I’ve been consumed by building https://emberdb.com https://github.com/kacy/ember over the last few months.

It’s a drop-in replacement for Redis written in Rust. Most if not all of your client code should work without issues. Outperforms in many areas and has more out of the box features like proto storage, raft/swim, and encryption at rest.

I’m pretty proud of it, and I hope you’ll give it a shot and open bug reports. :)

i'm working on my startup, krnel.ai!

i don't have much free time, but it's important to me to have healthy side projects, so here's what i'm working on:

- rsyncthing: A command-line CLI that lets users quickly bootstrap Syncthing fileshares to new hosts over SSH. No more "introduce devices to each other" song-and-dance.

- stringlines: i'm working on a small app for my own personal use that will help me plan transit in the NYC area better. A lot of map apps (Apple, Google, Transit, Citymapper) don't show recently-departed trips, making them much less useful for judging the feasibility of tight connections on the NJTransit rail lines. So I'm building out some infrastructure to record the GTFS-RT feeds and display them in a mobile-friendly format.

- slowly playing through all 70 the quake brutalist jam III maps to learn more about level design.

Most of these side projects are claude-free for now, mostly because I want to build domain expertise for myself before involving the agent tooling.

I am working on two small apps for my dungeons & dragons group. We're playing inperson and I really like to give them printed out cards for magic items they receive and also for spells, because they are quite new to the game.

So I build these two app to create items and spell cards and print them out.

https://www.item-forge.org/

https://www.spell-forge.org/

A solo gamedev project; upgrading my free Skyrim mods; thinking about learning vibe-coding for the little "web 2.0" side-project idea of old, seems could be fun to squeeze it in.

Ive been running with this little ongoing project of making little nintendo ds games with rust.

I put together a pretty basic portal clone. I think its pretty cool to see it come together, animations, level creation, portal jumps.

The basic hardware on the ds makes 3d pretty approachable. Ive found opengl overwhelming in the past. It seems like a fun platform to make games on, but idk if there is any active ds homebrew communities. Anyway sharing because i thought it was cool, hard to find anyone that seems to be to interested. I thought about getting a 3ds but they are surprisingly expensive now

Working on a software trial automation infra.

While working on another project, I needed a very simple service I could setup in a few clicks, which would take my docker compose and manage the spin up and tear down of ephemeral VM automatically when triggered by a signup on my landing page.

I couldn't find anything real simple, so I decided to build it. Currently working on it.

https://trialbox.io

Any feedback will be much appreciated.

A bunch of things:

Jive Data: https://jivedata.com

Financial and Investing data

Random Data Monster: https://randomdata.monster

Random Data (also available as a Google Sheets Add-on)

WhatIsMyIPAddress.Monster: https://whatismyipaddress.monster

A clean website to get your IP Address. Also available as an API.

Phone Monster: https://phone.monster

Caller ID, but on steroids

Finishing up the last touches to release: https://getkatari.app/ my japanese immersion app

Also working on https://www.kinoko.sh/. An agentic engineering platform built from the ground up for agents. Custom language and architecture and a layer of formal verification on top. Also working on a custom inference engine that produces well typed programs

A not-yet-released iOS mental health app

A free tower defense game - https://vectordefensegame.com/game

A free Xpilot-adjacent game - https://vectordefensegame.com/yeetpilot/lobby

Writing the release announcement for FreeBSD 14.4! The release is ready (aside from propagating to mirrors and clouds) but I have until 2026-03-10 00:00 UTC to get the announcement email ready to go out.