Words & thoughts 

What Sandbox Learning Taught Me
2026-07-21·6 min

What Sandbox Learning Taught Me

How I escaped information overload, moved into the terminal, and built Mew — an open source AI agent harness for migrating and reconstructing software.

Sandbox LearningRustGoAI AgentsMewOpen Source
Headroom: The 95% Token Savings That Wasn't
2026-06-20·5 min

Headroom: The 95% Token Savings That Wasn't

A critical look at Headroom — the context compression library with 40.8k stars that claims 95% fewer tokens. Nous Research's evaluation tells a different story.

AI AgentsLLMContext CompressionEngineering
Serialize and Deserialize in Rust: A Practical Guide to Serde
2026-06-15·7 min

Serialize and Deserialize in Rust: A Practical Guide to Serde

Ever needed to save your Rust struct to a file or send it over the network? That's serialization. Here's how serde makes it painless — with real code, real patterns, and the mental model that actually sticks.

RustSerdeSerializationSystems Programming
I Was Bored, My Portfolio Was Dusty, Then Hermes Happened
2026-06-03·10 min

I Was Bored, My Portfolio Was Dusty, Then Hermes Happened

It was Monday — Slow morning, no boss, no standup meetings, no company Slack pinging me at 9 AM. Just me, my laptop, and a portfolio so outdated even I was embarrassed to open it. Then I met Hermes.

AIHermesNext.jsDevOps