Independent builder. I work on research tooling, GIS and evidence-oriented data, software for old and constrained hardware, music education, and small independent publications.
Most of what is here started as a question of the form "why is this still unreadable?" — a docket system, an official statistic, a music practice routine, a discarded PC. The projects below are attempts to make one of those things legible.
Public repositories describe the projects. Implementation lives in private repositories. Nothing here is a claim about users, revenue or adoption, because there is nothing of that kind to report yet.
research · GIS · software · automation · music education ·
independent publishing · evidence and provenance · conservation
Group names describe the kind of project. The status column describes what is actually true today — most of these are early.
| Project | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| LegacyOS | A lightweight, modern-feeling OS environment for old x86 hardware, built as original userland on a pinned NetBSD base | Prototype verified under emulation; no physical-hardware test yet |
| MuseForge | Real-instrument music learning: one event timeline driving notation, tab and a practice highway, with honest scoring uncertainty | Prototype tested with synthetic signals only |
| Open E-Reader | A permanently free, ad-free, offline-first reader with configurable typography and comic support | Definition and scaffold |
| Secure Browser | A minimalist privacy-oriented browser with optional page-scoped discussion | Concept and scaffold |
| Project | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Power Line News | Watchlist, news and government-records reading for power-line and utility infrastructure | In development; no public build |
| Coronado Happenings | A hyperlocal community publication with continuous reading and attributed ingestion | In development; no public build |
| Project | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Whale Intelligence Network | Evidence-oriented platform for whale and dolphin research, news, observations and mapping | Prototype; private source |
| Immigration Law & Intelligence | Official-record intelligence for immigration law: statistics, maps and traceable derivations | Model documented; no public build |
| Project | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Voalt | A community publishing, knowledge, intelligence and automation-partner network connecting independent projects | Architecture and local pilot; not a finished network |
Two things are consistent across the projects:
Verified and unverified are separated. Where a result was actually observed — a boot under emulation, a test suite passing in a specific environment — it is stated with its conditions. Where something is intended, planned or unproven, it says so, including the uncomfortable cases.
Public repositories are showcases. They contain descriptions, status and screenshots. Source, tests and technical documentation are private. Absence of a licence is deliberate: publishing a description is not publishing the code under an open-source licence.
Small, verifiable steps; evidence kept next to the claim; corrections recorded as corrections. Automated tooling is used heavily and is labelled as automated — an agent's output is never presented as a person's judgement, and agent activity never stands in for human consensus.
Milestones are tracked per project in each repository's CHANGELOG.md.