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3-D models
Figures, spacecraft and retro machines I have made as 3-D models with Meshy.ai and prepared for printing — mostly people as Lemmings, Amiga history and 1980s TV. This page grows as I add models.
Articles
Everything I have written up, newest first: articles and project updates.
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AI Force
The administration is starting a new military force, so I designed the one I'd expect: the AI Force — a squad of very typical geeks in hero suits, with a nod to Atari Force from the 1980s comics.
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Aliens in my house
I'm a big fan of the alien genre, so I wanted some funny aliens in my house: greys drinking coffee, on the phone, and doing see-no-evil — modelled in Meshy, printed, and hand painted.
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Space: 1999
Space: 1999 was a show I loved watching as a kid, so two of my 3-D models are from it: an Eagle Transporter and a Moonbase Alpha astronaut.
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gitwebsite is now open source
The engine behind this site — a Rust static-site generator with a CLI, REST API, MCP server, and desktop app — is now on GitHub under the MIT licence.
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AOEE: a TAO-style social graph cache in Rust
How I built AOEE, an in-memory relationship cache for social-graph queries: posting lists borrowed from search engines, four adaptive encodings, set maths instead of joins, and friend-of-friend suggestions with a budget.
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Amiga DevBench: a modern dev loop, and an AI pair programmer, for the Amiga
How I connected a Mac to emulated and real Amigas over a serial link, built a source-level debugger and 129 MCP tools on top of it, and let Claude Code write, deploy, and debug Amiga software.
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Transparent file encryption in the Linux kernel
How I built CryptoFS, a stacked Linux filesystem that encrypts every file with its own AES-256-GCM key at the VFS layer — authorised processes see plaintext, everyone else sees ciphertext — and what it taught me about nonces.
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Writing 3DO games in 2026: a 1993 console, a 1990s compiler, and a debuggable emulator
How I built a modern dev kit for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer — Norcroft ARM C in Docker, a patched Opera emulator with a GDB server and a JSON control port, and an MCP server — and used it to ship a demo and 21 games.
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First build of the new site
in gitwebsite
The first end-to-end build — content, areas, templates, and publishing to GitHub Pages.
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Building a full social network from scratch: feed, friends, groups, DMs, search
What it takes to build a complete social network as one coherent app — feed ranking, social graph, search, messaging — with Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and a Rust graph cache.
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ViewScene: a desktop Luke alternative for inspecting Lucene indexes
A standalone JavaFX desktop app for inspecting and diagnosing Lucene indexes — documents, analyzers, and vector fields — as a desktop alternative to Luke.
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Building SolarSage: a local-first solar monitoring tool
A local-first monitor for an off-grid 15 kW solar system that forecasts surplus power from the weather and tells you when to run heavy loads.
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Building the Amiga 40th: a carousel of progress
How a conversation with Bill Borsari became a walk-through history of the Amiga at the Vintage Computer Festival. It was built almost entirely at my home, some 2,500 people came through, and we finished the day with the Amies.