About

I'm a computer science student. Most of what I build is a reimplementation of something that already exists, because rebuilding a system is the only reliable way I've found to learn what its design is actually load-bearing for.

The pattern that keeps repeating: the interesting failure is never in the part I expected. A rate limiter that measured itself as correct while sending a hundred simultaneous requests. A memory manager whose instrumentation became the largest cost in the system. In both cases every component was right and the composition was wrong, which is a hard thing to catch from inside a single process.

So I've been writing them down. That's what the writing is.

Current work

• nodejs-k8s: Kubernetes' core APIs in Node, compatible enough that the real kubectl and standard YAML work against it unmodified.
• Kestrel: a macOS browser on WKWebView that keeps to a memory budget by demoting background tabs down a ladder of measured states, and the re-measurement that retracted its own headline (1.24× less memory than an unmanaged browser rather than 1.43×, and worse than managing nothing on a budget below its own feasibility floor).
• lambda-language: a small language with four independent backends (C, WebAssembly, ARM64, a bytecode VM) that have to agree byte for byte, and a compiler for it written in itself.
• social-deduction-bench: measuring LLM deception and deception-detection per turn and corrected for chance, rather than by win rate.

Elsewhere

• github.com/Megapixel99
• linkedin.com/in/seth-wheeler
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