hello world, especially

Hi, I'm Neil.I'm a technologist: writing code and words and even code with words.

$writing code

An AI trading agent, a custom AI journalism model, a screensaver for a planet and a game about birds... is how I choose to burn my spare AI tokens.

~/building

Tokens: they write the code that I design and engineer.

Some are live, some are private, one is currently a cube. All of them are more fun than they have any right to be.

percolating

truthscore.ai

A nutrition label for news, powered by Verity, my AI journalist model.

Gives every news article a credibility score, built by AI and refined by the community. Lives in your browser as a Chrome extension and on your phone as an iOS app.

// Because 'trust me bro' isn't a source.

TypeScriptReactAI

in the nest

SkyHunter

Be the bird. Eat the pigeon.

A first-person survival game where you play as real bird species (peregrine falcon, common swift, northern goshawk), with proper flight physics, predators and territory.

// Currently a flying cube. A very convincing cube.

C#Unity 6URP

rendering

earth-ss2

Remember the Economist screensaver in the 2000s? No? Just me then... This is my homage to it, built with Claude.

An interactive 3D globe for your desktop, with a real day/night terminator, live weather and headlines from wherever you click.

// Screensavers are coming back. I've decided.

TypeScriptThree.jsTauriv1 is public ↗

NDA with myself

AI/ML trading bot

Buy low, sell high, automate the regret.

Algorithmic strategies across crypto, equities and options, built on Lumibot, backtested with honest slippage, then let loose on Alpaca and IBKR paper accounts.

// Past performance is not indicative of anything, especially mine.

PythonLumibotIBKR

~/writing

Words: always my own, in various lengths, that Jeeves, my AI valet, assists me with.

A book, a novel and a newsletter. Turns out writing code was the gateway drug.

simmering

Media Nutrition

A balanced diet for your attention.

A work-in-progress book and YouTube channel pushing back against misinformation and attention theft, while championing the media that actually feeds you.

// Doomscrolling is not one of your five a day.

BookYouTubeNewsletter

first draft

Credit & Credibility

A novel. Yes, an actual one, with chapters.

Fiction, for a change. Written in the gaps between everything else, one stubborn paragraph at a time.

// Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental. Probably.

FictionNovelLong-form

~/writing/heuristix

I think out loud at Heuristix.

Notes on AI, software, leadership and the occasional rabbit hole. Rules of thumb, tested on myself first.

heuristix.substack.com →

also occasionally on Medium

// by day I help organisations adapt to technology at adaptive-online.com