0) money-money-money: A sub 15Kb server-less opinionated household budgeting tool [0]. Why? Its made to be extremely compressible, so you can edit your household budget and share back and forth with your partner via short-links or QR codes. The idea is you edit your budget, send the link to other party, they can view or edit and send back to you without a server in the loop. [0]

1) slices: An alternative AI-first ADHD-friendly architecture experiment where everything you code is a "slice" with a shared event pool. A slice is a fully self contained "feature". Slices can only communicate with other slices through a shared event pool. Inspired by small-talk, vertical-slice architecture, and ADHD. I used slices to build a self-modifying IDE too. [1] [2]

2) text compression experiments: I'm experimenting with approaches to compress text in pursuit of the Hutter prize. The idea is to take the entirety of the English Wikipedia, and compress the text as small as possible whilst still being able to reproduce it. [3]

3) tiniest maze solving neural network: A write-up work in progress on a maze solver I built with heavy LLM help, managed to get a 14 byte neural network solving 96% of unseen mazes. [4] [5]

[0] - https://con-dog.github.io/money-money-money

[1] - https://github.com/con-dog/slices-demo

[2] - https://con-dog.github.io/slices-demo/

[3] - http://prize.hutter1.net

[4] - https://github.com/con-dog/tiny-neural-network

[5] - https://minimio.ai/

It's an extension of a longer-running project (https://www.forth.news) where it exposes and organizes 100s of newsworthy primary sources -- statements, press releases, press pool reports, emergency alerts, etc, whether from press email lists, X/Twitter, Bluesky, RSS, etc. The web UI is similar to TweetDeck - and it sends notifications.

Latest update now allows some panels to be based on an LLM prompt (i.e. "everything about the Iran War and its effects in the U.S.") which searches the entire catalog of sources as they are posted.

What makes the app a little different from others is that it's kind of halfway between an outliner and a wiki. You can place notes in a tree hierarchy, but they can be free-floating as well. You can link to other notes using wiki-style text links, and each note has a unique address, so you don't need to give notes a title or a filename.

Notes can even appear as a child note of more than one parent. The idea is that you can jot down an idea quickly without a lot of friction and then later either add sub-notes to create a note "tree" from it or add it to an existing tree. The tree gives structure to related notes, but the wiki-style links allow you to connect notes together outside of that structure. (I consider the tree structure a "hard" relationship and the links a "soft" one.)

There isn't a single uber-tree where every note goes. Your notebook ends up with lots of free-floating notes and lots of small trees of organized notes, like a card-based Zettelkasten system. You can use search and various filters to find and stumble upon notes easily.

Notes can either be stored in iCloud (so that they sync across devices) or saved in a folder as simple Markdown files.

If you're curious, you can help beta test it. More info here: https://zettelkasten.ussherpress.com/

It's an app to get sleepy without meds. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one. Session duration is also not too long (10 minutes default, you may change the session duration too).

It's like a digital melatonin pill - but without chemical side effects. Try it!

https://SourceLibrary.org is a hub that now provides over 20,000 translations of classical texts in dozens of languages (Latin and Greek but also Chinese, Sanskrit, etc). We always provide the original image of the text next to the AI translation (so if you don’t trust it, you can do it again). For a sense of scale, SourceLibrary now hosts more words than English Wikipedia!

You can freely connect to the public MCP for research; that way AI can read books and not hallucinate quotes. In Claude, it also retrieves images directly into the chat.

This is a philanthropic project based at the non-profit “The Embassy of the Free Mind” in Amsterdam, a rare book library devoted to free thought and mysticism. https://embassyofthefreemind.com

SourceLibrary is totally free and open source. If we can raise the money, we hope to translate 100k books before the end of the year.

If you want to dive in, I’d suggest trying our research agent with a rabbithole topic of your choice: https://sourcelibrary.org/librarian/

I started it because I wanted simple brain-training exercises that didn’t require an account, app install, or subscription.

It’s also open source: https://github.com/loethen/freefocusgames

I've also written a plaintext to QTI quiz converter since creating quizzes on Canvas is so slow (I realize, of course, many other people have already made these... I just happen to like mine). It currently supports fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, matching, true/false and word bank style questions. You can also generate a printable (DOCX) version of whatever quizzes you make.

Here's the site: https://www.hacksforeducators.com

All the tools are free, and there's no login required. So if you are a teacher that uses Canvas and think any of these tools could help you, check them out!