generalist designer, programmer, sysadmin
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Notable work
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Co-founder of CEO.CA
- One of Canada's largest stockmarket communities
- Sold for $17M in 2021
- Lead of product, design, programming & infra
- Beat competitors with a team of ≤ 3
- Became profitable with capital of ~$600k
- Extensive hands-on experience with the difficulties of moderating large communities made up of adversarial groups, and experimental insights into solutions
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Founder of Spiel.com
- My newest project, aspiring magnum opus
- Used as a pilot project at Synthesis School
- Large roadmap ahead: designed a novel social media architecture for jurisdiction-based self-governance while supporting the best aspects of Twitter, Discord & back-linked note taking apps
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Consultant as Probably Murat Inc.
- (2014-now) I've done consulting for software firms of all kinds such as gaming, finance, medical, music, AI & social
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Hobby projects
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Creator of PhilosopherAI.com
- One of the first GPT-3 apps to get approval for public release
- Diligent safety tooling: built few-shot input labeling to avoid risky topics & prompt injections
- Pluck (iOS/web) Position-sensitive string pluck simulator
- First demo proving that positional string plucks can be easily simulated with fourier transforms (novel research)
- Optimized GPU version that can simulate hundreds of string plucks & plays classical pieces
- iOS app on the Apple App Store
- Tonehack: creating timbres from scratch
- Demonstrated that assigning individual ADSR curves to individual overtones can convincingly mimic known instruments to prove what timbre really is in the mathematical sense
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GoatRemote
- Turns Siri Remote and phone input into a Mac trackpad/controller
- Voice-driven command layer with local AI + transcription + computer use pipeline
- Extremely low-latency local inference pipeline on newer Macs for fully offline use
- Thread and follow-up
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dbpill
- PostgreSQL proxy + UI for query profiling and diagnostics
- Index optimization experiments with apply/revert safety loop
- Focused on fast feedback between query traces and index tuning
- Post
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Sidecoder
- File selection based context builder for LLM code editing, pre-agents era
- Much faster than coding agents for tasks that already have relevant files pre-selected
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MBRV
- TypeScript bundler/dev server experiment with UI hot reload on a single process
- Avoids the common server/client split across separate processes and ports
- Runs on a single Bun process without sacrificing core dev features
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maid: Mini AI Developer
- Instant chat
- Natural language to command instantly
- Sort OpenRouter models by popular/new and try new models without updating anything
- Qwen3-Coder-Next works great locally and is faster than SOTA reasoning models
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Sweetgrass
- Infinite map MMO with block building, trading, AI agents and generated 3D models
- Launched pilot projects with education startups with proximity video call, as a hang out lobby for kids
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Turkish Carpet Salesman
- Conversational, open-ended haggling game prototype
- First of its type to have mainstream appeal
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AppCrapper
- First public, free full-stack LLM app generation demo
- First of its type to have mainstream appeal
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Teaching
- (2013 - 2015) Senior instructor at Lighthouse Labs, acoding bootcamp
- (2016 - 2017) Senior instructor at Under the GUI, weekend coding school for young kids building games in Python & Gamemaker (ages 7-11)
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Generative art
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Music
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Other
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I spend a large part of my free time thinking about consciousness, innovations in governance, catching up on AI papers & building intuition on math and physics fundamentals.