Arsis Workshop

Arsis

Apps, games and research tools, made in Montpellier.

A one-person workshop: independent apps, open-source developer tools, a game in progress, and research on ecological data.

On the fire

Activity as of
  • Spicilège

    in development

    No. 01

    A local library for bookmarks saved on X and Raindrop: enriched, tagged by a local model, found again by keyword or by question.

    11 commits in 7 days Last activity

  • Rhizomes

    in development

    No. 02

    A journal written from work traces, and a searchable archive of past agent conversations that other agents can query.

    8 commits in 7 days Last activity

  • Futon Fighters

    in development

    No. 03

    Couch games for up to four players on one screen: Ippon, a one-hit platform duel, and Fourtress, a split-screen first-person fight around a fort.

    24 commits in 7 days Last activity

  • Tales of Chinatown

    in development

    No. 04

    A short detective game. Limehouse, 1913: connect clues, doubt what you are told, prepare the night. After Sax Rohmer.

    157 commits in 7 days Last activity

  • arsis.dev

    built, not yet online

    No. 05

    The workshop’s own site: a register of what it decides, measures, corrects and abandons.

    10 commits in 7 days Last activity

  • How to read the curves Commits per week over the last 12 weeks, oldest on the left, as of 14 Oct 2026. One square-root scale for every object, so a spike does not flatten the rest: Tales of Chinatown made 157 commits in 7 days. Counts and dates only, taken from Git.

Next up

4 objects
  • NamerKit

    No. 06in development

    A naming studio for macOS: local or remote language models propose names, filters keep the reasons, and the newest mode shows unranked waves to sort by hand.

    0 in 7 days Last

  • Daymon

    No. 07private beta

    Where working time actually goes, on a Mac: a local tracker that attributes time to projects and shows what it is unsure about.

    15 in 7 days Last

  • LoopHuntr

    No. 08release preparation, gate 1 of 5 passed

    Loops for gravel, road and mountain bikes, hiking and trail running, built on the iPhone from a start point and a distance, with an optional climb. Offline once a zone of France is downloaded.

    1 in 7 days Last

  • Palimpseste

    No. 09version 17, the game is in design

    A world and society generator for a game in design: land, settlements, cultures, beliefs and centuries of history, all derived from causes.

Open source

2 objects
  • Appothèque

    No. 10v0.5.1, MIT

    A menu bar launcher for the Mac and iOS apps you are building: it rebuilds only when its inputs changed.

    0 in 7 days Last

  • LLMarium

    No. 11open source soon

    The local models of a Mac in the menu bar: which MLX engines run, what each process keeps in memory and who launched it, and one click to open a model in a coding agent.

    8 in 7 days Last

Side projects

3 objects
  • tralala

    No. 12personal use

    Variations and little tunes: a personal macOS app that turns a description, a hummed melody or an old song into a track, generated on the Mac with YuE2.

    0 in 7 days Last

  • Slyfari

    No. 13positioning to decide

    An iOS browser and an encrypted on-device video library: what you keep stays on the phone.

    0 in 7 days Last

  • Squatcat

    No. 14prototype, moving fast

    Training sessions on the iPhone: a programme planned on a calendar, each session played step by step with pause and resume, then its summary.

    39 in 7 days Last

On the shelf

3 objects
  • Syntype

    No. 15v0.1 corrected; v0.1.1 waiting

    An open benchmark of tabular models on ecological data. Version 0.1 was corrected in public the day it came out.

    0 in 7 days Last

  • Layon

    No. 16interviews not started

    An ecological data tool that does not exist yet: four hypotheses about what would help ecologists, to be tested through interviews first.

  • BackShelves

    No. 17in use

    Browse and restore backups from Backblaze B2, SFTP and local folders, down to a single table of a PostgreSQL archive.

Commissions

5 objects
  • Admissions platform

    No. 18in production, worked on dailya private higher-education group

    Multi-school admissions: from the application to enrolment, documents, payments and interviews included.

  • Campus platform

    No. 19in production, worked on dailya private higher-education group

    The everyday system of the same group’s schools: timetables, grades, absences, admissions.

  • Support assistant

    No. 20being validated in daily worka private higher-education group

    Reads an application’s logs and proposes fixes, each with the evidence it rests on.

  • Ecological data platform

    No. 21activea public research institute

    Plugins that take raw field inventories all the way to a published website.

  • Biodiversity database

    No. 22maintaineda regional government

    A regional biodiversity database: species records, taxonomy and maps.

Workshop notes

Dated notes, corrections and longer articles.
  1. Correction

    A second model reviewed Syntype and found four blocking issues: a survival task that mostly predicted harvest, modelled tree heights, a growth task solved by “next year equals this year”, and species reduced to their epithet. Public correction the same evening.

    Read the entry →

  2. Contribution

    Apple Silicon fix sent to NVIDIA’s structured-data-models: mps and mps:0 were treated as two different devices. Two lines, two tests. Issue #1031, PR #1032.

  3. Survey

    Survey of open ecological datasets, licence read on each repository page. Rows are plentiful; independent targets are the scarce resource.

Week 42

12–14 Oct 2026
  1. Spicilège

    Intentions: for each saved item, why it was kept, proposed by a local model and measured.

  2. arsis.dev

    Three mockups, then a new direction: the site becomes the workshop’s window.

  3. Rhizomes

    The redesign goes on, on a new desktop base.

  4. Spicilège

    A local model proposes bookmarks for notebooks; tags that evolve; a choice of app icon.

  5. LLMarium

    Models in memory, each with what launched it; heading for an open-source release.

  6. Futon Fighters

    The couch-game collection gets its name, Futon Fighters, and a new icon.

  7. Tales of Chinatown

    Four drawn banners chosen for the store page; the game gets its page on this site.

  8. Squatcat

    Calendar and routine: an eight-week programme, sessions played step by step, summaries.

Articles

Latest

· Daymon

Multi-signal attribution in Daymon

The hardest problem in automatic time tracking isn’t capturing activity — it’s attributing it to the right project. When you switch between a browser tab, a terminal, and an IDE in the span of 30 seconds, which project owns that time?

Read the article →