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Side projects that got out of hand, on purpose.
144 clusters scanned · 4 marked bad · the rest are fine
$ cat ./ethos.md
How we work.
Mark it, don't hide it
If something doesn't work, we say so - in the docs, in the UI, in the code comments. A known limitation beats a confident lie every time.
Built because we needed it
Everything here started as a real problem one of us actually had. Nothing is built speculatively for an audience that doesn't exist yet.
Open by default
Source, build process, and the reasoning behind decisions are public unless there's a specific reason they can't be.
$ ls -la ./projects/
What we've shipped.
ZEPHYRFTP
Dual-pane FTP/SFTP/FTPS client where neither pane is hard-wired to "local" - a transfer queue that survives quitting, OS-keychain credential storage, zero plaintext secrets on disk.
View on Forgejo ↗
PHAT32
Formats drives as FAT32 past Windows' artificial 32 GB limit. GUI or CLI, quick or full format with a bad-sector scan, x64 or ARM64.
View on Forgejo ↗
MILDLY IRRITATED IP SCANNER
Sweeps a LAN without asking for root anywhere - unprivileged ICMP on every OS, falling back to TCP probes and saying so. Tells alive apart from filtered apart from dead, and names hosts via mDNS/NetBIOS when DNS won't.
View on Forgejo ↗
THE VORTEX BBS
A real telnet BBS, not a recreation - door games, message boards, file areas, live oneliners and chat, with a companion website that mirrors the board's own ANSI art as real, accessible pages instead of a screenshot.
Visit the BBS ↗
BBS HEADQUARTERS
Every bulletin board you can still call, shown in the ANSI art it greets you with before login - dialed and rechecked every single night so the list actually means something. Affiliated with The Vortex.
Visit the site ↗[ cluster free ]
Next project goes here. Allocated on first use.
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$ tail -f ./blog.log