Antonette Caldwell — acaldwell.dev

Software engineer building design systems, security tooling, and the infrastructure under them.

Language

Kina

AI-native language: refinement-typed tensors, OCaml compiler to MLIR, Rust runtime, Lean 4.

Tokens

Swatch

Offline OKLCH palette mixer. Seed a hue, scale the Stratos curve, export W3C tokens.

Security

Security Compliance Hub

Reusable GitHub Actions, repo templates, and a local audit CLI. Consumers pin @v0.

Platforms

Meshery

CNCF cloud-native management platform. Contributor → Maintainer. 198+ commits.

Writing

All writing →

Agent Bakeoff Apr 18, 2026 Why an Agent Bakeoff Four AI agents, one open brief, four 2026 rebuild proposals. The comparison is the content.

OS Kernel Museum Jun 16, 2026 TerranoxOS — Everything I Learned, Applied 91 syscalls, capability tokens, an ELF loader, and the lessons from six previous kernels. Also: what it's like building an OS kernel with Claude as a pair programmer.

OS Kernel Museum Apr 17, 2026 Why I Keep Writing Kernels I've written six operating system kernels. None of them run anything useful. Here's why I keep doing it — and what each one taught that the last one couldn't.