Arsis
Apps, games and research tools, made in Montpellier.
A one-person workshop: independent apps, open-source developer tools, a game in progress, and research on ecological data.
Open
9 projects touched in the last 7 days, 273 commits.
Twelve weeks of work, oldest on the left. As of 14 Oct 2026.
The shelves
Everything the workshop makes, set out by how close it is to the fire.
- touched in the last 7 days
- in the last 30 days
- older
- as of 14 Oct 2026
On the fire
5 objects activity as of 14 Oct 2026-
Status: in development
Spicilège
A local library for bookmarks saved on X and Raindrop: enriched, tagged by a local model, found again by keyword or by question.
last touched today
- Rhizomes
Status: in development
Rhizomes
A journal written from work traces, and a searchable archive of past agent conversations that other agents can query.
last touched today
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Status: in development
Futon Fighters
Couch games for up to four players on one screen: Ippon, a one-hit platform duel, and Fourtress, a split-screen first-person fight around a fort.
last touched 2 days ago
- Tales of Chinatown
Status: in development
Tales of Chinatown
A short detective game. Limehouse, 1913: connect clues, doubt what you are told, prepare the night. After Sax Rohmer.
last touched 2 days ago
- arsis.dev
Status: built, not yet online
arsis.dev
The workshop’s own site: a register of what it decides, measures, corrects and abandons.
last touched 2 days ago
Next up
4 objects activity as of 14 Oct 2026- NamerKit
Status: in development
NamerKit
A naming studio for macOS: local or remote language models propose names, filters keep the reasons, and the newest mode shows unranked waves to sort by hand.
last touched 9 days ago
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Status: private beta
Daymon
Where working time actually goes, on a Mac: a local tracker that attributes time to projects and shows what it is unsure about.
last touched yesterday
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Status: release preparation, gate 1 of 5 passed
LoopHuntr
Loops for gravel, road and mountain bikes, hiking and trail running, built on the iPhone from a start point and a distance, with an optional climb. Offline once a zone of France is downloaded.
last touched 4 days ago
- Palimpseste
Status: version 17, the game is in design
Palimpseste
A world and society generator for a game in design: land, settlements, cultures, beliefs and centuries of history, all derived from causes.
Open source
2 objects activity as of 14 Oct 2026-
Status: v0.5.1, MIT
Appothèque
A menu bar launcher for the Mac and iOS apps you are building: it rebuilds only when its inputs changed.
last touched 8 days ago
- LLMarium
Status: open source soon
LLMarium
The local models of a Mac in the menu bar: which MLX engines run, what each process keeps in memory and who launched it, and one click to open a model in a coding agent.
last touched yesterday
Side projects
3 objects activity as of 14 Oct 2026- tralala
Status: personal use
tralala
Variations and little tunes: a personal macOS app that turns a description, a hummed melody or an old song into a track, generated on the Mac with YuE2.
last touched 7 days ago
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Status: positioning to decide
Slyfari
An iOS browser and an encrypted on-device video library: what you keep stays on the phone.
last touched 7 days ago
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Status: prototype, moving fast
Squatcat
Training sessions on the iPhone: a programme planned on a calendar, each session played step by step with pause and resume, then its summary.
last touched 2 days ago
On the shelf
3 objects activity as of 14 Oct 2026- Syntype
Status: v0.1 corrected; v0.1.1 waiting
Syntype
An open benchmark of tabular models on ecological data. Version 0.1 was corrected in public the day it came out.
last touched 14 days ago
- Layon
Status: interviews not started
Layon
An ecological data tool that does not exist yet: four hypotheses about what would help ecologists, to be tested through interviews first.
- BackShelves
Status: in use
BackShelves
Browse and restore backups from Backblaze B2, SFTP and local folders, down to a single table of a PostgreSQL archive.
Commissions
Software built for others. 5 files in the drawer.
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Admissions platform
a private higher-education group
Multi-school admissions: from the application to enrolment, documents, payments and interviews included.
in production, worked on daily
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Campus platform
a private higher-education group
The everyday system of the same group’s schools: timetables, grades, absences, admissions.
in production, worked on daily
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Support assistant
a private higher-education group
Reads an application’s logs and proposes fixes, each with the evidence it rests on.
being validated in daily work
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Ecological data platform
a public research institute
Plugins that take raw field inventories all the way to a published website.
active
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Biodiversity database
a regional government
A regional biodiversity database: species records, taxonomy and maps.
maintained
The workshop board
The same objects as index cards: where each one stands, when it was last touched, and how much work went in. Numbers are commits, as of 14 Oct 2026; the little curve is twelve weeks, oldest on the left.
On the fire
as of 14 Oct 2026
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Spicilège
in development
last touched today
11 in 7 days 134 in 30 days
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Rhizomes
in development
last touched today
8 in 7 days 18 in 30 days
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Futon Fighters
in development
last touched 2 days ago
24 in 7 days 48 in 30 days
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Tales of Chinatown
in development
last touched 2 days ago
157 in 7 days 252 in 30 days
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arsis.dev
built, not yet online
last touched 2 days ago
10 in 7 days 10 in 30 days
Next up
as of 14 Oct 2026
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NamerKit
in development
last touched 9 days ago
0 in 7 days 96 in 30 days
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Daymon
private beta
last touched yesterday
15 in 7 days 265 in 30 days
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LoopHuntr
release preparation, gate 1 of 5 passed
last touched 4 days ago
1 in 7 days 183 in 30 days
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Palimpseste
version 17, the game is in design
Activity not measured.
Open source
as of 14 Oct 2026
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Appothèque
v0.5.1, MIT
last touched 8 days ago
0 in 7 days 11 in 30 days
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LLMarium
open source soon
last touched yesterday
8 in 7 days 9 in 30 days
Side projects
as of 14 Oct 2026
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tralala
personal use
last touched 7 days ago
0 in 7 days 2 in 30 days
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Slyfari
positioning to decide
last touched 7 days ago
0 in 7 days 23 in 30 days
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Squatcat
prototype, moving fast
last touched 2 days ago
39 in 7 days 39 in 30 days
On the shelf
as of 14 Oct 2026
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Syntype
v0.1 corrected; v0.1.1 waiting
last touched 14 days ago
0 in 7 days 4 in 30 days
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Layon
interviews not started
Activity not measured.
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BackShelves
in use
Activity not measured.