Last Week's Projectbuild · break · fix · ship
Independent software & experiments

Useful ideas that
got a little out of hand.

Software, tools, games, infrastructure, automation, and the occasional weird idea that started with “why doesn’t this already exist?” and somehow ended with its own database.

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What gets built here

              
A fairly unreasonable range of things.

            

            

              The stack changes with the problem. The common thread is practical software that removes friction,
              gives people more control, or explores an idea far enough to find out whether it should exist.
            

          


          

            
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Developer & Infrastructure
Automation, networking, APIs, certificate tooling, self-hosted services, deployment helpers, and utilities built to make technical work less annoying.

            
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Applications & Utilities
Desktop and web applications focused on real jobs, clean interfaces, local control, and doing one thing well without turning it into a subscription ecosystem.

            
03
Learning & Study
Practice exams, flashcards, simulations, assessment tools, and study software designed around actually learning the material instead of just clicking through it.

            
04
Media & Creative Tools
Readers, conversion tools, audio workflows, local AI experiments, media management, and software for turning content into something more useful.

            
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Games & Experiments
Game systems, Unity projects, multiplayer utilities, procedural ideas, and prototypes that are allowed to be weird as long as they are interesting.

            
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Distributed & Cryptographic
Peer-to-peer architecture, encrypted identity, verifiable randomness, distributed storage, permissions, and other ways of asking whether a server really needs to be in charge.

          

        

      


      

        

          

            
A few examples
Projects that escaped the idea folder.

            
Some are polished products, some are open source, some are experiments, and some are still evolving. That distinction tends to become fuzzy around version 0.3.

          


          

            
Study platformTIA+
Tia+
A certification study app built around fresh practice exams, flashcards, multi-select questions, and performance-based practice instead of one static question bank.
Practice ExamsPBQsStudy Tools
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InfrastructureSSL
SphereSSL
Certificate automation and management for people who want ACME, DNS validation, renewal, conversion, and self-hosting without enterprise-sized ceremony.
.NETACMEDockerDNS-01
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Distributed systemsVRF
SphereVRF
Verifiable randomness tooling and experiments focused on trustworthy random outputs, auditability, and cryptographic systems that can prove what they generated.
VRFCryptographyVerificationSecurity
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Media toolingLOCAL
Vitriol
Media conversion and offline-first audio tooling, including document-to-speech workflows, local AI features, voice tools, and practical utilities that stay on the user’s machine.
AudioLocal AIConversionOffline-first
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Audio & utilityKOKO
KoKoFish
A focused toolset for local voice and audio workflows, built to keep useful speech features close at hand without needing to ship everything off somewhere else.
VoiceAudioUtilityLocal
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Desktop oddityPET
Claudagotchi
A desktop AI pet that remembers projects and habits, lives in its own little world, plays games, and proves that productivity software is allowed to be ridiculous sometimes.
ElectronReactAIDesktop
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ServiceREST
Lullaby.Rest
A lightweight service-focused project for clean API behavior, structured delivery, and practical utility, kept simple on purpose rather than decorative by accident.
APIServiceRESTBackend
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MonitoringALERT
SphereAlert
A monitoring and alerting utility built to surface important events quickly, keep the noise down, and make sure the right thing gets noticed at the right time.
AlertingMonitoringAutomationStatus
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And then there are games
Because sometimes the project just need MonoBehaviour.

            
Not everything here is infrastructure and utilities. Some of it is games, which is honestly just software with more consequences and worse sleep.

          

          

            
GameSTEAM
Mother Ducker
A game project with exactly the right level of bad behavior implied by the title, which is to say, probably a non-zero amount.
SteamGameIndie
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GameSTEAM
Elon
A game project with its own flavor of chaos, built for the category of ideas that are too cursed to remain hypothetical.(Elon development will begin again as soon as the other one stops ruining the name. Or more likly, Steam approves the name change.)
SteamGameIndie
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The general philosophy

                
Build the thing.

                
If the tool I want doesn’t exist, that sounds like next week’s project.

              

              

                
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Make it useful.Solve a real annoyance, remove friction, or answer an interesting technical question.

                
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Keep it understandable.Complexity is sometimes necessary. Making it everyone else’s problem is not.

                
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Automate the boring parts.Computers are remarkably good at repetition. Let them suffer instead.

                
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Give users control.Local-first and self-hosted are great when they make sense. Data should not become ransom just because software touched it.

                
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Ship, learn, improve.An imperfect working project teaches more than the immaculate one still living in a folder called “final-final-v3”.