Bjola Software / Public workshop

Tools I needed,
then made public.

Small, inspectable software for agent work, stubborn paperwork, listening, and the chores that should have disappeared by now.

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Built from real annoyances.
Released with honest labels.
Maintained when still useful.

Base: Coquitlam, BC
Output: Source + notes
Reviewed: September 2026

Project ledger / selected work

Working software first.

Each label describes what you can do with the project today. No stars, trend lines, or archaeological guesses from the last commit date.

01Swift

1.0 / signed download

Voice is Local

On-device dictation, meeting transcripts and read-aloud for the Mac.

A menu bar app that types what you say into the app you're using, records and transcribes meetings with speaker labels and summaries, and turns articles into audio files. Speech, transcripts and summaries stay on the Mac.

Repository ↗ Build note

Dictate / record / read

01Hold Right Option and talk; the text goes where you're typing
02Record a call; both sides, labelled by speaker
03Get a summary and action items, made on the Mac
04Turn an article into an .m4a for your phone

Download the signed DMG from https://voiceislocal.com/

02Python

Installable plugin

Agent Nudge

Wake Claude and Codex sessions in tmux that stopped short of their goal.

A per-machine daemon that watches agent panes in tmux and, when one has gone idle with work left, types a single polite question into it.

Source ↗ Read note

03Go

Installable

aiq

Route Claude and Codex sessions across subscriptions.

Ask questions from the shell, choose a provider automatically, and keep long-running sessions moving across account limits with supervised handoffs.

Source ↗ Read note

04Python

Installable plugin

Agent Orchestra

Coordinate coding-agent sessions across machines.

A durable mailbox hub for one conductor, multiple players, and their child sessions, with a shared member tree and task view.

Source ↗ Read note

05Python

Installable

Undrudge

Find the chores hiding in your agent and shell history.

A local background watchman that spots commands and prompt patterns you keep repeating, sanitizes them before storage, and leaves practical automation recommendations as Markdown.

Source ↗ Read note

06Python

Installable plugin

Agent Pair

Connect two coding-agent sessions directly.

A durable, TLS-pinned mailbox for two Claude Code or Codex sessions, on one machine or across machines. Exchange tasks, reviews, and handoffs without a central hub.

Source ↗

07Python

Installable

aisay / aitts

Text-to-speech tools that belong at the command line.

Speak short messages immediately or turn a long article into a queued audio playlist. The small command is useful for hearing when parallel coding sessions finish without watching every terminal.

Source ↗ Read note

08JavaScript

Live browser tool

Receipts

Turn receipt photos into clean scans and a reviewable spreadsheet.

A browser-only receipt workflow with local image correction, structured extraction, batch recovery, and no account. Images and the user's API key go directly from their browser to OpenAI.

Open tool ↗ Source ↗ Read note

09JavaScript

Live browser tool

Scan2Speech

Turn photos of paper pages into an audiobook queue.

A static, bring-your-own-key tool that transcribes page photos, lets the reader correct the text, and generates a continuous listening queue. Images and the user's API key go directly from their browser to OpenAI.

Open tool ↗ Source ↗ Read note

10Python

Alpha

AI Debate

Let several coding agents cross-examine an engineering decision.

An orchestrator for structured debates between authenticated Claude, Gemini, Codex, and other interactive CLIs, with a live view and a durable Markdown archive of each result.

Source ↗

Lab shelf / handle with curiosity

Experiments worth opening.

L01 TAKT A native rhythm machine and its Android running companion. Source experiment / Swift + Kotlin ↗ L02 Load Bearing Find and compare overused metaphorical language in AI conversation logs. Source experiment / Python ↗ L03 Sound Visualizer A browser-built fireplace for music, inspired by the Winamp years. Source experiment / TypeScript ↗

Catalogue labels reviewed September 2026. Browse every public repository ↗

Notes / dictated near the workbench

What happened while building.

The blog remains deliberately quick and dirty: talk through what happened, turn it into one Markdown file, push.

2026.10.30

Status vocabulary

installable: Packaged or documented for installation.
live tool: Usable now in a web browser.
alpha: Working software whose interface and behaviour may still change.
source experiment: Code to inspect or build, without a supported release.

Tools I needed,
then made public.