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Amos Wenger
Whatever is left of fasterthanlime, holed up in Lyon, France.
Making dictation better at avette, building an AI workspace at kobl, and fixing build systems at vix.
Latest article
2025 Recap: so many projects
I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to clear my head. There are many, many, many things to go through and we don’t have a…
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all articles- Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why… 14 min
- Does Dioxus spark joy? Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little different than usual. Enjoy! Good evening! Tonight, I will attempt to answer the… 11 min
- Engineering a Rust optimization quiz There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of the… 14 min
- Making our own spectrogram A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot more… 20 min
- crates.io phishing attempt Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: And it leads to a GitHub login page… 1 min
- color npm package compromised On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package. Someone noticed and let Josh know: Josh confirmed… 4 min
- The science of loudness My watch has a “Noise” app: it shows , for decibels. My amp has a volume knob, which also shows decibels, although.. negative ones, this time. And finally, my video editing software has a ton of… 13 min
- Summer fasterthanlime update There are news! TL;DR: If you’re a patron or sponsor, check your Profile page to get detailed explainers of every perk. You’ll need to log in. Duh. Here are all the changes I’m implementing… 8 min
what I’m building
bearcoveResearch becomes software at bearcove. These are the projects taking up most of my attention.
avette ↗Dictation that belongs on the Mac. Speech recognition running on your own device.
kobl ↗A workspace for people and AI agents, with control over where computation happens.
vix ↗A language for incremental computation. Faster builds are just the beginning.
Also in the workshop: facet · tracey · dodeca · stax · continuum
