Maxwell Santoro

I build careful things over long timelines.

Software, proofs, OS experiments, furniture, media, archives.

Released work, live demos, working notes, and long shots becoming concrete.

Run

Open the ries-rs browser app.

Active

Check the RamenOS status path.

Notes

Read essays and build notes.

Archive

Browse the Hall.

Now — July 2026

Current public work centers on RamenOS, ries-rs, and dotrepo. RamenOS is still pre-alpha: a Rust OS lab for typed authority, semantic state, and hardware claims that have to earn their evidence.

Featured Projects

Selected work

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PageDigest

v1 RC

A one-file change-detection protocol for public websites and automated clients.

v1 release candidate, Rust generator, Python consumer, Astro integration, conformance tests, and live dogfood site.

rustpythonprotocol
GitHub ↗Site ↗Spec ↗Releases ↗

dotrepo

Active

A trust-aware repository metadata protocol and public semantic cache for software projects.

Public index, query surface, released Rust toolchain, and PageDigest-backed freshness path.

rustprotocolmetadata
GitHub ↗Site ↗Releases ↗Docs ↗

ries-rs

Active

A modern Rust RIES implementation with CLI, Python bindings, Rust crate, WebAssembly, and browser app.

Browser app, CLI, Rust crate, Python bindings, and WASM.

rustwasmmath
GitHub ↗Live AppReleases ↗Docs ↗

RamenOS

Public pre-alpha

An evidence-gated Rust OS lab for typed capabilities, semantic state, and agent-native computing.

QEMU boot smoke and typed gates pass; hardware evidence ladder in progress.

rustossystems
GitHub ↗Current Status ↗Next Tasks ↗

Preservation wing

The Hall of Internet Greatness

A separate preservation wing for tools, artifacts, jokes, references, and public-web oddities worth keeping

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The Grand Permanence Medal

For doing more than almost anyone else to ensure the web does not dissolve into rumor.

FeaturedArchives & Preservation

Internet Archive / Wayback Machine

The public web's memory layer: a vast archive of pages, media, software, and vanished internet history.

Visit source ↗
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The Order of Regional Broadcast Immortality

For preserving the exact moment local news crossed into permanent internet myth.

FeaturedVideoArchives & Preservation

The Original Crichton Leprechaun News Story

A local-news segment from Mobile, Alabama that escaped its broadcast context and became early web folklore.

Watch surviving copy ↗
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Writing

Essays, implementation notes, and release writeups

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PageDigest v1 Release Candidate

A one-file change-detection protocol for public websites is ready for implementer feedback.

protocolwebdeveloper-toolsautomation

Making ries-rs 4–21× faster without breaking reproducibility

How I took ries-rs from tens of seconds to a few seconds: profiling first, fixing ranking, then adding turbo.

rustwasmperformancemathries

Claim Your Repo with dotrepo

The shortest maintainer path in dotrepo: start a canonical `.repo`, run the local trust loop, and line it up with the public surface.

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