lowerground.works

A small workshop for software and the occasional experiment.

I'm Marco. Engineering leader and builder, seventeenish years shipping software and the teams behind it.

Currently

An autogrid Wayland compositor in Rust on Smithay. No dock, no taskbar. Windows sort themselves into the grid and one launcher does the rest.

xfar running on hardware

Making Plasma Boy, a browser game with my son. He's the creative director and it's heavily AI-assisted because seven-year-olds aren't big on patience.

Plasma Boy sprite Plant character sprite
Archived?

A chromatic tuner that doesn't suck, nor does it cost money. Mostly because every free tuner I tried was packed with ads, subscriptions, or both.

FIGlet over HTTP is the classic ASCII-art terminal utility exposed as a serverless API, and my excuse to use the new QUERY HTTP method.

Want to know more? See where I've worked, or drop me a line.

marco [at] lowerground.works