Why It Runs in Your VPC (and Nothing Leaves)
G8KEPR is self-hosted by design: deployed with Helm or Terraform, sitting in your request path, sending zero bytes out and charging nothing per token. Here's the reasoning.
Building G8KEPR · Note 5 ↗EXPLORE THE NOTEBOOK
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Vignelli: A Serif, Gold-Ruled Theme for Obsidian
Vignelli is my open-source Obsidian theme for people who want their notes to read like a well-set print document, with serif type, gold rules and a teal highlighter.
The design notebook · Note 7 ↗
Building a Security Startup by Myself
One founder, a Delaware C-Corp, evenings and weekends, and a codebase with more lines of tests than lines of code. Here's what that ratio says about how I build.
Building G8KEPR · Note 6 ↗
ICON: Swapping Desktop Shortcut Icons for SteamGridDB Art
ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
Games and gear · Note 9 ↗
From Do-Everything Platform to Correlation Engine
G8KEPR started as an AI security platform that tried to do everything. In September 2026 I narrowed it to the one thing that's actually different, and kept most of what I'd built.
Building G8KEPR · Note 7 ↗
Comic Cruncher: Shrinking a Digital Comic Library and Binding Issues Into Trades
A Python desktop app that converts PDF, CBR, CBZ and CB7 comics into smaller WebP-based CBZ files and can combine single issues into trade paperback volumes.
Archive conversion workshop · Note 5 ↗
Laying Out a One-Page Website: The Section Order and Why
The section order I use for a one-page site, which sections are required and which earn their place, rough sizes for each, and why the call to action sits right under the hero.
Building a site for someone · Note 3 ↗
Open Source for About a Day
On September 9 I decided G8KEPR would be open source under Apache-2.0. On September 10 I changed my mind. Both days had good arguments.
Building G8KEPR · Note 8 ↗
Terminal News: Headlines, Votes and Weather in Your Terminal
Terminal News is my work-in-progress Go project for reading community-ranked news, local classifieds and NOAA weather in a text-only terminal app, for people who'd rather not open a browser to catch up.
App experiments · Note 2 ↗
Cassette Futurism New Tab Page: A Retro Browser Extension With a Starfield and Amber Clock
A cassette-futurism new tab page for Edge and Chrome, with link groups, live search, weather and a starfield, packaged as a Manifest V3 extension.
Desktop tinkering · Note 5 ↗
A Scorecard Instead of a Vanity Metric
How I keep score on G8KEPR with a feature scorecard graded 0 to 10, why it leaves out anything about clients or partners, and the P0-P4 lists that decide what I work on next.
Building G8KEPR · Note 9 ↗
Genesis ROM Workshop: Pulling Palettes, Tiles and Text Out of Sega Genesis ROMs
Genesis ROM Workshop is my open-source Python toolkit for poking around inside Sega Genesis ROMs, extracting palettes, text and tile graphics for ROM hacking, translation and preservation work.
The retro workbench · Note 6 ↗