Dev log #21 Hardening WebRTC-Direct and solving SCM leaks
Hi, glad you found your way here. I'm Yash, a developer who contributes to open source, mostly p2p…
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2026
Dev log #20 Deleting 180k lines and chasing socket leaks: A week in the OSS trenches
Yash K Saini — Engineer, building in public — AI/ML, low-level (Rust/C/C++), and open source. GitHub…
The receipt should come from the person who received it
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built Every…
Dev log #19 WebRTC v2 flows, agentic orchestration, and a perfectly synced vault
This week was a high-output sprint across the stack—from low-level p2p networking in Python to…
Dev log #18 From Redis Brokers to Knowledge Graphs: A 177-Commit Sprint
Hit a perfect 7-day streak this week, shipping 177 commits across systems architecture and personal…
One rented /24 could eclipse a Kademlia node. Now it takes ten.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The…
The /sdp endpoint that trusted its callers: fixing a memory-amplification DoS in py-libp2p
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry.…
The test was green. Every real connection would have failed.
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The…
Dev log #17 From 16-bit TUIs to p2p Hardening: A 227-Commit Week
A high-output week focused on shipping GitBanner 1.3.0, hardening WebRTC and DHT layers in…
Gravy Theory: three chickens, one base
This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition Perfect Landing. What I…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beyond the Panic: Hardening the Rust SDK
TL;DR Engineering is often the art of managing the "unhappy path." This week was a…
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…
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,…
Building Rustlens: A TUI for Rust Code Inspect
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?"…
2025
Hello World — Why I Started Writing
An introduction to my blog — why I decided to start writing about software engineering, open source, and the things I learn along the way.
Kleos CLI: Mindsdb Knowledge Base supercharged
Okh so lets begin with the important context, currently there is constant evolution going on in the…
What does not Giving up get you ? Prime example
From student to full-time Platform Engineer at Appwrite…
Building a CLI Tool in Rust
A deep dive into building command-line tools with Rust — from argument parsing with clap to colored output and error handling.
Understanding Rust Error Handling
A practical guide to error handling in Rust — from Result and Option to anyhow and thiserror, with real-world patterns.
How I built a AI Agent server
Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. Today I am going to share how I built an AI agent server…
Automate Discord Messages
Hi 👋 DEVs, in order to get my perspective and objectives of why I did this project and How I built…
The Friendly Future: How AI Makes Life Easier and Safer for Everyone
Dear Reader, Hi there! I’m writing this letter to share some fun and simple ideas about how latest…
2024
First look into Daytona + TypeScript Integration
Introduction Daytona is a very good and very simple to use open source Development…
RAG Chatbot
🌟 Exciting Times: Sharing My Latest Project Adventure! Hey there, contributors and tech…
Is Public Learning the most Effective way ?
🌟 Hey everyone! 🚀 Recently I was scrolling through Instagram and stumbled upon the concept of _Public…
DSA v/s Web Dev
Hello everyone! 👋 I am an aspiring Data Scientist from India 🇮🇳 currently developing my data science…