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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BoxAgnts Runtime (6) — Rust + WASM, Local-First
Over the past decade, software infrastructure has moved decisively toward cloud-native architectures. AI agents followed the same path—cloud-hosted mo…
BoxAgnts Runtime (5) — MCP Is Just the Beginning, the Runtime Layer Is What Matters
The emergence of MCP (Model Context Protocol) marks a major milestone for the AI ecosystem. For the first time, the industry is converging around a sh…
Running Mixtral 8x7B at 21+ TPS on Pure CPU via io_uring and Predictive Caching
The current consensus in AI infrastructure is unyielding: if you want to run frontier Mixture of Experts (MoE) models at usable human-reading inferenc…
BoxAgnts Runtime (4) — Capability Security, Not Root Access
Modern AI agents are rapidly gaining operational authority—executing shell commands, modifying repositories, accessing local files, operating cloud in…
Why your LLM tool calls silently break — and a ~10µs fix
If you stream tool calls or structured output from an LLM, you have almost certainly seen one of these in production: json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Un…
Query Markdown as a Database with mq-db: SQL, mq, and Interval Indexes
Managing large collections of Markdown documents (documentation sites, knowledge bases, notes) often means resorting to a messy combination of grep an…
Six Months of AI-Assisted Software Development: A Critical Evaluation of Vibe Coding, Agentic IDEs, and Real Engineering
Six Months of AI-Assisted Software Development: A Critical Evaluation of Vibe Coding, Agentic IDEs, and Real Engineering Introduction For roughly the …
Как фронтендер из Bay Area, который почти не пишет код руками, сделал на Rust трекер расходов для ИИ-агентов — и зачем
Я фронтенд-разработчик. Работаю в Bay Area, в компании, которая выдаёт всем инженерам корпоративные подписки на Claude Code и Cursor. То есть лично из…
I got tired of Googling FFmpeg flags, so I built a universal CLI converter in Rust
Hey everyone! This is my first ever post on dev.to, and I wanted to share a tool I built purely out of frustration with my own terminal workflow. If y…
I'm building CortexDB — an agent-native context database for AI agents
I'm building CortexDB — an agent-native context database for AI agents Most modern RAG systems follow the same pattern: Split documents into chunks Co…
Why we chose a Rust template engine and Go APIs
When people hear that one studio runs 7+ products, the first question is always about the stack. The honest answer is that the stack is the reason it'…
When the Default Postgres Pool Died at 3 AM
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our treasure-hunt engine at Veltrix was simple on paper: read JSON blobs from S3, parse them, and return the top …
Three TODOs, three weeks, one weekend: finishing pq v0.14
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built pq — jq for Parquet. A 50 MB Rust single binary that wraps DuckDB's query …