# Hardcore Engineering

> Stephan Schielke's engineering blog and portfolio. Articles, career history, and project portfolio focused on Rust, full-stack web development, AI agentic systems, and practical engineering architecture. Stack: Rust / Loco.rs / SeaORM / TypeScript / Tailwind v4.

## About

- [About Stephan Schielke](https://hardcore.engineer/about): Skills timeline, career history, project portfolio, and contact information

## Articles

- [All Articles](https://hardcore.engineer/articles): Index of blog posts on Rust, AI agents, frontend engineering, and tooling
- [Atom Feed](https://hardcore.engineer/feed.xml): Atom 1.0 feed of all articles for syndication
- [And Now Everybody Together: Boooo GitHub](https://hardcore.engineer/articles/github-sucks-now-so-they-say): Tech influencers suddenly realize and agree GitHub sucks. A look at VCS migration politics, Microsoft's embrace-extend-extinguish legacy, and why nobody talks about self-hosted alternatives like OneDev.
- [Good Bye Ollama, Hello LM Studio](https://hardcore.engineer/articles/good-bye-ollama-and-hello-lmstudio): Two wonderful years with Ollama and great interoperability but DIY everything. LM Studio won me over with JIT loading, a headless daemon, dual OpenAI/Anthropic API compatibility, and the new LM Link distributed compute.
- [Compress Yourself Token Rich](https://hardcore.engineer/articles/caveman-cut-ai-token-costs): A token-compression skill for AI coding agents that cuts output by ~75% while preserving technical accuracy. Why use many token when few do trick?

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/stephanschielke): Open-source contributions and projects
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/stephanschielke): Professional profile