KiroCrew OpenACP
This will be a short piece on how to use kirocrew with claude acp, codex acp, and underlying inference on your own hardware.
Nick Galante
I'm a Senior SWE and <span class="subheadline-highlight">Technical Lead</span> at Charter Communications. I've architected, deployed, and maintained technical solutions that <span class="subheadline-tooltip">have served millions of users at scale</span>. I enjoy working on <span class="subheadline-highlight">distributed systems</span>. I have worked extensively improving and scaling <span class="subheadline-highlight">microfrontends and enterprise React architectures</span>. I am meticulous and obsessive about performance and optimization. More recently, I've been interested in cryptography, and <span class="subheadline-highlight">large language model agentic developer tooling</span>.
Recent writing
Ubuntu 24.04 Developer Environment Setup Guide
This guide provides reproducible steps for setting up a consistent software developer environment across different Ubuntu 24.04 installation types. This guide elicits my preferences in an Ubuntu linux environment, but can be scaled up or down rather easily.
Release Updates for June 2025, Waavy v0.1.6 (Pre-Release)
Nick's June 2025 update. What happened this month? We started the waavy project, we started to build an ext4 compatible filesystem and virtual filesystem driver in typescript (Even though no one asked me to, or for it for that matter), and the dogs got some long overdue baths.
Fun with Caesar Ciphers
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Reduce Bundle Size with Webpack Externals and ES6 Import Maps
We can reduce the overall size of our bundles by selectively externalizing larger sized dependencies and using ES6 import maps to have the browser prioritize making that es-module available at runtime within the browser.
