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Case Studies

Notes on how these projects were built, including decisions, trade-offs, and what I would change today.

ResearchBench Live

How a one-line take-home prompt ("Build a NotebookLM clone") turned into a local-first browser research workbench with Rust/WASM, in-browser embeddings and cited two-host podcasts.
- Rust
- WebAssembly
- SvelteKit 2
- Svelte 5
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Open Earth Live

How do you combine heterogeneous scientific datasets and live observations without erasing provenance, uncertainty or scientific meaning?
- Vanilla JavaScript
- MapLibre GL JS
- Python
- Static JSON
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Mostly Alive Active

Designing a knowledge system where wrong information matters.
- SvelteKit 2
- Svelte 5
- TypeScript
- Zod
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Owlry Live

Keeping a daemon-backed Wayland launcher fresh as application directories and provider state change.
- Rust
- GTK4
- Wayland
- Layer Shell
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Owly News Active

One Rust core and two interfaces, with optional AI around the reader.
- Rust
- SQLite
- Tauri
- Svelte 5
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gnoma Active

Why gnoma routes every prompt through a visible, provider-agnostic router, and how that decision shapes trust in the agent.
- Go
- TUI
- LLM Routing
- MCP
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Infinity Tales · Marktvogt — Case study in progress