Projects

Side projects, and I'll call them that. Each one is the smaller, wronger version of something I depend on, built from scratch until I could see how the real thing works. Source and full write-ups are onGitHub.

• bytekvC

  A small Redis in C: event loop, append-only log, compaction. Built to find out where the line between fast and durable actually gets drawn.

• building-tcp-servers-in-cC

  One echo server written seven ways, from blocking up through select, poll, epoll, and kqueue. The point was to feel exactly what each I/O model buys you.

• building-tcp-servers-in-rustRust

  The same exercise in Rust, from blocking up through mio and tokio, with one test that runs across every backend. Async stops being magic once you have hand-written the thing underneath it.

• RowOrient_DBC

  An in-memory, row-oriented database in C. Built to answer the one question I kept hand-waving past: where do the bytes actually go.

• SolarixRust

  A Solana indexer in Rust. Trajectory work: the on-ramp from building on the chain toward understanding the chain itself.

• x402_CLIRust

  A CLI for the x402 payments protocol on Solana. Small, but it moves a real dollar over a spec, which is the fastest way I know to actually learn one.