===== significant bit public projects index =====

This is a list of ongoing projects and efforts, largely open-source works that I've started and have slowly been chipping away at.
If you'd like to work with me on anything here and help out, feel free to reach me.

===== Started, Founded or co-founded: =====

==== Applications ====
  * **[[projects:loom|loom, the information browser]]**, is to 'luma' as Chrome is to 'chroma'.
    * Blog post pending: [[blog:information-deserves-to-be-seen|Information deserves to be seen.]], focusing on the internet attention economy, advertising and notifications, and how they run anathema to research and learning, and kneecap any quest for knowledge.
  * **[[projects:circell|Circell]]**, a modular and expandable client-server or point-to-point application and UI framework for point-of-sale, inventory and stock management, enterprise data acquisition, asset tracking and control, access control and ticketing, and other commercial uses
    * Built using the Godot Engine as principal UI frontend
    * Desktop, embedded, mobile and web frontends available through the use of Godot
    * Planned to be Open-Source, not just "open-core", but with paid support available for enterprise use

==== Services ====
  * **[[projects:y2k-chat|y2k.chat]]**, a chat platform focused on a simpler time.
    * y2k.chat is a low-spec chat and cooperative app client and server with modern security and design principles, but built for implementation on small systems.
  * **[[projects:catellite|"Catellite"]]**, an effort to set up a trustworthy network of distributed, low-cost receivers/decoders to promulgate emergency alerts from NOAA CAP/EAS satellite messages over the Internet or amateur communications.
    * Blog post pending: [[blog:tornado-alerts-dont-like-pcs|Your computer can't alert you of a tornado - and that's a problem.]]

==== Systems, Networking and Management ====
  * **[[projects:styx|styx]]** [[https://styx-os.org/|(website link)]], a Linux System Built Better, is a user-focused, consent-oriented OS for your secure and trustworthy software stacks.
  * **[[projects:iconix|Iconix]]** is a new, non-UNIX-like OS paradigm, kernel and standard, inspired by microkernels and the security architecture of modern-day non-PC systems.

==== Utilities and Tools ====
  * **[[projects:retrocat|RetroCat]]**, the __Retr__ievable __O__bject __Cat__alog, is a blob-based, deduplicating content-aware file storage tool built around decomposition and recomposition of file components.
  * **[[projects:whiplash|Whiplash]]** [tentative name], a new shell and command language built around PHP
    * some notes from cohost: https://web.archive.org/web/20250107113048mp_/https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/3886147-the-shell-and-termin
  * **[[projects:bard|Bard]]**, __B__uild __A__utomation __D__one __R__ight, is a new software building and integration management framework, built upon the technologies in [[projects:whiplash|Whiplash]].

==== Hardware, devices, boards and chips ====
  * **"Pennsylvania Computer Systems"**, a somewhat fantasy brand for a series of MOS/CBM-inspired 32-bit computers and equipment.
    * the **[[projects:p65k|Pennsylvania 65000]]** CPU, a 32-bit CISC-alike extension upon the traditional MOS 6502 design.
    * **[[projects:keystone1|KEYSTONE-I]]**, for "__Key__board, __S__ound & __T__elevision terminal - all-in-__one__", is a traditional microcomputer board and chassis built around Pennsylvania components and the p65k CPU.
    * Blog post pending: [[blog:the-pennsylvania-65000-story|The Story of the "Pennsylvania 65000"]], and how it came to be at a couple Hackers On Planet Earth conferences, with a handful of (UPenn?) folks from Pennsylvania.
  * **[[projects:evil-chip|E.V.I.L.]]**, an __e__xplicitly __v__ariable-__i__nstruction-__l__ength binary decision-tree-based bit-serial CPU architecture.

==== Standards efforts, Programming languages and Compilers ====
  * **[[projects:stutter-lang|stutter]]**, for "stack frame translation, transformation and transfer representation", is a concatenative, agglutinative and largely macro-focused, function-word-based and stack-oriented lisp-like functional language that inherits traits from Forth and Factor at large.
  * **[[projects:acro-lang|acro]]** is an assembly-like programming and memory/data processing language intended to target multiple architectures directly, with efficient, configurable macro implementations of common instruction semantics.
  * **[[projects:html-r|HTML/R]], HTML/RE, and HTTP/R** are reduced versions of HTML and HTTPS, suited for simpler user-agents.
  * Unnamed C-to-ZendVM bytecode compiler built from PHP.
  * "Embedded PHP" - Zend bytecode interpreter and PHP SAPI/standard runtime for extremely resource-constrained and embedded platforms (like esp32, risc-v, 68k)
  * A further simplified Zend VM interpreter for smaller machines - like 6502 (NES, C64), 8088 (IBM PC), so forth.
  * **[[projects:unitext|UniText]]**, a framework for the reproducible presentation, representation, reduction/fallback/normalization, display and editing of rich text, things entirely out of scope for Unicode proper, using specified nonprinting Unicode codepoints and standards as a basis format
    * basically making the ugly, abused and incompatible "unicode mathematical alphanumeric symbols" text hacks obsolete in principle
    * would be available as a basis library for rendering in cairo, gtk, qt, skia, other text/UI platforms
    * has some components to it:
      * **UniType**, a full registry of fonts and variants thereof, font features and alternatives, characters and glyphs in those fonts.
      * **UniLang**, an encoding to introduce language demarcations (beyond simple controls such as RTL/variant selectors) to a given text.

==== Video game development, games technologies, middleware and reverse-engineering/hacking ====
  * **[[projects:fife|fife]]**, a **F**orth **I**nteractive **F**iction **E**ngine. Designed to be compatible with OpenFirmware, ANS Forth and [[https://github.com/meithecatte/miniforth|miniforth]].

==== Homebrew/aftermarket device firmware and hacking ====
  * **[[projects:airports|AirPorts]]**, an effort to bring an alternative package repository, software distribution and, eventually, custom firmware/OS to the Apple AirPort series of wireless access points.
    * **[[https://discord.gg/9S9a2T6fs6|AirCraft]]** (Discord community link), a community to discuss aftermarket, homebrew and custom software, apps, operating systems, distributions, and hardware mods for Apple AirPort networking hardware.
  * **[[projects:moonshot|Moonshot]]**, a launcher, background service stack and alternative home menu for the Nintendo 3DS.
  * **[[https://switchroot.org/|switchroot]]**, a (now completed) effort to port Linux, Android and other OSes to the Nvidia Tegra-based Nintendo Switch platform.
    * Contributions here included:
      * Assembling a high-skill team with experience in this set of platforms
      * Initial project management and bootstrapping
      * Testing, validation and early UX/UI suggestions for installation and bootloader
      * Overall visual style and guidance for branding
      * Early documentation

==== Community Development & Local Outreach ====
  * **[[https://dma.space/|dma.space]]**, a seattle-area hackerspace.
    * Contributions here included:
      * Reaching out to community organizers and a diverse team of staff to form an initial board of directors and plan a nonprofit in the state of Washington
      * General advisory and establishment for branding, location, intent and mission
  * **[[https://treehouse.systems/|Treehouse Systems]]**, a community for queer and tech-adjacent folks.
    * Contributions here included:
      * Community development and stewardship, outreach and support.
      * Technical leadership and support in infrastructure and code maintenance.
  * **[[https://websiteleague.org/|Website League]]**, a new social and interconnected, independent web platform for posts, people and profiles.
    * Contributions here included:
      * Currently in the position of Steward and Keyholder for the Website League - a point person for both infrastructure and community development overall.
      * Voting on and suggesting ideas to develop broad consensus on with our community, as to the focus and priorities of the Website League.

===== Involved with, or contributing to: =====
In addition to the above,

==== Hardware, devices, boards and chips ====
  * **[[https://gametank.zone/|GameTank]]**, a brand-new 6502-based games console, built on currently-available technology, without harvested or NOS parts.

===== 0% of this work is performed by, through or with "AI" technologies. =====

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