PageDigest v1 Release Candidate
A one-file change-detection protocol for public websites is ready for implementer feedback.
Maxwell Santoro
Essays, technical notes, and writeups from Maxwell Santoro.
Latest posts
Making ries-rs 4–21× faster without breaking reproducibility
How I took ries-rs from tens of seconds to a few seconds: profiling first, fixing ranking, then adding turbo.
Claim Your Repo with dotrepo
The shortest maintainer path in dotrepo: start a canonical `.repo`, run the local trust loop, and line it up with the public surface.
I asked 9 AI models what they want from a repository metadata protocol
dotrepo treats AI agents as first-class consumers, so I interviewed nine models about what a repository metadata protocol should provide.
What a Trust-Aware Query Response Should Contain
A useful metadata query should return more than a value; it should return enough context to judge the answer.
Why Repository Metadata Needs a Trust Layer
Repository metadata is not mainly a schema problem. It is a trust problem.
Building ries-rs: A Rust rewrite of the inverse equation solver
Why I rewrote a 25-year-old C program in Rust, what changed in the search engine, and how WASM made the browser version possible.