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Introduction Hacking a Game Boy to control a sewing machine sounds like a whimsical maker project — and it is — but it also sits at a fascinating technical crossroads.

Introduction & Background Research question / hypothesis: Can an operating-system kernel intended for cloud applications be reduced to ~10 KiB (10,240 bytes) while remaining practical for real…

That is the premise behind HyTags, a compact language that embeds control flow, functions, and asynchronous handling directly into HTML via custom tags.

Introduction A tiny, fully open-source compass and navigation app under 2 MB sounds almost nostalgic in an era of hundred-megabyte map apps.

For in-process services, an in-memory cache sits between the CPU caches and slower main memory, trimming latency for hot data and lowering backend load.

Introduction Storing “the web” at scale—raw HTML, assets, metadata, link graphs, and derived crawl artifacts—is a different problem than storing structured tables.

Introduction Can a TikTok-like short-video experience be built without a single custom server — purely as a native client on top of an open social protocol.

Developers increasingly rely on machine-generated code and powerful AI tools that can add features faster than teams can internalize structure.

QuestDB recently documented exactly that: a 40-line fix eliminated a huge performance gap in a JVM-based workload (QuestDB, 2024), and the thread sparked conversation on Hacker News (bluestreak, 2024).

You want the ergonomics of referencing internal buffers or creating self-referential structures, but you must preserve Rust’s guarantees about ownership, aliasing, and moves.