Who is Dave Herkula?
Dave Herkula is a software developer who builds software and systems that hold up under real use.
Frequently asked questions
About Dave Herkula and the work on this site.
What does Dave work on?
He works on software systems and focused tools, including a 3D-to-ASCII renderer, a statistical political assessment site and a local retrieval system for large text collections.
ascii-render · polyaxis · marx-knowledge-base · All projects
What is ascii-render?
ascii-render is a 3D renderer that loads an OBJ model, lets you rotate it and renders it as interactive monospace ASCII art. It is written in Rust and available at github.com/peanutmow/ascii-render.
What is polyaxis?
polyaxis is a three-axis political assessment. Ownership, change and authority are measured separately and reported with confidence intervals. It requires no account, sets no cookies and lives at polyaxis.link.
What is marx-knowledge-base?
marx-knowledge-base is a fully local AI assistant over more than 125 works by Marx, Engels and Lenin. It uses hybrid retrieval and gives cited answers without sending text to a cloud service.
What is this website built with?
The site is a Rust web application served by axum on Uberspace. The ASCII water is a WebAssembly simulation, and every page is server-rendered.
Is the source code available?
Yes. Most projects, including this website, are public on GitHub at github.com/peanutmow.
How can I contact Dave?
Email [email protected] or find him on GitHub at github.com/peanutmow.