_____ ___ _   _ _  ______   ___  _____ _____
|_   _|_ _| \ | | |/ / ___| / _ \|  ___|_   _|
  | |  | ||  \| | ' /\___ \| | | | |_    | |
  | |  | || |\  | . \ ___) | |_| |  _|   | |
  |_| |___|_| \_|_|\_\____/ \___/|_|     |_|

// building software in public. logs, bugs, small victories. est. 2026


projects

What's on the workbench, what made it out the door, and what's still a sketch. Each project gets its own page with the full story and related log entries. Source for everything lives at github.com/tinkthemaker.

[WIP] tinksoft.com

This tower. A 90s-style chronicle of building in public. [source]

[WIP] PulpDescent

A text dungeon in Godot 4 with no LLM. Every word hand-set or grammar-grown. [source]

[WIP] aGrandAdventure

Sword-and-planet procedural prose. Same no-LLM vow as PulpDescent, different world. [source]

[SHIPPED] Cleanpaste

A clipboard exorcist. Banishes invisible characters, smart quotes, and tracking params. [source]

[SHIPPED] CyberToolbox

A belt of security cantrips bound into one binary. [source]

[SHIPPED] Detectsmith

A smithy for detection wards. Tries to be useful, not Splunk. [source]

[SHIPPED] Locket

A warded reliquary for secrets, with a TUI worth opening daily. [source]

[SHIPPED] SepulchrynScan

A multithreaded service-discovery and port scanner in Go. The scrying tool I reach for first. [source]

[SHIPPED] Sigil

Wax seals for release artifacts. GPG with the suffering removed. [source]

[SHIPPED] Shipnote

A chronicler imp that reads the git log and drafts the changelog. [source]

[SHIPPED] TPing

A watchtower for on-call. Sends ravens to every store device and shows who answered. [source]