Colorado Springs. former VFX artist, builder of systems and tools.
10 years in VFX, now building the infrastructure layer i never had. most of what i make comes back to the same thing: own your data, own your tools, own your context.
- signetai - open protocol for agent identity, knowledge, and trust. defines how an agent persists across sessions and carries its identity between tools.
- comfyui-materia - diffusion-based inverse rendering for ComfyUI. RGB to PBR material maps via NVIDIA Cosmos 7B.
- pr-reviewer - self-hosted PR review daemon in Rust. watches repos, spawns a local AI coding CLI, posts review comments automatically.
- nicholai.work - personal site
nvim / hyprland / quickshell
- Building a Terminal UI for Your Website with Rust and Cloudflare Workers
- The Ecosystem Experiment: A 30-Day Study in Autonomous AI Exploration
- building the cognitive persistence layer for AI agents. cross-session memory, identity, context that travels with you.
- thinking about prediction markets as a design problem, not just a trading problem
- figuring out what a VFX artist does when he keeps building software instead
the details
- former VFX technical director.
- self-hosted everything. gitea, nextcloud, the works. bowls are replaceable, the principle of owning your tools is not.
- genuinely excited about new pens
- draws in my free time