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BooleOS: building a bare-metal x86 OS without writing a single line of it myself

BooleOS is a hobby operating system for x86 (32-bit), written in C99 and NASM, no Linux or BSD underneath, no libc. It boots via Multiboot2, has its own heap manager (no raw malloc), a FAT16/VFS…

  • BooleOS is AI-generated bare-metal x86 OS without manual coding
  • Claude Code writes implementation, reviewed before each step
  • Project emphasizes strict 32-bit architecture and fixed-width types

My Life Isn't an OS — So I Built One

Another LifeOS? There are plenty of things called LifeOS now. At the simple end, there's ChatGPT plus scheduled tasks. Then there are Obsidian templates and manually maintained knowledge bases—I wrote…

  • Created LifeOS to address limitations of existing services
  • Uses SQLite for lightweight logging, n8n for automation
  • Agent layer powered by OpenClaw with OpenAI models

Invariants are cheap. Silent corruption is not.

We had five numbers that were supposed to add up. Nothing in the codebase checked that they did. The relationship nobody wrote down A tracked journey produces five distance figures: original , cleaned…

  • Invariants are crucial for catching bugs in code
  • Silent corruption can occur without invariants
  • Validation function adds cost-effective error checks

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