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Does the Sumerian King List Align With Paleoclimate Events?
A statistical test of whether the Sumerian King List's antediluvian reigns line up with paleoclimate events better than chance.
June 7, 2026 · 9 min
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Engineering for the Age of Inference
Articles and projects on data platforms, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure by Istvan.
All I wanted was a simple code search, I ended up in a ranking theory rabbit hole
How a personal code-search project became a deep dive into ranking theory, five papers, and the finding that simple heuristics are hard to beat.
searchSupervising Coding Agents: Notes from a Live Debugging Session
An unedited live session showing where coding agents help, where they miss root cause, and how short human interventions improve outcomes.
agenticDiagnosing Network Latency on MikroTik: Seven Layers, Seven Fixes
A practical walkthrough of fixing MikroTik latency issues, from DFS and roaming behavior to LTE bufferbloat and MTU tuning.
networkingAgentic Project Management: Why Vibe Coding Fails and How to Fix It
Learn why unstructured AI coding fails and how a three-tier verification system transforms vibe coding into reliable agentic project management.
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harrow: Macro-Free HTTP Framework
A thin, macro-free HTTP framework over Hyper with built-in observability, runtime-inspectable routing, and sub-microsecond overhead.
rustro11y: Lightweight Observability
Hand-rolled OTLP protobuf over HTTP, built on Rust's tracing crate. Seven dependencies instead of a hundred and twenty.
rustmarie-ssg: Static Site Generator
A fast, single-purpose static site generator that turns markdown and TOML metadata into HTML using Jinja-style templates.
rustqrst: On-Device Hybrid Search
A single-binary hybrid search engine combining BM25 keyword search with vector semantic search, running entirely on-device.
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- Rust4 items
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