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Essays and guides clustered by the Remade with Rust constellation: In The Wild, Media, Mind, Memory, Identity, Edge, and Trust.
cargo update Is Not A Security Model
A yellow CI badge is superstition with a progress bar. Deputy and Remade Trust make you own the dependency graph: offline when needed, scanned on change, deployable on purpose.
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Your Database Should Not Need A Zip Code In California
Durable used to mean someone else's Postgres. SpaceDB is local-first, CRDT-native Memory for a neighborhood internet that syncs without surrendering the system of record.
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Local AI Is Not A Hobby. It Is The Point.
Cloud AI is a polite burglar. FFAI, Mercury, Carmenta, and Diana keep speech, sight, and OCR on the device in memory-safe Rust so the model never needed your upload.
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MATA.NETWORK In The Wild: The Disco Party Running Remade
mata.network is the live Digital Freedom toolkit and Disco Party mesh. Identity, SpaceDB, codecs, FFAI, Edge, and Trust crates from Remade with Rust, deployed as product.
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RAG Converter In The Wild: Remade Stack In Your Browser Tab
ragconverter.com turns PDF, Office, images, and audio into RAG chunks as WebAssembly in your tab. Remade Media, Mind, and Memory crates, files never uploaded.
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Your Login Should Not Belong To Someone Else
Sign in with Big Tech is a lease. mID and Sovereign ID put keys you hold on the door so identity survives the company, not the campus status page.
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Argus: Vision-Language Captioning and VQA in Rust
Vision-language captioning and VQA in pure Rust: SmolVLM-256M on candle : SigLIP tower, pixel-shuffle connector, Llama decoder. Captions byte-identical to the Python reference...
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candle: Hugging Face ML Framework in the Remade Graph
Hugging Face's candle is the minimalist Rust ML framework Remade with Rust forks and pins so on-device Mind crates can share one tensor runtime.
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Carmenta: OCR Without Tesseract or Python
OCR in pure Rust: documents, screens, and a change-gated LIVE frame reader. Detection, recognition and reading order computed from geometry, no Python, no C/C++ by default,...
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Deputy: Own Your Dependency Graph Before You Deploy
Own all your dependencies with Deputy. Store offline, scan changes for malware, own deployment Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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Diana: YOLO-Class Object Detection in Pure Rust
Object detection in pure Rust: YOLO26 on candle from real Ultralytics. Identical to PyTorch at 3.71x less CPU and a third the memory. ByteTrack tracking and a WebAssembly...
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FFAI: On-Device AI Media Suite in Rust
FFAI is the go-to media library for AI: embedded speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), optical character recognition (OCR), vision-language (VLM), and object...
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Kairos: FreeRTOS Remade in Rust (Fleet Umbrella)
Kairos : umbrella for the rusty_rtos_* family (FreeRTOS remade with Rust): the plan, the fleet manifest, the fleet tool, the C oracle harness.
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mata-oem-sidecar: Drop-In mID for Hardware OEMs
MATA OEM sidecar: one binary a hardware maker drops onto the OS they already ship. mID identity, honest catalog, optional FFAI engines. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETW
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Mercury: Pure-Rust Whisper-Class ASR and TTS
Speech recognition and text-to-speech in pure Rust: Whisper + WhisperX-class ASR and VITS/Piper-class TTS, no Python, no C/C++ by default, nothing GPL. Memory safe. The...
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mID: Permissionless Identity Verify in Rust
MATA mID : permissionless, self-issued identity for Rust. Verify sign-in tokens entirely locally, zero infra calls. Dual MIT/Apache. JS side: @matanetwork/sovereign-id
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remade_ffmpeg_rs: FFmpeg-Class Media Pipeline in Pure Rust
FFmpeg remade with rust for embedded memory safe encoding and decoding. Powering FFAI and MATA's Disco Party. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_a11y: Accessibility Primitives for Rust Chrome
ARIA HTML helpers for Rust UI chrome : labelled glyphs, live regions, status (Remade With Rust) Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_alloc_default: One-Line Global Allocator Seam
Installs rusty_alloc as the process #[global_allocator] : shared default for Remade UI crates Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_alloc: Pure-Rust Allocator for Wasm and Native
rusty_alloc is a pure-Rust, memory safe alternative to mimalloc. Cross platform combability across x86-64 linux and windows, aarch64, wasm, and RSIC-V for ESP architecture.
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rusty-av1-toolkit: AV1 Encode and Decode in Rust
AV1 toolkit remade with rust. Built for embedded memory safe pixel encoding and decoding Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_av2d: Pure-Rust AV2 Video Decode
Pure-Rust AV2 video decoder, no C/FFI. Byte-identical to the AVM reference decoder across a 45-clip conformance corpus. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_av2f: Experimental AV2 Still Image Container
AV2F: an EXPERIMENTAL still-image container for AV2, in the shape of AVIF. Not an AOM standard : the four-character codes are chosen, not specified.
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rusty_dds: DDS Textures for Games and Realtime Engines
Pure Rust DDS texture toolkit : container, decode, encode, GPU upload plans (Remade With Rust). Built to power the future of gaming. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK
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rusty_erasure: Reed-Solomon Durability in Rust
ISA-L's erasure coding, remade with Rust: matrix-flexible GF(2^8) Reed-Solomon. Safe core, validated parameters, SIMD to GFNI, wasm-ready. No C, no GPL.
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rusty_esp_arduino: Sketch Facade Over Janus Rust
The Arduino-shaped sketch facade (setup/loop, wifi::begin, cam::grab, mic::read, stream::push) over the Janus function packages. Thin by law. See...
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rusty_esp_audio: Local Capture and Playback on ESP
ESP-ADF / ESP-GMF / esp_codec_dev remade in Rust: I2S/PDM capture and playback, a fixed-block audio pipeline, codec-chip drivers, Opus/FLAC/ADPCM framing via the Remade codecs....
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rusty_esp_core: Shared Types for the Janus ESP Family
Shared no_std types for the Janus ESP family: media frames, PCM, timestamps, capability manifest, and the three HAL seams (clock, rng, kv). No drivers, no allocator, no product...
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rusty_esp_dsp: PIE SIMD Kernels Remade in Rust
ESP-DSP remade: the PIE (ESP32-S3 ee.*, ESP32-P4 esp.*) SIMD kernel home with scalar oracles. Created only once two function packages share a hot kernel; until then kernels...
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rusty_esp_image: Camera Frames and JPEG on ESP
esp32-camera / esp_jpeg remade in Rust: sensor bring-up as data, DMA frame pools, pixel ops, JPEG/PNG via rusty_jpeg and rusty_png. Memory safe, no_std core.
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rusty_esp_iroh: iroh Mesh Endpoint on ESP32
The iroh mesh on the chip: an endpoint on ESP32 (std/ESP-IDF track), Janus ALPN protocols (rpc, media, telemetry), a host client, and a bridge that fronts no_std nodes....
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rusty_esp_mid: mID on the Chip
MATA mID on the chip: a device DID with its key at rest in encrypted NVS/eFuse, signed assertions, capability verification, owner adoption (bind-to-this-hub as a signed grant)...
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rusty_esp_sense: Wi-Fi CSI Sensing for Home Computers
The home computer's reading of Wi-Fi channel state for the Janus ESP32 family: per-subcarrier wander, a fixed random encoder and a ridge readout calibrated per room. 99.4 % vs...
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rusty_esp_signal: Radio Applications in Rust
The radio-application layer remade in Rust: Wi-Fi CSI radar (presence/motion), LoRa point-to-point over lora-phy, BLE provisioning and telemetry over trouble-host, Wi-Fi...
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rusty_esp_video: MJPEG and H.264 on ESP
esp_video / esp_h264 / CameraWebServer remade in Rust: MJPEG and H.264 (rusty_h264 embedded) encode, RTP + MJPEG-over-HTTP packetizers, P4 hardware encoder wrap. Memory safe,...
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rusty_expressions: Oniguruma Remade for Wasm
Oniguruma remade in pure Rust: ~3x faster than libonig, no C toolchain, no_std + alloc, wasm32-ready. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_flac: Lossless Audio Encode and Decode in Rust
Pure-Rust FLAC encoder + decoder. Encodes 17% and decodes 23% faster than FFmpeg with smaller files on every benchmarked content class. Lossless and interoperable both...
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rusty_gif: Fast Pure-Rust GIF Encode and Decode
Pure-Rust GIF decoder + encoder with content-routed quantization. Encodes 1.5-2.5x faster than FFmpeg at higher PSNR on 8/8 benchmark frames; decodes up to 2.5x faster.
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rusty_h264: H.264 Encode and Decode Remade in Rust
rusty_h264 is x264 remade with rust, focusing on embedded memory safe pixel encoding and decoding. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_h265: HEVC Decoding Remade in Rust
rusty_h265 is HEVC/H.265 remade with Rust: a pure-Rust decoder. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_jpeg: JPEG and MJPEG Without the C Tax
Pure-Rust JPEG/MJPEG decoder + encode. Encodes 1.19x faster than FFmpeg at matched output size; decodes 1.05x faster than FFmpeg. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_json_turbo: Faster serde_json for the House Graph
Serde Fork with Rusty_alloc defaulted, 54% increased speed no other changes. Strongly typed JSON library for Rust. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty-opus: Pure-Rust Opus for Embedded Audio
Pure-Rust Opus codec that out performs C++ counterparts on speed and quality. Built for embedded audio applications. A part of the remade-ffmpeg ecosystem
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rusty_png: Memory-Safe PNG for Upload and Edge Paths
Pure-Rust PNG decoder + encoder. Decodes 2.7-2.9x faster than FFmpeg; encodes up to 1.17x faster while producing up to 6.0% smaller files. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.N
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rusty_rtos_backoff: Safe Retry Backoff for Mesh Nodes
backoffAlgorithm remade in Rust: exponential backoff with jitter for network retries, no_std, forbid(unsafe), gated against the C library's own test vectors.
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rusty_rtos-capi: FreeRTOS C ABI Over Kairos
The FreeRTOS C ABI over the Kairos kernel: xTaskCreate, xQueueSend, xSemaphoreTake, xTimerCreate and the rest as extern C symbols with generated FreeRTOS.h-compatible headers,...
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rusty_rtos_core: Shared Vocabulary for Kairos
The shared vocabulary of the Kairos family (FreeRTOS remade in Rust): ticks, priorities, generational handles, one Copy error, the Config trait, and the Port / Heap / Trace /...
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rusty_rtos_demo: Kairos Conformance Corpus
The FreeRTOS standard demo tasks (Demo/Common/Minimal) remade in Rust as the Kairos conformance corpus: every scenario self-checks like the C original and, on the sim port,...
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rusty_rtos_heap: Protected Heaps for Kairos
FreeRTOS heap_1 / heap_4 / heap_5 remade in Rust behind the Heap seam, with the heap protector; heap_3 as the seam over rusty_alloc small-metal and esp-alloc; static allocation...
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rusty_rtos_json: Strict JSON for Constrained Devices
coreJSON remade in Rust: the strict ECMA-404 validator and the query-by-path search, zero allocation, no_std, forbid(unsafe), with the no-panic gate every parser in the family...
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rusty_rtos_kernel: Fixed-Priority Scheduler in Rust
FreeRTOS-Kernel remade in Rust: the fixed-priority preemptive scheduler, task notifications, queues, semaphores, mutexes with priority inheritance, queue sets, software timers,...
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rusty_rtos_mqtt: MQTT 5 in Pure Rust
coreMQTT remade in Rust: all 218 of v5.0.2's functions, each proven against the pinned C : the wire codec both ways, the connection, the receive loop and the QoS 1/2 state...
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rusty_rtos_port: Sim, Posix, and Cortex Ports in Rust
The FreeRTOS ports remade in Rust: the deterministic sim port (the oracle harness), the Posix host port, and the Cortex-M, RISC-V and Xtensa ports : the only crates in the...
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rusty_rtos_sntp: SNTPv4 Client Remade in Rust
coreSNTP remade in Rust: the SNTPv4 client, its serializer and the 2036 wrap, proven against the pinned C. no_std, forbid(unsafe). Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_symbols: Offline Glyph Constants for Rust UIs
Unicode glyph constants for Rust UIs : ASCII-safe, semantically grouped (Remade With Rust) Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_time: NTPv4 and NTS Remade in Rust
chrony, remade with Rust: a pure-Rust NTPv4 + NTS time client and server for Linux, macOS, Windows and wasm. No C toolchain anywhere in the build.
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rusty_tokens: Design Tokens for Remade UIs
Design tokens for Rust UIs : semantic CSS vars + neutral defaults (Remade With Rust) Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_xml: libxml2-Class XML in Pure Rust
libxml2 remade in Rust : parse, tree, SAX, reader, writer, XPath, and validation 2x faster. No C. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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rusty_zstd: Pure-Rust Zstandard Compression
Pure-Rust Zstandard (RFC 8878) compressor and decompressor. Zero dependencies, no C, no FFI, no copyleft. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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serde: Serialization Pin in the Remade Graph
Serialization framework for Rust Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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Sovereign ID: Web Sign-In With Keys You Hold
MATA Sovereign ID : permissionless, self-issued identity for the web. Self-contained JS verification, zero infra calls. npm: @matanetwork/sovereign-id
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SpaceDB: Local-First CRDT Database for the Mesh
SpaceDB: a local-first, CRDT-native, mesh-replicated database for a world without data centers. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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Starfire: Self-Hosted GameStream Client in Rust
Starfire is a high-performance, native Rust implementation of a Sunshine-compatible GameStream client for PC gaming. (Windows, Mac) Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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Thoth: House Library of Symbols and UI Text
Thoth is a pure Rust crate library of symbols, glyphs, and text used at the core of every application. Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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tokenizers: WASM-Ready Fork on rusty_expressions
Huffingface Tokenizers Forked With A Oniguruma→rusty_expressions for WASM deployability Built for developers shipping onto MATA.NETWORK.
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Why Digital Freedom Needs Rust
Digital Freedom needs Rust because you cannot own a vault built on memory-unsafe C. Trust, Security, and Incentive die if the code under the keys can still smash the stack.
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Rebuilding The Foundation Of The Internet: Why It Matters
The foundation of the internet is still C and C++ primitives everyone else builds on. Rebuilding that foundation in memory-safe Rust is how a free internet actually holds.
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The Importance of Remade With Rust
Remade with Rust is MATA's initiative to rebuild the internet's core primitives in memory-safe Rust: here's why it matters for a free, distributed internet.
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