The Scale-to-Zero Report
A technical dispatch that examines compute waste in the news and asks how each system might run with almost no standing infrastructure.
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A technical dispatch that examines compute waste in the news and asks how each system might run with almost no standing infrastructure.
A maritime operations suite for crew workflows, vessel reporting, scheduling, accounting, and container management when connectivity is unreliable.
A local skate-community app for finding active skaters, mapping spots, organizing crews, and tracking sessions by GPS.
A local-first macOS utility for dictating into any app and having terminal tools speak back.
A coastal fishing forecast that turns tide, light, moon, wind, and pressure into a single fishability score and recommended bite window.
A browsable ledger asking whether common freelance jobs are still worth paying a human to do.
A real-time battle command game where players direct regiments, manage morale, and try to break an enemy guard around its king.
SignalShield presents portable, remotely supervised units for temporary traffic control, incident warnings, work zones, school crossings, and roadside assistance.
An interactive map of songs and stories tied to locations from San Francisco to Topeka, Barcelona, Akita, and beyond.
A source-linked research index tracking AIPAC political committees, campaign contributions, outside spending, lobbying records, foreign-agent registrations, and congressional travel.
An interactive art-viewing site built around deep-zoom galleries of public-domain masterpieces, with guided details, extracted palettes, artist timelines, and museum data.
An independent Seoul research group models landscape-tree markets, container cultivation, and personal digital activity as measurable systems.
A browser-based audio QC tool that checks masters for loudness, true peak, clipping, silence, format integrity, and delivery-profile requirements.
A sound-level meter and noise dosimeter that measures live decibels, tracks work-shift exposure, and analyzes frequency bands.
SparkyData develops synthetic demographic datasets calibrated to public statistics, beginning with the New York metropolitan area.
A browser-based AI tool that separates songs into vocals, drums, bass, and other stems without uploading the audio.
An independent software studio offering local-first macOS tools, creative instruments, and small web games.
Independent guidance on veterans’ burial benefits, headstone costs, cemetery rules, ancestor research, and marker care.
Strattory organizes game narratives as nested cards and boards, then exports dialogue, story trees, outlines, and gameplay flags.
A free desktop timer for study streamers that tracks sessions, aggregates learning time, and feeds a live status overlay into OBS.
An online collection of hand-embroidered Lucknawi chikankari garments, with product details tied to stitches, makers, time, and sourcing.
SwiftWorks presents Courcast, an anime-renewal forecasting platform, alongside two unusually specific games still in development.
A macOS app for tango DJs that identifies the playing track and automatically projects orchestra, song, and event information.
A deterministic tax-calculation API that returns a number alongside a signed, replayable trace of the rules and legislation used.