Hi, I'm Brian 👋

Software engineer & entrepreneur building AI-native tools, apps, and games

I build tools I want to use, then write about them at briansunter.com.

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• 🃏 anki-ai is a CLI and MCP server that gives Claude 45 Anki tools: generate cards from text, audit decks, reschedule failures, read your review history.
• 🃏 ConvoCards is a deck of conversation starters you swipe through like real cards (Next.js, Prisma, Stripe).
• 🕰️ CuckooTimer is a 3D cuckoo clock that lives in your macOS menu bar and gently reminds you of time passing.
• ✏️ Trace Overlay lets you trace any reference image right on your phone or tablet screen.
• 🤖 logseq-openai wires OpenAI models into the Logseq editor: type a prompt in a block, get the completion back in place.
• 📶 Yuptime is a Kubernetes-native uptime monitor where monitors are CRDs and each check runs in a throwaway Job pod.
• 📧 Subs is an email-signup API that writes straight to a Google Sheet. Turnstile blocks the bots, and there's no database to run.
• ☁️ Oracle World is a set of OpenTofu modules for Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier. One apply gives you a 4-core ARM box with 24 GB RAM.

Projects

🤖 AI & agent tooling

• 🃏 anki-ai gives Claude 45 Anki tools over MCP.
• 🌐 ArcFetch fetches a URL and hands back clean Markdown. Plain HTTP first, Playwright fallback for JS-heavy pages, and gates that toss out paywalls and login walls before they reach you (CLI + MCP).
• 🧠 Vannevar 🚧 does local, offline RAG search over Markdown. SQLite FTS5 keyword search and HNSW vectors, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion.
• 🔎 SearchThing runs semantic search over your own docs, with embeddings generated on-device via Transformers.js.
• 🗂️ UberSearch is one CLI and MCP front-end for Tavily, Brave, Linkup, and self-hosted SearXNG, and it tracks your credits.
• 🎙️ Paratran transcribes audio fast on Apple Silicon (CLI, REST, and MCP), built on parakeet-mlx.
• 📡 RSS AI 🚧 is a CLI RSS/Atom reader with OPML, full-text search, content extraction, broken-link repair, and a TUI.
• 🪢 wraptc routes coding requests across Gemini, OpenCode, Qwen, and Codex, falling back automatically when one runs out.
• 🥋 Kungfu is a library of reusable Agent Skills any compatible coding agent can install and use.
• 🐾 PokeClaude is an MCP server for Pokémon TCG Pocket: search the card pool, find synergies, build decks.
• 🔖 raindrop-mcp is an MCP server for Raindrop.io bookmarks, collections, tags, and highlights.
• 🧰 z-cli is a CLI and MCP for Z.AI: image generation, OCR, vision, web search, and code research.
• 🧬 Verso 🚧 is a vector database for Bun, Node, and the browser, with HNSW indexing and Int8 quantization.

🖥️ Desktop & native apps

• 📰 CoolRSS 🚧 is a local-first RSS and read-it-later app (Tauri, Rust, React, SQLite).
• 🎧 Audiobook Player 🚧 streams audiobooks from Google Drive and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS (Tauri, Rust, React).
• 📚 Caliber is a web reader for your Calibre library, with EPUB and PDF readers built in.
• 🕰️ CuckooTimer is a 3D cuckoo-clock timer for the macOS menu bar (Rust, Tauri, Three.js).

🎮 Games & graphics

• 🔫 Blackwater Rift is a monochrome top-down shooter for the original Game Boy, with a browser shell.
• 🦘 Pogo Panic is a Game Boy arcade platformer built with GBDK-2020.
• 🛩️ TRAD Strike is a Raiden-inspired vertical shooter in C99 on Sokol. The same binary runs native and in the browser.
• 🧱 Platform is a 2D platformer rendered with isometric 3D models (C99, Sokol, a tiny ECS), running native and in WASM.
• 🧩 c-ecs 🚧 is a single-header C99 entity-component-system with fixed capacities and zero allocation.
• ⚛️ Quantum Engine 🚧 is a minimal, plugin-driven ECS game engine in TypeScript.
• 🕹️ Bevy Agent 🚧 is a Bevy plugin that drives a game as a deterministic sim an AI agent can step, snapshot, replay, and branch.
• 🔴 Connect Four is real-time multiplayer on a 3D board (React, Socket.io, Three.js).
• 🧍 3D Me is a body-scanned 3D selfie loaded into a three.js scene.

🧰 Developer tools & infra

• 🌲 gitforest 🚧 is a TUI for managing dozens of Git repos.
• 💀 Deadman is a dead-man's switch for Prometheus and Alertmanager, running on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.
• 📶 Yuptime is a Kubernetes-native uptime monitor where monitors are CRDs and each check runs in a throwaway Job pod.
• ☁️ Oracle World is a set of OpenTofu modules for Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier. One apply gives you a 4-core ARM box with 24 GB RAM.
• 📧 Subs is an email-signup API that writes straight to a Google Sheet. Turnstile blocks the bots, and there's no database to run.
• 💳 Typst Business Cards is a set of business-card templates built with Typst.

🪶 Obsidian & Logseq plugins

• 📊 Obsidian CSV Editor 🚧 opens .csv files in a spreadsheet grid, with keyboard nav, range select, and copy/paste.
• 🌲 Obsidian Data Editor 🚧 opens .json and .yaml in a visual tree editor, with schema validation and a source mode.
• 💡 Obsidian Insights 🚧 surfaces live AI writing insights, connections, and counter-arguments as you write.
• ✅ Obsidian Schema 🚧 validates note frontmatter against JSON Schema and reports problems in a sidebar.
• 🤖 logseq-openai wires OpenAI text models into the Logseq editor.
• 🔌 Logseq MCP hooks Claude into your Logseq graph: search blocks, draft daily notes, run Datalog.
• 📤 BlogSeq exports a Logseq page to clean Markdown and bundles every referenced asset alongside it.
• 📺 Logseq YouTube Captions grabs the captions for any YouTube link and pastes the transcript in place.

🌐 Web apps & experiments

• 🃏 ConvoCards is a swipeable deck of conversation starters (Next.js, Prisma, Stripe).
• ✏️ Trace Overlay lets you trace any reference image right on your phone or tablet screen.
• 🖼️ Moodboard is an infinite-canvas moodboard with sticky notes and images.
• ✉️ PostcardPop lets you make and share digital postcards with map stamps and a copyable link.
• ⚡ SReader is an RSVP speed reader that flashes one word at a time.
• 📱 swipefeed is a set of headless React primitives for TikTok and Reels-style swipe feeds.
• 🌈 Rainybow is a Hawaii rainbow tracker that combines weather, cloud cover, and sun angle.
• 🍕 Pizza Plan is a pizza-dough calculator that works backward from when you want to eat.
• ☕ Vibe Cafe is a lofi coding room with ambient beats and streaming terminal diffs.
• 🗺️ Wikipedia 3D Embeddings projects thousands of Wikipedia articles into 3D with UMAP so you can fly through them.
• 🍳 Cooklang Parser is the TypeScript parser for the Cooklang recipe language.

What I'm up to

• Building tools to fix my own annoyances, then open-sourcing the ones that turn out useful.
• Most of these ship by talking to coding agents rather than typing every line, and I'm still figuring out where that helps and where it doesn't.
• Open-water swimming and cooking when I'm away from the keyboard.
• Writing about AI workflows, learning systems, and building in public.

Latest writing

• Central Pacific Update: life, fitness, and what I've been building
• ConvoCards Launch Retro
• AI-Powered Notetaking with the GPT-3 Logseq Plugin

More at briansunter.com.

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