writings

39 entries · 3 years

Notes on Rust, the web, building in public, and whatever else I'm learning.

2026

Dev log #16 Typographic Hierarchy and the Great Obsidian Purge
Spent the week redesigning my portfolio’s blog layout and nuking thousands of stale notes in my…
#productivityAug 11, 20265 min
Dev log #15 Refining the Craft: A week of Neovim UI hacking and portfolio architecture
Balanced the scales this week with a near-perfect 1:1 ratio of additions to deletions. Focused on…
#webdevAug 6, 20265 min
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,…
#programmingAug 1, 20265 min
Dev log #13 Hardening Kademlia: A week of p2p security architecture and Neovim maintenance
Spent the week laying the groundwork for major p2p security upgrades while keeping my dev…
#programmingJul 23, 20265 min
Adding WebRTC to py-libp2p: Two Runtimes, Three Specs, and One Unforgiving Private Slot
TL;DR — py-libp2p PR #1309 adds an experimental WebRTC transport (/webrtc-direct and /webrtc) as a…
#libp2pJul 13, 202624 min
Dev log #12 Hardening WebRTC and Polishing the UI: A Week of Networking and Refinement
Spent the week balancing deep p2p networking work in Python with some much-needed UI polish on my…
#opensourceJul 13, 20265 min
Hardening Kademlia DHT: The Eclipse Attack That Record Signing Doesn't Stop
Hardening Kademlia DHT: The Eclipse Attack That Record Signing Doesn't Stop A few days ago…
#libp2pJul 9, 202611 min
Dev log #11 Kanagawa Dreams and Test Suites: A Week of Refactoring my Neovim and Hardening the Backend
Hit a perfect 7-day streak this week, splitting my time between a massive aesthetic pivot in my…
#neovimJul 7, 20265 min
Dev log #6 Networking Deep Dives and Scaling Docs: My 30k Line Week in OSS
16 commits, 13 PRs, 4 issues, and 13 reviews across 7 repos. This week was a massive balancing act…
#pythonJul 7, 20266 min
Shipping Docs, Rust Tooling, and a Week of Deep Reviews
14 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue, and 5 reviews across 3 repos. This week was all about hardening my Rust…
#rustJul 7, 20266 min
Dev log #10 The Power of the Zero-Commit Week: Stepping Back to Move Faster
A rare week of total radio silence on GitHub—no commits, no PRs, and zero green squares. Sometimes…
#devjournalJul 3, 20265 min
Dev log #8 Hardening the Orchestrator: A Week of Making dev-publish Resilient
Spent the week deep-diving into my dev-publish tool, focusing on durability and orchestrator…
#aiJul 3, 20265 min
Dev log #9 Hardening Kademlia DHT and automating the Neovim grind
Seven days of flow. Fixed a peer identity binding issue in py-libp2p, automated my Neovim lockfile…
#neovimJul 3, 20265 min
Dev log #7 Reviving DevNotion: 10,000 Lines, Multi-LLM Support, and the Road to v2.1
Spent the week breathing new life into DevNotion—59 commits and over 10,000 lines of code later,…
#devjournalJun 23, 20264 min
From Rust CLI bug-hunting to a massive Portfolio overhaul
23 commits, 3 PRs, and a 7-day streak. This week was a balance of deep-diving into Rust CLI logic,…
#pythonJun 6, 20265 min
I Revived DevNotion (multi agent blog workflow) — And Finally Perfected it
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built Every Monday…
#devchallengeJun 6, 202620 min
Polishing the Rust CLI and Planning the Long Game
39 commits, 11 PRs, and 50 issues across 5 repos. This week was all about making trx feel like a…
#rustJun 6, 20265 min
I built a local document Q&A tool around Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context — five days, no RAG, no cloud
Five days, an 8 GB laptop GPU, and a stubborn belief that for the kind of documents I actually read…
#devchallengeMay 24, 20269 min
I stress-tested Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context on a laptop GPU — recall is great, prefill is not
Thursday night I let a benchmark run while I slept. By Friday morning Gemma 4 E4B had answered…
#devchallengeMay 24, 20269 min
Dev Log #5 Building a Claude-style SRE terminal and tackling WebRTC
11 commits, 5 PRs, 1 issue, and 3 reviews across 4 repos. This week was all about…
#pythonMay 7, 20266 min
Dev Log #4 A Week of Deep Integrations
A high-output week with 33 commits and over 3,000 lines of new code. I focused heavily on database…
#pythonApr 13, 20265 min
VarCouch — I Built an AI Therapist for Your Code Variables (They Need It)
This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built Your variables have…
#devchallengeApr 11, 20266 min
Beyond the Panic: Hardening the Rust SDK
TL;DR Engineering is often the art of managing the "unhappy path." This week was a…
#pythonMar 27, 20265 min
Simulating P2P Attacks and Teaching AI to Resume Sessions
TL;DR It’s been one of those weeks where the terminal never really closed. I clocked 78…
#typescriptMar 27, 20266 min
Turning Weekly GitHub Activity Into Blog Posts on Notion + DEV.to
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge What I Built Every Monday standup,…
#devchallengeMar 27, 202610 min
Building Rustlens: A TUI for Rust Code Inspect
#programmingFeb 19, 202613 min
I Built a TUI That Makes Rust Code Inspection Feel Like Magic ✨
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge The "Why Did I Build This?"…
#rustFeb 15, 202616 min

2026

Dev log #16 Typographic Hierarchy and the Great Obsidian Purge

Dev log #15 Refining the Craft: A week of Neovim UI hacking and portfolio architecture

Dev log #14 Hardening the DHT against Eclipse attacks and the endless battle with flaky p2p tests

Dev log #13 Hardening Kademlia: A week of p2p security architecture and Neovim maintenance

Adding WebRTC to py-libp2p: Two Runtimes, Three Specs, and One Unforgiving Private Slot

Dev log #12 Hardening WebRTC and Polishing the UI: A Week of Networking and Refinement

Hardening Kademlia DHT: The Eclipse Attack That Record Signing Doesn't Stop

Dev log #11 Kanagawa Dreams and Test Suites: A Week of Refactoring my Neovim and Hardening the Backend

Dev log #6 Networking Deep Dives and Scaling Docs: My 30k Line Week in OSS

Shipping Docs, Rust Tooling, and a Week of Deep Reviews

Dev log #10 The Power of the Zero-Commit Week: Stepping Back to Move Faster

Dev log #8 Hardening the Orchestrator: A Week of Making dev-publish Resilient

Dev log #9 Hardening Kademlia DHT and automating the Neovim grind

Dev log #7 Reviving DevNotion: 10,000 Lines, Multi-LLM Support, and the Road to v2.1

From Rust CLI bug-hunting to a massive Portfolio overhaul

I Revived DevNotion (multi agent blog workflow) — And Finally Perfected it

Polishing the Rust CLI and Planning the Long Game

I built a local document Q&A tool around Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context — five days, no RAG, no cloud

I stress-tested Gemma 4 E4B's 128K context on a laptop GPU — recall is great, prefill is not

Dev Log #5 Building a Claude-style SRE terminal and tackling WebRTC

Dev Log #4 A Week of Deep Integrations

VarCouch — I Built an AI Therapist for Your Code Variables (They Need It)

Beyond the Panic: Hardening the Rust SDK

Simulating P2P Attacks and Teaching AI to Resume Sessions

Turning Weekly GitHub Activity Into Blog Posts on Notion + DEV.to

Building Rustlens: A TUI for Rust Code Inspect

I Built a TUI That Makes Rust Code Inspection Feel Like Magic ✨

2025

Hello World — Why I Started Writing

Kleos CLI: Mindsdb Knowledge Base supercharged

What does not Giving up get you ? Prime example

Building a CLI Tool in Rust

Understanding Rust Error Handling

How I built a AI Agent server

Automate Discord Messages

The Friendly Future: How AI Makes Life Easier and Safer for Everyone

2024

First look into Daytona + TypeScript Integration

RAG Chatbot

Is Public Learning the most Effective way ?

DSA v/s Web Dev