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Bootstrapped. No VC. We create open source tools to solve real problems and selectively partner with teams building meaningful things.
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We create tools and ship them in the open. From AI runtimes to deployment tools — if we need it, we build it and share it.
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Building in public. Sharing what we learn.
Vext 1.2.0: Two-Pass Diarization, a Self-Healing Event Tap, and Five Languages
The engineering counterpart to the Vext 1.2.0 announcement. Why streaming diarization alone collapses fast back-and-forth, why we removed Apple''s echo-cancellation API instead of fighting it, and how a global event tap can lie about being enabled after sleep.
Don Karter
Octocode 0.15.0: Local-First by Default, Hybrid Search Everywhere
Octocode 0.15.0 flips hybrid search and reranking on by default, ships a local model stack that needs zero API keys, and makes structural grep smarter about the patterns LLMs get wrong.
Don Karter
Timex 1.1.0: Database Export to ZIP and Localization in Five Languages
Three days after Timex 1.0.0 shipped, version 1.1.0 lands. One-click SQLite database export to a ZIP archive, full localization across English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and Thai, and a design system plus accessibility pass under the hood.
Don Karter