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Experiments

Questions I built things to answer

This is not a complete list of everything I have made. It is a curated set of projects where the engineering journey is more useful than a screenshot of the result: why I started, what I believed might work, what changed and what I learned.

Some experiments became working products. Some are still growing. Others answered enough of the question to be worth stopping.

The technologies are included because they help explain decisions. They are not the organising principle. Start with whichever question catches your attention.

DeliveryIQ

I wondered if AI was designed into the development lifecycle from the beginning. What would engineering delivery look like?

An attempt to build delivery tooling with AI in the workflow from the start — readiness scoring, role-based review agents and human-approved write-backs — with Azure DevOps kept as the system of record rather than replaced.

  • .NET 8
  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure AI Foundry
Prototype

2024 – Present

Chronos

I wondered if history could be explored as a connected temporal system rather than a collection of separate articles?

A project that began with a simple request for a more joined-up way to explore history and grew into a temporal knowledge graph and mobile application.

  • Knowledge Graph
  • PostgreSQL
  • FastAPI
  • Wikidata
  • React Native
Growing

2025 – Present

Token Burn

I wondered if can a small set of mechanics produce a mobile rogue-like game that is simple, fair and difficult to put down?

A mobile game experiment focused on pacing, replayability and the uncomfortable discovery that balancing a simple game is not simple at all.

  • Godot 4
  • GDScript
  • Android
Prototype

2026 – Present

SafeNet

I wondered if we redesigned the web today using everything we've learned since it began, What would the web look like?

A long-running thought experiment exploring what a modern web could look like if identity, trust, provenance and user ownership were designed into the network from the beginning.

  • Rust
  • Networking
  • Blockchain
  • Systems
Prototype

2019 – Present

Morris

I wondered if you simulate a field of coupled oscillators, can you make the patterns in it mean something?

An attempt to build a computer out of a wave simulation, then teach it to reason, then let a language model write programs for it. It ran, it taught me a great deal, and it stopped after ten weeks.

  • PyTorch
  • Symbolic AI
  • RippleLang
  • Local LLMs
  • FastAPI
Escaped containment

2025 – Present

HeroQuest

I wondered if the board game I loved as a child be rebuilt as a 3D digital tabletop without turning into a video game?

An attempt to recreate the original 1989 HeroQuest as a faithful 3D tabletop game in Unity, with the rules encoded as a testable engine, the board sitting on a virtual table, and the miniatures generated by AI. Playable and unfinished, in that order.

  • Unity 6
  • C#
  • Meshy AI
Prototype

2025 – Present

NeuroKernel

I wondered if intelligence didn't live inside one giant model, but emerged from a persistent network of smaller specialised modules?

An experiment exploring whether a modular cognitive architecture can learn continuously, adapt its own structure and retain experience without relying on a single monolithic model.

  • Rust
  • Machine Learning
  • Graph Theory
  • Distributed Systems
  • Local AI
Prototype

2026 – Present