Nick Donohue
Programmer and startup enthusiast. Sometimes I build tools for myself, sometimes that turns into words.
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skiff
Container orchestration for macOS + Linux
A single-binary, single-YAML control plane between docker-compose and Kubernetes. Health-aware lifecycle management, scheduling, service discovery, and a unified API for containers, native daemons, and scheduled jobs on one machine.
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lookout
OTEL trace collector for AI agents
OpenTelemetry collector purpose-built for agent workflows. Ingests gRPC/HTTP traces, enriches spans with token-cost calculations and anomaly detection, groups by session, exposes a web UI, REST API, MCP server, and TUI.
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hatch3d
Pen-plotter compositions
Generative compositions and a hatching algorithm targeting the AxiDraw. Daily ingest from /r/plotterart for inspiration; a print queue runs on a Raspberry Pi.
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qpas-ish
Stereo resonant filter firmware
Rust firmware for the Electrosmith Daisy Patch SM. A QPAS-inspired clocked stereo resonant filter — two state-variable cores with continuous LP/BP/HP morph and stereo frequency spread, built for resonant pinging.