Local by instinct
Your work belongs on your machine. The network should add possibility, not permission.
Independent software, made in the open
Building tools I wanted,
and open sourcing them.
Open-source projects by Tom Ballard: local-first Mac software, developer tools, and experiments in human-AI collaboration.
Explore the workCurated index
Project index
A hand-picked set of open-source apps and Codex/workflow plugins. Names and order are intentional; GitHub supplies the live metadata.
Reading the public ledger...
Coming soon
Rubber Duck
A small companion for thinking out loud with your machine. Not ready for the main shelf yet, but it belongs in the arc.
Working principles / 01-03
Software should
earn its place.
Legible by design
Good tools expose their model. You should understand what happened, and why.
Open by default
Source code is an invitation: inspect it, adapt it, make the idea travel further.