KUANG.RUN: A Deterministic Text-Mode Economy Game in One HTML File

KUANG.RUN: A Deterministic Text-Mode Economy Game in One HTML File You owe the wrong people ¥50,000. The debt compounds at 3% a day. You have thirty days, four action points per day, and ¥3,000 to start with. Trade the districts, run the ice, pay the debt — or find another way out. What It Is A text-mode economy game in the browser, in the register of the old Drug Wars / Taipan! trading loop, set in a sprawl that owes everything to Gibson. Two interlocking systems: ...

July 25, 2026 · 8 min · Aleksandr Likhachev

Mening: The App That Remembers Which Mistakes You Repeat

Mening: The App That Remembers Which Mistakes You Repeat The Problem There is a specific wall in language learning that no app addresses well. You reach the point where you understand almost everything you read and hear, you can hold a conversation, and your writing is comprehensible — and then you stop moving. B to C. The remaining gap isn’t vocabulary and it isn’t grammar you’ve never met. It’s a small set of errors you make over and over, for years, because nothing in your day ever names them. ...

July 25, 2026 · 9 min · Aleksandr Likhachev
Signal path: a generator on sonnet, an independent verifier on opus, an ok:false side channel, and a human pressing publish

Two-stage generation, and who is waiting for the answer

what decides which transport an LLM call gets is who is waiting for the answer. Everything else in this post follows from that one line. The system is small and unglamorous: an ops utility in the mening repo, cmd/socialthread, that drafts one social post a day for a language-learning app. It runs on my machine, it talks to nobody’s users, and a human presses publish. That combination is what makes it a clean place to think about transports and about verification, because both questions show up in a form small enough to hold in your head. ...

July 25, 2026 · 9 min · Aleksandr Likhachev

Health Exporter: 17-Tool MCP Server for Apple Health

Health Exporter: 17-Tool MCP Server for Apple Health The Problem Apple Health collects everything — workouts, heart rate, sleep, steps, nutrition, blood pressure, body measurements. Years of data, millions of records. But you can’t ask it questions. “What was my average resting heart rate last month?” requires exporting XML, writing scripts, parsing timestamps. Health Exporter puts all of it behind MCP tools that Claude can call directly. What It Does Export your Apple Health data once. Health Exporter parses the XML, loads it into SQLite, and exposes 17 MCP tools organized by health domain: ...

March 1, 2026 · 2 min · Aleksandr Likhachev