What I'm building now, the tools made along the way, and what I've shelved.
A private personal dashboard for iPhone. Money, health, training, spending and time on one screen, built from 40+ widgets you arrange yourself. Local-first — no accounts, no tracking, no backend.
Pre-launch 02A LightGBM model that predicts 20-day direction for nine commodity futures from growing-region weather and El Niño.
Paper Trading 03Identity and verification infrastructure for AI agents. Cryptographically signed passports, a global gate middleware verifying every API call, and a tamper-proof audit trail. The trust layer the agentic internet needs.
In Development 04Independent research into CNT applications in medicine — production scaling challenges and gene delivery comparisons with nanoparticle approaches.
In DevelopmentReal-time geopolitical intelligence dashboard self-hosted at news.taciturn.uk. Aggregates RSS feeds, auto-tags stories by commodity relevance, and pushes Pushover alerts to support Taciturn trading decisions.
Mini Project 02Custom-designed static site built with Hugo, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Bespoke layouts, dark mode, fully responsive. Runs 24/7 for free.
Mini Project 03Local RAG system that indexes my entire Obsidian vault into ChromaDB and queries it using llama3.2 running on-device. Visualised as a live neural network at brain.taciturn.uk.
Mini ProjectAutonomous trading engine for XAU/USD and XAG/USD spot forex. Multi-signal detection, hourly trend filtering, broker-level risk management. Ran 24/7 in Python on a demo account until September 2026.
Shelved 02The personal OS for Mac and iPhone that was rebuilt as Atlas, and later became Kassi.
Shelved 03An open-world PvE and PvP survival game set in a fallen London.
Shelved 04A universal iPhone, iPad and Mac app for building multi-slide carousels, collages and stories.
Shelved