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2025–2026 · 12projects · newest first

Highlight text anywhere on Linux and a popup streams the translation — bring your own key, no proxy, Qt 6.

  • C++
  • Qt 6
  • Rust

Island

2026

A desktop notch. Agent sessions and Spotify lyrics live in a pill at the top of the screen, and the pill takes plugins.

  • Rust

You draw. Milo runs. An offline iPhone game: pencil paths one way, obstacles the other.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI

A calm desktop app for writing, reading, and presenting Markdown — your files stay plain .md, open them anywhere.

  • Tauri
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Rust

A GPU-accelerated terminal core in Rust — one VT implementation, pluggable clients from a GTK4 workspace down to a C ABI for mobile.

  • Rust
  • GTK4
  • wgpu

Send files and text between devices — end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer, no cloud. A friendly Wails v3 app for croc, on desktop and mobile.

  • Go
  • Wails v3

The Chinese card game Guandan, in your terminal — fair shuffle, open rules, written in Rust. Practice against bots or play four-player rooms over WebSocket.

  • Rust

A chat-first desktop app for learning with LLMs — bring your own keys, tutor runs with web search, citations, and visible activity traces.

  • Tauri
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Rust

books

2026

A native iPhone reader for PDF and EPUB. Library, notes, study cards, and a model on the passage you select.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • SwiftData

Look up the engineering term. Paste the prompt. A glossary for people who ship with an agent.

  • Astro
  • TypeScript