Projects
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Available on the Omarchy marketplace
Three practical desktop tools built around the small things that interrupt the work.
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Understand what changed on your Linux desktop. Package updates explained, Omarchy news, and My Linux Changes: a private journal of installations and customisations, why they were made, and backup or undo notes.
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See when your computer first started today, directly on the bar. Keeps that first-start time through later reboots and provides a persistent history of previous boots.
Requires the additional setup documented in its README. This records computer boots, not working time, login sessions or waking from sleep.
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How First Boot started ↓
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A visible, mouse-friendly scratchpad. Park windows, see their previews and bring them back without remembering keyboard shortcuts.
Choose a resizable floating panel, compact list or horizontal bar view, with clear controls for returning windows and dismissing cards without closing applications.
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How ScratchView started ↓From the workshop
I recognised Cursor in an update list. Mise? I had to ask what it was.
That small memory gap became a bar plugin built with Codex: an update list that explains itself. The Lab records the experiment, everyday testing and first public release—and how My Linux Changes became part of it.
From the workshop
On Windows, I used Event Viewer to check what time I’d turned on my PC. Starting the computer was part of my morning medication routine, so that timestamp helped me work back to when I’d taken my meds. Parkinson’s memory issues meant I would often forget.
First Boot grew out of that workaround. I wanted the first start of the day visible on my Omarchy bar, with a history I could check later, rather than having to dig through logs.
It’s a memory cue from my own routine—not a medication tracker or proof that a dose was taken.
From the workshop
I would put a window in the scratchpad, then forget how to call it back. I also wanted to see what was in there, rather than having to remember that as well.
That became ScratchView: a visible place for parked windows, with previews and controls I can click. I wanted to see what I’d put aside and bring it back without having to remember a keyboard shortcut first.
Ongoing build · Hardware evaluation
Hardware arrived / unboxing and setup next
Live experiment
Live early experiment. It keeps entries on the device, produces a printable discussion record, and does not diagnose anything.
Try First StepsThe wider work
Each project points back to the writing and Lab work that explains why it exists.
Public workshop · Active
The live local-first Astro workshop for writing, projects, experiments and useful tools—without replacing Substack.
Local AI / knowledge systems · POC
A completed, deliberately bounded POC that tests whether a manual, read-only external note bundle can produce reviewable connections with local AI.