Dependency-light
Semantic HTML, modern CSS, and only the JavaScript that earns its place. No framework and no package-manager supply chain.
Flagship project · actively developed
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. The work around it explores how local models run, retrieve, observe, and behave when the convenient abstractions are removed.
Runtime
Local AI tooling · active
Retrievalllamactl
Runtime supervision for local models: lifecycle, resources, health, and controlled access.
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.
Engines + simulation
Purrfect Chaos.
A mischievous cat sandbox game built on Chaos Engine: an in-house, MVVM-based game engine in C# and .NET 10. Game code and engine code are growing together.
- In-house engine
- Linux and Android targets
- Keyboard, mouse, and gamepad input
- Quests, progression, economy, and minigames
Chaos Engine
Current Alpha captures show the game as it exists, rough edges included.
Also: DynoForge simulationTools + experiments
Different domains. Same appetite for the hard bit.
Desktop utilities, simulation, audio work, game-engine experiments, and the occasional project that started as a question worth following.
Simulation
Engines + simulation · alpha
UtilityDynoForge
Real-time mechanical, fluid, and acoustic engine simulation with live diagnostics.
Desktop tooling
AudioRockHero Ripper
Extracts legally owned rhythm-game archives, converts charts and audio, and exports playable Clone Hero, YARG, or RB3 folders.
Desktop audio · experimental
ModdingSyrinx
A desktop studio for managing local voice-generation workflows without hand-wrangling the environment.
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
Fast, direct, and designed to get out of the way. The work should be doing the talking.
Accessible under pressure
Keyboard-first navigation, strong focus states, reduced-motion support, semantic structure, and resilient responsive layouts.