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.

• loom, the information browser, is to 'luma' as Chrome is to 'chroma'.
  • Blog post pending: 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.
• 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

• 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.
• "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: Your computer can't alert you of a tornado - and that's a problem.

• styx (website link), a Linux System Built Better, is a user-focused, consent-oriented OS for your secure and trustworthy software stacks.
• 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.

• RetroCat, the Retrievable Object Catalog, is a blob-based, deduplicating content-aware file storage tool built around decomposition and recomposition of file components.
• 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
• Bard, Build Automation Done Right, is a new software building and integration management framework, built upon the technologies in Whiplash.

• “Pennsylvania Computer Systems”, a somewhat fantasy brand for a series of MOS/CBM-inspired 32-bit computers and equipment.
  • the Pennsylvania 65000 CPU, a 32-bit CISC-alike extension upon the traditional MOS 6502 design.
  • KEYSTONE-I, for “Keyboard, Sound & Television terminal - all-in-one”, is a traditional microcomputer board and chassis built around Pennsylvania components and the p65k CPU.
  • Blog post pending: 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.
• E.V.I.L., an explicitly variable-instruction-length binary decision-tree-based bit-serial CPU architecture.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• fife, a Forth Interactive Fiction Engine. Designed to be compatible with OpenFirmware, ANS Forth and miniforth.

• 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.
  • 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.
• Moonshot, a launcher, background service stack and alternative home menu for the Nintendo 3DS.
• 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

• 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
• 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.
• 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.

In addition to the above,

• GameTank, a brand-new 6502-based games console, built on currently-available technology, without harvested or NOS parts.

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