Projects

Open source and research work

Tools, specifications and packages the studio has written or maintains. Everything here is public; each Source link leads to the code.

Active

  • Mind the Gap

    active

    Tools and a NixOS live image for painless airgapping of secrets and keys: smart-card keys derived from a 24-word mnemonic, entirely offline.

    Author · 2021–2026Source

  • NeuroSuite

    active

    NeuroScope, Klusters and NDManager: desktop tools for viewing, sorting and managing electrophysiology recordings.

    Major contributor · 2015–2020Source

  • nixpkgs

    active

    Package maintenance in the Nix ecosystem: a hundred-odd pull requests since 2019, a dozen packages and a NixOS module under the studio's name.

    Maintainer · 2019–2026Source

Maintained

  • asciidoctor-kaitai

    maintained

    An Asciidoctor extension that lets a document carry its own Kaitai Struct binary format definitions, compiled and drawn as diagrams on the page.

    Author · 2022–2026Source

  • btrborg

    maintained

    Back up the latest btrbk snapshots into borg repositories: consistent, deduplicated, encrypted off-site archives of btrfs subvolumes.

    Author · 2021–2026Source

  • pseudocode-ruby

    maintained

    A Ruby gem that renders LaTeX pseudocode algorithms to HTML with pseudocode.js and KaTeX.

    Author · 2022Source

Archived

  • Polkadot Protocol Specification

    archived

    The implementable specification of the Polkadot host, written so that independent teams could build compatible clients from the document alone.

    Lead author · 2020–2023Source

  • Open Ephys plugins

    archived

    Acquisition plugins for the Open Ephys GUI, built for White Matter's wireless recording hardware.

    Contributor · 2018–2019Source

  • Linux mobile wallet

    archived

    A transaction signer for Substrate chains built on mobile-nixos: an old phone as an offline signing device, declared like any other NixOS system.

    Author · 2021Source

  • KaTeXify

    archived

    A browser extension that renders LaTeX mathematics on pages that do not, such as GitHub issues and READMEs.

    Author · 2017–2020Source

  • Wii U GamePad on Linux

    archived

    Early work on talking to the Wii U GamePad from Linux: an out-of-tree mac80211 module with DKMS packaging, firmware-dump tooling, and documentation for libdrc.

    Contributor · 2014Source

  • ceclaunchd

    archived

    A daemon that listens on HDMI-CEC through libcec and runs scripts when the television or receiver sends a command.

    Author · 2013Source

  • lxc_wold

    archived

    Wake-on-LAN for Linux containers: a daemon that starts an LXC container when a magic packet for its MAC address arrives.

    Author · 2013–2015Source

Upstream contributions

Most of the studio's code lands in other people's repositories. The numbers are generated from the public pull-request record on GitHub; a few contributions on other forges are listed by hand.

Pull requests
548
Merged
421
Repositories
111
Since
2014
  • Analog-Labs/timechain 144 merged of 147
  • w3f/polkadot-spec 62 merged of 71 · 189 ★

    The Polkadot Protocol Specification

  • NixOS/nixpkgs 59 merged of 101 · 26.4k ★

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  • qdrvm/kagome 16 merged of 19 · 174 ★

    Kagome - C++20 implementation of Polkadot Host

  • w3f/polkadot-tests 12 merged of 19

    Polkadot Protocol Conformance Tests

  • ChainSafe/gossamer 8 merged · 452 ★

    🕸️ Go Implementation of the Polkadot Host

  • polkadot-js/phishing 7 merged · 207 ★

    A curated list of known less-than-honest operators on Polkadot and Substrate networks. Includes a simple JS utility function to check any host or address against this list.

  • Analog-Labs/metadata-portal 7 merged

    Analog Metadata portal for Substrate Signers

  • paritytech/research 6 merged of 7 · 103 ★

    Overview of W3F research initatives

  • deviantfero/wpgtk 5 merged of 7 · 2.2k ★

    a colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager for *nix

  • unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons 5 merged of 6 · 1.6k ★

    Unknown Horizons official code repository

  • open-ephys/GUI 5 merged · 129 ★

    Archived source code for the Open Ephys GUI

  • TalismanSociety/chaindata 5 merged

    A community controlled repository of relay and parachain information in the Polkadot ecosystem.

  • CerebusOSS/CereLink 4 merged · 64 ★

    Blackrock Neurotech Cerebus Link for Neural Signal Processors

  • cmake/cmake 1 merged · Kitware GitLab

    FindProtobuf: support files with multiple extensions (2020).

  • swaywm/sway 1 open

    swaybar: support gesture bindings (2022).

  • tidklaas/hip-badge 2 merged · gitlab.com

    Firmware fixes for the HiP badge (2024).

  • memahaxx/drc-mac80211 5 commits · Bitbucket, 2014

    The Wii U GamePad mac80211 patch as an out-of-tree DKMS module, backported to kernels 3.11 and 3.13.

  • memahaxx/libdrc 7 commits · Bitbucket, 2014

    Boot and image-resource documentation for the Wii U GamePad library.

All pull requests on GitHub · data from 2026-10-07