whoami
I’m Kyle, a software developer who likes understanding how things work, fixing things that don’t, and building useful software without making it needlessly complicated.
Most of my work is backend-focused C#/.NET running on Linux, with a mix of APIs, self-hosted services, networking, observability, and developer tools. I’m also drawn to the older and stranger parts of computing: Gopher, Gemini, DN42, Yggdrasil, Unix, C, and the occasional game-modding rabbit hole. This site is part portfolio, part workshop, and part record of whatever I’m currently building or figuring out.
A few projects that best represent the kind of software I like to build.
Infrastructure / applications
A self-hosted operations system combining durable event history with live host, container, and protocol monitoring across multiple machines. Agents collect current state while NATS JetStream carries operational events to the archive and shared web/mobile clients.
.NET · NATS JetStream · SQLite · Blazor / MAUI
Games / applications
A fast Steam backlog picker and library exporter built for people with too many games and not enough desire to choose one. It supports unplayed filtering, local exclusions, aggressive caching, and CSV exports with playtime and Steam Deck compatibility.
.NET · Blazor · Steam API · HybridCache · SQLite
Planning / applications
A self-hosted planning tool for deciding what to work on when time and energy are limited. It filters todos by available energy and effort, then favors useful work based on project neglect and priority instead of always sending me back to whatever I touched most recently.
.NET · Blazor · EF Core · SQLite · GitHub API
I use a mix of VPS providers for public services, self-hosted applications, and networking experiments. GreenCloud hosts several of my public services, including Mission Control, Random Steam Game, and the Happy protocol services. I also use Servitro for a Frankfurt, Germany DN42 POP, which gives me another location for routing and network experiments.
The GreenCloud and Servitro links are affiliate links. I may earn a commission if you sign up through them, at no additional cost to you.
This is the I2P deployment. Browser assets are local; some optional integrations may be unavailable.
I also do paid development and deployment work: .NET, APIs, Linux/VPS deployment, Docker, self-hosting, and infrastructure.
Networking experiments, strange protocols, small tools, and whatever rabbit hole I wandered into this week.
A .NET tool for discovering and browsing public DN42 services. It starts from registry data, resolves .dn42 names, conservatively probes web services, respects exclusions and robots.txt, and builds a static viewer from the results.
SourceSmall C sensors watch exposed ports for unsolicited connections; a separate .NET observatory turns that stream into sanitized recent activity and aggregate Internet-noise statistics.
Running a multi-POP DN42 network with BGP, BIRD, WireGuard, IPv4/IPv6, DNS, TLS, and services spread across DN42 and Yggdrasil.
SystemsAn experimental .NET browser-automation tool that detects Pluto ad breaks and switches to YouTube instead, with DOM and learned visual detection plus a Windows GUI.
Source.NET servers for Gopher and Gemini with dynamic content, extensibility, and the assorted small-web experiments I keep attaching to them.
This fake shell is an optional interactive feature. Type
help
to explore commands, including the visitor BBS.
Code, conversation, games, and mods.