unium

about me

I am unium, a HS student from Asia. I started programming in roughly early 2017, mainly specializing in C.

projects

• b31 - a simple, secure-ish cipher algorithm for humans first, implemented for machines [C, Rocq]
• wd40os - simple, hobby microkernel with musl, doom, r/w ext2 server, and security (pledge/ioperm) [C]
• libaud - simple audio library (no-dependency mp3/wac/flac decoder) [C]
• uawk - simple awk interpreter made from the ground up in less than 2k sloc [C]
• ucore - bunch of fast & posix compliant(-ish) fs, shell, and text utilities (cat and ls separate) [C]
• mu - mu is a tui music player. it knows what it is because it knows what it isnt. [C]
• The Seafarer - news website for nagara suharaya [C++, Haskell, C, Ruby]
• dos-ffdb - fast flat file database engine for Turbo C 2.01 [C]
• roverpp - lightweight Vulkan implicit overlay layer [C++]
• llmpp - LLM inference engine from scratch without AI/ML libs [C++]
• 3d-nolib - 3D tech demo without libc or external libs (X11 only) [C]
• x11-utils, system utils, random software, etc etc -- see more @ git.unium.in

closed source / experimental

• gitium - ~1k sloc perlcgi script serving a git frontend (see @ git.unium.in) [Perl]
• umacs - emacs-clone with c "scripting" via libtcc [C]
• celenium - 3D Vulkan engine [C]

blogs

• [2026/03/20] Privacy is a premium feature now. It shouldn't be.
• [2026/02/03] A rant on Modern Software.
• [2026/02/25] No one writes good code anymore. Why? AI.

(old posts)

• [2025/07/27] You won't find a fifth glyph in this post.
• [2025/05/07] i made an app launcher in <6 hours

contact

email me @ uniumfr [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com

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