Building accessible tools for the Fediverse and beyond.
I'm micr0byte (or simply micr0), a passionate developer, Linux enthusiast, and community builder who has made significant contributions to the Fediverse and open-source ecosystem.
With a strong focus on accessibility and user-friendly technology, I create tools that enhance digital experiences while maintaining a commitment to privacy and inclusivity.
My technical philosophy emphasizes simplicity, efficiency, and practicality over unnecessary complexity. I'm driven by curiosity and a desire to create useful tools that help others.
"Making an impact through accessible technology."
An accessibility bot for the Fediverse that generates alt-text descriptions for images, videos, and audio, making content more accessible to users with visual impairments.
A terminal assistant powered by generative AI that provides a sleek interface for AI interactions directly from the command line.
The NVIDIA drivers are proprietary and not open source. Since you are on Arch, you can install them via pacman. sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
For anyone who might go missing. Get pinged regularly to confirm you're okay. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get alerted.
A Mastodon instance that supports both Mastodon and Akkoma frontends, creating a welcoming digital space in the Fediverse.
Administrator of a Mastodon instance where thousands of tech nerds shitpost about gaming, code, and whatever else. Built on our custom Chuckya software that actually works.
A brutally honest open source license for burnt-out developers that lets people use your code while acknowledging the realities of software maintenance.
A personal AMA site that allows users to ask questions and receive answers in a unique and engaging format.
My personal website, showcasing my projects, skills, and experiences in a clean and modern design.
A system information fetching tool written in Go, providing a clean and efficient way to display system details in the terminal.
A back-end and front-end system for Watchy with Spotify and OpenWeather integration, enhancing the smartwatch experience.
A Gemini-powered chatbot for Mastodon, bringing AI conversation capabilities to the Fediverse.
I value making an impact on the world and fear being forgotten. I'm driven by curiosity and a desire to create useful tools that help others.
My approach to projects tends to be compulsive rather than strictly scheduled—working intensely when motivation strikes rather than forcing productivity.
Environmentally conscious, I designed Altbot to use low-power LLMs to minimize carbon footprint while providing accessibility services.
Streaming Video to a Boat Game: Building a Custom Codec for Stormworks
It started, as these things always do, with a question nobody asked: could I stream video into Stormworks? What followed was weeks of custom compression algorithms, delta encoding, palette quantization, audio sync, and more debugging than I want to think about.
And yeah, I got it working. Video playback. In a boat game. With audio sync.
IP is Bullshit: Why “Intellectual Property” Shouldn’t Exist
I just ordered a $25 development board from China that has an ESP32, 4G LTE, GPS, battery management, and open-source everything. It ships with full schematics. The company WANTS you to hack it, modify it, build on it, to do literally everything and anything to it.
This shouldn’t exist under the IP regime we’re told is “necessary for innovation.”
What if social media moderated itself?
I’ve been thinking about social media a lot lately. Not in the way most people think about it, scrolling, posting, whatever. I mean thinking about the fundamental structure of how these platforms work and why they all seem to fail in their own special ways.
Big tech social media is surveillance. That’s not hyperbole, that’s just what it is. Every click tracked, every interaction analyzed, every piece of data sold or used to predict your behavior.
An oppressed state, is a sad state. A surveilled state, is a complaint state.
When you don't know what a state is doing, not only must you assume that the state is doing what is best for them. But also that they are doing everything they can, to know what you are doing.
Who is the state? Who is they? If you don't know who they are, they are hiding.
Information collected during this single visit
This is an educational demonstration. No data leaves your browser. The code is open source and can be inspected.
Identity details live at a well-known path on this domain. Fetch the file to confirm control over micr0.dev.
curl https://micr0.dev/.well-known/identity.jsonThe profiles below are declared in identity.json. Each platform links back here
using rel="me" or its native handle verification.
You can verify manually:
identity.json file above.Questions? Want to chat? Join us at chat.micr0.dev
Channels: #dev for project discussion, #help for support
IRC: irc.micr0.dev (ports 6667/6697)