02 About
About
One year, hundreds of builds, a few of them public. Here's the short version.
I like the part of the work where a vague idea becomes something you can actually click.
I'm Dani, a software engineer in Heeg, a small town in Friesland. I build AI tools that run on your own machine — Go binaries, browsers with no framework in the way, and the plumbing that keeps both honest.
About a year ago I started building in public-ish: hundreds of projects since, most of them private, a handful that people actually found. EVOLV is the one that mattered — a workspace that rewrites its own interface while it runs, built with Aaron Wise, and the first thing I've made that went further than I could push it alone.
Alongside the tools I ran fleets of VPSs, built multi-agent swarms that hand work to each other, and wrote a book. When a question gets under my skin I write it down instead of shipping it; one of those became a cosmology preprint, with the code to check every number.
- 100s
- builds this year
- 23
- stars on EVOLV
- 492
- hhr-ai downloads, 30 days
- 1
- book published
What I actually work with
- Go
- JavaScript
- Python
- Node.js
- WebSocket
- Linux
- VPS / infra
- LLM tooling
- TeX
- HTML & CSS
How I work
- Local-first by defaultYour machine, your files, your keys. If it needs an account to be useful, it's probably the wrong shape.
- Ship the ugly versionA working thing on localhost beats a beautiful thing in a branch.
- Show the seamsEVOLV keeps a ledger of its own mutations. Tools should be honest about what they changed.