About

Most of what I publish is small software aimed at one specific annoyance. JOKey types Vietnamese on a Mac without dropping characters. Lightspot replaces Spotlight without indexing every file on the disk. Sift blocks ads for a whole network from one 10 MB binary, and Taskbar Stats puts network and CPU numbers on the Windows taskbar.

I like software that opens instantly, stays out of the way and works without an account. These days I mostly write Swift, Rust, Go and TypeScript, with some C++ and shell.

I'll be upfront about how I work now: I code with AI. It handles a lot of the typing and the boilerplate, which leaves me more time for the design, the testing and the small details that make a tool pleasant to use. It's also the reason I finish things. Ideas that used to sit in a notes file for months now turn into working projects, and most of what I've shipped recently wouldn't exist without it.

Away from the keyboard I like test gear and hardware I can open up: a vector network analyzer, a pocket oscilloscope, a 3D printer, small microcontroller boards. I keep copies of some firmware and manuals for them in the mirrors section.

Get in touch

GitHub is the quickest way to reach me. If something in one of my projects is broken, please open an issue on its repository.

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