the unconquered. ex libris Brandon LaRocque.

programmer. curator. former chef. ten years in kitchens and mining camps before The C Programming Language, read at night between shifts. now a computer engineering student with a CS degree underway. the credential follows the practice.

i build native linux desktop software for people who treat their library as worth maintaining. rust with gtk4, c built with meson, python where the standard library reaches. it runs on your machine and answers to you.

no cloud.  no docker.  no electron.  no telemetry.  no accounts.  no vc.
your data on your disk: sqlite in WAL, single-writer worker, read-only pool, FTS5.
compile-time boundaries over code-review rules.  hard ceilings over soft benchmarks.
local-first, or it doesn't ship.

• Atrium · native gnome task manager. org-mode internals (uuids, plain-text round-trip) under a Things 3 / OmniFocus surface, with a calibre-style search grammar. Rust · GTK4 · shipping v0.41.1
• Framework · native gnome document viewer for pdf, djvu, comics, and ebooks. mupdf and djvulibre under the fixed-layout formats; epub and mobi reflow natively through webkitgtk. C · GTK4 · shipping v0.77.0
• Lattice · cli for music collectors. library trees, integrity checks, cover and tag audits. the filesystem is the source of truth. Python · complete v4.8.1
• CalibreQuarry · reads a calibre metadata.db raw, in read-only. catalogs, audits, exports. no calibredb, no dependencies. Python · stdlib · complete v3.1.0
• deadbeef-cui · faceted, foobar2000-columns library browser plugin for the DeaDBeeF player. C · complete v1.3.3

• Conservatory · calibre for audio. a native gnome manager that owns and moves your music, podcasts, and audiobooks on disk, all played from one libmpv queue. sqlite is the source of truth. Rust · GTK4
• opends · reverse-engineering toolkit for ssi's dark sun crpgs (1993–94). a disassembler and byte-exact reassembler for the games' undocumented gpl bytecode vm, plus gff/sprite/save editors. bring your own gog copy. Rust · Python
• Viaduct · netnewswire ported to linux. single-writer sqlite, opml on disk, hard memory ceilings. Rust
• Hermitage · read-only gallery browser for calibre libraries. Python
• Bindery + oceanstrip · repair broken epubs and strip store watermarks, epubcheck-clean. Python · stdlib

the full sixteen, with screenshots and the long writeups, live in the codex → virinvictus.github.io

• mastodon · @Bdkl@mastodon.social
• linkedin · linkedin.com/in/bdkl
• now playing · last.fm/user/bdkl__

Rust · C · Python · GTK4 · SQLite · Meson — and a soft spot for Ruby.

if any of this is useful to you and you'd like to chip in:

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