My name is Daniel and I'm a self-taught programmer. Starting at the age of 9, my interests in computers became deeply embedded in my brain, and I later recognized them as an essential source of passion in my life. I followed my own path into engineering and continue to be a life-long learner. I'm rewarded by helping others and producing quality code I am proud of.

I write my own prose with intention and won't paste slop at you.

Philosophies that resonate with me:

• Choose quality over speed.
• A deep topic is simple to communicate for someone with a complete understanding.
• Choose the right tool for the job, not the job for the tool.
• Care about what you do, both the craft and the work.
• See the forest from the trees: why are you doing what you are doing?

Many of the projected I've worked on have been closed source/proprietary but in the last few years several of them have been open source.

• The Graph's Indexer Agent
• Casper Node

Not intended as an exhaustive list, but here are some projects that I think are worth mentioning. Many of my projects here are research or educational drives and thus represent a multitude of snapshots into my thinking at different times in my development.

Psychosis-phase (I can build anything now!) building my own agent when the biggest issue with claude was it's ink rendering. Evolved from a TUI into a websocket-based service with a react frontend. Backend is async python + rust + lmdb. I used this agent in earnest for real work for a few months. Opencode since lured me away, and Oh-My-Pi is where I've settled for now.

Primarily, this was built to investigate session context-management. The origin of the desire: while using claude in those first few months I found I was hitting the 100K token slump and asking for a summary of the recent decisions and context. I would just ask it to create a markdown file, many others have since done that.

This harness was an exploration of prompt and context management ideas and prototypes, including:

• condensing/mutating turns in an existing session
• runtime injected plugins
• browser orchestration

Alternative timeline rust build tool. Idea is a monorepo where all dependencies live, rather than supporting crates at all.

Implementing a rust-based huffman-coding dumper for erigon's segment files. Was looking to learn how to push an agent to implement tough algos, with highly mixed results.

Typed arrow is a community developed library for strongly-typed data access in rust. When I came upon the project I thought it needed a view type, which would allow zero copy reads of data while retaining strong typing.

Both of these projects are an evolution of a research game engine concept that I had been working on with since beginning with rust (2015-2016).