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.

• 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.

• y2k.chat, a chat platform focused on a simpler time
• "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) 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
• 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.

• 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.

• 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