I make things.Hope for the best.

Useful software, curious experiments, and honest notes from Oliver.

Chibi illustration of Oliver wearing a black hoodie and face mask.

No grand process. Just curiosity with a build button.

I find something interesting or annoying, make a thing around it, then write down what happened.

You do not need to know the technical bits. If the idea is useful, strange, or worth talking about, it belongs here.

Projects, minus the theatre.

Things I have made because I wanted them to exist.

Open source / TypeScript 2026

Codex Usage for Obsidian

An Obsidian plugin that surfaces CodexBar-style AI coding usage through managed local helpers.

  • Responsive dashboard and a vault-synced Markdown report
  • Checksummed helper packages for macOS and Windows
  • Local usage ledger that excludes prompts and credentials
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Open source / TypeScript 2026

SourceDown

Imports complex documents and other source files into Obsidian through Microsoft MarkItDown.

  • Imports Office files, PDFs, web pages, archives and media
  • Optional Docling and Marker converters for harder documents
  • Runs converters inside a private local Python environment
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Open source / TypeScript 2026

Daily Five

A daily five-letter puzzle for Obsidian with six guesses, touch controls, lifetime statistics, and Daily Note sharing.

  • Touch keyboard, six guesses and one puzzle each day
  • Daily Note sharing and readable Markdown backups
  • Local progress and statistics with no analytics
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All projects

Thoughts from the messy middle.

What I learned, what broke, and what I would do differently.

The Zig–Bun Beef Got Personal

Andrew Kelley’s response to Bun’s Rust rewrite mixed technical criticism with personal attacks, private grievances and revealing post-publication edits.

Why I’m Standardising My JavaScript Projects on Bun

Performance pushed me to move 14 repositories to Bun. Here is what improved, where compatibility still matters, and why Anthropic and the Rust rewrite changed the long-term calculation.

All writing

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