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jefe@ecosystem:~$ ls -la side-quests/

The junk drawer.

The main page has the six projects I'd defend in a design review. This page has everything else: the bots that actually run every day, the games, the Linux distro, the learning labs, and the two or three things I built properly and then walked away from. Nothing here is hidden — it's just not the headline.

Running in production
Active development
Learning lab / experiment
Built, then shelved
jefe@ecosystem:~$ systemctl list-units --state=running

Running in production

These are up right now, doing real work for real users — mostly on my own hardware.

Jefebots

Discord · Twitch

Three bots in daily use. Jefebot runs 30+ AI personalities, a film club, and 25+ Twitch commands. VibeBot4000 is a live DJ and hype bot with shoutout queues and raid detection, running on someone else's stream. GygaxBot handles tabletop RPG campaign management with a five-stage AI session archival pipeline. All AI routing goes through local inference with a fallback chain.

Games

TypeScript · C#

15+ HTML5 browser games, three satirical idle games, and an MMO prototype in MonoGame (C#, .NET 8) with a Final Fantasy Tactics-style job system and a 101-test suite. Thirteen of the prototypes were built in a single session by running AI agents in parallel — a genuinely useful stress test of that workflow.

JefeAgentOS

Agent orchestration

The scheduler behind the agent fleet. Runs CLI-driven coding agents with shared lifecycle management, cost tracking, and task scheduling, so long-running work can be handed off and picked back up. Recursive orchestration — agents spawning and supervising sub-agents — is the current line of work.

JefeHQ

Ops dashboard

One screen for the whole ecosystem: repo status, backlog and epics, security findings from Sentinel, CI/CD state, service health, and in-flight agent sessions. Built because tracking forty repos across two machines in my head stopped working.

JefeMon

Monitoring

A custom Prometheus exporter plus Prometheus, Grafana, Blackbox Exporter, and AlertManager, covering both a Windows workstation and a Linux server. Alerts route to Discord and email. It has caught real outages, including a boot-order race that took down half the service fleet after a power cut.

JefeStream

Streaming infra

An AI-autonomous Twitch streaming pipeline. Chat-driven AI art generation, 22 visual themes, fair round-robin queueing, content safety filtering, follower alerts, and a creator dashboard — all wired to OBS over WebSocket. The "vibe" is a single creative knob that steers text personality, overlay theme, and visuals together.

JefeHome + Gigi

Home automation · Voice

Home automation with air-quality sensor integration, push notifications, OAuth2, Google Smart Home fulfillment, and Prometheus metrics. Gigi is the voice layer: wake-word detection, faster-whisper speech-to-text, and local text-to-speech, with a tablet PWA client.

Kokoro TTS

Microservice

A standalone CPU-only text-to-speech service, factored out so the bots, the voice assistant, and the tabletop RPG narration pipeline could all share one implementation instead of three.

jefe@ecosystem:~$ git log --since=90.days --oneline

Active development

Committed to in the last few months. Real, unfinished, moving.

JefeLinux

Linux distribution

A hardened Alpine-based distribution with six-layer defense-in-depth, four build variants, and automated security auditing. Reproducible ISO builds land in under eight minutes through a Jenkins pipeline. The design rationale is written up in full — why each hardening layer exists and what it actually costs.

JefeHealth

Wellness assistant

A privacy-first therapy and wellness assistant. Conversational support backed by a local model with 44 curated therapy documents indexed for retrieval, and encrypted local session storage. Nothing leaves the machine — no cloud calls, no telemetry. That constraint is the whole point of the project.

JefeOS2Go

ARM64 microkernel

A portable microkernel targeting ARM64, bootable from USB, sharing crypto primitives with the main x86_64 kernel. Small footprint by design — a testbed for how much of JefeOS survives an architecture change.

JefeLife

Tracking

Personal wellness and habit tracking. Python API, TypeScript frontend, local storage only.

jefe-translate

Microservice

An internal translation service pairing NLLB-200 with a dedicated language-detection library. Built after discovering that bolting per-language dictionary patches onto a translation layer is an infinite game of whack-a-mole — better to run a real model.

jefe@ecosystem:~$ ls labs/

Learning labs

Built to learn something specific rather than to ship. Useful anyway.

OpenStack lab

Private cloud

A DevStack deployment on a Hyper-V VM, stood up to learn private-cloud operations end to end rather than from documentation. Horizon is up and the next step is graduating it off NAT-only networking.

JefeLabs

Multi-model playground

A small web app and CLI for watching local language models talk to each other round-robin. A playground for comparing model behaviour side by side, entirely on local inference.

JefeQuiz

Spaced repetition

A local-only flashcard and quiz app with SM2-lite spaced repetition, written to drill infrastructure and DevOps interview material. Unglamorous and effective.

Terraform lab

Infrastructure as code

A scratch repo for Terraform practice — provider behaviour, state handling, and the failure modes you only find by breaking things deliberately.

Catpire

2D platformer

A 2D platformer, caught mid-migration to Godot and deliberately deprioritized. Left in the drawer honestly rather than quietly deleted.

jefe@ecosystem:~$ git log -1 --format=%cr

Built, then shelved

Every portfolio quietly drops the projects that stalled. These two didn't fail technically — they lost a priority argument to something else, which is the more common way work actually stops. Listing them costs me nothing and saves you from finding them yourself and wondering what I was hiding.

FreeVox

Voice / video

Voice, video, and screen sharing for FreeChat, built on a LiveKit SFU. It works. It got parked when hardening FreeChat's core encryption and shipping its Android client mattered more than adding a second real-time surface to maintain.

Enclave

Social platform

A social platform on Express/TypeScript and React with Prisma and Postgres, including a five-layer XSS defense I still think is good work. The deploy pipeline was written correctly and then never pointed at a CI runner — so it has never actually gone live. An honest case of building the thing and not finishing the last mile.

jefe@ecosystem:~$ ls | wc -l

And the rest

The remaining repos are plumbing rather than projects: Jenkins and Forgejo Actions pipeline definitions, database and reverse-proxy container stacks, identity infrastructure, API collections, the planning and roadmap docs, and an archive repo for material that has been migrated or retired. Necessary, well-kept, and not interesting to read about.