hrdx: I Built My Own Agent Multiplexer, Because of Course I Did
On building hrdx, a minimal terminal multiplexer for coding agents in Go. Not to compete with anything, but because I wanted my own tool, again.
Patric Eckhart
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The zotfile: Agents You Can Share Like Files
A portable, permission-scoped packaging format for AI agents. Persona, skills, requirements, and enforced permissions in one .zot artifact that runs locally with your own keys.
Building Your Own Coding Agent on Top of zot
How zot ships its internals as importable Go packages, so you can write a working coding agent harness in about a hundred lines.
Why Codex on ChatGPT Plus Can Save You From Yourself
A counterintuitive case for the cheap plan. The usage cap on ChatGPT Plus need not be a downgrade, it can be a speed limiter, and a speed limiter can be exactly what most of us need right now. Myself included.
moustache: Browser Automation for Coding Agents
A small browser automation CLI for coding agents, built as a learning vehicle for understanding how agents should see and use the web.
Voxxy: Voice to Text from the macOS Menu Bar
A small, private, on-device voice-to-text app for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, release, paste. Here is why I built it and how it turned out.
Why I Built zot (zero-overhead-tool), and Why It's Written in Go
On building my own coding agent harness from scratch, what I wanted to learn from it, and why Go turned out to be the right choice.
Announcing eventsourcing.dev: A Practical Guide to Event Sourcing
A concise, no-nonsense guide to understanding Event Sourcing from first principles. Neutral, practical, and open.
CQRSKit: A TypeScript Framework for CQRS and Event Sourcing
A compact, type-safe TypeScript framework for CQRS and Event Sourcing with pluggable database adapters and zero runtime dependencies.
Reflections on Fine-Grained Access Control in GenesisDB
Thoughts on a declarative, file-based access control model for GenesisDB, and what a single thoughtful Hacker News reply taught me about it.
I Built an Event-Sourcing Database Engine: Meet GenesisDB
GenesisDB is a lightweight, production-ready event-sourcing database engine written in Go. Here is what it does, what it doesn't, and why I built it.
GDPR and Event Sourcing: Thoughts on a Hard Problem
Event streams are append-only by design. GDPR demands deletion. Here is how I think about reconciling the two, and the approach I prefer in practice.
Thoughts on Building My Own Event Store
Thinking through what it would take to build my own event store: storage layout, performance, indexing, and the part that scares me most, write locking.