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Taking Cryptocurrencies

alternative payment for my commissions, since some people might prefer it.

Taking a break

“Have you ever talked to a corpse? It’s boring.”

Something’s Off With Spelling Online, and It’s Getting Worse

By the gods I hope we as a species survive longer than twenty more years.

Opal

Convert microblog posts from Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr to AT Protocol Bluesky posts.

After Cook

the hardware guy takes the wheel

Disconnection in Reaction to Trauma

Early morning thoughts on my surprisingly numb reaction.

The Liminal Man

A retrospective on my Forest Wolfkind Barbarian Cailean Uen.

Bismuth: On Refraction and Conversion

So I Had Brain Surgery

Jasper

Convert Instagram data exports into posts, stories, and videos on Grain or Spark while preserving original timestamps.

The Grass Is Greener (But I'm Not Moving)

Dear Manager

Point and laugh.

Four Days with Letta Code

Self-Hosted Analytics with Umami

I can see you, anon.

Azurite

A basic Bluesky client for macOS built with Swift — experimental and for fun.

Moonstone

Personal ATProto PDS implementation optimised for NixOS/Caddy, with no Bluesky infrastructure defaults.

Nix Starter

Beginner-friendly, self-contained NixOS configurations with no personal infrastructure or shared abstractions.

Website Commission Template

A SvelteKit + Tailwind CSS starter template for Ko-fi website commissions, with CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing.

atproto-shortlink

A server-side AT Protocol link shortener powered by your Linkat board. No database required.

atproto-snake

Classic Snake with AT Protocol OAuth login and high score saving to your PDS.

bean-dumper

An early Python experiment — unmaintained and kept for historical interest.

bluesky-avatar-updater

Automatically update your Bluesky avatar (and banner) every hour based on the time of day.

bluesky-awoo-bot

A simple Bluesky bot that posts random wolf noises at random intervals. Unmaintained.

bluesky-gradient

Generate 24 sky-gradient images (one per hour) for use as Bluesky avatars or banners.

bluesky-markov

A Bluesky bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account's posts. Unmaintained.

bluesky-moon-tracker

A Bluesky bot that posts daily moon phase updates with a lycanthropic twist. Optional Ollama LLM generation.

bluesky-ollama

An AI-powered Bluesky bot that uses a local Ollama model to generate posts in the style of a source account.

college-practice-lycanquiz

A VB.NET Windows Forms quiz about werewolf mythology, made as a college practice project.

college-practice-trafficlights

A VB.NET Windows Forms UK traffic light simulator, made as a college practice project.

knotted-docker

A Dockerised Tangled knot server with optional Cloudflare Tunnel routing.

linkat-directory

An alternate SvelteKit frontend for Linkat showing a curated directory of AT Protocol user profiles. Unmaintained.

mastodon-markov

A Mastodon bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account. Unmaintained.

mc-server

A personal PaperMC Minecraft server in Docker Compose with DuckDNS dynamic DNS and management scripts.

pds-backup

A Bash script for automated, resumable PDS backups via rsync over SSH with change detection and cron scheduling.

platformer-collab

A simple Godot 4 C# platformer made collaboratively.

@ewanc26/tangled-sync

CLI tool for syncing GitHub repositories to Tangled with ATProto record publishing — now part of the @ewanc26/pkgs monorepo.

text-to-pixel-image

A Python script that converts a string of text into a pixel art image with per-character colours. Unmaintained.

website

Source code for ewancroft.uk — a personal site powered by AT Protocol, built with SvelteKit 5 and Tailwind CSS 4.

Sigi

A pure symbolic stack language — all syntax is punctuation, no alphanumeric keywords.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and Why I Absolutely Love It

I'm pre-ordering on the 11th!

Numlang

An esoteric stack-based language that compiles to C via a Python compiler, using only numbers and punctuation.

Selenium Compiler

An esoteric language with lunar/poetic syntax that compiles to C, featuring strong typing and imperative programming constructs.

The Timer Problem

A common thread I've seen with LLMs.

Criminal by Birth

why would I have been a criminal for being me?

@ewanc26/wafrn-theme

A WAFRN theme using the pds-landing Catppuccin terminal aesthetic — dark forest-green palette, JetBrains Mono, soft rounded cards.

@ewanc26/bismuth

Convert richtext-block documents from the Standard.site ecosystem (Leaflet, Pckt, Offprint) to Markdown — available as both a CLI tool and a TypeScript library.

@ewanc26/pkgs

Ewan's personal package monorepo — language-agnostic workspace with TypeScript, Rust, and Python packages.

Dipping a Toe into the Fediverse (Again)

On standing up a GoToSocial instance, migrating to Sharkey when the lack of quote posts became too annoying, and why the fediverse is more fun than I remember.

docsite

Source code for docs.ewancroft.uk — a documentation site for ewan's projects, built with SvelteKit and published via Sequoia.

Life Update: Controlled Chaos and March