Open Source Studio

Stya Yur

Engineer · Writer · Observer

Building local-first software,developer tools and knowledge systems.

Engineering and literature, grown side by side — local-first software, developer tools, and a slowly tended digital garden.

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Featured Work

All projects
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Open Source Studio

The workshop

Systems & Developer Tools

Developer Security Workspace

stable
Developer Security Workspace screenshot

Local-first SARIF vulnerability explorer and finding debugger.

RustTauriSQLite

Local Context Engine

beta
Local Context Engine screenshot

Millisecond, offline-first search over your own machine.

RustTauri

CodeForge Engine

beta
CodeForge Engine screenshot

Local-first, verification-driven, language-aware code transformation runtime.

Rust

Knowledge & Science

STEM Visual Explorer

beta
STEM Visual Explorer screenshot

Visual search and comparison for mathematics and physics resources.

ReactTypeScriptRustTauri

Digital Garden Engine

beta
Digital Garden Engine screenshot

Open-source, static-first engine for personal knowledge publishing.

Next.jsReactMDXTypeScript

Creative & Personal Tools

Calligraphy Studio

stable
Calligraphy Studio screenshot

Offline Chinese calligraphy composition and glyph exploration.

ReactKonvaElectronCapacitor

TinyTTS

beta
TinyTTS screenshot

Tiny, offline text-to-speech for Windows. No cloud. No account.

RustKokorosherpa-onnx

Echo-Loop

beta
Echo-Loop screenshot

An app that guides daily English listening and speaking practice.

iOSAndroidmacOSWindows

Education

LGXT Assistant

beta
LGXT Assistant screenshot

Local-first learning assistant for courses, assignments and study workflows.

PythonWindowsAndroid

Digital Humanities

Nickspeare

research
Nickspeare screenshot

Source-grounded Shakespearean nickname generator.

Python

Musical Spinningtop

experimental
Musical Spinningtop screenshot

Daily musical discovery from a sourced 2,650-title catalogue.

PythonFlask

Experiments

mini-market

experimental
mini-market screenshot

Simulation-only AI capability marketplace and design prototype.

Next.jsTypeScript

Utilities

Windows New PC Setup

stable
Windows New PC Setup screenshot

Previewable Windows 11 provisioning with PowerShell and WinGet.

PowerShell

Concepts & Research

Corpus

research

The quiet engine behind this garden — essays, projects and library shelves compiled from plain text into a fast, static, self-hosted site.

Next.jsMDXTailwind CSS

Marginalia

research

A reading environment for serious readers — highlights, marginal notes and slow revisits, kept as plain text and never locked in.

TypeScriptNext.jsMDX

Observatory

research

Instrumentation for AI agents in production — traces, evals and the boring telemetry that makes autonomy trustworthy.

TypeScriptPythonTemporal

Personal Knowledge OS

research

An AI-native memory system that remembers the way the mind forgets — associatively, by salience, never in folders.

RustPythonLLMSQLite
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Latest Writing

All essays
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The Garden

Wander it

Every essay, project and shelf in this place is a plant in one of six provinces — AI, Programming, Literature, Philosophy, Systems and Cognition. The map is drawn the way the mind is: by association, not by folder.

AIAGENTS & MEMORYProgrammingTHE CRAFTLiteratureTHE CANONPhilosophyTHE QUESTIONSSystemsARCHITECTURECognitionTHE MIND

Six provinces, one garden — hover to trace the paths between them

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From the Library

Browse shelves
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Reading

In Praise of Shadows

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

On the beauty of dimness — and why light is not always enlightenment.

T

Reading

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

Castalia is the original digital garden — an order of scholars devoted to the play of connections between every field of knowledge.

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Queued

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

Strange loops, self-reference, and why meaning escapes the machine — the book that made me want to build minds.

“This garden is written by hand — in prose and in code, and tended slowly, the way ideas deserve.”