Build log

Projects

The research isn't hypothetical — it comes out of these. Systems in active development, tools in daily use, and published work.

ActiveLocal-first AI

MAX3

A local-first, voice-first AI resident — a single Python process that lives on one box, not a service that visits. A DuckDB graph spine is his memory; a Forward-Forward Variable-Vector learner grows meaning in the edges (predict → prove → adjust, never rote); an Ollama · Whisper · Piper loop lets you just talk to him. He reads books and papers into himself, gets curious, reasons with emotion, morality and self-awareness, and checks his own work against a council of models before trusting it. He stewards the household — network and off-grid power — warning and recommending, acting only on safe, reversible, audited changes.

PythonVoice-firstLocal-firstFlagship
ActiveNetwork Security

REEF

A local-first network-visibility and gateway-defense tool that makes everything on the wire — and at the OPNsense gateway — visible and understandable to someone never trained to read it. A named fleet of sensors (Zenarmor, RITA, Suricata, abuse.ch, CrowdSec, Pi-hole, Shodan) reports to an E-2 Hawkeye AWACS that fuses corroborating signals into one high-confidence card. The Bouncer then does the whole job for you: see it, explain it in plain language, propose the fix — and act only on your approval, every change PIN-gated, backed up, and reversible.

PythonNext.jsOPNsenseLocal-FirstSelf-Defending
ActiveLocal-first AIExtension

FeedHacker

A local-first browser extension that clears the low-signal noise from your LinkedIn feed. A Mute / Solo mixer hides what you're tired of — AI slop, promoted ads, engagement bait, hiring posts, corporate brand fluff — while an on-device model scores each post and self-tunes to your feed, no data ever leaving the browser. Flip any category on or off, or solo just the topics you care about, and what's left is a feed actually worth reading. It runs entirely on your machine — no account, no tracking, nothing sent to a server.

TypeScriptChrome MV3Local-FirstSelf-Tuning
PublishedReference

The Agentic AI Builder's Playbook

A 25-part published series on production-grade agentic AI architecture: the nine-layer agent stack, MCP and A2A protocols, RAG variants, agent memory, and evaluation & observability.

Writing25 Parts
PublishedSeries

DevOps in the Age of AI

An article series on what changes in pipelines, review, and reliability when agents join the team — written for practitioners, not press releases.

WritingDevOps
ActiveInfrastructure

Self-reconciling project tooling

A family of skills and scripts that audit docs against ground truth, catch ledger drift, and reset a repo to a known-good state before every session. The "keep themselves honest" thesis, running in production.

ToolingReliability
PrototypeVisualization

Neural Galaxy

An animated cognitive-map background: nebula clouds mapped to system modules, synaptic connection lines, and a clean public API — a drop-in ES module for AI dashboards.

CanvasAnimation
ActiveSimulation

Neuroster

A colony simulation built on a hand-crafted 16-bit pixel-art pipeline: single unified silhouette, six-step shade ramp, per-state animation postures for idle, walk, work, sleep, and carry.

Game DevPixel ArtSimulation

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