I make tools I use every day, measure them, and publish the numbers, including the ones that did not go my way.
| Project | What it does | One fact |
|---|---|---|
| Dayside | Mac menu-bar world clock. Each city's row is painted in the real color of its sky right now. | The release build has no network permission. |
| stove | Prints kitchen tickets and runs a take-a-number queue for a restaurant. | It comes from an ordering system in regular use since August 2026. |
| dryport | Runs some Windows-only games on Apple silicon Macs. For Unity games it rewrites their D3D11 shaders as Metal instead of using Wine. | A Space for the Unbound passed all 5 of its checks on an M5 Mac. |
| verbatim-quote | Checks that a quote really appears in its source, character for character. | Rejects a changed number that a 0.96 similarity score accepts. |
| SpeakFB | A speaking report for English recordings: pace, long pauses, fillers. | Transcription runs on your Mac. |
I also trained a small model (149M parameters) to mark essays for an English exam, and finished it in August 2026, 3 weeks before TypeSafe released Jev. Like Jev, it returned scores on an ordered scale instead of writing text, but it only marked 1 kind of essay. On 84 test essays marked by people, its marks were within 1 band of theirs 88% of the time, close to my 94% target but under it. I've since deleted it.
Developer tools are MIT. Apps are GPL-3.0 with a short CLA, so I can keep offering them under other terms later.
To work together, email me at hola@ninon.dev.