Stories by jgarzik

RooDB: Now faster than MySQL (acc. to sysbench 1M rows)

BotMaker: Simple Openclaw Configurator

BrainPro: "OpenCode and mullbot, in Rust" – secure agentic platform

High performance, open source RAFT clustered database: RooDB

CFT: "sqawk" 0.8.0 – optimized SQL Awk utility with Rust's sqlparser

It boots on real hardware (hk kernel)

It boots (Linux compatible kernel)

A new C99 optimizing compiler, with full testsuite

Xbasic: 1980s era BASIC, compiler to x86-64, complete with test suite

Guide to Generative Video with Google Veo 3 and Flow

Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away)

Sqawk 0.1.0: A fusion of SQL and Awk: Applying SQL to text-based data files

Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust

Clean-slate MAKE utility written in Rust

Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more

One rusty Awk: Memory-safe, clean slate implementation of Awk

Memory-safe, clean POSIX implementation of M4 macro processor

Posixutils 0.2.0 released – get a grep, people:)

Memory-safe, clean implementation of classic Posix "BC" calculator

Memds: An in-progress Redis clone in Rust and protobufs