post://filesystem-event-log-in-sqlite
A filesystem event log in SQLite
Point it at a folder and every create, edit, rename and delete lands in a local database. Undo, replay, fork and diff, without git in the way.
category://programming
Programming
11 articles in this category
post://treating-toml-as-a-database
Treating a directory of TOML as a database
Hand-curated source data, generated gold tables, and a published dataset. How I keep a directory of TOML honest with code generation and CI.
post://scholarship-ingestion-pipeline
A scholarship ingestion pipeline that dedupes across three sources
Playwright for the pages that need JavaScript, cron for the schedule, and a dedupe key that keeps DAAD, Erasmus and Chevening from colliding.
post://veet-the-linux-uninstaller-that-cleans-what-package-managers-leave-behind
Veet: the Linux uninstaller that cleans what package managers leave behind
Removing a Linux app often leaves configs and caches on disk. Veet scans 17 sources at once, stages every residual path, and removes them in one confirmed step.
post://a-browser-media-engine-without-ffmpeg-wasm
A browser media engine without FFmpeg WASM
Most web players ship a 30 MB software decoder and hope the phone survives it. VidoLib decodes through WebCodecs instead, and ships every parser as its own plugin.
post://isolated-instances-of-any-cli-rootless
Isolated instances of any CLI, rootless
Two GitHub accounts, two Discords, a stable and a beta of the same tool, all on one machine with no container, no daemon, and no sudo. The isolation model is three ideas and a path rewrite.
post://i-got-tired-of-github-being-down-so-i-built-my-own-git-platform
I Got Tired of GitHub Being Down, So I Built My Own Git Platform
OpenCodeHub is an open-source, self-hosted GitHub alternative built with Astro, TypeScript, and Drizzle ORM. Features SSH, stacked PRs, CI/CD pipelines, and AI code review — on your own server.
post://a-local-first-ai-coding-cli
A local-first AI coding CLI
Provider-independent, zero telemetry, and it writes your session to a local JSONL file. The constraints came first and the features followed.
post://a-grammar-checker-that-never-phones-home
A grammar checker that never phones home
A 156,000-word dictionary that runs in the browser, a router that only reaches for a model when you bring your own key, and no database on the other side.
post://versioned-memory-for-ai-agents
Versioned memory for AI agents, seven languages deep
An agent that runs long enough will forget what it decided. I implemented the GCC framework, which treats agent memory like Git, in seven languages against one on-disk format.
post://self-hosting-the-whole-git-workflow
Self-hosting the whole Git workflow
A self-hosted forge with stacked pull requests, a speculative merge queue, Actions-compatible CI, and AI review. The reasoning behind a modular monolith, and the parts that were hard.