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Personal stories I keep coming back to.
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Notes from the workshop floor.
ArtCraft Explained: The Open-Source 3D Staging IDE for AI Filmmakers
Explore ArtCraft, the open-source Rust and Tauri IDE turning blind AI prompting into precise visual crafting with 3D scene staging, mannequins, and 62 models.
Context Mode Explained: 98% Context Window Compression for AI Coding Agents
Discover Context Mode, the MCP virtualization engine compressing agent tool dumps by 98% with SQLite FTS5 session memory and code-first execution.
God's Eye View Explained: Open Source 3D Geospatial Intelligence in Your Browser
Explore God's Eye View, the open-source 3D spatial intelligence simulator fusing live ADS-B, maritime AIS, satellite orbits, and local SDR feeds in WebGL.
System Design Primer Explained: The Architecture Bible for Scaling Systems
Deconstructing Donne Martin's System Design Primer: the architectural blueprint for distributed systems, core trade-offs, and scaling to millions of users.
Matt Pocock Skills Explained: Engineering Discipline Over Vibe Coding
How Matt Pocock's skills framework enforces Ousterhout deep modules, Socratic grilling, and tracer-bullet tickets to cure the AI vibe coding hangover.
REA: Reverse Engineer Anything with AI Agents & MCP
REA (morluto/rea) connects AI coding agents via MCP to Ghidra, Hopper, and ASAR to reverse engineer binaries and Electron apps into verifiable code.
PhotoCraft: Clean-Room Photoshop in Pure Rust, wgpu & MCP
PhotoCraft (storytold/photocraft) is an open-source, clean-room Photoshop reimplementation in pure Rust with wgpu GPU compositing, PSD round trips, and native MCP.
Optimizing Windows 11 for CS2 and ComfyUI: From Wi-Fi to P-Cores
A battle-tested Windows 11 guide: kill 300ms Wi-Fi lag spikes, isolate P-cores for CS2, and buffer 64GB virtual RAM for ComfyUI without crippling E-cores in BIOS.
Krea 2 Turbo: Why 16-Channel Latents and ConvRot Beat 24GB GPUs
How Krea 2 Turbo delivers photorealistic chiaroscuro and candid depth on a 12GB GPU using 16-channel Wan VAE latents and ConvRot INT8 quantization.
From the HoangYell galaxy
Sister projects I quietly maintain.Gallery
The friendly Astro image gallery - lightbox, pyramid layout, dark mode.
gallery.hoangyell.com
Yellorn
One browser tab for dirty data and webhook debugging - JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, mock APIs.
yellorn.com
Markdy
Animated architecture & system diagrams as code - 17 layout engines, Well-Architected linter, and browser-native motion.
markdy.com
Yell Chat
Casual AI chat playground I built to test ideas - yes, it talks back.
chat.hoangyell.com