets users click anywhere on a PDF page to place a stamp or signature image — then drag it…

How I built a self‑healing package manager

How I Built a Self-Healing Package Manager from Scratch (Rust + AI) The first tool that automatically resolves dependency conflicts by generating adap…

Repairing a Broken PDF in Rust — Rebuilding the XREF Table From Scratch

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Some PDFs won't open. Not because the content is gone — because the index that tells readers where to find…

How I Built a Rust CLI Tool That Beats POSIX diff (and Saved My CI/CD Pipelines)

We’ve all been there. It’s a Friday afternoon, a deployment just went out, and suddenly the production reporting service crashes. After an hour of fra…

Rust's Zero-Cost Abstractions, What Monomorphization Actually Does to Your Code

"Zero-cost abstractions" is one of Rust's core promises. You can write generic, composable, high-level code and the compiler will produce the same mac…

[Rust Guide] 10.2. Generics

If you find this helpful, please like, bookmark, and follow. To keep learning along, follow this series. 10.2.1 What Are Generics The main purpose of …

Building in public, week 6: PDF support is live — but I had to sacrifice content for it

TL;DR: I shipped PDF → image conversion this week. The cost? Three days redesigning the converter UI, and falling behind on community content. Solo de…

eBPF From Rust: The 34ms Ghost We Couldn’t See

When your profiler swears everything’s fast but your metrics are screaming bloody murder eBPF From Rust: The 34ms Ghost We Couldn’t See When your prof…

Pixel Diff vs Structural Diff for PDFs — Two Very Different Problems

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. "Compare these two PDFs" sounds like one problem. It's actually two completely different problems dependin…

How to Benchmark LLM Inference Performance: TTFT, ITL, and Throughput Metrics

When deploying large language models to production, measuring performance accurately is critical. Whether you're using vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, or …

[Rust Guide] 9.4. When Should You Use Panic!

If you find this helpful, please like, bookmark, and follow. To keep learning along, follow this series. 9.4.1 General Principles Chapter 9.1, “Unreco…

[Rust Guide] 9.3. Result Enum and Recoverable Errors Pt. 2 - Error Propagation, Question Mark Operator, and Chained Calls

If you find this helpful, please like, bookmark, and follow. To keep learning along, follow this series. 9.3.1 Propagating Errors When a function you …

Implementing Bates Numbering in Rust — Stamping Every Page of a Legal Document

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Bates numbering is a sequential stamp applied to every page of a legal document — "EXHIBIT-0001", "EXHIBIT…

Adding PDF Support to Rust Image Converter: A Deep…

Originally published at norvik.tech Introduction Explore the integration of PDF support in a Rust-based image converter. Technical analysis and implic…

Most PDF Redaction Is Broken. Here's What "Real" Redaction Actually Requires.

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Drawing a black rectangle over text is not redaction. The text is still there. Select all, copy, paste int…

Borrowed Strings: API Designs That Cut 94% of Allocations

The 6ms latency improvement from one character change — how &str over String transformed our hot path performance Borrowed Strings: API Designs Th…

Introducing fulgur: a blazing fast HTML-to-PDF engine in Rust — no browser required

fulgur — (noun, Latin) lightning, flash of lightning. I've been building fulgur , an HTML-to-PDF engine written in Rust. No headless browser, no Chrom…

From RocksDB Pain to GraniteDB Gain: Building a Blockchain-First Storage Engine in Rust

Building Ferrous Network exposed the limits of general-purpose databases. Here's why I'm writing GraniteDB from scratch. Hey folks, Altug here — found…

70,000 Empty Accounts: The Owner Doesn't Know He Left 120 SOL Behind

If you are active in the Solana ecosystem, there is a very high chance you have money sitting completely frozen on the blockchain. Recently, I was ana…

TCP worked, UDP silently died: shipping a DNS proxy to fly.io

I shipped v0.2.0 of dnsink — a Rust DNS proxy with threat-intelligence feeds and DNS tunneling detection — to fly.io this week. TCP worked on the firs…

I Turned Wikipedia Into a CLI Tool

I didn’t start this project because I wanted to build a CLI. I started it because I got annoyed. The Moment That Triggered It I use Wikipedia a lot. N…

How SNF Detects C2 Beacons on Air-Gapped Networks Without Ever Touching the Internet

How SNF Detects C2 Beacons on Air-Gapped Networks Without Ever Touching the Internet Most threat detection tools phone home. They pull threat feeds, p…

The Tauri Sandbox Permissions That Blocked Me for Two Days

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. My Swift CLI binary worked perfectly from the terminal. Inside Tauri, it silently failed. No error. No out…

I Built a Security Scanner That Audits PDFs Before You Send Them. Here's How. [Devlog #10]

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. You're about to email a contract. It looks clean. But it still has your name, your machine's hostname, the…

Privacy-first mind mapping app. Part 2: Rust Backend - Why the Pain Is Worth It

Choosing Rust for a backend can feel irrational at first. If your short‑term goal is raw development speed, Rust does not win. The compiler is unforgi…