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UGREEN LEDs That Actually Mean Something: An Unraid Plugin

Migrated my Unraid NAS to a UGREEN DXP4800 Pro after the old motherboard died. The LEDs on the front did nothing interesting. Forked a driver plugin so the power LED shows array health, the network LED breathes with traffic, and the disk LEDs become a progress bar during parity checks.

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Sleeve: A Native macOS VNC Viewer Because Nothing Else Worked

Built a Swift VNC client in a day after Screens couldn't type quote marks to a Windows box and Apple's Screen Sharing rendered the remote desktop wrong. Named after the bodies in Altered Carbon.

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Wintermute: A TUI for macOS launchd Management

LaunchControl went paid and kept growing. I use it once a month. Built a focused terminal replacement in a morning with Go and Bubbletea—named after the AI from Neuromancer.

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Birgit Studio: A Desktop CMS for Pottery

A family member wanted to show her pottery online. Built a full desktop CMS with Electrobun and Bun that manages creations, edits images, and publishes to Cloudflare Pages—in one morning.

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Drift: Cross-Platform Clipboard Sync with End-to-End Encryption

Building a clipboard sync tool between macOS and Windows—two different languages (Swift and Go), one shared protocol, and end-to-end encryption via 6-digit PIN pairing. Named after Pacific Rim's neural handshake.

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Bishop: A TUI for npm Package Management

Built a terminal UI for managing npm packages after topgrade kept showing cryptic warnings with no context about where issues came from.

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