👋 Hey, I'm Ian Franklin.
A tech enthusiast and habitual hobby collector out of Perth, Western Australia
I use coding as a creative outlet and lately having been building small, weirdly specific tools that make a Linux desktop feel like home. I enjoy tinkering with AI and exploring open source models including fine tuning.
Recently been building plugins for Noctalia which has been fun:
- 🛰 taildrop — yeet a file to any machine on your tailnet from a file manager's right-click menu.
- 🤖 llama-swap — one-click model load/unload for your local LLM server, with some basic performance tracking.
- ☁️ onedrive — Basic OneDrive sync status with live progress, recent files, and pause/resume.
- 📡 netcheck — ICMP, DNS and hop-by-hop network checks against your own targets, with a live latency graph.
- 🗄️ restic-snapshots — scheduled restic backups with a snapshot browser, staging restore, and dry-run-gated retention.
- ⚡ agent-harness — hotkey a chat bar, type the task, hit Enter, and pop out into a Pi or Hermes TUI seeded with your prompt.
- 🗂 hyprfm — a lightweight Qt6/QML file manager for Hyprland.
- 🐍 asx-digest — an ASX stock-tip aggregator that reads 20+ sources and emails you a twice-daily digest with AI conviction scores.
- 🏠 HomeAssistantConfig — my home-automation config, shared with the community.
- 🖨 klipper_config — Klipper config for a CR-10 v3 on an SKR Mini E3 I built.
- 🎙 xiaozhi-ball-custom — custom firmware for a Xiaozhi Ball v2 with a local bridge to cloud AI + TTS.
- 🐉 CCGDBF — a Discord bot for a role-play / fantasy community.
- Plus a swag of IOS apps i've got in various states of completeness.
- 🐦 @Myq_Lowrey — my AI happy place, always chaos.
- 🧪 kellianlabs.com — where some of this lives.
Right now: On a CachyOS/Hyprland box that I am enjoying tinkering with which much inspiration coming from Omarchy.