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  1. Supply Chain 8 min read

    The Repository Link That Points at Nobody

    About one declared repository link in seven no longer cloned anonymously, and for about a fifth of those the GitHub account it names no longer existed.

  2. Design 10 min read

    545 Terminal Themes, and the Rabbit Hole That Produced Them

    A dataset of 545 terminal color schemes, converted to OKLCH and republished as an npm package — and the theme picker in this site’s own header that quietly runs on it.

  3. Web Development 6 min read

    No GIFs, No Script Tags: How Far a Single SVG File Can Go

    svg-terminal is an experiment in how much you can make one self-contained SVG do: type, blink, phone an API for live stats, and survive a renderer that assumes every SVG is hostile. 48 blocks, zero JavaScript, one wry aside about trusting my own config file.

  4. TypeScript 10 min read

    A Month of Modularization: nexus-agents in April 2026

    Extracting benchmarks into a standalone package was the punchline. The setup was a month of governance, skills, security, and pipeline discipline that made the extraction possible in an afternoon.

  5. TypeScript 7 min read

    Grading GitHub Repos: Six-Dimension Hygiene Scores from repo-health-report

    A static-analysis tool that grades any GitHub repo across security, testing, docs, architecture, devops, and maintenance. The methodology is still WIP, but the findings are consistent: most repos are skipping the basics.

  6. Design 9 min read

    Remarque: A Typography-First Design System for Technical Sites

    Most developer sites look like SaaS dashboards. Remarque is the antidote — a design system rooted in book typography, 17px body text, 46rem reading columns, and the OKLCH color space. Self-hosted fonts, AI-native tokens, zero CDN dependencies.

  7. TypeScript 7 min read

    Building US Code Tracker: Federal Law as Git History

    How I built an end-to-end pipeline that converts the United States Code from XML into a Git-versioned, searchable static site with 53,000+ sections and inline case law annotations.

  8. AI Agents 12 min read

    Building Nexus-Agents: What I Learned Creating a Multi-Model AI Orchestration System

    The engineering story behind nexus-agents, a research-backed multi-model orchestration system that coordinates Claude, Gemini, and Codex through consensus voting, adaptive routing, and graph workflows.

  9. AI Agents 8 min read

    Consensus Voting With AI Models: When Three Opinions Beat One

    How multi-model consensus voting catches blind spots that single models miss. The research behind adversarial roles, Bayesian aggregation, and structured deliberation across Claude, Gemini, and Codex.

  10. Research 8 min read

    From RouteLLM to Contextual Bandits: How Research Papers Shaped My Model Router

    How I went from naive round-robin model selection to a five-stage routing pipeline backed by RouteLLM, TOPSIS, and LinUCB research. The failures that led to each improvement.

  11. MCP 15 min read

    Down the MCP Rabbit Hole: Building a Standards Server

    Build MCP standards server for Claude AI—implement Model Context Protocol for intelligent code standards and context-aware workflows.

  12. Compliance 10 min read

    Vulnerability Management at Scale with Open Source Tools

    Build enterprise vulnerability management with open source: scanning, remediation tracking, and compliance using OpenVAS, Trivy, and Airflow.

  13. Python 6 min read

    Automating Home Network Security with Python and Open Source Tools

    A homelab security automation design, with archived Python fragments and a corrected account of their dependencies and limitations.

  14. Web Development 3 min read

    Building My Digital Garden with Eleventy

    How this site began — a privacy-first, zero-tracking static digital garden. Originally built with Eleventy; since rebuilt on Astro.

  15. LLM 13 min read

    Open-Source vs. Proprietary LLMs: A Battle of Accessibility, Customization, and Community

    Compare open-source vs proprietary LLMs with Llama 2 and GPT-4 benchmarks—understand performance, cost, and customization trade-offs for production.