Projects
“This is as normal as it’s going to be. It’s going to be much weirder very soon.” - Ben Mann
Projects for learning, experimentation, and creative expression.
Recent Updates
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Interactive Simulations and Visualizations
- 3D Blood Flow Simulator: Interactive Medical Visualization (Published: May 16, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
- Plant Root Simulator (Published: May 17, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
- Passage of Time (Published: May 18, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
- Yijing: Interactive 3D I Ching Hexagram Sphere | Ancient Chinese Philosophy Visualization (Published: June 6, 2025 · Updated: November 9, 2025)
- Shadow Fleet Tracker Light: Open Source Baltic Sea Vessel Monitoring (Published: March 21, 2026)
- Map Projections in Python: A Practical Guide (Published: May 6, 2026)
Website, Search, and Analytics
- How I Built This Website: Hugo + Hextra Setup Guide (Published: October 9, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
- Implementing Client-Side Search with Lunr.js in Hugo (Published: December 28, 2025)
- TMFNK Website Analytics Dashboard: Content Patterns & Growth (Published: November 9, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
Guides and Learning
- Linux Basics for Hackers: A Self-Study Course Using Community Notes (Published: June 2, 2026)
AI, Systems, and Infrastructure
- City2Graph: Turn Any City Into a Graph Neural Network (Published: May 18, 2026)
- Cohere Transcribe: Open-Source Speech Recognition That Finally Beats Whisper (Published: May 18, 2026)
- How to Train Your GPT: Build a Language Model From Scratch (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Running Local LLMs: From First Run to Fine-Tuned (Published: May 16, 2026)
- How to Work and Compound with AI: A Practical Setup Guide (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Oh My Hermes: The Autonomous CTO Layer for Hermes Agent (Published: May 16, 2026)
- An Idiot’s Guide to Lead Optimisation for Proteins: Understanding the Cradle Pipeline (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Building a Knowledge Production System With NotebookLM (Published: May 16, 2026)
- How to Erase Your Digital Footprint With AI Coding Agents (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Handoff Skill Workflow: Beating Context Slowdown in AI Coding Agents (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Building Agent Skills: Intent, Determinism, and Stability (Published: May 16, 2026)
- Using Expensive + Cheap LLMs Together: A Synthetic Data Architecture (Published: May 12, 2026)
- How to Actually Use OpenAI Codex: No Fluff, Just What Works (Published: May 7, 2026)
- OpenReg: Synthetic Regulatory Reporting & Controlling Data Platform (Published: December 8, 2025)
- AIEOS: Open-Source Specification for Consistent AI Behavior (Published: February 14, 2026)
- Learning How Mixture of Experts Works: A Code Walkthrough (Published: February 15, 2026)
- ColGrep for Codex and OpenCode: Global macOS Setup (Published: February 14, 2026)
- VibeProxy-Droid Workflow (Published: May 5, 2026)
Open Source Libraries and Utilities
- PyGridMappr: Bridging Spatial Analysis Between R and Python (Published: October 23, 2025 · Updated: November 18, 2025)
Archives, Data & Internet History
- The CIA World Factbook Has Been Discontinued (Published: February 5, 2026 · Updated: April 23, 2026) The CIA abruptly erased one of the internet’s oldest public-domain reference works. What was lost, why it matters, and where the fragments survive.