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src/content/projects/ad-astra.md

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 title: Ad Astra
-description: A tiny embedded game engine and custom PCB built around an ATtiny85V.
+description: A handheld game built from a custom PCB up — ATtiny85V, OLED, IR, EEPROM. 8-bit ALU at 8 MHz, 50 FPS floor.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/ad-astra.jpg
   alt: The Ad Astra handheld game running on its OLED display.

src/content/projects/avoid.md

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 title: Avoid
-description: A small early web game, kept as an archive of first experiments on the web.
+description: My first browser game, kept around so the timeline is honest.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/avoid.jpg
   alt: Screenshot of the Avoid canvas game.

src/content/projects/city-simulation.md

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 title: City Simulation
-description: A Unity traffic simulation where REST-controlled traffic lights could produce visible consequences for a cybersecurity challenge.
+description: A Unity city where REST-controlled traffic lights made bad PLC code visible as car crashes.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/city-simulation.jpg
   alt: Screenshot of a Unity city traffic simulation.

src/content/projects/colors.md

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 title: Photo Colour Grader
-description: A proof-of-concept colour grading UI based on selecting colours and transforming nearby colour ranges.
+description: Pick a colour, edit every nearby colour as a function of distance. A grader built around one interaction idea.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/photo-colour-grader.jpg
   alt: Screenshot of a colour grading interface applied to a photograph.

src/content/projects/declared.md

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 title: decla.red
-description: A team-based mobile multiplayer browser game with shared client/server game logic.
+description: Mobile multiplayer browser game where the client and server linked the same TypeScript game-rules module.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/declared.jpg
   alt: The decla.red browser game interface showing a space scene.

src/content/projects/fleeting-garden.md

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 title: Fleeting Garden
-description: A WebGPU drawing toy where coloured strokes spawn agents that follow them, branch off, and slowly rewrite the patch you laid down.
+description: A single-file WebGPU drawing toy. Your strokes seed a swarm; nine numbers per vibe give each preset its personality.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/fleeting-garden.jpg
   alt: A kaleidoscopic Fleeting Garden snapshot of cyan, violet, and yellow agent trails radiating from a central knot.
 period: '2026'
 sortDate: 2026-05-01
-technologies: ['TypeScript', 'WebGPU', 'WGSL', 'Compute shaders', 'Vite', 'Physarum']
+technologies: ['TypeScript', 'WebGPU', 'WGSL', 'Compute shaders', 'Vite', 'Tweakpane']
 selected: true
 essay: fleeting-garden-webgpu-drawing
 links:

src/content/projects/forex.md

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 title: Foreign Exchange Prediction Experiment
-description: A frequency-domain prediction experiment using smoothing, differentiation, STFT, extrapolation, and inverse transforms.
+description: A Hanning-windowed STFT experiment on EUR/USD. Passable backtest, sober conclusions, no real money risked.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/forex.jpg
   alt: Chart from a foreign exchange prediction experiment.

src/content/projects/great-ai.md

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 title: GreatAI
-description: A Python framework and research project for making AI deployment best practices easier to adopt.
+description: One decorator on a Python function turned it into a deployed ML service. MSc thesis with a survey to back the API choices.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/great-ai.png
   alt: Example Python code using the GreatAI API.

src/content/projects/leds.md

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 title: Lights Synchronized to Music
-description: A Raspberry Pi music player that drove RGB LED strips from audio analysis.
+description: Raspberry Pi music player, NumPy FFT, MOSFETs, RGB strips. The first thing I built that I actually finished.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/leds.jpg
   alt: RGB LED strips glowing from a music synchronization project.
 period: 'Spring 2016'
 sortDate: 2016-04-01
-technologies: ['Python', 'NumPy', 'FFT', 'Raspberry Pi', 'Vanilla web']
+technologies: ['Python', 'NumPy', 'FFT', 'Raspberry Pi', 'MOSFETs', 'vanilla web']
 selected: false
 essay: lights-synchronized-to-music
 links: []

src/content/projects/my-notes.md

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 title: My Notes
-description: A minimalist Android markdown note organizer and editor powered by Markwon.
+description: A small Android Markdown note app. The point was a few weeks outside the web stack.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/my-notes.png
   alt: Screenshot of the My Notes Android markdown app.
 period: 'November 2019'
 sortDate: 2019-11-01
-technologies: ['Android', 'Kotlin/Java', 'Markdown', 'Markwon']
+technologies: ['Android', 'Markdown', 'Markwon']
 selected: false
 essay: my-notes-android-markdown-app
 links:

src/content/projects/nuclear-editor.md

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 title: Graph Editor
-description: A JavaFX editor for creating and editing input graphs for the cooling system simulator.
+description: A drag-and-drop JavaFX editor that let event organisers reconfigure the cooling sim without me sitting next to them.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/process-simulator-input.jpg
   alt: JavaFX editor interface for the cooling system simulator input graph.

src/content/projects/nuclear-simulation.md

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 title: Cooling System Simulation
-description: A graph-based process simulation with a monitoring client and JavaFX input editor.
+description: A live cooling-plant simulator for a PLC cybersecurity event. Flow as graph traversal, heat as a matrix solve — two passes instead of one PDE.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/nuclear-simulation.jpg
   alt: Cooling system simulator interface with pipes, pumps, and temperature values.

src/content/projects/photos.md

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 title: Photo Site Generator
-description: A static photo site generated from a directory of images, with automatic resizing to multiple quality settings.
+description: Point a Webpack script at a folder of photos, get a static site with responsive image variants. An excuse to walk with a camera.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/photos.jpg
   alt: Screenshot of a generated photography site.

src/content/projects/platform-game.md

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 title: Platform Game
-description: An early 3D game in C with SDL 1.2, random maps, destructible voxels, enemies, powerups, and time slowdown.
+description: My Basics of Programming project. 3D voxel game in C and SDL 1.2. Pointers, learned painfully.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/platform-game.jpg
   alt: Screenshot from an early 3D platform game.

src/content/projects/reconcile.md

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 title: reconcile-text
-description: A Rust library that auto-resolves conflicting text edits without conflict markers, with WebAssembly and Python bindings.
+description: One Rust core, three packages. Merges Markdown notes from three editors I don't control, with no operation history. Never emits markers.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/reconcile.png
   alt: The reconcile-text logo and tagline "Conflict-free 3-way text merging".
 period: '2025'
 sortDate: 2025-05-01
-technologies: ['Rust', 'WebAssembly', 'Python', 'pyo3', 'Operational Transformation']
+technologies: ['Rust', 'WebAssembly', 'Python', 'pyo3', 'wasm-bindgen', 'Myers diff']
 selected: true
 essay: reconcile-text-3-way-merge
 links:

src/content/projects/sdf-2d.md

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 title: SDF-2D
-description: A browser rendering library for optimized 2D ray tracing with signed distance fields.
+description: A browser 2D ray-tracer tuned for the phone in your pocket. Tile-based passes, deferred shading, shaders generated per scene and device.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/sdf2d.jpg
   alt: SDF-2D browser demo with soft lighting effects.
 period: 'Autumn-Winter 2020'
 sortDate: 2020-12-01
-technologies: ['TypeScript', 'WebGL', 'WebGL2', 'SDF rendering']
+technologies: ['TypeScript', 'WebGL', 'WebGL2', 'Signed distance fields']
 selected: true
 essay: sdf-2d-ray-tracing
 links:

src/content/projects/towers.md

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 title: Life Towers
-description: A multi-device goal tracker where the lasting idea was syncing state with immutable tries.
+description: A multi-device goal tracker. The trie underneath made the sync diff free; the towers were just the UI.
 thumbnail:
   src: ./_assets/towers.jpg
   alt: Life Towers goal tracking interface with tower-like visual structures.
 period: 'August-September 2019'
 sortDate: 2019-09-01
-technologies: ['Python', 'Angular', 'State synchronization']
+technologies: ['Python', 'Angular', 'TypeScript', 'Immutable trie']
 selected: true
 essay: life-towers-immutable-tries
 links: