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ducks/README.md

whoami

Software engineer who enjoys working on developer tooling, backend services, observability infrastructure, and distributed systems.

tech

recent projects

Lok - Multi-LLM Orchestration

Local orchestration layer for coordinating multiple LLM backends:

  • Run prompts across Claude, Codex, Gemini, Ollama in parallel
  • Built-in tasks for code review, security audits, N+1 detection
  • Declarative TOML workflows with step dependencies and variable interpolation
  • Codebase context detection to reduce false positives
  • Conductor mode for LLM-driven backend selection

repo crates.io blog post

Scrob - Self-Hosted Music Scrobbling

Self-hosted alternative to Last.fm with public profile pages:

  • Built with Rust, Axum, and PostgreSQL
  • Token-based authentication with bcrypt password hashing
  • RESTful API for submitting scrobbles from music players
  • Public profile pages showing listening history and stats
  • Embedded migrations via sqlx
  • Designed for single-user or small community deployment

repo blog post

pond-nix - Declarative VPS Infrastructure

NixOS-based infrastructure management for personal services:

  • Manages Gitea, Woodpecker CI, Scrob, GoatCounter (3 instances), Caddy
  • Fully declarative configuration with atomic rollbacks
  • Reproducible builds and deployments via Nix
  • Service definitions in version control
  • Simple deployment: nixos-rebuild switch
  • Migration from manual systemd setup to declarative NixOS

repo blog post

JOBL + SRG - Structured Resume Tooling

A TOML-based resume format with strict validation and static generation:

  • JOBL: Structured resume specification with version-aware parsing
  • Type-safe validation with comprehensive error reporting
  • Portable .jobl files for version control and collaboration
  • SRG: Static generator converting JOBL to HTML and PDF
  • Clean, professional templates optimized for screen and print

JOBL repo SRG repo

Yaks - Virtual Currency for Discourse

A Discourse plugin implementing spendable in-forum currency:

  • Topic pinning, boosting, and custom flair purchases
  • Background jobs for transaction processing
  • Integration with Discourse's user system and permissions
  • Custom admin interface for currency management

repo part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

Shelltrax - TUI Music Player

Lightweight terminal-based music player inspired by cmus:

  • Smart metadata handling with directory-based album grouping
  • Filename fallbacks for missing ID3 tags
  • ZIP import for extracting albums from compressed files
  • Search functionality with fuzzy matching
  • Playback controls with autoplay and repeat modes
  • macOS compatibility

repo blog post

Shellcast - TUI Podcast Player

Terminal-based podcast player with RSS/Atom feed support:

  • Built with ratatui and crossterm
  • Podcast discovery via gpodder.net integration
  • Episode playback with ALSA/CPAL audio backend
  • Feed refresh and episode tracking
  • Pause/resume with proper state management
  • Persistent library storage

repo

Interests

  • Rust (TUI development, audio processing, systems programming)
  • TypeScript, Node.js
  • Ruby on Rails & Discourse plugin development
  • Systems design & distributed systems
  • Observability & monitoring (Prometheus, metrics exporters)
  • Infrastructure automation (Docker, CI/CD, Makefiles)
  • Developer tooling & CLI applications
  • Music metadata standards (ID3, RSS/Atom feeds)

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  1. dotfiles dotfiles Public

    Lua

  2. lok lok Public

    Local orchestration layer for coordinating multiple LLM backends through a single control plane. Lok is the brain that controls the arms you already have.

    Rust 3

  3. shelltrax shelltrax Public

    A cmus (terminal-based music player) clone written in Rust

    Rust

  4. JOBL JOBL Public

    TOML-based resume format with strict validation. Simple, portable, human-readable.

    Rust 1

  5. scrob scrob Public

    A self-hostable scrobbling server written in Rust

    Rust 1

  6. yaml-janitor yaml-janitor Public

    YAML linter that preserves comments using psych-pure. Detects issues and fixes formatting without destroying documentation.

    Ruby 1