Behrad Khodayar

Software engineer. I used to read source before reading docs, now ask AI to do it for me.

  1. [now]featuredIntroducing Repodify: turn a stretch of a podcast into one tailored digestSearch a show, pick a stretch of episodes & it writes u one shorter, tailored digest — on ur GPU, or w/ ur own keys. Not a SaaS that keeps the audio.RepodifyPodcastsLocal AI

2026

  1. [ai]Introducing Repodify: turn a stretch of a podcast into one tailored digestSearch a show, pick a stretch of episodes & it writes u one shorter, tailored digest — on ur GPU, or w/ ur own keys. Not a SaaS that keeps the audio.RepodifyPodcastsLocal AI
  2. [ai]Introducing claude-code-py-ts-pg: a full-stack template w/ Claude built inWhy & what of my new GitHub template (Python/FastAPI + TypeScript/React + Postgres) w/ a committed Claude Code harness: rules, skills, subagents & least-privilege permissions, treated as production infrastructure.Claude CodeTemplateFull-Stack
  3. [ai]Classifiers in HarnessesA field guide to the classifiers wrapped around modern LLMs — security & jailbreak screens, prompt-injection probes, tool-risk & authorization gates, and the probabilistic classifier in front of Anthropic's Fable model.ClassifiersHarnessesAI Safety
  4. [ai]interactive projectAgentic Coding Stack — All-in-OneAn interactive ontology of the agentic coding stack: nine layers, the request lifecycle, cross-cutting concerns, and build-time provenance — explorable across four axes.TaxonomyAgentsInteractive
  5. [chess]How would engines handle a chess variant where pieces transform after move?The engine-design questions behind Chexx — my chess variant where every Major/minor move transmutes the piece: volatile material evaluation, unreliable piece-square tables, and alpha-beta vs MCTS.ChexxChess EnginesGame Design
  6. [chess]Introducing CheXX: chess w/ transmuting piecesWhy & how I built CheXX — a chess variant where Major/Minor pieces transmute on landing, value-capped to keep both armies balanced, shipped as a 3D browser game.ChexxGame DesignThree.js
  7. [ai]The Past Three Months in AI (March–May 2026)A post-blackout recap of the AI frontier: the model wave, the architecture pivot away from raw scale, agentic coding's convergence, the MCP+A2A protocol stack & unprecedented capital — translated from my Farsi original.Frontier ModelsAgentsTranslation
  8. [ai]How I Actually Use AI Every Day as a Software EngineerMy field-tested setup for AI-assisted engineering: context management, skills, sub-agents, MCP, hooks & plan mode, spec-first development, dynamic workflows — and why verification is the skill that actually 10x's you.Claude CodeAgentsWorkflow

2025

  1. [dev-tools]How to Avoid Cold Starts in Rental GPU Dev Env [Hybrid Volumes Guide]A pragmatic, provider-agnostic architecture for short cold-starts on rented GPUs — pre-baked images, hybrid volumes, S3-canonical state & GitHub Actions automation, with Runpod.io & Vast.ai as concrete examples.GPUInfraAutomation
  2. [dev-tools]Zsh plugin of Nest.js CLI toolnestcli-zsh: a Zsh completion plugin for the Nest.js CLI with full coverage of commands, subcommands & options — announced on r/nestjs.ZshNestJSCLI

2024

  1. [blockchain]Demystifying Account AbstractionA brief covering of the approaches to Account Abstraction on Ethereum — why AA at all, its history since 2016, and the notable proposals from EIP-2938 & ERC-4337 to EIP-7702 & ERC-7579.EthereumAccount AbstractionWeb3

2018

  1. [blockchain]Bitcoin MiningWhat mining actually is, how blocks & hashes verify transactions, why ASICs won, and how to pick mining hardware. Translated from my Farsi outlet, بلاک فارسی (BlockFarsi).BitcoinMiningBlockFarsi
  2. [blockchain]What is Bitcoin?bitcoin-the-currency vs Bitcoin-the-protocol, and how a bankless money differs from fiat. Translated from my Farsi outlet, بلاک فارسی (BlockFarsi).BitcoinTutorialBlockFarsi
  3. [blockchain]What is Web3?The decentralized web as the next generation of the internet — killing the server, data democracy, and the Web3 stack. Translated from my Farsi outlet, بلاک فارسی (BlockFarsi).Web3TutorialBlockFarsi
  4. [blockchain]Did Bitcoin Sanction Iran?!Separating fact from headline around US sanctions, seized bitcoins and exchange geo-blocks — why 'Bitcoin sanctioned Iran' is a category error. Translated from BlockFarsi.BitcoinRegulationBlockFarsi
  5. [blockchain]Blockchain & Cryptocurrency GlossaryThe blockchain & crypto glossary I maintained on BlockFarsi — the entries that survived in the Wayback Machine, translated to English.GlossaryBlockFarsi
  6. [blockchain]Bitcoin Adoption Could Push Global Warming Past the 2°C ThresholdCovering the Nature Climate Change study on Bitcoin's carbon footprint — projections, mining economics, and proposed fixes. Translated from BlockFarsi.BitcoinEnergyBlockFarsi
  7. [blockchain]We're Not as Rich as You Think!Why Bitcoin early birds mostly aren't the millionaires people imagine — my Farsi translation of Gavin Andresen's piece, rendered back into English.BitcoinTranslationBlockFarsi
  8. [blockchain]IBM Study: Central Banks Should Issue Digital CurrenciesThe IBM/OMFIF study: most surveyed financial institutions think central banks should develop CBDCs — plus the skeptics at HSBC & the BOJ. Translated from BlockFarsi.CBDCNewsBlockFarsi
  9. [blockchain]Oracle Releases Its Blockchain SaaS SuiteOracle ships its Blockchain Applications Cloud — enterprise blockchain SaaS for supply chains, built on Hyperledger Fabric. Translated from BlockFarsi.EnterpriseNewsBlockFarsi