Projects

A selection of projects ranging from practical tools to slightly unhinged experiments.

Ziggy

Ziggy is my static site generator written in Zig. It reads Markdown with front matter, renders it with the wonderful zmd library, and uses Mustache templates to produce plain static HTML. You are currently reading a site generated by Ziggy!

Nisse

I'm a longtime fan of tabletop and trading card games like Catan and MTG, and I've watched a lot of great local shops struggle with POS and ERP systems that are too expensive and too complex for the way card shops actually operate. Nisse is a free and open-source ERP and point-of-sale system for small businesses that tries to solve that problem. It uses Rust, Axum, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Next.js to handle inventory, sales, customers, events, and more, with a strong focus on being straightforward and usable.

llm-mddocgen

A Markdown-driven document generation pipeline for OpenAI-compatible models. It treats prompts, personas, templates, and source material as composable building blocks for more reliable LLM document generation. It's particularly useful for research-heavy workflows and works well alongside an Obsidian vault.

labrodor

labrodor is a Pulumi and TypeScript skeleton for standing up a practical homelab on top of a clean Proxmox VE install. It starts with an interactive questionnaire, generates typed Pulumi stack config, and then composes opinionated building blocks like storage, Pi-hole, and development-oriented hosts. It's intentionally a skeleton rather than a finished platform, meant to give me a solid base for iterating on the homelab topology I actually want.

focuspocus

There is a joke about every developer making TODO apps, but there is a good reason for that: they are all wildly complex and, for some reason, cost $10 a month. I built FocusPocus as a free and open-source productivity toolkit with Nuxt 3 that combines task management, calendar scheduling, time tracking, and notes in a single SQLite-backed application. The goal is to keep the daily planning loop simple: see what matters, schedule it, track the time you actually spend, and keep notes close to the work. It should do as much or as little as you need without becoming its own tool to learn.

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is an intrusive thought that I took too far: a multi-persona debate engine for local LLMs that maintains a persistent thinking document and produces a final synthesis from the discussion. It has a Go backend and a web interface that feels a bit like an IRC chat room full of deeply frustrating Jungian personalities. It's useful for stress-testing ideas, and I get about as much value from it working as I do from watching it fail in entertaining ways.

50cc

A minimalist 2D game engine sandbox implemented as a single stb-style C99 header with SDL3 as the only dependency. The focus is small scope, readability, and learning through direct modification. It also includes sample games built on top of the header.

libgame

A small C stb-style single-header library for tabletop-style games, mostly card games like poker, blackjack, and hearts. It can also be used for building any game with Elo-style conditions, including chess. The repo includes the core library along with playable example implementations.

Bongo

A simple Go and MongoDB bootstrap for getting personal projects off the ground without overcomplicating them. It stands for Bootstrap mongo golang.

Dotfiles

It's a stretch to call this a project, but I work across Windows, Linux, and macOS and have accumulated enough terminal, editor, and utility configuration to make it one anyway. It captures the practical defaults I actually use across systems, mostly so I can clone it when I need to provision a new machine. It's opinionated, but I like to think it's opinionated for good reasons.

Divinator

Long before modern AI tooling, I was fascinated by natural language processing problems, and one of my favorite things to build was Markov chain-based text generation. Divinator takes in source text and generates something that feels adjacent to it, almost like scrying by way of probability. Try it with some text from Project Gutenberg and see what falls out.

Thoth

A general-purpose, single-threaded, high-performance in-memory key-value store in C with some eventual consistency guarantees. This one exists largely for my own education and is probably not what you want in a real-world production system, but it's perfectly reasonable for the kinds of personal projects that need this sort of thing.