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A complete archive of engineering deep-dives, technical explorations, and project post-mortems.
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Frak Labs
19 articles
Building the future of content monetization with Web3. From pioneering account abstraction and WebAuthn wallets to extreme frontend optimization and cost-effective blockchain infrastructure.
Cooking Bot
3 articles
An AI cooking assistant where safety is paramount. Exploring deterministic safety layers, vector search, and when NOT to use LLMs.
Web3 & Solidity
5 articles
Deep dives into EVM optimization, account abstraction, cryptography, and the bleeding edge of smart contract development.
Side Projects
2 articles
Personal projects born from real problems. AI-powered WordPress management, home electrical panel optimization, building what I need, open-sourcing what might help others.
L'Atelier
4 articles
A self-hosted cloud sandbox platform for AI coding agents, built on Kata Containers. From a monolithic orchestrator to a Kubernetes-native supporting infrastructure, plus a Slack bot and MCP server.
Pico Kiln
5 articles
Hardware and firmware for a smart, high-temperature pottery kiln controller. From 380V industrial rewiring to bare-metal Rust firmware and physics-based PID tuning.
Scenario Parser
4 articles
An internal NLP pipeline that turns screenplay PDFs into structured data: extraction, character psychology modeling, and a resilient orchestration engine.
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Wiring a House by Algorithm: A 3-Phase Panel Optimizer for NF C 15-100
Modelling rooms and sub-panels, auto-generating the tableau électrique, then minimising breaker count and balancing the three phases with a branch-and-bound search.
Pico Kiln - Part 5: Dropping to the Metal with Rust
Replacing the MicroPython interpreter with a bare-metal, dual-core system that never crashes.
A Bank Account for a Smart Contract: Wiring Monerium Into a Self-Custodial Wallet
Why we plugged the wallet straight into a regulated e-money issuer instead of building our own rails, and how the integration actually works: browser-side OAuth2 with PKCE, an nginx proxy that defeats a broken CORS preflight, ERC-1271 address linking, delegated KYC, and a signed SEPA off-ramp
One Translation Source for a Shopify App That Renders in Four Different Runtimes
Why we moved merchant-editable text out of metafields and into a merchant-owned metaobject, how a three-tier Liquid cascade resolves it, and the self-healing sync that never overwrites a merchant's edits
From 9 Minutes to 2: Rebuilding the Wallet's CI on Our Own Platform
Killing Dockerfile.base, sharing cache mounts across six images, and what really moves the needle in Docker build pipelines
Bringing CI Back Home: A Hetzner Platform for the Frak Stack
In-cluster GitHub runners, mTLS BuildKit, an OCI cache nobody pays egress for, and the pulumi-Bun saga
The Ring Architecture: Shipping a Wallet That Costs Almost Nothing to Embed
Preact, vanilla-TS bootstraps, headless RPC, and the discipline of a 3-chunk eager bundle
Rich Share Sheets in a Tauri Mobile App (Without the Usual Compromises)
Typed activity items on iOS, FileProvider thumbnails on Android, and a 2-second race against the share sheet
A Tauri Plugin That Survives an App Uninstall: Passkey Continuity on iOS and Android
iCloud KV + Keychain on iOS, Google Block Store + SharedPreferences on Android, and never storing anything sensitive
A WordPress Plugin That Doesn't Tank Your Store's Performance
Context-aware bootstrapping, manifest-based block registration, delegating webhooks to WooCommerce's native pipeline, and deleting every line of code we didn't need
Pruning the Last MongoDB Dependency: libSQL, RustFS, and True Kubernetes Portability
One lingering collection, zero cloud lock-in
Chasing a Bun Memory Leak for 3 Days (The Answer Was 'Just Restart')
Two-pass builds, forced GC, --smol flags, and a health endpoint that lies to Kubernetes
Writing a Native WebAuthn Tauri Plugin from Scratch (iOS + Android)
Replacing simplewebauthn with platform-native passkey APIs - and surviving iOS attestation objects
The Supporting Cast: L'Atelier's Infrastructure Beyond the Orchestrator
The orchestrator gets all the glory, but it's the proxy, the cache, and the registry that make the system actually usable.
L'Atelier: Why I Deleted 8,702 Lines of Code to Move to Kubernetes
Migrating from a custom Firecracker orchestrator to Kata Containers and k3s. Better portability, less maintenance, and a lot of deleted code.
Talk to Your AI Dev Team: L'Atelier Gets a Slack Bot and an MCP Server
Three weeks of daily use revealed the real bottleneck. The dashboard was still one too many clicks away.
L'Atelier: Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents
Building a self-hosted Firecracker microVM orchestrator because AI coding agents shouldn't need you watching.
The Uncomfortable Truth About ERC-7579 and Modular Smart Wallets
2-3 weeks building a ZK social login wallet. Most of the pain wasn't the ZK part.
WordForge: AI-Powered WordPress Management via MCP
Building an open-source MCP server because Shopify fees felt wrong and no free alternatives existed.
The DevX Revolution: How We Cut Build Times by 10x at Frak
From Next.js to TanStack Start, Rollup to Rolldown, and 5-minute builds to 30 seconds
Extreme Frontend Optimization: How We Cut 30% Off Our Wallet Size
From Jotai to Zustand, AWS to Kubernetes, and achieving faster load times without a CDN
Modern Infrastructure as Code: Why We Chose SST & Pulumi over Terraform
Escaping the HCL Trap
Pico Kiln - Part 4: Physics-Based PID Tuning with Python
From CSV Logs to Optimal Control Theory
Pico Kiln - Part 3: From Web to Native with Tauri
One React App, Three Platforms, Zero Mixed Content Drama
Pico Kiln - Part 2: Firmware Architecture
Industrial Control on a $6 Chip
Pico Kiln - Part 1: From 380V Industrial to 220V Smart Kiln
The electrical rewiring journey: Taming a 400kg vintage beast, converting 3-phase power, and solving critical ground faults.
Real-Time AI Conversations and Audio Processing
Building responsive voice-guided cooking experiences
The Sophisticated Recipe Processing Pipeline
How we process 35,000+ recipes with 99.9% accuracy
Safety-First AI for Food Systems
Why we don't trust LLMs with allergies
Beyond Text: Modeling Character Psychology with LLMs
Deconstructing Personality with AI
The Orchestration Engine: Building a Resilient Analysis Pipeline
Event-Driven Architecture & Graph Theory
From PDF to Structured Data: The Extraction Layer
Solving the Screenplay Parsing Challenge
Scenario Parser: The Complete Architecture
3-Stage Competitive Parsing Architecture
From Idea to Innovation: Unveiling Our WebAuthN Smart Wallet Demo
Building Cost-Effective Blockchain Infrastructure: A Journey with eRPC and Ponder
Unlocking the Future: WebAuthN Meets ERC-4337 Smart Wallets
Frak's Vanguard: Pioneering the Account Abstraction Revolution in the Polygon Ecosystem
Embracing the Future of Blockchain: Frak Leads with Account Abstraction, Redefining User Empowerment and Decentralization on Polygon.
ERC-2612: The Ultimate Guide to Gasless ERC-20 Approvals - part 3
Perfecting ERC-2612: Boost Your DeFi Skills with Solidity Unit Testing in Hardhat and Forge
ERC-2612: The Ultimate Guide to Gasless ERC-20 Approvals - part 2
A deep dive into the Solidity code of gasless ERC-20 approvals ERC-2612
ERC-2612: The Ultimate Guide to Gasless ERC-20 Approvals - part 1
How to use EIP-712 signatures to save gas, batch approvals and increase security for your ERC-20 tokens.
Maximizing Quality and Reliability in Solidity: Our Journey from Hardhat to Foundry
Evaluating the performance difference of Hardhat and Foundry for Solidity contract unit testing & reason behind the switch
Securing Solidity Smart Contracts
Setting up some free security tools, to prepare a security Audit