I build practical open-source tools, repair-oriented systems, and personal knowledge infrastructure that help people do real things with hardware, information, and lived complexity.
A growing part of that work lives under the name Heartloom.
Heartloom is the name I use for a body of work exploring non-extractive tools, relational intelligence, and practical systems that help people return to clearer ways of living, building, and knowing.
For the closest public source layer of Heartloom’s meaning, law, and orientation, start with heartloom-source.
I do not see it as “just a product.” It is closer to an ecosystem direction: a way of shaping technology, media, and support systems so they strengthen sovereignty, presence, clarity, and human relationship instead of exploiting them.
My work currently includes:
- embedded firmware and device tooling
- repair-oriented and investigation-heavy technical work
- utilities that make personal knowledge systems easier to understand and maintain
- early ecosystem and infrastructure work related to Heartloom
- heartloom-source — upstream source texts for Heartloom’s meaning, law, and orientation
- heartloom-identity — downstream identity, inheritance workflow, and ecosystem-shaping infrastructure for the Heartloom repo constellation
- heartloom-vaultmeta — stable Markdown reports that make Obsidian vaults easier to read and navigate
- esp32-s3-media-player — embedded firmware and local web tooling for media playback
- Tesla-M3-Bms-Software — embedded firmware and investigation-driven technical work for Tesla Model 3 battery management hardware
If this work is useful for you, support helps fund ongoing maintenance, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/i-schuyler