Projects
pro/projects
Tools, games, and frameworks I am building for people who need clearer thinking, better decisions, or more useful software.
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18How do I get AI to build what I actually want?
Fourteen chapters and six appendices that teach non-programmers to read, direct, and check code in the age of AI — built around interactive demos instead of lectures. Ordering food is easy; this course is about learning to cook.

- ArtyfactsConcept
How do I explain my unique understanding of a thing?
Most subjects have been explained beautifully somewhere. The problem is finding the path through them. Artyfacts lets experts build that path — not new content, just the structure that makes existing content navigable.
- BiblocalActive
Where do I share books locally?
Biblocal is a bookshelf that does something. Track what you own, lend to neighbors, discuss ideas with people nearby, and find the readers around you who care about the same things.

- BropilotConcept
How do I best describe a software system?
Bropilot is a Build Roadmap Orchestrator — documentation as code that keeps your purpose, requirements, and implementation plan honest as the software evolves. Because the only docs worth trusting are the ones that haven't quietly become historical fiction yet.
- Co-ChangeConcept
How do we agree on what we're trying to achieve?
Co-Change lets communities map goals, assumptions, tradeoffs, and possible actions together — then uses Single Transferable Votes to surface the path the group actually wants. The structure comes from the participants, not from the top.
- DAWKAActive
How do I keep a document useful as things change?
DAWKA (Documents As Working Knowledge Agents) keeps documents current through scheduled research, cited revisions, and updates you control.

- everyMEConcept
How well do I know myself?
Journals are usually one-way: you write, then forget. everyME makes old writing resurface so you can respond to it — agree, argue, update. What you believed two years ago is either still true or worth understanding why it changed.
- GRREATActive
Is today's work actually moving me toward my goal?
Every serious undertaking starts the same way: a pile of half-formed thoughts that seem too obvious to structure and too tangled to act on. GRREAT walks them through stages (goals, research, roadmap, execution, analysis, time) and keeps asking 'have you actually thought about that?' until you have.

- Home Server ExperimentsActive
Can a mining card help run a language model at home?
My home server experiments include repurposing a mining card as an extra GPU and running an LLM on my own hardware. Anyone with a Gmail account can try talking to it; its personality is still a work in progress.

- MapMindActive
Where in the world did this idea change?
A globe-based learning game that follows history and science through real places and times. Choose a journey, fly between its checkpoints, and solve challenges as the story unfolds.

- MetawriterConcept
How can I zoom out of the page metaphorically?
A draft tells you what you ended up with. Metawriter helps you understand how you got there — the choices, habits, detours, and patterns that shape your writing. Craft improves faster when you treat it like something worth studying.
- OpenFlexure MicroscopeActive
How can open hardware make microscopy more accessible?
My hardware project exploring the OpenFlexure microscope: an open-source digital microscope platform built around 3D-printed parts, optics, and software-controlled movement.
- QR3DActive
How do I 3D print a QR code?
A browser tool that turns any link into a 3D-printable QR code — with real dimensions, material choices, color, and logo support. Print it on a namecard, a sign, a gift, or whatever needs a physical link to a digital thing.

- QuirkingActive
What happens inside a quantum circuit?
An interactive quantum circuit simulator built on the ideas behind Quirk. Arrange gates, watch quantum states change, and learn through guided lessons and visual explanations.

- SolowlyConcept
How can teams work together better?
As organizations grow, coordination quietly starts to crowd out contribution. Decisions get relitigated, strategy drifts as it travels, and teams spend their best hours translating context to each other. Solowly makes the priorities, roles, decisions, and dependencies of a company visible in one living system, so shared understanding is explicit instead of constantly rebuilt by hand.

- studyusActive
What should I study next?
studyus is a study planner that connects course concepts, practice, and deadlines to recommend what to study next. A product engineering case study.

- TimelapsActive
What does getting it done look like?
A local-first task list with timelapse recordings. Pick a task, record yourself working, and turn the session into a short video, with your tasks and recordings kept on your device.

- UnnaturalActive
What are we?
The big questions — what consciousness is, what makes a choice free, what meaning actually means — are asked by everyone and answered clearly by almost no one. Unnatural is an ongoing attempt to change that, in plain language.

Archive
3- LifeGuesserArchived
Where in the world does this live?
The planet is stranger and fuller than most people realize. LifeGuesser shows a real photo from iNaturalist — a beetle, a fern, a mushroom — and asks: where in the world was this spotted? Simple question. Surprisingly hard. Always interesting.

How do tiny language models fit more intelligence into 16 MB?
Parameter Golf submissions squeeze an entire language model into 16 MB, but the winning ideas are buried in code and scoreboards. This interactive explorer maps the architecture, explains each component, and compares what the strongest submissions changed.

- RestoraunchArchived
Where is my restaurant losing money?
Restaurants lose money in quiet ways — a supplier order slightly off, a dish that wastes more than expected, a slow week nobody planned for. Restoraunch surfaces those patterns before they compound, so the numbers make sense before you check the bottom line.
