Hi, I’m Keshav.

OptionAFK is a Mac app for getting spoken words onto the page. Hold a key to dictate into the app you’re using, or drop in a recording for local transcription. There’s a command-line interface for scripts and coding agents, too.

The interesting work is in the details: keeping processing on the Mac, handling long recordings, and cleaning up a transcript without rewriting what someone meant. It’s an ongoing exercise in making a small tool useful in everyday work, with the original words kept close at hand.

What does a language model do when it plays Connor in Detroit: Become Human? DetroitBench turns the opening hostage negotiation into a deterministic experiment, recording the clues a model seeks, the promises it makes, and the ending it reaches.

The useful part is being able to inspect the decisions. Runs are replayable, and the referee’s rules are visible in a flowchart. This is an exploratory study of one scenario, with one run per model in each cohort; it doesn’t establish a general ranking of intelligence or alignment.

One creature, a landscape of hexagons, and a different clue for every player. Cryptid is my browser adaptation of the deduction board game: a way to bring its shared mystery to a screen.

It brings together two things I enjoy: board games and making software. The puzzle is about what you can infer from other people’s questions as much as your own clue. The live prototype has room creation and joining for five players, with the game’s terrain and pieces translated into a digital habitat. The field guide is still being built.

Open-source software is easy to love and surprisingly hard to keep track of. Ossean gathers open-source startups into a directory you can explore by language and topic, with links back to the projects themselves.

The discovery pipeline and the directory answer different questions: what belongs in the collection, and what has changed since it was added? The current site shows a dated snapshot of repository activity. A recent GitHub push is a useful clue, but it isn’t a promise that a project is healthy or maintained. The methodology makes that distinction explicit.