// observatory
An index of work, not a stack of cards.
Side projects, archives, and tools I build in public: AI dev tooling, place-based history, and documentary storytelling.
The Maron Project
Real stories. Told by the people living them.A storytelling project that elevates the voices of marginalized communities so the people who live, work, and build inside those spaces can tell those stories themselves, and the rest of us can actually understand them.Episodes published · ongoingEnter →Construct
A project-bound operating layer for the agent host you already use.Installed into a repo, Construct learns what the project is, keeps authoritative context and constraints, resolves the skills and workflows an outcome needs, detects drift, and does only the work you permit — through Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, and friends.3.0.0-alpha · dogfood · under cutoverEnter →BlackStory
History on the ground it happened.A research platform that puts census data and archive records on the map next to the places they belong to, especially the history close to you.In build · research platformEnter →Writing
Notes on product, reliability, and building things that hold.Notes on product, reliability, and building things that hold.Enter →
- 01Storytelling · Documentary
The Maron Project
Real stories. Told by the people living them.A storytelling project that elevates the voices of marginalized communities so the people who live, work, and build inside those spaces can tell those stories themselves, and the rest of us can actually understand them. - 02AI · Dev tooling
Construct
A project-bound operating layer for the agent host you already use.Installed into a repo, Construct learns what the project is, keeps authoritative context and constraints, resolves the skills and workflows an outcome needs, detects drift, and does only the work you permit — through Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, and friends. - 03Archive · Place history
BlackStory
History on the ground it happened.A research platform that puts census data and archive records on the map next to the places they belong to, especially the history close to you. - 04Essays / notes
Writing
Notes on product, reliability, and building things that hold.Notes on product, reliability, and building things that hold.