I get annoyed that existing tools have limitations so I fix them or build my own:
- I didn't like that I can't use my newsreader on my laptop and my phone as easily so I built https://github.com/mjc/nntp-proxy. that turned out to be really hard to benchmark once it got fast enough so I am working on an nntp benchmark tool https://github.com/mjc/nntpbench. both can do request queuing because the nntp RFC says servers have to accept as many requests as they can, and then process them in order. so if your client doesn't do that, you can use more connections to the proxy and it will queue for you. it also routes stateless commands to whatever server is least-loaded, and will switch to stateful mode if your client needs it.
- I didn't like how expensive AWS Transfer Family is, so I built this https://github.com/elixir-ssh/sftpd and then rewrote it in rust (alpha) https://github.com/mjc/sftp-s3-rs. this shook out a bunch of bugs in russh, which was fun.
- didn't like that there's no par2 implementation in rust so I built this https://github.com/mjc/par2rs (I'm too lazy to move to tape backup so it works pretty ok for dvd/bluray parity), unfinished but good enough for my use.
- same deal for 7zip in rust. https://github.com/mjc/r7z
- a medication tracker thing that uses claude/codex/copilot to scan the bottles and parse them as well as identify pills etc. works better than you'd think but I'm not planning on releasing it for a while.
fixed or fixing bugs in:
- exqlite (it should not crash anymore and should return busy a lot less often.)
- russh
- swift-nio-ssh (this might be why codex's remote can't connect to your ssh box) https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-ssh/pull/236
- NanoKVM (working on making the streaming for this a lot more fluid)
I'm the author. It's supposed to wire into a phoenix app easily and give you lots of flexibility for how to handle what the client is doing - doesn't have to land on s3, you could pipe your files into an LLM or a broadway pipeline or anything really.
that said liveview is capable of 60fps server-rendered animation, so it's definitely not just for speeding up page loads.