Five things built for one desk, written up so you can see how they work. One of them you can download; none of them want an account.
Research agent · nightly · paper only
A trading research agent that has to earn the right to trade real money, and hasn't yet. It runs on paper, nightly, and grades itself against a bar it cannot move.
Read the write-up →Desktop workspace · terminals and agents
One desktop workspace for terminals, the agents that run in them, and the notes around them. A fork of an open-source terminal, renamed, and given a memory.
Read the write-up →Telemetry studio · macOS · Apple Silicon
A telemetry studio for one Apple Silicon Mac. It talks to the System Management Controller itself, so the fans and the die temperatures are the machine's own numbers.
Read the write-up →Virtual machine host · macOS · QEMU
A virtual machine host for Apple Silicon. It runs Windows 11 on ARM at the CPU's real speed, and installs the thing for you while you make coffee.
Read the write-up →Home surface · Windows 11 · in progress
A Windows 11 home surface for one person's day: the hour, the weather, what's due, what arrived, and how the machine is doing. Truthful about what it cannot see yet.
Read the write-up →Each of these was built to solve one person's problem on one machine, and each is honest about that. Shipping one properly means supporting it, and the bench is busy making games. The pages exist so the work is visible and the claims are checkable, not to sell you anything.
Vitals is the exception: it is packaged as a disc image you can actually install, because it is useful to anyone with an Apple Silicon Mac and asks nothing of the machine but permission to read its own sensors.
One download, no sign-ups, no waiting list.
The other half of the bench is games: a Cold War co-op horror for Windows, a romance racing story on a phone, an idle fishing voyage, and a survival life-sim where you build a home at the end of the world. Three of the four play straight in your browser.
