Shming - James Bennett Saxon - BDevFL

BDevFL: Benevolent Developer For Life. I build things because I like to, and I keep the ones that are useful running.

What I'm building, and some of what I've built. Open a card for more, open it again for the full page.

AI, Knowledge and Personal Computing

Tools for capturing and connecting what you know.

Shmorch Runs Claude Code as a team of specialist agents, with plain-markdown memory, test-first rules and safety hooks.

Treeclusion Links open their target in place instead of jumping away, so reading never loses its context.

Time Vortex Calendar days laid out on a 3D helix you orbit through, instead of a list you scroll.

HistoriCal Keeps a lasting record of calendar events after the feed, account or job they came from is gone.

MyProxy A personal layer that captures your digital activity into a knowledge graph you can search and analyze with AI.

Professional Engineer A lasting record of your work history, artifacts, decisions and evidence, to show what you can really do.

Software and Products

Products that solve a real problem.

DarkBadge Scores apps and games for addictive design on five dimensions: Agency, Bottomlessness, Speed, Teasing and Social Pressure.

LemonBadge A product reputation idea built on the DarkBadge approach.

Personal Context Graph Connects projects, conversations, documents, designs, decisions, code, meetings and tasks, instead of leaving them as separate files.

PholderShare Curate photos once into a folder per recipient, and prints get ordered and mailed on a schedule.

M MoBoS A Schwab day-trading interface with its own order-command language, covered by 500 PHPUnit tests and 39 Behat scenarios.

Civic and Media

Explaining things that matter.

Votrix A Meatrix-style explainer on money in politics. One person, one vote, against Citizens United.

AI Video Production Pipeline From storyboard to render: character references, keyframes, animation, voice cloning and dubbing, music, and visuals that stay consistent across scenes.

Business and Consulting

Modernizing how small businesses run.

AI and Software Workflow Consulting Architecture review, modernization, AI-assisted development, code and system review, and helping organizations put AI into real use.

Tools and Infrastructure

The setup everything else is built on.

Personal Project Infrastructure One standard setup across projects: uv, just, Makefiles, tests, linting, formatting, type checking, and the same command names everywhere.

AI Development Environment Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini, Conductor, Kiro, MCP, RAG, Ollama, OpenRouter and agent orchestration.