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JoeKarlsson/README.md

Joe Karlsson: I build weird things and show my work My GitHub contributions: total, streaks, contributions per year and the hours I commit

I'm Joe (he/they), and I live in Saint Paul. I've spent about 15 years writing software and explaining it in 100+ conference talks, a TEDx talk and a lot of videos. Off the clock I make art, run a homelab and watch a lot of movies.

My homelab: 74 self-hosted services on 2 Proxmox nodes

Curious what's in the rack and on the desk? Here's everything I use and a tour of my recording setup.

Latest posts


Are English sentences getting shorter? About 40% of the drop is punctuation
Rereading Hackers and Painters as a painter who codes with AI agents

A tour of my recording setup in 2026, all on one standing desk that rolls
Homelab gift ideas 2026: gear from my rack and desk, sorted by price

Works on My Machine, my newsletter on tech writing, AI, homelab builds and open source. Subscribe.

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  1. streamroll streamroll Public

    AI-generated custom streaming intros for Plex - chains Runway gen4_image + gen4_turbo

    TypeScript 14 2

  2. rose-hobart rose-hobart Public archive

    A digital humanities project to explore the (lack of) performativity in the current version available of Joseph Cornell’s short film Rose Hobart.

    TypeScript 2

  3. screencast-director screencast-director Public

    A macOS screen recorder that Claude edits: cuts, speed-ups, auto-zoom, captions, camera and branded profiles, rendered natively.

    Swift 2

  4. punc punc Public

    What does a book look like without words? Punc strips books down to their punctuation. Browse 89 Project Gutenberg classics or open your own .txt.

    TypeScript

  5. bechdel-test bechdel-test Public

    Does your favorite film pass the test?

    JavaScript 30 6

  6. followspot followspot Public

    A voice-following browser teleprompter powered by a local whisper.cpp model. Your audio never leaves your machine.

    Swift 1 1