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The journey.

1. Aug – Sep 2025

   Reverse Engineering, One App at a Time

   The channel began by tracing a difficult app from start to finish, then recreating its logic. Soon the work had grown into adding custom UI and logic to an open-source decompiled app and getting it running on a low-spec laptop.

   Sources#3#4#8#9
2. Dec 2025 – Apr 2026

   The Rust Brain Era

   A search component became a practical Rust and algorithms exercise, searching 100,000- and 200,000-word lists on every keystroke. By April, the experiments had turned into shipped tools: Roxy v0.1.0 and Rboard v0.1.0, with Linux packaging and clipboard behavior getting plenty of attention.

   Sources#16#21#38#46
3. Jun – Aug 2026

   Tools Leave the Laptop

   The projects widened from local experiments to developer tools and web work: a concurrent file-search comparison, Unix tutorials, FlowHook’s first alpha, Telebirr integration libraries, and the tnylinks link shortener. Deployment became part of the curriculum too, including a Go app moved from MySQL to PostgreSQL before going live.

   Sources#123#137#138#139
4. Sep 2026

   Break the Toy

   The latest chapter treats finished projects as invitations to experiment. Tictac launched as a game you could not win, then its AI and intended Easter egg became the next things to investigate.

   Sources#216#219#221

Building now.

Start here.

1. 01

   The original reverse-engineering challenge, from tracing the app to planning a custom-file rewrite.

   it was a Bible app.... now before u start judging I just wanted to extract the text but it WAS not beginner friendly. So I spent a week on it(the solution was r...

   Aug 30, 202550 views
2. 02

   A compact look at the search component, its performance, and the Rust concepts behind it.

   I just finished my "search engine" for a project am building. Its an autocorect type of thing. For now I made the brain, the part which decides which word to su...

   Dec 29, 202555 views
3. 03

   The Rboard launch post, including the everyday problem that inspired the clipboard manager.

   Finished up another rust project "Rboard". A clipboard manager I built in rust, this one was built because my pc didn't have a built in clipboard so I can only...

   Apr 28, 2026344 views
4. 04

   A concrete Rust-versus-Go concurrency experiment on a file-search tool.

   I started messing around with Golang yesterday. I watched a couple of tutorials about concurrency and goroutines and wanted to implement the code I wrote in Rus...

   Jun 6, 2026437 views
5. 05

   The honest deployment finish line: a Go app live, with the database migration explained.

   and we are done! we have successfully deployed a golang web app( goem.ethiodeploy.com ) on ethiodeploy.com, it works(for the most part.. just dont try to sign u...

   Aug 5, 2026106 views

In their own words.

Fresh from the channel.