I just realized I'm spending $500+/month on image compression & CDN.
Definitely worth some of my time to fix it. So my step one: build my own image compression library: fast, S3-native, Caddy built in for certs, and super simple to deploy on Hetzner or DigitalOcean.
Building and talking about Agentic AI, and open source.
Austin, TX
Joined April 2007
- A curated list of resources for the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) Google's open, vendor-neutral spec for representing knowledge as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter that AI agents can read without custom integrations.
- For people who have used Next.js, TanStack Start, Remix / React Router, or similar frameworks in production: - What problems are still not well solved today? - What do you wish Next.js had done differently? - What does TanStack Start get right? - Are React Server Components
- I’ve been using Next.js for ~7 years. Recently I’ve seen more people moving to TanStack Start, but I still haven’t fully adapted to it. Probably because of my mental model, habits, and path dependency. So I started wondering: why not build a new framework myself? App router,
- A tiny Ruby-subset interpreter in Rust, built on top of Prism

