Kmemo 2.0 is out, and the two gaps I admitted to in the first post are closed
This is a follow-up to Kmemo: a semantic cache for LLM calls that refuses to serve you the wrong answer . If you have not read it, the one-line versio…
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Building SemaKazi Part 2: Starting the Frontend, No Framework Required
Phase 1 of SemaKazi (a verified reputation platform for Kenya's informal-sector workers — electricians, carpenters, mechanics, tailors) shipped a work…
I audited 249 of my own AI coding sessions. The problem wasn't lying.
I never scrolled up I use a coding agent every day. I give it a task, go do something else, and come back to a line at the bottom of the screen like t…
The 4-part brief that keeps coding agents from drifting
Coding agents usually do not drift because they are incapable. They drift because the task leaves too much room for interpretation. A request like “cl…
Dev log #14 Hardening the DHT against Eclipse attacks and the endless battle with flaky p2p tests
Dived deep into libp2p security this week with a new IP subnet diversity feature for the Kad-DHT, while fighting a few stubborn race conditions in the…
Every Building Journey Deserves Respect
Every Building Journey Deserves Respect Yesterday, I shared a simple observation from my own work: Claude Opus 4.8 currently fits the way I build bett…
Alchemy: GJS UI Framwork
Gnome Application Framework I just added to Alchemy (GJS UI Framework) inspired by Quasar Framework and VueJS: QWebView (Native WebKit 6.0 integration…
How I Find MCP Servers That Are Actually Maintained
The fastest way to choose an MCP server is not to start with the longest directory. Start with evidence that the project is still maintained, then che…
Building Observability for MCP Servers: FleetWatch + MCP Blackbox Suggested
As more of my tooling starts talking to MCP servers instead of calling APIs directly, I kept running into the same gap: there's no lightweight way to …
Web scraping in Laravel with Larascraper
I do a fair amount of scraping in Laravel, and it always splits into two worlds. Guzzle for the pages that are just HTML, and a mess of Puppeteer scri…
Testing a Two-Chart Compatibility Engine Without Inventing Missing Data
A compatibility engine can be deterministic and still be dishonest. The obvious failure is a wrong calculation. The subtler failure is unjustified cer…
Kubernetes earned its security badge in 2017 and never came back
Kubernetes has an OpenSSF Best Practices badge . It earned that badge on 16 August 2017 at 14:52:28 UTC, and nobody has touched the entry since. The s…
Turning a Tiny Language Model Into a Trustworthy Agent: An R&D Experiment with HUQAN + OPT-125M
Small language models are attractive because they're cheap and fast. The problem is hallucination — and specifically, what happens when a model gets s…
HUQAN: The Deterministic Trust Layer That Tells AI Agents "Wait, I Decide First"
We gave agents tools — but who gets to say "no"? Over the last year or two, the agent ecosystem has grown incredibly fast: LLM-based agents that touch…
A Safe Outcome Can Hide a Failed Security Control
I kept coming back to a small problem in security testing: If the business outcome is safe, do we know that the control under test actually worked? Of…
Your AI Agent Shouldn’t Have to Read an Entire Website Just to Click a Button
Imagine entering a restaurant where there is no menu. To order lunch, you must walk into the kitchen, inspect every shelf, understand how the applianc…
Fixing Exact Package Search Relevance in npmx
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry . Project Overview npmx is an open-source alternative interface fo…
Why I Validate Angular Compatibility Using the Published npm Package (Not the Source Code)
I just published a new article on a lesson I learned while maintaining my open-source Angular library. I used to validate compatibility against my wor…
Wetask Is Opening Its Task Runtime to External Workers
Wetask's next update brings durable, fenced external workers, atomic batch settlement, and first-party Go, TypeScript, and Python clients. Wetask star…
Termux App Store: A Community Package Manager for Termux on Android
If you use Termux on Android, you probably know the feeling: You find a useful command-line tool on GitHub, but then you have to figure out how to ins…
CamBridge: giving the iOS Simulator a real, moving camera image
The problem Neither the iOS Simulator nor the Android Emulator has real camera hardware. If you're building anything that touches AVCaptureSession — a…
Designing a Community Skill for AWS Transform Custom: AWS Glue 5.0 Upgrade Readiness
TL;DR I designed a proposed AWS Transform Custom community skill that prepares Glue 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 repositories for Glue 5.0. It separates safe mec…
The token compressor that made my bill go up — and the proof it had to
I went looking for a small improvement to an open-source tool. I found a number that pointed the wrong way, and then I found out why it had to. Live d…
The memory layer that never calls an LLM: what that buys, and what it costs
Part 4 of **The Answerability Problem , and the one that isn't about abstention. Parts 1–3 argued that the field measures the wrong half and that my o…
I deleted my source code and regenerated it in a different language
Every team eventually says the same sentence about its own system: nobody knows why it does that any more. The code is still there. It compiles, it sh…
Coordinate-based UI tests break. So we read the accessibility tree instead — from inside the simulator.
Every recorded mobile test I have ever inherited died the same way: someone moved a button. The recording said "tap at (340, 712)". The redesign moved…
From Open Source to Paid Product: Is AI Accelerating the Shift?
I think many of us have already noticed that a growing number of open-source projects and libraries are moving towards commercial or dual-licensing mo…
I Built a Zero-Knowledge Protocol to Prove a Human Typed This (Not a Bot) — Help Me Try to Break It
AI-generated text is no longer distinguishable from human text. That's not a hot take, it's a measurable fact at this point, and it quietly breaks a l…
How MTProto Obfuscation and FakeTLS Defeat Deep Packet Inspection
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) blocks Telegram by recognising the unique byte signatures of its transport protocol. Standard MTProto uses a fixed 0xEE p…
LLM TRADER BOT
Let me tell you a story about failure. Late 2024. I'm sitting in my Wrocław apartment after an 8-hour warehouse shift. My back hurts. I've been trying…