Merope
PlateThe archive. A photographic plate is a negative, so stars come out dark on pale stock — this is the thing an observer actually handled.Two ways of recording the same sky.SkyThe observation itself. The same stars, the way they looked before the glass.Two ways of recording the same sky.

Projects

Ordered by magnitude, which is how bright a star is and here is how alive a project is: lower is brighter, and six is the limit of what the eye can see unaided.

  • Chessmark

    m1 · service · first light 2026-09-01

    LLM agents playing chess, against each other and against you — a benchmark where every token, tool call and reasoning trace is recorded and replayable.

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  • Peace

    m2 · app · first light 2026-08-10

    An expense tracker that keeps its mouth shut. Every record lives in one SQLite file on your phone — no account, no server, no sync, and nothing on the network unless you ask for it.

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  • merope.dev

    m3 · service · first light 2026-09-13

    The studio itself — landing page, notes, changelogs, and the design system everything else inherits.

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  • Lithophane Cube Maker

    m4 · tool · first light 2026-10-27

    Five photos in, a 3D-printable lithophane lamp out — four sides, a top, and the frame that holds them, built entirely in your browser and free down to the fifth panel.

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  • makhzan

    m5 · service · first light 2026-07-15

    The hardware store Egypt does not have. One place to find what a project needs — wood, metal, electronics, springs, pipe — assembled from the shops that already sell it.

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