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aight, fuck it, my turn for this kind of post
i'm looking for work.
i'm 21 and i've spent a rather unreasonable amount of time building software over the past year.
here's some of what i've been up to:
kiban: built an embedded LSM storage engine from scratch in rust. WAL, SSTables, compaction, snapshots, concurrency, crash recovery and fault injection.
the benchmarks are probably my favourite part. on warm 1M-record workloads, i got 0.96µs median point reads and over 1M point-read calls/s, with 2.2-2.7x faster point reads than tuned RocksDB. group commit pushed fully durable writes to 5,379/s at 16 writers, a 7.5x improvement. also managed to shrink the point index by 61%.
styx: a ~41k LOC bittorrent client in rust with 600+ tests. implemented peer-wire networking, verified downloading/seeding, trackers, DHT, magnet metadata exchange, daemon IPC, CLI/TUI and a desktop shell.
kurogane: implemented Raft consensus from scratch in rust. elections, log replication, snapshots, crash recovery, joint consensus, real gRPC networking and a deterministic fault-injecting simulator with linearizability verification.
konto: built a double-entry accounting engine with PostgreSQL and typescript. atomic transactions, holds, transfers, idempotency and enforced financial invariants. includes stress testing with 1,000 concurrent transfer/hold operations.
iris: built a GPU-accelerated image viewer for linux using rust, Vulkan, GTK4 and DMA-BUF. RAW decoding, ICC colour management, GPU rendering, Wayland presentation and software fallbacks.
webnotes: built a local-first notes app with a native Tauri desktop client, SQLite storage, bidirectional linking, a structured editor and web synchronization.
scribe: built an open-source publishing SDK for React, Next.js and Vite. handles Markdown/MDX compilation, typography, components, styling and local authoring. currently in public beta.
and then there's my open source work.
i've had PRs merged into HelixDB, Turso, Apache DataFusion, Zed, NativeLink, Zilliz Knowhere and Nix, covering everything from database internals and query execution to infrastructure, editor behaviour and correctness fixes.
i've also got contributions underway in RocksDB, Neon, HydraDB, FalkorDB and Starship, among others.
most of my work revolves around rust, typescript, databases, storage, networking and systems engineering. i've also been getting deeper into ML infrastructure and inference.
i'm looking for a full-time remote engineering role. internships and contracts are on the table too.
my github has all the code, benchmarks and documentation:
github.com/aetosdios27
if you're hiring or know someone who is, hit me up.
reposts appreciated :)
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upvote nuza on product hunt guys :))
it would mean a lot <3
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I built a 3D instrument to play with your voice.
Speak, hum, whisper. A neural network in your browser turns sound into geometry in under 20ms.
No server. No API. 15KB model. Runs on-device.
Try it → neural-sculptor-beta.vercel.…
Code- github.com/Neelakshh/neural-…
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Today I explored LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmit and built a small AI workflow using Groq and Ollama.
It was exciting to see how different tools can work together: from connecting an LLM to building a structured flow and tracking how it performs.
Still learning, still building
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siphon is wrapped up ^^
pushed to github so you can see for yourself
heres what it is: a recommendation engine that teaches itself, just like tiktok's
seed some videos, bots start watching, and it slowly retrains itself to get better at what to and what not to show
full post and deep dive soon :)
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and phase 7 is done :)
up until now, siphon could do everything except the one thing that really mattered: nobody was actually using it. it had all the machinery (upload videos, understand them, recommend them, learn from what people tap) but there was no one to interact with it
"an empty club with a great dj" as claude said (thanks claude)
so heres what changed:
> 500 fake users now live inside the system, each one with its own taste
> they scroll the feed non stop, just like you would after you say "last one"
> they watch what they like, skip what they dont, sometimes like or even share
> every one of those actions gets sent right back in, just like a real person on their screens
> and their taste slowly drifts over time, because nobody likes the same stuff forever
in very simple terms: siphon finally has an audience. fake people portraying real behavior. they scroll, they react and the system quietly watches all of it and starts learning who likes what
tldr; so far ive basically been building a machine with no one to run it. now theres traffic going through it 24/7 and every scroll teaches it a little more about what people want
almost done ^^
ALT bots ask for a feed, react to it and every reaction feeds back into what they see next; this loops infinitely
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first look at agentic editing in scribe studio.
describe the change. review it directly in the document. accept, reject, or refine it.
the source remains markdown. the writer remains in control.
the goal is precise assistance without surrendering authorship.
feedback is welcome.
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first look at the scribe studio blog-writing experience.
i overhauled the entire interface, then obsessed over the details that make writing feel stupidly good:
> buttery live preview
> your actual site typography
> instant desktop, tablet, and mobile views
> edits that follow you through long articles
> markdown stays the source of truth
no cms. no proprietary format. just your blog, finally pleasant to write.
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Hey everyone,
I’ve been working on something I’m genuinely excited to share. After noticing that react-pdf-viewer node package manager library hasn’t received any updates so I decided to build a modern alternative.
Introducing LumiPDF, a high-performance React PDF viewer built from the ground up.
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Had a long call with my homeboy @afoolcodes today.
We joked, shared memes, talked about work/office drama, and somehow ended up talking about people we admire on X.
Not because they're necessarily the smartest people in the room.
But because they consistently do what they say they're going to do.
They keep learning. They keep building. They share what they learn.
That led us to one realization:
Most of us already know what we need to work on.
The problem isn't a lack of information.
It's a lack of deliberate practice.
We both agreed that upskilling isn't something you get to once work is over.
It is the job now.
AI can help you ship faster.
But every once in a while, you still need to sit down and build things yourself. Write the code. Debug the bugs.
Understand the system without outsourcing the thinking.
That's where real intuition comes from.
Learn. Build. Repeat.
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I have cold emailed/dmed quite a lot of good solana companies
Made custom products just for them as well using their sdks (7-8 companies)
Sent video intros to some as well
Around 10-20% reply and it's mostly that they aren't looking to hire right now
A couple of interviews I had were either big lowballs or just intro calls
Still pushing
If you're hiring for a technical role, make sure to hit me with a DM!
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Before the models, before the code there's math.
Revising linear algebra and calculus from scratch because I want to actually understand ML, not just use libraries.
The notebook says ML Engineer. I'm going to earn that title.
Red bottle. Purple keyboard. Let's go. – at Bhilai, India
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A million things, big & small, need to perfectly fit together to have the life we have. Like countless miniature jenga pieces that move invisibly in the matrix that we have no control over.
The older I get, the clearer it becomes that our agency is perhaps less than a percent. And that life is arbitrary… that once in a while the dice rolls in our favour. It’d be so very foolish of me to think that I am deserving of what I’m given.