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May 3, 2026
Parrot, a web app for recording throwaway audio clips.
A simple, skeuomorphic audio recorder for pronunciation practice and self-confidence building, emphasizing ephemeral recordings (overwritten, not saved) and local-only operation.
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May 3, 2026
A WASM engine for Magic: The Gathering (MTG) rules and cards, featuring a live compiler/decompiler for custom cards and P2P multiplayer.
The first MTG engine to live compile the entire card collection at runtime, enabling playtesting of custom cards and semantic similarity scoring for AI-assisted development.
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May 2, 2026
CD-DA Reader is a Rust library designed to read audio CD data, leveraging knowledge of SCSI commands.
A personal project demonstrating systems programming capabilities and the utility of LLMs for learning complex technical domains.
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May 2, 2026
A macOS configuration bootstrapper that exports and replays apps, shell configs, system settings, hotkeys, and app preferences between Macs.
A fast, privacy-first solution for macOS configuration management, particularly useful for MDM-managed environments.
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May 2, 2026
Sanishne is a Rust-based, free, shared bookmark board application for teams, designed to centralize and organize useful links with notes and tags. It supports user roles, search, tag filtering, MFA, and JSON import/export.
A simple, focused, "boring" alternative to noisy communication platforms for team link sharing and knowledge retention, explicitly avoiding AI summarization or complex knowledge graphs.
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May 2, 2026
A suite of clinical tools for labs and longevity clinics, including Male Hormone Lab Interpreter, Thyroid Function Interpreter, Glucose Metabolism Interpreter, Liver Function Blood Test Interpreter, Iron Status Interpreter, Grip Strength Interpreter, Humanity's Bortz Blood Age Calculator, and Levine PhenoAge Biological Age Calculator.
Specialized, privacy-focused clinical tools that visualize complex biological pathways and interpret lab results based on optimal ranges, outperforming LLMs in diagnostic accuracy and root cause identification. Free and private for public use, with clinical versions offering d...
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May 2, 2026
A smartphone powered by betavoltaic (nuclear decay) technology, designed from the ground up for continuous, long-term power (5-15 mW continuous output, 12-year lifespan) without daily charging.
A revolutionary, self-powered smartphone concept that eliminates daily charging, offering predictable, decade-long operation, contrasting with the two-year replacement cycle of conventional devices.
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May 1, 2026
Rosey, a "household's context layer" or shared assistant accessible via text message.
A simple, shared memory system for households, evolving from a grocery list to a comprehensive repository of shared facts, eliminating the burden of individual recall.
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May 1, 2026
Forkle, a daily word game featuring a dual crossword puzzle with a shared grid and thematically linked crosswords.
An updated, more accessible, and enjoyable daily word game that offers a unique twist on traditional crosswords through its shared grid and thematic pairing.
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May 1, 2026
Copy-fail-C, a portable C port of the CVE-2026-31431 Copy Fail Proof-of-Concept (PoC) with a checker.
A highly portable, C-based re-implementation of a critical security vulnerability PoC, enabling compilation and execution across any architecture supported by nolibc, removing Python and x86_64 shellcode dependencies.
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Apr 30, 2026
A web UI for Claude Code.
Frees Claude Code from the terminal, implying improved accessibility and user experience.
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Apr 29, 2026
Transparent Tor Proxy (TTP) for Linux.
An easy-to-use, stateless, system-wide transparent proxy for privacy and testing/development, with a kill-switch and SELinux policies.
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Apr 29, 2026
fixi.js, a minimalist web tool.
Lower-level, rawer, and smaller (4.5kb) than alternatives like htmx or hyperscript, designed for readability.
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Apr 29, 2026
Effected Keyboard 2, an Android keyboard app.
A keyboard focused on 'different experience' with visual effects, gestures, and themes, contrasting with AI-driven predictability and spelling correction, based on Anysoftkeyboard.
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Apr 29, 2026
GeoTraceroute, a tool for visualizing traceroutes on a 3D globe with submarine cable inference.
A network visualization tool that infers submarine cable routing, addressing the invisibility of underwater segments to standard traceroute, with community-contributed nodes and multiple views.
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Apr 27, 2026
Prediction market analysis app layering LLMs with data APIs.
An AI-driven prediction tool for prediction markets, integrating various data APIs (FRED, NWS, Open-Meteo, CoinGecko, congress.gov) and general search (Serper, Tavily), with varying performance based on LLM model (Gemini 3 Flash, Sonnet performing well).
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Apr 27, 2026
Out Loud: Open-source desktop TTS app for macOS/Windows/Linux.
A free, MIT-licensed, offline-first desktop TTS app that does not require subscriptions or phone home, addressing privacy and internet dependency issues of other TTS apps.
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Apr 26, 2026
Xtrace, a Unix-style command-line profiling tool for macOS, leveraging Instruments for CPU, GPU, and Memory analysis.
A terminal-first profiling workflow for macOS developers, eliminating the need to constantly switch to the Instruments GUI.
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Apr 25, 2026
An open-source Next.js dashboard starter kit.
A comprehensive, out-of-the-box Next.js dashboard starter with essential features (auth, RBAC, theming, i18n, accessibility) and extensive UI components, designed to accelerate project development.
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Apr 24, 2026
Linux Desktops in the Browser.
A browser-based Linux desktop experience aiming for better performance (cloud gaming streaming tech, low boot times) and modern interfaces compared to existing solutions like DistroSea.