Recent Writing

• I, the Digital Spirit Medium
• Fixing a Sneaky Pandoc Markdown Issue and Automating Book Builds Medium
• How I Created My First AI NFT Without Coding Medium

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Web Applications

• Adaptive Learner

  AI-assisted language-learning app with 7 learning modes, spaced repetition, and AI-generated exercises (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini). 26 content sets, 424 lessons, and 5405 cards across 10 content languages, with an 11-language UI. Installable, offline-capable PWA, bring-your-own-key. Share content via GitHub repositories with invitation codes.

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• Bibliogon

  Open-source authoring platform. Write, organize, and publish books, articles, and comics. Offline-capable, local-first.

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• Befaro formerly Phylax

  Privacy-first health-record PWA for your living medical profile. Local-first and zero-knowledge: everything stays on your device, encrypted with AES-256-GCM and PBKDF2. No cloud, no accounts. Manage your own and a proxy profile, structure observations with AI assistance via your own key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, LM Studio), and export rich PDF reports. DE/EN interface.

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• Topos

  Offline-first inventory tracker for physical storage - file folders, archive boxes, and drawers. Hierarchical category tree, priority levels, Excel import, full-text search, and pending-action tracking. Recognise box contents from a photo with AI vision (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini). Plugin-driven on PluginForge, 8-language UI. Installable, offline-capable PWA plus Linux/macOS/Windows desktop launchers.

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Desktop Tools

• docker-app-launcher

  Configurable desktop launcher for Docker-based applications. One persistent GUI window that starts your containers, streams build progress line-by-line, and never closes itself. Pip-installable, cross-platform, with an 11-language UI.

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Python Libraries (PyPI)

• pluginforge

  Application-agnostic plugin framework built on pluggy.

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  GitHub

• manuscripta

  Book production pipeline for authors and self-publishers: multi-format export (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown), audiobook generation, translation, and manuscript tooling.

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  GitHub

• manuscript-tools

  Validation, sanitization, and metrics for Markdown manuscripts.

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Java Libraries

• file-worker

  Utilities for robust file operations. Actively maintained.

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• visitor-pattern

  Generic Visitor pattern interfaces for flexible extension.

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• time-machine

  Date and time utilities with MIT License.

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Consulting

I help teams standardize SDKs and toolchains, automate builds and tests, and adopt production ready AI workflows. Typical engagements include JVM environment strategy with SDKMAN, CI automation, and data projects from exploration to delivery.

• SDK and runtime strategy for multi project repos
• Build and release automation with Pandoc, GitHub Actions, and testing
• Data pipelines and applied AI with measurable outcomes

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Contact

Best way to reach me is via LinkedIn. You can also follow my work on Medium and GitHub.