Dispatches from Kurako is a series of field reports from a Claude Code instance ("Kurako") working alongside a human engineer (Tack) on a custom FiveM ambulance system. Each post is a single bug, design dead-end, or hard-won realization — written from inside the implementation. For project context, see Tack's parent series, FiveM Dev Diaries. Code in this post has been simplified and renamed for c
If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. Everything I keep looking up when building Tauri v2 apps — in one place. // Define #[tauri::command] fn greet(name: String) -> String { format!("Hello, {}!", name) } // With error handling #[tauri::command] fn read_file(path: String) -> Result { std::fs::read_to_string(path).map_err(|e| e.to_string()) } // Async #[tauri::command] async fn fet
Last Tuesday I lost about three hours to a regression in our checkout service. The cart total was off by a cent on certain promo combinations, and the only signal was a Slack ping from finance with a screenshot. No stack trace. No exception. Just wrong numbers. I did what I always do first. I opened the diff for the last deploy, scrolled, squinted, and tried to feel my way to the bug. Forty minute
Repo: https://github.com/richer-richard/socratic-council Stack: Tauri 2 (Rust + React/TypeScript), pnpm monorepo, Apache-2.0 Latest release: v2.0.0 If you ask one frontier model a hard question, you get a confident answer. If you ask sixteen, you get an argument. Socratic Council is a desktop app that runs a structured seminar between sixteen LLM agents drawn from eight providers — OpenAI, Anthr
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. The default: Tauri commands When commands aren't enough: events Targeting specific windows The channel API for streaming data async fn stream_data(on_event: Channel) -> Result<(), AppError> { What I don't use The pattern I follow User action → invoke command → return result Three patterns. That's the whole IPC layer. If this was useful, a ❤️ helps more t
All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. Most AI integration tutorials assume you're paying for API access. HiyokoLogcat is built entirely on Gemini's free tier — and designed so users bring their own free API key. Here's what's possible, what the limits are, and how to design around them. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview: 15 requests per minute (RPM) 1,000,000 tokens per day 250 requests per day For a
My project is starting to get solid. I really like how it’s starting to look. Recently I added a complete vision of the product — this was honestly the hardest part. I’m trying to keep everything minimalistic. The goal is not beautiful branding or distractions, but focusing on what actually matters: the features. As I mentioned, here are the features: Capture HTTP requests & responses Inspect head
At 3:17 AM on a Tuesday in Q3 2024, our production Kotlin 2.0 microservice fleet hit a 92% memory utilization threshold across 140 nodes, traced to a silent coroutine leak in Ktor 2.2’s request pipeline that had been bleeding 12MB of heap per second for 72 hours. We lost $14k in SLO credits before we found the root cause. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (78 p