forward deployed engineer · it admin · educator
Building tools at the intersection of AI, developer experience, and trust-centered design.
const toshon = {
roles: ["forward deployed engineer", "it admin", "educator"],
focus: ["AI", "developer experience", "trust-centered design"],
builds: ["desktop tools", "knowledge systems", "civic technology"],
defaultMode: "turn complexity into something people can use",
};
01 / SELECTED WORK
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GitHub-native, version-controlled workspaces for writers, strategists, and teams. Human-first checkpoints, drafts, history, and linked documents without needing to learn Git.
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AI-integrated development workspace and personal wiki. Monospace-focused, developer-centric, locally orchestrated.
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Structured workspace for documentation, knowledge management, and project coordination.
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Multi-provider AI command center. Mission Control, autoresearch modes, advanced reasoning, artifacts, intelligent web search. Free, local, pre-stable. Active development.
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Hermes agent desktop app. Native terminal, multi-provider support, streaming chat, session management, messaging gateway integrations.
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Interactive crash risk engine and street safety mapping dashboard. DuckDB-WASM-powered spatial analysis of KSI hazards across Philadelphia street segments.
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Central directory for localized city crash engines. Interconnecting regional safety mapping, road segment analytics, and accident exposure engines.
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Real-time global intelligence and AI forecasting platform. Unifies live aviation, maritime, CCTV, seismic, conflict, and market signals in one GPU-accelerated dashboard.
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Living gallery of CSS animation tests—each one a different AI model's attempt at drawing a pelican riding a bicycle. Still growing.
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Learned coding preferences for Claude Code, captured from real signals as readable Markdown and shared over Git.
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Local-first idea notebook for capturing, scoring, and refining thoughts before they fade, with desktop AI and a responsive mobile companion.
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Community fork of OpenCode with an integrated terminal and always-on usage HUD. Stays closely aligned with upstream OpenCode.
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02 / WORKING TOOLS
Small tools for the everyday developer.
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Port-awareness tool for developers. Real port scanning with process identification, command line, working directory, parent PID.
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Background keyboard utility. Detects and corrects accidental double-caps from holding Shift too long.
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macOS developer cache cleanup utility. Zero-dependency bash script for uv, pip, npm, bun, Homebrew, Xcode, Docker/OrbStack. Installs via Homebrew tap.
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Local command center for your GitHub repos — commits, Actions CI status, dependency alerts, issues, and PRs — as one self-contained Go binary.
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Desktop interface for Microsoft's MarkItDown. Convert files and office documents into Markdown through a graphical workflow.
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Local web interface for Apple Intelligence's on-device Foundation Models, with streaming chat, constrained JSON, batch processing, and MCP tools.
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03 / BROWSER-SIDE
Browser extensions that travel with you.
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Personal link-memory browser extension. Save links with one click, capture context, cluster related items. No backend, no account.
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04 / INSTALLABLE
Installable packages across npm, PyPI, and Homebrew.
Homebrew Tap Homebrew Installation source for Toshon Jennings' macOS tools and command-line utilities. |
Forget-Me-Knot ToolBox Homebrew Cask Lightweight local-first macOS menu bar app for managing daily tools, links & active subscriptions. |
Versed GitHub App Installable, GitHub-native knowledge workspaces with checkpoints, drafts, history, and linked documents. |
claude-taste npm Learned coding preferences for Claude Code and other agents/harnesses — captured from real signals, stored as markdown, shared over git. |
perci-story npm Build an evidence-backed product story from Git history and an optional Graphify knowledge graph. |
separate-cli-blocks npm Universal agent standard enforcing one CLI command per Markdown code block. Installable via npx separate-cli-blocks. |
config-map PyPI A beautiful terminal map of your configuration files. |
graphify-diff PyPI Patch a Graphify knowledge graph incrementally from git diffs — no re-extraction, no LLM calls. |
05 / OPEN SPECIFICATIONS
Open specifications for AI agent governance, continuity, and orientation.
| HANDOFF.md Platform-agnostic session continuity standard. Markdown-based, human-readable, model-agnostic. | HITL.md Human-in-the-loop decision ledger. Append-only rulings and boundaries for AI coding agents. | SUMMARY.md Agent orientation cheat sheet. Maps project structure so agents skip scanning and start working. |
| REPO.md Project convention rules for agents and humans. Non-negotiables, scope boundaries, shared expectations. | PORTMASTER.md Port registry for AI agents. Single source of truth for service ports on a machine. |
06 / WORKING MATERIALS
Planting the seeds of tomorrow's tech field today.
