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One post a week on what I build and what I learn. I drop the intro on LinkedIn and link back here for the full thing. RSS.

Jun 26, 202620 min read

Building Audia: What It Took to Control Per-App Audio on macOS

We started with virtual audio drivers. We ended up deep inside Core Audio HAL, process taps, private aggregate devices, real-time lock-free buffers, and vectorized DSP.

#Swift#Core Audio#DSP#macOS Systems

Jun 26, 20263 min read

Exploring a Compact Instruction Format for LLM Tool-Calling

An architectural exploration of grammar-constrained instructions and a small Rust runtime for local LLM tool-calling.

#rust#systems#llms#compilers

Jun 25, 20269 min read

Hello World: For the Love of the Game

On learning by doing, building cricket scraping bots, and why I learn best by building.

#Software Engineering#Indie Dev#Learning

Building Audia: What It Took to Control Per-App Audio on macOS

Exploring a Compact Instruction Format for LLM Tool-Calling

Hello World: For the Love of the Game

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