Experiments, investigations, and other open tabs.

Smaller work that doesn’t get a case study: local model wrangling, protocol research, small systems tools and image pipelines. Documented as they were done, messily then precisely.

LAB-01

Local LLM workbench

Running inference on my own hardware and bending it until it behaves.

Ollama + GGUF model workflows
Custom model templates and Modelfile overrides
Jinja template debugging when templates silently mangle prompts
Docker-based local inference setups
Claude Code as a daily driver
mmap-based binary patching experiments on model files

LAB-02

SA-MP RNG research

Technical research into the SA-MP server’s random number generator: analysis, tooling and disclosure support.

Reverse engineering and statistical analysis of the server RNG
Seed recovery tooling written in Python and C
Cross-validation tooling to confirm recovered seeds against observed output
Headless SA-MP client runs under Wine / proot / i686 environments
Termux TUI frontend for driving the client from a phone
Investigation of a bundled BASS audio library vulnerability
Validation harness built for the security disclosure process

LAB-03

Small Linux systems tools

Three small Python tools for watching machines behave badly. Source and binaries live on GitHub.

system-monitor: reads CPU, memory and disk metrics directly from /proc and /sys on Linux, logging structured JSON at configurable intervals system-monitor on GitHub ↗
log-analyzer: parses log files, counts event frequency by type, extracts error lines and generates a structured report log-analyzer on GitHub ↗
health-checker: HTTP endpoint monitor that pings a list of URLs, records response times and status codes, keeps a history file and alerts on failures health-checker on GitHub ↗

LAB-04

Papers & analysis

Write-ups and data work that never got a repo, kept because the thinking was the exercise.

Steganography: techniques and tooling write-up
Air-quality data analysis in Excel: descriptive statistics over PM2.5, PM10 and NOx measurements from Serbian monitoring stations
Raspberry Pi platform overview paper: history, hardware and configurations
Short video piece assembled in Premiere Pro from raw drone footage, cut and sound-passed end to end

LAB-05

Media & graphics experiments

Scripts that exist because the effect was funnier than the reason.

Video processing pipelines and deep-fry effect scripts
GIF extension experiments
2D-to-3D tube rendering
Pixel art and general image-processing experiments