full-stack dev and photographer in auckland, new zealand. kiwi and french.
i like building small, fast, self-hostable things — mostly rust and typescript — and i have a soft spot for desktop apps that don't ship a whole browser just to draw a window.
my grandfather registered rossi.nz when i was a kid and got me into coding. i picked up python at around 10, moved on to html and css, and eventually ended up in rust, go and whatever else the project needed. i spent a couple of years in france (2023–2025), came back fluent, and kept coding and shooting the whole time.
none of this is my job (yet). everything here is a hobby, a way to get better, or a tool i wanted and couldn't find. i'm studying electrical engineering, and once that's done i'll probably put all this to use in a job or start something of my own.
i never really set out to have a philosophy, but looking back most of what i build ends up the same way: one binary, one folder to back up, runs on your own machine, doesn't phone home. no electron, no telemetry, nothing you can't just delete.
when i'm not coding i'm behind a camera, running events, or behind a mixing desk — not quite professionally, usually just for fun or to help out.
| project | what it is | built with |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAir | open-source, cross-platform airplay 2 transmitter. streams your pc's audio to homepods, apple tvs and shairport sync — multi-room, lossless alac, and the whole protocol stack (discovery, homekit pairing, encrypted rtsp, ptp timing) written from scratch. | rust |
| Vitrine | a self-hosted photo gallery for photographers and artists. collections shown as 3d-tilting stacks of prints, a proper deep-linkable viewer, per-collection visibility and passwords, exif stripped on serve. one node process, one sqlite file. | sveltekit, svelte 5, sqlite |
| Claudeometer | desktop app for tracking claude.ai usage limits live from the system tray, with notifications and a local http api so coding agents can check their own usage and stop cleanly before hitting a limit. also runs headless. | tauri v2, rust, react |
| mcplug & mcbackup | a pair of minecraft server tools: a terminal plugin manager that identifies jars by hash, updates transactionally with rollback and restarts when nobody's on; and versioned, deduplicated, player-aware backups to cloudflare r2. | rust, python, restic |
| OpenWhatsApp | a native whatsapp client for windows on webview2 — ~70 mb of ram instead of ~350, and it actually stays logged in. | tauri, rust |
| spotify-videos | a web app that plays the music video for whatever's playing on spotify, via a self-hosted invidious instance. made for parties — plug a laptop into a projector and let it run. | html, js |
there's a bunch of other smaller things scattered around my repos, and a few bigger ones that aren't public (yet).
i own more domains than i probably should. some of what's on them:
- podesentar.com — everyone in the room opens it on their phone and the same video plays in perfect sync. a joke that got wildly overengineered: per-device ids, drift telemetry, an admin dashboard, ios safari workarounds. worth it.
- shortlink.nz — a url shortener, and my first proper website with a backend. i've modernised it a bit since (cloudflare pages + supabase) but honestly it still doesn't work that well. it's here for the nostalgia.
- hostanything.app — host any file, paste one link, and it embeds inline wherever you drop it. built to get around discord's 10 mb cap. abandoned-ish.
- downloadanything.nz — invite-only media downloader running on a raspberry pi at home, with a chain-of-trust invite system so it stays under the radar. abandoned-ish too.
- tachyon-studios.com — a "company" i made up for a school project and kept as a brand because i like the name.
rust typescript tauri sveltekit react go python sqlite supabase docker cloudflare
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