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Unvarnished notes on deep-stack engineering: rebuilding OOXML standards in pure Rust, compiling markdown-to-voice engines for WASM, and architecting multi-platform agent operating systems.

AUG 3, 2026 · 10 MIN READ

Unlocking the software behind an open standard — OOXML (pptx, docx, xlsx)

How an idea that died at a day job became mjx-ooxml-rs: a pure-Rust, fidelity-first OOXML library built through 107 AI-written pull requests, planned in Linear, and tested down to the byte.

RustOOXMLOffice

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AUG 2, 2026 · 11 MIN READ

Stop saying "backtick" — a markdown voiceover parser

A Rust engine that rewrites markdown into speech-friendly text before it reaches a TTS voice — "Heading: Objective" instead of "hash hash hash Objective", and 43% less synthesis compute.

RustWASMVoice

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Unlocking the software behind an open standard — OOXML (pptx, docx, xlsx)

Stop saying "backtick" — a markdown voiceover parser