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…
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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
tinyboot v0.4.0 Released — The API is Stable
If you've been following tinyboot, you might have noticed there was no announcement for v0.3.0. That release added CH32V103 support, but things were s…
Aximo — a local Rust STT API for CPU-only inference
I built a local speech-to-text API in Rust that runs on CPU I recently built Aximo, a self-hosted speech-to-text microservice designed to run locally …
Adding AI Error Analysis to a macOS Menu Bar App with Gemini API
When a monitored script fails, most tools just show you a red icon. HiyokoBar does something better: it automatically sends the error output to Gemini…
I compiled Rust to WebAssembly to build a system design simulator that runs entirely in your browser!
Static diagrams don't fail. Systems do. That was the problem I kept running into when practicing system design. I'd draw boxes and arrows, convince my…
I Built and Shipped a $39 macOS App in One Day (Here's How)
Yesterday I had an idea. Today it's on Gumroad making money. Here's exactly how I shipped HiyokoBar — a menu bar HUD for engineers — in a single day. …
A Truth Filter for AI Output: An Experiment with Property-Based Testing
An AI wrote me a 36-kilobyte paper on how to build a second brain. It had theorems, proof sketches, and citation chains, and it read like the real thi…
A Cross-OS Port Finder in Rust — One CLI, Three Completely Different Data Formats
A Cross-OS Port Finder in Rust — One CLI, Three Completely Different Data Formats A tiny Rust CLI that answers "who is holding port 3000?" on macOS, L…
Library vs Framework: The Real Difference Between tkucli and clap
When comparing tkucli and clap, most differences (syntax, config, features) are surface-level. The deeper distinction is much simpler: clap is a libra…
Rust vs Go vs Zig for High-Performance Backend Services in 2026
Rust vs Go vs Zig: High-Performance Backend Services in 2026 Three languages compete for the performance-critical backend market. Each makes different…
Why Anomaly Detection Can't Block the Ingestion Pipeline
The first version of the anomaly evaluator ran inline. A batch of 100 readings flushed to TimescaleDB, then the same function called evaluate_batch , …
Rust vs Go for AI Infrastructure in 2026: Here's What the Benchmarks Actually Say
Book: Observability for LLM Applications · Ebook from Apr 22 Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal…
Scale-Up vs Scale-Out: Why Every Language Wins Somewhere
I worked with a team that rewrote a critical service from Go to Rust because "performance." Six months later, the service was 30% faster, the team was…
I Spent 3 Months Tuning a Tokio Runtime for My Robot - Here's What No Tutorial Tells You
Last November, my robot arm started dropping sensor frames at exactly 47ms intervals. Not randomly - exactly 47ms, like clockwork. It would read joint…
I Spent 3 Months Tuning a Tokio Runtime for My Robot — Here's What No Tutorial Tells You
I Spent 3 Months Tuning a Tokio Runtime for My Robot — Here's What No Tutorial Tells You Last November, my robot arm started dropping sensor frames at…
Building a Configurable TCP Echo Server in Rust with Tokio
A TCP echo server sounds trivial. Accept a connection, read data, send it back. You could write one in 15 lines of Python. But the moment you start ad…
GN: Domain-Adaptive Lossless Compression for LLM Conversation Streams
PDF version: github.com/atomsrkuul/glasik-core/blob/master/GN_PAPER_V2.pdf Code: github.com/atomsrkuul/glasik-core (MIT) Robert Rider | Independent Re…
I Built a Compression Algorithm That Beats Gzip in 2 Weeks. I Have an A+ Cert.
How a networking student ended up writing Rust, beating industry-standard compression, and learning more about computers than any classroom taught me.…
I gave Claude Code a project-management UI
When working with Claude Code, I sometimes end up with so many plans and tasks that I lost the track of what I was doing... Especially after a compute…
Serde Deep Dive: Custom Serialization for Wire Protocols
"When standard serialization attributes can't satisfy your wire protocol constraints, you must descend to manual implementation for precision." What W…
Flate2 Backend Change: Miniz_oxide to Zlib-rs Transition May Impact Compatibility and Performance
Introduction: The Flate2 Transition The flate2 library, a cornerstone of compression and decompression in the Rust ecosystem, is on the cusp of a sign…
Building a Software KVM in Rust: Why I Ditched Synergy and Rolled My Own
I built a Software KVM in Rust instead of paying for Synergy The problem I had a MacBook and a Windows desktop on the same desk. Two mice, two keyboar…
ACR is designed as a printer-independent report rendering service, not just a library.
Introduction I have added an HTTP interface to the report engine ACR (Across Report Renderer). By making ACR available over HTTP, it can be used as a …