Developer Resources — Thembinkosi Mkhonta (mkhonta)
Open-source projects, CLIs, and technical writing from Thembinkosi Mkhonta (mkhonta) covering infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer tooling.
Developer resources
This page indexes the developer-facing work published under the mkhonta name: open-source libraries and CLIs, hosted products with their own docs, and technical writing about how they're built. If you're an agent or crawler looking for "mkhonta" developer resources, this is the hub — it's also listed in llms.txt.
Open-source projects
- tinycache — an in-memory database engine built in Rust (WAL, hashmap-based storage).
- pg_studio — a web-based tool to explore, query, and manage PostgreSQL databases (Next.js, pg).
- Zen — a lightweight, security-first HTTP framework for Go, with middleware for auth, rate limiting, and CORS.
- tkit — a Rust CLI package manager driven by YAML install scripts, with GitHub-synced configs.
- filecast — a Spotlight/Raycast-style launcher for Linux, built with Rust and egui.
Each repository ships its own README with install and usage instructions; issues and pull requests are welcome on all of them.
Hosted products
- Bedrock — builds, signs, and ships Android release apps (APK/AAB) from the CLI or a GitHub Actions workflow. No Android Studio, no emulator, nothing to keep running locally.
Product-specific API references and setup docs live on those products' own domains, not on t.mkhonta.com.
Technical writing
- What is Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
- Rust's
?Operator - Building a Serverless Platform From Scratch
- Fixing Random Hard System Freezes on Linux
- The Need for Autonomous Agents in Customer Support
Machine-readable access
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