Tags → #side-quest
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Zera Janitor: Closing Solana Dust Accounts in Leptos WASM
A Solana program + Leptos 0.7 frontend that scans your wallet for empty SPL token accounts, batches up to 25 closes per transaction via CPI, and pays you back 95% of the rent. The fee path is the actual interesting part.
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Listening to the Bluesky Firehose for Accidental Haikus
A Rust firehose listener that decodes ATProto CAR frames live, runs whatlang + syllarust on every English post, and saves the ones that scan as 5-7-5 haikus to disk. There were a lot of haikus.
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process-thing: An LSB Watermarker for upload-thing, Written in Rust via Neon
A Rust npm package that embeds invisible watermarks in the least significant bit of every red channel pixel. Built for upload-thing image preprocessing. Cross-compiled for 7 platforms. The README is one paragraph.
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How Random is a Local LLM? A Rust Benchmark with Redis
A Rust harness that asks Ollama models for "a random number between 1 and 100" thousands of times, parses every response with regex, stores results in Redis, and pits them against a real RNG. Spoiler: 42 wins.
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Blazingly Fast Drinks: A Repo I Made For The Bit
A Clerk + Next.js + Expo turborepo I called "glug" with the description "Blazingly Fast Drinks". The README never mentioned drinks. The repo description carried the entire joke.