he/him • Junior System Developer • First-year Software Engineering (HND) student in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Current focus: skein
(Building tools that make development simpler and more enjoyable)

I'm a software engineering student who loves crafting small, practical developer tools and recently rewriting some of my previous projects in Rust.

Directly to the fun part... My workflow is almost entirely TUI-based (terminal user interface) with kmscon as my daily driver. I use tools like nushell, helix, tmux (with persistent sessions), yazi, aerc, nchat, and a bunch of custom scripts to stay productive even from a bare terminal or remotely, keep everything backed up with zpaqfranz + rclone, and even have a custom tmux-notify for inline replies.

Right now I'm:

• Leading development on skein (Rust) — a project for my team that handles taxi and client data to compute optimal routes.
• Rewriting older projects in Rust (like rrr — my remote REPL runner, arb-util, and surely more in future).
• Practising systems programming in C (I occasionally record myself coding in C and post to YouTube @amemimy for practice).
• Occasionally dipping back into Julia for data work and UI experiments.

I enjoy learning by building. In the past year I've switched between Python, Dart/Flutter, Go, V, C, Julia, and now mostly Rust + C. Each switch taught me something new about trade-offs in performance, safety, and developer experience. And that even though I really love Julia language...

• skein — Rust backend for taxi routing and data management (team project).
• rrr — Remote REPL Runner in Rust. Spawn processes, send commands, interact with REPLs over the network — great for automation and remote scripting, or sending commands from termux your phone to your pc.
  → github.com/ken-morel/rrr
• Smaller tools I built for my own workflow: hxfm (bulk file operations in your editor), bakop (versioned backups), ttyv/endv (media viewing in terminal/framebuffer), and a few more.

You can find most of my active projects in the pinned repositories below.

• Email: engonken8@gmail.com or engon@rbs.cm
• Website: engon.rbs.cm
• X / Twitter: @kenmorel8
• LinkedIn: Ken Morel
• Discord: kenmorel
• YouTube (occasional C coding sessions, really not good for now): @amemimy

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