I build small tools. Most of them run on your own machine and don't talk to anybody.

I'd rather find out what a thing actually costs than take somebody's word for it. Most of what's here got built because I wanted to see how the inside worked.

_{Rust, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript. Windows and Linux plumbing, sound, browser extensions. If it doesn't need the network, it doesn't touch it.}

marquee — one word in a terminal and the show plays. It finds the thing, opens mpv, remembers where you stopped, and tells Discord and AniList about it.

The part I'd point at is how it's put together. What a show is comes from catalogs that have been steady for years. Where to actually get it comes from scrapers, and scrapers die. Keeping those two apart is what stops a dead scraper taking search down with it. Adding a source is a file in a folder, not a change to the program.

hidforge — holds a click rate from ten a second up to near ten thousand, and sits at nothing when it's idle. It learns what a button really sends instead of guessing at a number, because the side buttons don't come in on a tidy channel and some never reach Windows at all.

AirLock — takes the keys, passwords and personal details out of your text before it reaches an AI. A CLI you can pipe into or hang off a commit hook, and a browser extension that catches the paste itself. It never goes online, which is rather the point of a thing meant to stop you leaking.

fretwork — a guitar you can play, in one HTML file. Six strings worked out as real waveguides, no recordings anywhere. It opens in a browser, so it's the quickest thing here to try.

nowwatching — puts whatever you're watching on your Discord profile. The show's name, the poster, a countdown. It reads what Windows already knows, so there's nothing to set up site by site.

Discord draws that progress bar itself and has no way of saying stopped, so a paused bar can't be frozen. It can only be put back where it belongs, which it is, every ten seconds. anicli-rpc does the same job for anime in a terminal, sitting between ani-cli and mpv without touching either one.

AutoDelete — puts a timer on the messages you send in Discord. Per channel, per category, per server, with a countdown and a keep button. It deletes one at a time, and it always runs late rather than early. The failure everybody else ships is a burst of deleting that looks exactly like a bot.

Alife — little organisms that learn to stay alive inside their own lifetime. No breeding, no generations, one CPU core. mochi is a cat that lives on your desktop, watches you work, and expects feeding. Cadence is a to-do app built around the better question — why you stop opening to-do apps. It's on Google Play.

Learning security properly, rather than off tutorials.

Reading more Win32 documentation than any man ought to, on account of hidforge. Raw Input, HID report descriptors, and what a QueryPerformanceCounter spin loop really costs you.

Getting programs to talk to one another, mostly. Discord puts an 8-byte header on its messages, mpv wants JSON a line at a time, and underneath both it's named pipes on Windows or Unix sockets on Linux — which look a good deal more alike than they are.

And the Windows media session, which hands you a title, a length and a timeline for anything playing, then quietly stops updating that timeline the moment the tab goes to the background. Two bugs came back to me reading that silence as a pause.