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Building things, learning in public, and exploring ideas.

• 🌲 Building the Grove Ecosystem
• 💭 Thinking about software simplicity and design
• 📝 Writing about tech, projects, and ideas

A forest of voices. Every user is a tree in the grove.

Grove eschews transactional terminology in favor of language reflecting how people genuinely move through the platform:

• Wanderers explore and discover—no account required, no commitment expected. The paths wind on.
• Rooted users have planted a tree in the grove, tending their own corner while never abandoning discovery.
• Pathfinders help orient newcomers, appointed by trust and contribution, not tenure.
• The Wayfinder (that's me) tends the grove and illuminates direction. Where wanderers seek paths, the Wayfinder creates them.

Welcome, Wanderer. Stay as long as you like.

Project	Description	Links
AutumnsGrove	Personal blog and digital home	autumnsgrove.com
Lattice	Core platform powering every Grove site. Includes Clearing, Rings, Wisp, Trails, Meadow, Curios, Terrarium, Weave
Heartwood	Centralized authentication for the Grove ecosystem	heartwood.grove.place
Amber	Unified storage management system	amber.grove.place
Foliage	Visual customization and theming system	foliage.grove.place
Patina	Automated backup system	internal

• Gossamer - ASCII visual effects for the web. Character-based animations, ambient backgrounds, and image-to-ASCII transformations. Framework-agnostic core with Svelte, React, and Vue adapters.
• Shutter - Web content distillation for LLM agents. Extracts relevant content from URLs, returning 200 tokens instead of 20k. Includes prompt injection defense.
• YTThumbs - YouTube thumbnail extractor with zero dependencies.

• YearlyReview - "Reflections" - Privacy-centric pipeline for extracting insights from personal journal entries using Cloudflare Workers and DeepSeek
• re:verie (private) - Local-first personal knowledge base from video recordings. Query past thoughts with natural language using transcription, embeddings, and RAG on Apple Silicon

• ClaudeLocal - Local version of Claude Desktop app with API keys and Prisma DB
• LibraryEnhancer - Browser extension for enhanced library features
• epub2tts - Full pipeline to convert epub files into Audiobooks with Kokoro running locally
• OmniParser - Universal parser, anything → markdown
• StyleAssistant - Firefox Extension to assist users in styling while shopping using AI and a simple quiz
• Video-Compressor - Gradio interface for compressing larger files in bulk
• AgenticNewspaper - AI-powered news aggregator using Claude Agent SDK
• RaindropAgent - Autonomous bookmark cleaner using Claude AI agents
• ElementaryCAVisualizer - Immersive browser-based cellular automata visualizer with cyberpunk aesthetic

• BaseProject - Comprehensive Claude Code project template with best practices and 18 development guides
• ClaudeCodeSounds - Sounds for Claude Code with easy installer
• Hooks - Hooks for use in Claude Code
• house-agents - Specialized Claude Code sub-agents (research, git, bash, coder, planner) that run heavy operations in separate context windows
• ClaudeSkills - Collection of skills for Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop App
• ClaudeGistLoader - UV-based CLI tool that fetches GitHub gists for use in Claude Code sessions
• ClaudeCodeContainer - Run Claude Code in a secure Docker container
• Kimi-Coder-Mcp - MCP Server exposing the Kimi CLI agent for use with other agentic tools
• SchematronMCP - MCP server for HTML-to-JSON extraction using Schematron-3B model
• MermaidVisualizer - Tool to quickly generate PNG/SVG files based on Mermaid charts in Markdown files

• ASCIIClock - Beautiful ASCII analog clock for terminal with color-coded hands and stopwatch
• EmojiKitchen - CLI Tool to return merged Emojis
• yt-thumbs - YouTube thumbnail extractor with zero dependencies
• CDNUploader - UV Tool to upload images and files to personal CDN
• TerminalQuotes - Context-aware terminal tool displaying philosophical quotes with adaptive ASCII art
• ImageConverter - Cross-platform batch image converter with dual CLI/GUI interface
• VideoTools - Python video processing utilities with AI-powered analysis
• AudioTools - Video transcription tool with triple LLM support
• NetworkMonitor - Lightweight, privacy-focused network monitoring tool for macOS
• CodeQuest - Terminal-based RPG that gamifies coding productivity
• AgenticResearcher - Production-grade multi-agent research system
• FableParser - Convert Fable book screenshots to markdown using Claude vision AI
• ObsidianMusicSorter - Enrich Obsidian markdown files with MusicBrainz metadata
• ImageUploaderWordpress - WordPress WebP image replacer with intelligent filename matching
• OpenRouterChat - OpenRouter chat interface with innovative memory cards system
• Pixelsorting - Pixel sorting image effects

• ProjectReminder - A very personalized Reminders app

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