kasthe.dev

kas.the.dev

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kas@kasthe.co:~$ whoami

kas — swe, 20+ years

building tools that bridge the gap between human and llm. tuis, distributed dictation, and ai-assisted development workflows -- exploring what this new era of software engineering actually looks like in practice.

python react-native go rust ai/llm tui linux

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i brought my ai back from the dead, one 64 mb chunk at a time → April 13, 2026

how a btrfs metadata failure, overconfident ai guidance, and a custom raw-disk recovery pipeline turned into a lesson about persistence, backups, and the double edge of ai.

#recovery #btrfs #ai

how i actually brought my ai back from the dead [technical] → April 13, 2026

a technical recounting of a btrfs metadata failure, the failed recovery attempts that came first, and the raw-disk zstd carving pipeline that eventually restored enough openclaw state to bring kai back.

#recovery #btrfs #ai #technical

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● building freyja iq ● building kasmos ● tuning kaspr

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◆ kastheco

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kasmos ● active

ai-powered tui orchestration tool built with charm/bubbletea. multi-agent task management for the terminal.

go bubbletea claude opencode

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kaspr ● active

local wakeword layer for hyprwhspr: always-on local listening, cloud providers only when live dictation starts.

python whisper wayland

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hyprscreens ● active

rust utility for hyprland display management, built for fast multi-monitor wayland setup switching.

rust hyprland wayland

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