Projects

Projects

Work logs, collaboration notes, and things in progress

Workshop Philosophy

This isn't a portfolio - it's a workshop. 100+ projects in ~/code/, 75% modified in the last 30 days. Almost none are "products." They're tools I use.

See Building Tools for Yourself for the full philosophy.

Products vs. Personal Tools

Products	Personal Tools
Built for users (plural)	Built for yourself (singular)
Need onboarding, docs, support	You already know how to use them
Must handle edge cases	Your edge cases only
Stable, maintained, versioned	Can break, can be hacky, can change daily
External validation required	Only validation: do you use it?

The Freedom This Enables

Can build quickly: No need for polish, error messages, or edge case handling. Rough works if you know the edges.

Can break things: Refactor aggressively, delete features, change everything. No users to upset.

Can be weird: Unconventional architectures, experimental features, combine things weirdly. No one to judge.

The 75% Activity Rate

Why so many projects are active: they solve actual problems experienced daily. Not theoretical problems. Not problems users might have. Problems I face.

If they weren't useful, they'd be archived.

The Big Three

Foundation infrastructure that everything else builds on:

• Scrapbook-core - Digital memory palace. 9,485 scraps. Alfred for speed, web for browsing.
• Coach Artie - Multi-interface AI. Discord + SMS + web. Context-aware.
• Connectology - Network visualization. Web + desktop. Visual thinking tool.

Design Principles

From meta-patterns analysis:

• Quantified Self Architect - Build infrastructure to understand yourself
• Terminal Aesthete - Environment shapes thinking (Dotfiles, Vulpes Shader System)
• Delete-Driven Developer - Simplicity through subtraction
• Multi-Modal Thinker - Same data, many interfaces

Not optimizing for external users, monetization, or portfolio pieces. Optimizing for long-term personal utility and systems that compound over time.

Active Development

Scrapbook

• scrapbook-core - Core scraping and archival system
• scrapbook-electron - Desktop scraping application
• scrapbook-cli - Command-line scraping interface
• scrapscroller - Scroll-based content scraping

Coach Artie Ecosystem

The Coach Artie AI coaching platform with multiple interfaces and capabilities:

• coachartie_discord2 - Discord bot integration v2
• coachartie_sms - SMS text interface
• coachartie_showcase - Demo and portfolio site
• coachartie_capabilities - Core AI capabilities system
• coachartie-docker - Containerized deployment setup
• coachartie_brain - Central AI real-time memory, thought, reasoning view

Election & Political Data

Tools for election coverage and political data analysis:

• election-visualization-library - Reusable D3 components for election graphics
• election-helpers - Utility functions for election data processing

Electology

• electology - Election data analysis and modeling
• electology_ingest - Data pipeline for election information ingestion

Photography & EXIF Tools

Physical and digital photo processing pipeline:

• exif-photo-printer - Physical photo printing with embedded metadata
• photos - Personal photo management and organization system

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

AI integration servers for various platforms:

• lilfox-mcp - Personal MCP server implementation
• vulpes-things-mcp - Things.app task management integration
• vulpes-spotify-mcp - Enhanced Spotify control interface

Small Web & Personal Sites

Minimal web hosting and personal site experiments:

• website2 - Personal website iteration
• room302-template - Template for Room 302 Studio front-end projects

Development & AI Tools

Code editing and AI assistance utilities:

• editcodewithai - AI-assisted code editing workflows
• cli-ai-chat - Command-line AI chat interface

Data Collection & Analysis

Scraping, monitoring, and data processing:

• rescuetime-scrape - RescueTime data extraction
• criterion-embedding-viz - Embedding visualization tool

Creative & Experimental

• noaa-sat-cli - NOAA satellite data command-line interface
• handtrack-websockets - Hand tracking via WebSockets
• frequencies - Audio frequency analysis and visualization
• opencv-artcut - OpenCV-based art cutting tool
• anime-beta - Anime tracking and analysis
• hexagram_news - I Ching-based news aggregation
• MorningRadio - Morning audio news digest
• retroscope - Retrospective analysis tool
• mission-control - Personal dashboard and control center

Infrastructure & Tools

• discord-arena-bridge - Discord to arena integration
• ejfox-news - Personal news aggregation
• zmk-config2 - ZMK keyboard configuration v2

Archive Projects

Major Tools

• Dataproofer - Data quality checking tool (GitHub - Knight Foundation grant recipient)

CLI Utilities

Command-line tools and experiments:

• cli-delta-dojo - Delta/diff training interface
• cli-ching - I Ching divination command-line tool
• cli-ascii-3d - ASCII 3D rendering utility
• cli-pitch-trainer - Musical pitch training tool
• cli-conway - Conway's Game of Life CLI

Data Journalism & Analysis

Journalism tools and investigation support:

• mta-data-challenge - MTA data analysis challenge submission
• tweet-archive-viewer - Twitter archive analysis tool
• reddit-embeddings - Reddit data embedding analysis
• paramilitary-leaks - Investigation data processing pipeline

Web Applications

Full-stack applications and prototypes:

• daily-dashboard - Personal daily information dashboard
• skill-tree-worker - Skill development tracking
• gpt-browser - GPT-powered web browsing

Specialized Tools

Domain-specific utilities and experiments:

• knowbeacon - Knowledge sharing and discovery around Beacon, NY
• ascii_webcam - ASCII art webcam filter
• cosmic-ascii - Cosmic data ASCII visualization

Development & Prototyping

• vue-use-openrouter - Vue composition for OpenRouter API

Project Status

Active Development

Coach Artie ecosystem, election tools, MCP servers, photography workflow, small web platform

Maintenance Mode

Dataproofer, archived journalism tools, stable CLI utilities

Experimental

Creative coding projects, prototype interfaces, one-off utilities

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Last updated: February 2026 • 80+ projects • Active development and archived experiments