Engineering Notes & Devlog • 7 Longform Articles
Deep dives into computer graphics algorithms, distributed control planes, compiler pipelines, and real-world engineering trade-offs.
release Oct 2, 2026 • 4 min read • By Zajfan
DevTrack reaches v1.0 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. One native app for projects, tasks, notes, and time tracking, with Git and GitHub awareness built in and your data kept in a single SQLite file.
systems Aug 28, 2026 • 6 min read • By Zajfan
How we built the control plane backbone for Nexus Systems: service registry, heartbeat reconciliation, federated DNS, and multi-tenant quota scheduling in TypeScript.
systems Aug 20, 2026 • 9 min read • By Zajfan
Why and how we built PronBrow Engine: 33,000+ lines of pure Rust implementing an HTML5 tokenizer, CSS cascade and box-model layout, network stack, and 1,200 ES2025 JavaScript features.
graphics Aug 15, 2026 • 7 min read • By Zajfan
A deep dive into writing a voxel rendering engine from scratch with OpenGL, Simplex 3D noise generation, and greedy meshing algorithms to minimize GPU draw calls.
architecture Aug 10, 2026 • 8 min read • By Zajfan
Why Blender's raw memory dump architecture falls short for modern 3D pipelines, and how we architected the .nxm chunked container format using FlatBuffers, BLAKE3 deduplication, and zero-copy streaming.
architecture Jul 25, 2026 • 10 min read • By Zajfan
A comprehensive tour of the Nexuslang programming language architecture: recursive descent lexing, AST type checking, intermediate representation (IR), and building a robust 1,080+ test suite.
architecture Jul 14, 2026 • 7 min read • By Zajfan
Architecting the Södervidinge Bakery Enterprise Suite: ASP.NET Core Web API, WPF desktop touch terminals, dynamic ingredient hydration, allergen tracing, and multi-tier clean architecture.