# Dave Herkula — full site summary

> developer — building software and systems that hold up under real use.

Dave Herkula is a developer who builds software and systems that hold up under real use. He publishes projects and selected work on this site.

## Projects


### ascii-render

Status: LIVE
my 3d renderer. load an obj, drag it around, watch it degrade into beautiful monospace.
Tags: Rust, 3D, ASCII

Link: https://github.com/peanutmow/ascii-render

### polyaxis

Status: LIVE
a three-axis political assessment — ownership, change and authority measured separately, reported with confidence intervals. no accounts, no cookies.
Tags: Politics, Statistics, Web
Link: https://polyaxis.link/


### This website

Status: LIVE
my corner of the internet, where I display my projects, socials, and my love for art.
Tags: HTML, JS, CSS

Link: https://github.com/peanutmow/website/

### marx-knowledge-base

Status: LIVE
a fully-local ai assistant over 125+ works of marx, engels & lenin. hybrid retrieval, cited answers, zero cloud.
Tags: Python, RAG, Ollama

Link: https://github.com/peanutmow/marx-knowledge-base

## Ideas


### Secure Messaging App

Status: IDEA
a secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging app with a focus on privacy and usability.
Tags: Rust, Encryption

### Videogame

Status: IDEA
a Videogame in the making, made by me and my friends.
Tags: Videogame, Steam

## Pages

- [Home](https://daveherkula.org/)
- [Projects](https://daveherkula.org/projects)
- [About](https://daveherkula.org/about)
- [FAQ](https://daveherkula.org/faq)
- [Gallery](https://daveherkula.org/gallery)
- [Socials](https://daveherkula.org/socials)

## Machine-readable

- Sitemap: https://daveherkula.org/sitemap.xml
- LLM summary: https://daveherkula.org/llms.txt