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The laptop that was closed all day
NWF Sync is a four-route read-only protocol for pulling feed journals between machines, built for the case direct fetching cannot solve: items that already scrolled off the front page while you were away.
Read articleTail: following a feed instead of re-fetching it
Neurowire 0.8.0 replaces every polling loop in the codebase with one async generator, so the CLI, watch mode, and the server-sent-events endpoint cannot drift on cadence, dedupe, or politeness.
Read articleA tap wizard with zero LLM calls
Neurowire 0.8.0 generates CSS-selector taps by ranking candidates from page structure and gating every one behind eight deterministic checks, with no model and no API key anywhere in the loop.
Read articleLangdrift: scoring how differently a translation lands
Langdrift compares audio of an original and its translation and returns a drift score: how far apart the two land cognitively, catching accurate but off translations.
Read articleVerso: one JSON source, decks branched per audience
Verso defines presentations as JSON instead of slide documents, so one source can branch per audience and export to PDF, HTML, or PNG cleanly.
Read articlePetrify: removing people from footage, entirely on-device
Petrify detects and removes people from fixed-camera footage while keeping the live timestamp ticking, running fully on your own machine with no cloud upload.
Read articleTaps: turning feed-less websites into real feeds
Neurowire taps are per-host CSS-selector recipes that turn a plain HTML listing page into a real feed, so a site with no RSS becomes a first-class source.
Read articleDogfooding @neurowire/core to power this blog's feeds
This site publishes its own Atom, JSON Feed, and NWF feeds from one canonical Neurowire model, because dogfooding your own library is the most honest test it gets.
Read articleNocturne: an open-source Cyberpunk 2077 design system
Nocturne is an open-source design system inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners: near-black surfaces, one hot neon accent, clipped corners, and machine-voice type, shipped as design tokens, framework-agnostic CSS, and React components.
Read articleBuilding Neurowire: one canonical model, six feed formats
Neurowire treats feeds as a data-modelling problem: one canonical model that every parser produces and every serializer reads, so adding a format is a single serializer.
Read articleThe open web forgot about feeds, and that is worth fixing
Feeds let you publish once and let anything read it. As they eroded, following became an account on someone else's platform. Owning what you read is independence.
Read articleDesigning NWF: a feed format 62% smaller than JSON Feed
NWF is Neurowire's native feed format, roughly 62% smaller than the equivalent JSON Feed yet fully round-trippable, using interning, relative links, and date deltas.
Read articleNeurowire Taps Pack: 271 curated sources, 24 themes
The Taps Pack is a ready-made library of 271 vetted sources for Neurowire, grouped into 24 themes from Frontier AI Labs to Food. It's the curation layer ahead of the upcoming Neurowire SaaS.
Read articleNeurowire: an open feed engine, now with full docs
Neurowire turns any source, even feed-less websites, into one canonical feed you can serialize to Atom, JSON Feed, Markdown, RSS, or its own compact NWF format. The full documentation site is now live.
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