What I'm doing now

The one thing

Mimir's native terminal emulator is the active build. Phase 8 is active piece by piece: rich-media decode/render, Kitty graphics lifecycle (upload, place, z-index, animation playback), basic sixel pixel decoding, shell-integration command regions (OSC 133), and a standalone mimir-term host seam with config-file foundation. Seven phases shipped with golden fixtures and VTE-as-oracle differential tests. ~55–60% through the full native migration; VTE remains default until Phase 9 proves native safe. Baseline audit done Jun 22; P0 next: throughput profiling + IME. App icons shipped. Personal project; may go public after the v1 migration is complete.

Also live on the bench

• Neuro-symbolic worker classification. Canada/Ontario V0 shipped. CLI questionnaire runner, factor-by-factor audit trail, JSON output. Joint inference combining legal rule factors with neural embeddings. #1 next-build candidate, $0 MVP, 4 weeks to demo. Research feed active with five new sibling papers (tax-law neuro-symbolic, LePREC, Rule Violation Score, CyberCane, SkillGraph).
• Nüwa-RECODED (private personal build). Clean-room reimplementation of my own agent CLI, built from zero, ~414k LoC plus ~543k LoC of tests, ~25.5k tests green across 1,450+ test files. Replaces the old Hermes fork. The fork vs redo are in the past; the clean-room rewrite is what matters now.
• Cold pitch campaign. 14 pitches sent June 19 to HN companies for $25–50K contracts. Waiting on replies.
• Blackreach v5. Autonomous browser agent, maintained as the daily driver for real research collection.

The frame

The throughline across everything I build: ship the tool, then publish what breaks. I build agent infrastructure that survives the real run, and the research that finds where the edges are. Local-first by default, my own hardware in Toronto, cloud only when a training run earns it. Tools I own end to end.

I'm self-taught and building toward a remote AI/ML role that makes a US move possible, but the move right now is to ship more first: the native terminal, the neuro-symbolic demo, and the private agent-CLI rewrite at parity. That's the unlock, not a detour from it.