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The boring parts that matter: edge cases, rollback plans, migrations, and maintenance.

Projects: Engineering Craft

AI Engineering

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in your terminal.

Claude Code brought the agent loop to the command line: it reads your codebase, plans changes, runs commands, and iterates — with you directing, not typing. The reference implementation of terminal-native AI engineering.

TypeScript
Developer Tools

Ghostty

A fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator.

Mitchell Hashimoto's terminal emulator proves the terminal deserves better: GPU-accelerated rendering, native platform integration, and meticulous attention to the details power users feel every day.

Zig
Developer Tools

uv

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

uv replaces pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, and virtualenv with a single binary that resolves and installs Python dependencies 10–100x faster. It's the rare tool that deletes an entire category of workflow friction.

RustPython
Developer Tools

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal — open source.

Aider is the open-source terminal chatbot for code: pair it with any frontier model, point it at your git repo, and it edits files with proper diffs and commit messages. The hacker's choice for agentic coding.

Python
Developer Tools

Zed

A next-generation code editor built for high-performance collaboration.

From the team behind Atom, Zed is a Rust editor that treats latency as a bug: GPU-rendered UI, multiplayer editing via CRDTs, and deep AI integration that doesn't get in the way.

Rust
AI Engineering

llama.cpp

LLM inference in plain C/C++ — run capable models on everyday hardware.

llama.cpp made large language models runnable on a laptop CPU with no GPU, no framework, no cluster. The quantization formats it pioneered (GGUF) became the de facto standard for local inference.

C++C
Developer Tools

Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

Ruff collapses Flake8, pylint's common rules, isort, and Black into one tool that runs in milliseconds. It proved that developer-experience speed is a feature, not a luxury.

RustPython
Developer Tools

Bun

An all-in-one JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager.

Bun collapsed the Node.js toolchain — runtime, transpiler, bundler, test runner, package manager — into a single Zig binary that's dramatically faster at nearly everything. Cohesion as a performance strategy.

ZigTypeScript
Developer Tools

DuckDB

An in-process SQL OLAP database — SQLite for analytics.

DuckDB brings columnar analytical queries into the process: no server, no setup, just fast SQL over Parquet and CSV files. It made the 'small data' analytics stack boring in the best way.

C++
Web Apps

Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing.

Ghost is the rare CMS that chose craft over feature sprawl: a fast Node.js publishing platform run by a non-profit, with a clean editor, memberships built in, and no venture-capital growth hacking.

TypeScript
Developer Tools

SQLite

A C library that implements a small, fast, self-contained SQL database engine.

The most widely deployed database engine in the world — in every phone, browser, and airplane — maintained by a tiny team with arguably the most rigorous testing culture in software.

C