Alexander Smith

Gives a self-hosted AI assistant a memory, so it remembers what I told it last week instead of starting over every conversation. It sits between the chat window and the model, adding what is relevant on the way in and learning from the conversation on the way out.

There is nothing to click, it runs on hardware in my house and is not reachable from the internet, but I am happy to walk through it. The interesting problem is deciding what is worth remembering and what to surface. It searches both for exact wording and for meaning, then ranks what it finds on how closely it matches, how important it looked at the time, and how recently it came up. Different kinds of memory fade at different speeds, so a one-off event is forgotten long before a habit is.

A server in my house that replaced most of my monthly subscriptions with things I own outright, and is still running today. Photo backup, media streaming, home automation, private code hosting, push notifications, and a graphics card running AI models locally, all reachable only over a private network with nothing exposed to the internet.

Running the AI side at home is the part I would not give back, because the conversations, documents and photos never leave the house. The rest is run the way I would run it at work rather than as a pile of hobby projects. Updates arrive as proposed changes I review, and approving one deploys it on its own. Backups run nightly and are kept for months, alerts reach my phone when something breaks, and I keep a written audit of the risks I have chosen to live with instead of pretending they are fixed.

A browser adaptation of the party game Hues and Cues, where one player gives a one-word cue and everyone else races to guess which color they meant. Real-time multiplayer, played on a 480-color board generated so that neighboring shades sit evenly apart to the eye.

The hard part is that everyone plays at once. Every screen updates live as guesses come in, and a round only moves on when the last person has acted, so nobody gets skipped and a double-tapped button cannot score twice. Answers stay hidden from the other players until the reveal, which has to be enforced on the server rather than just hidden on screen. People can join with nothing but a name, and if they create an account afterwards their past games come with them.

An open-source library for finding patterns and trends in stock price data, the sort of calculations that sit behind charts and trading tools.

Built and open-sourced while I was at Intrinio, so it lives under their account rather than mine. I wrote the calculations themselves, plus the caching that kept them fast enough to run across the company's own systems and for the outside developers building on their data.