mitali (@kayleecodez) / X

mitali

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mitali

@kayleecodez

rust dev. i bite.

bengaluru

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Joined February 2022

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mitali
@kayleecodez
Apr 15
finished working on sigil for now, the container runtime i've been building from scratch in rust this is it running: sigil --rootfs ./rootfs -- meow inside the container pid 1 is my own init process, so everything in there is rooted under something i start. if you run ps it
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@kayleecodez
Jul 24, 2025
Netflix and chill? Nah. Rust and suffer
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@kayleecodez
Sep 28, 2025
most backend devs can make an api work. few understand what’s actually happening under the hood. let me break it down in simple terms 🧵
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@kayleecodez
Sep 21, 2025
POV you applied to 200 jobs got 3 interviews and they all asked you to code "trapping rain water" problem.
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@kayleecodez
Nov 3, 2025
was tryin something dumb lol ever wondered how chat apps know you’re typing? there’s no deep ML model behind it. the client just sends a tiny “user is typing” event every few seconds over a websocket. you stop -> it stops sending -> server tells everyone “typing...” is gone.
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@kayleecodez
Nov 8, 2025
was going through some backend stuff and found this thing called consistent hashing ngl half the internet kinda runs on this shit. it decides which server owns your data and somehow keeps it stable even when servers come or go. most basic load balancers (like nginx round robin)
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@kayleecodez
Oct 15, 2025
built a garbage collector in rust for no good reason rust already handles memory with ownership so GC is completely unnecessary but i made one anyway in 90 lines allocates objects, marks the ones you're using, frees the rest, reuses memory slots tested it with 5 objects, only
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@kayleecodez
Oct 3, 2025
played around with Rust and made a TCP proxy. it takes traffic from one port and forwards it to multiple backend servers. also checks if the backends are alive before sending anything.
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@kayleecodez
Nov 10, 2025
started late but here i am lol
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@kayleecodez
Nov 2, 2025
ever wondered how APIs know your request’s actually you and not some rando spoofing it? lemme tell you: most APIs don’t really “trust” your key. they make you prove you didn’t fuck with the data you’re sending. it’s called HMAC signing, and it’s how servers verify a request’s
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@kayleecodez
Sep 8, 2025
just dropped a side project in Rust , Veil. it’s an async encryption and multi-party computation playground with AES, hashing, string reversal, Shamir’s secret sharing, and XOR-based MPC, all running through a server + client CLI. started as a toy, now it actually works.
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@kayleecodez
Nov 6, 2025
ever thought about how those “select all traffic lights” CAPTCHAs actually know you’re right? lemme tell you: they’re not doing any crazy shit. it’s literally a token + hash check. when the page loads, the backend generates a challenge id, stores the correct hash, and gives
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@kayleecodez
Nov 12, 2025
damn finally, i’m done. so, i’ve been working on conflux, a modular, actor-based real-time collaboration engine written in rust. it uses CRDTs (via Yrs), room-based websocket, and an actor-style design for concurrency. i added jwt, authentication, session tracking, awareness
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@kayleecodez
Aug 27, 2025
POV: you're 21 and your high school friends are posting engagement pics while you're on your 5th cup of black coffee beefing with code that worked yesterday.
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