Topic
Engineering
5 insights in Engineering.
2026
1 post- Engineering
Spread-em: designing a distributed file store with AI
How we used Claude to research and build Spread-em a bit-torrent-class distributed storage system for serverless social apps to 60% product readiness in five days.
2013
1 post- Engineering
Filemap released to open source
ToolTwist released Filemap, a developer library for virtual file mapping across local, S3, baked-in, and plugin-backed storage locations.
2012
1 post- Engineering
ToolTwist’s XDATA released as an open-source project
If you spend your days building applications that constantly juggle data formats, you already know that parsing can be a massive bottleneck.
2011
1 post- Engineering
ToolTwist’s FIP released as an open-source
If you are managing web applications right now, you already know that deploying updates to remote servers can be a massive headache.
2010
1 post- Engineering
Powering CommBank's augmented-reality Property Guide
In 2010 ToolTwist built the backend that fed CommBank's pioneering AR property app a fast JSON API translating a tangle of legacy XML feeds for the iPhone.