Dependency-light
Semantic HTML, modern CSS, and only the JavaScript that earns its place. No framework and no package-manager supply chain.
Flagship project · beta software
Local AI. No black box.
Hermaeus is a native, local-first AI workspace built to keep models, context, memory, agents, and runtime behaviour visible and under your control.
LOCAL MODELS✦REVIEWABLE MEMORY✦CONTEXT RECEIPTS✦LOCAL RAG✦RUNTIME TRACES✦SUPERVISED AGENTS✦VOICE WORKFLOWS✦BENCHMARKING✦NATIVE DESKTOP✦DIAGNOSTICS✦LOCAL DATA✦
01Local by defaultLocal models, data, and workflows
02Observable by designContext, citations, traces, and runtime state
03Human in controlSupervised agents and explicit approvals
04Native desktopNo browser shell pretending to be an app
Selected work · Local AI
Start where the systems get interesting.
Hermaeus is the flagship. Around it, the work explores how local models run, retrieve, observe, and behave when the convenient abstractions are removed.
Runtime
Local AI tooling · early development
Voicellamactl
A Rust control plane for local model processes: lifecycle, resources, health, and controlled access.
Local AI tooling · experimental
RetrievalSyrinx
A desktop studio for managing local voice-generation workflows without hand-wrangling the environment.
RAG research · experimental
BehaviourOghma Infinium
Local-first retrieval work that measures the machinery instead of merely wrapping it.
Experimental AI · experimental
The Little Bastard
A controlled runner for studying what local models do in generated worlds when the answer is not quietly built into the environment.
Shared game technology
Chaos System.
A reusable, game-agnostic .NET 10 runtime and deterministic content-generation stack. It grew out of Purrfect Chaos and became independent once Dungeon Dice provided a genuine second consumer.
- Chaos Engine runtime for rendering, input, physics, audio, animation, and UI
- Chaos Generator for deterministic meshes, layouts, animation, audio, and descriptors
- Consumer-owned catalogues and generated output across separate games
- Headless tests with native backend limits kept visible
Capability / meaning
Chaos owns reusable capability. Games own their characters, rules, catalogues, and world meaning.
See Dungeon Dice, the second consumerGame · Chaos System consumer
Purrfect Chaos.
A mischievous cat sandbox born alongside Chaos System and now consuming its reusable runtime and generator. The game layer carries the island, characters, progression, and all the cat-specific meaning.
- Original Chaos proving ground and current consumer
- Moreton Island-derived world and authored locations
- Linux and Android direction
- Quests, progression, economy, and minigames
Birthplace + consumer
Chaos grew here. The cat game now consumes the shared layer while its world rules remain game-owned.
How the boundary worksGame · Chaos System consumer
Dungeon Dice.
A local-first fantasy RPG built on the shared stack: a persistent Living Tavern, recurring characters, generated spaces, and physical dice that resolve the next step of the adventure.
- Playable Living Tavern vertical slice and bounded crossroads
- Persistent patrons, reactions, conversations, and campaign state
- Game-owned dice semantics with physical and resolved outcomes
- First crypt hook with broader adventure systems ahead
Second consumer
Dungeon Dice makes the Chaos boundary concrete: the shared layer provides capability, while the game owns the tavern, dice, characters, and meaning.
See the shared stackTools + experiments
Different domains. Same appetite for the hard bit.
Around the games sit mod management, system monitoring, desktop utilities, simulation, and experiments that started as questions worth following.
Mod management
Desktop tooling · active development
System healthNexforge
A native mod manager carrying the halted Linux effort forward with substantial Creation Engine support, plus Bannerlord 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Stardew Valley support.
COSMIC desktop · development
SimulationVitalis
A native Rust dashboard for hardware health, thermals, diagnostics, and readable history.
Engines + simulation · alpha
UtilityDynoForge
Data-driven, multi-rate engine simulation with live diagnostics and a real audio handoff.
Desktop tooling
ModdingRockHero Ripper
Extracts legally owned rhythm-game archives, converts charts and audio, and exports playable Clone Hero, YARG, or RB3 folders.
Skyrim modding
ModdingEldible
An SKSE-first framework for narrated Skyrim books.
Skyrim modding
Xbox 360Barflies
Twelve Skyrim tavern NPCs whose conversations branch on player trust and intoxication, backed by a validated content pipeline.
Homebrew research
abadsploit
Xbox 360 homebrew and console software research, focused on understanding controlled modification workflows.
About
I build the bits worth understanding.
Software engineering · systems · local AI · desktop · experimentation
I build software, break assumptions, and disappear down technical rabbit holes until something useful comes back out.
My work spans local AI, developer tooling, native desktop applications, systems engineering, graphics, and experimental projects. I tend to favour understanding and owning the important parts of a system instead of reaching for another dependency by default.
I care about software that can explain itself. Build it. Use it properly. Measure what happens. Find where the assumptions were wrong. Improve it. Repeat. If something only works in a demo, or cannot survive real use and a second look, it is not done.
I’m comfortable working where the abstractions stop being helpful: performance constraints, native runtimes, file formats, rendering, and model behaviour.
Engineering posture
The site is part of the portfolio.
Built for the browser
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Accessible under pressure
Keyboard-first navigation, strong focus states, reduced-motion support, semantic structure, and resilient responsive layouts.