EST. 2022 · VOL. IV · WRITTEN IN RUST STATUS · ACTIVE

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│   > Daily chaos.                                             │
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│   // hand-forged on weekends. since 2022. by chris regali.   │
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Cypherlite 2: I Made My Graph Database Index Its Own Codebase

2026-04-28 · 50 views · 8 min read

Last month I wrote about building Cypherlite, an embedded graph database in Rust. The punchline was: dogfooding finds bugs that unit tests don't. This post — second in the series — is about what happened when I took that further and used the database to model and navigate its own source code. Yes, it's recursive. Yes, that's part of the appeal.
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Fewer Configs, More Output: A Production-First Workflow I Actually Use

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Why I stopped compiling my own kernels and use KDE Plasma
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Vibecoding a Full-Stack Rust SaaS: Zero Lines Typed

2026-02-09 · 1387 views · 5 min read

Building ~18k lines of Rust with zero hand-written code -- shared DTOs, BDD testing, clippy as code review, and multi-AI development.
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