Projects
The workshop. Some of these ship, some stay ideas, and some get abandoned - they all stay on the list.
MCP server for this site
shippedReplaced the AI chatbot on my CV with a read-only MCP server. Point your own agent at it and ask whatever you like - it reads the same data as this site, costs me nothing to run, and there’s nothing to jailbreak.
2026 How to connect
.plan
ongoingThis site. Moved off Ghost onto Hugo and GitHub Pages, then rebuilt around the idea of a Unix .plan file. Try
curl jolyonbrown.com/.plan.2025 Source
Custom trackball
ideaMy thumb has had enough of the MX Ergo. Plan is to try a few DIY kits (Ploopy Adept, Nano 2, efog Endgame) and then design my own from the ground up.
2025 Hardware hankerings
presidencyprogress bot
shippedA silly little Bluesky bot, written in a language I wanted to learn. One of the backlog projects that only exists because LLMs removed the initial friction.
2025 Bluesky LLMs and me
Reading notes
ongoingShort notes on the books I read through the year. Technical books may or may not make the list.
2026 January 2026