XLNF
// a consultancy, a lab, and a vibe.
XLNF is three things in a trench coat. Sometimes we ship code for clients who need the thing done right. Sometimes we disappear into the lab for weeks and come back with a prototype nobody asked for. Sometimes we just answer the phone. All three are on the menu.
what we do
- Software consultancy — backend, systems, whatever keeps your database from catching fire.
- R&D — experimental tools, weird prototypes, the kind of work that starts with "what if".
- Honest advice — including the advice you didn't pay for but probably needed.
- Occasionally: we ship a product of our own.
notes
Occasionally something takes long enough to figure out that it deserves writing down. Those land in notes — debugging stories, tooling trade-offs, fixes that were annoying to find the first time.
- Giving Claude Code a map of your projects
- Surviving context compaction with a handoff doc
- WSL 2 loses all networking under Check Point VPN hub mode
- cdp: jumping to project directories by label, not by guess
- Running WSL shell functions from PowerShell
who's running this thing
Valentin Mihai
founder & principal tinkerer · Chisinau, MD
Turns coffee into commits and commits into questionable business decisions. Based in a terminal, occasionally in Chisinau.
ping us
Got a project, a weird idea, or just want to say hi? Drop a line. No CRM, no drip campaign — just a human reading an email.