- Privacy-first — local-first, zero telemetry. Nothing phones home unless you opt in.
- Cypherpunk — secrets stay encrypted on your machine; sync is self-hosted or end-to-end encrypted, never someone else's cleartext.
- Open source — permissive licenses (MIT and friends) are welcome; no copyleft required.
- KISS — keep it simple, stupid: one simple way to do each thing.
In practice: my tools never impersonate official clients or read other apps' data (browser cookies included), and anything unofficial is documented as unofficial.
- llm-usage-overlay — know how much AI you're using without handing your data to anyone else. Always-on-top Windows overlay for Claude, ChatGPT and OpenCode plan limits and Anthropic/OpenAI API spend. Rust + Tauri 2, MIT.
- proofkey — Grammarly-style writing assistant for Chrome with your own API key or an on-device model. No backend, no telemetry.
- mcp-config-audit (archived) — audits MCP configuration files for hardcoded keys, plaintext transports and over-broad permissions. SARIF output.
- epub2audiobook (archived) — epub to chaptered audiobook with a stable voice, plus the measured research behind it.



