destabilization.net is my personal software site. Everything here was built by me, Scott, and released for free. I've been writing software for about five years, mostly desktop tools and utilities for Windows.
Most of the projects started because I wanted something that didn't exist, or existed but was bloated, behind a subscription, or just not how I wanted it to work. Building it yourself is usually faster than waiting for someone else to.
The software here is genuinely what I use. It's not demos or throwaway experiments. Some projects have been through a dozen major versions over a couple of years. When something breaks or a feature is missing, I notice, because I hit it myself.
A Windows desktop dashboard I've been building since 2022. It combines a system monitor, terminal, media controls, AI chat, an end-to-end encrypted messenger, live weather, news, a 3D globe, gesture controls, and about a dozen other modules into one panel. Built with C# and .NET 8. The current version is v12v and it's still getting regular updates.
A file transfer app for Windows that works over Bluetooth and local Wi-Fi. No cloud, no accounts, no internet required. Transfers are encrypted end-to-end and verified with a checksum when they complete. I built this because I was tired of emailing files to myself or dealing with slow USB transfers between nearby machines.
A browser frontend for Ollama, the local LLM runner. It has a retro CRT aesthetic, streaming output, DuckDuckGo web search, a persistent SQLite knowledge base, voice input and output, multi-chat history, and full markdown rendering. Everything runs locally. No API keys, no data leaving your machine. If you're already running Ollama and want a better UI than the default, this is what Oracle VII is for.
An older project that's been through several major rewrites. It's a retro-style control panel built with Python and pygame: live system stats, a music player, a security panel with user login, configurable hotkeys, and audio visualisers. Packaged as a standalone exe so it runs without Python installed.
A command-line script that generates a morning briefing in a couple of seconds: local weather via the open-meteo API (no API key needed) and top news headlines with extractive summaries. You configure the city, how many headlines you want, and how long the summaries should be. I run it every morning.
A voice assistant for Windows that you configure entirely through a YAML file. You define trigger phrases, and for each one you specify what it does: run a shell command, call a Python function, or make an HTTP request. Everything runs offline. Adding new commands doesn't require touching any code.
Everything is free for personal use. I don't want to deal with payments, accounts, or licence keys, and I don't think you should have to deal with them either for tools like this.
All software ships as pre-compiled Windows executables in a zip file. No installer, no wizard, no setup. Unzip it and run the exe. Python projects are compiled with PyInstaller so they bundle everything they need. .NET projects bundle the runtime. Neither requires you to install anything.
Source code isn't published. If something's broken or you want a feature, get in touch on the contact page.
Desktop apps are either C# with .NET 8 and WPF, or Python. The bigger, longer-lived projects tend to be C#. Smaller tools and experiments tend to be Python.
This website is built with Next.js and deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Files are served through a Cloudflare Worker from R2 object storage. The whole thing runs on Cloudflare's free tier.
All software is free for personal use. You can't redistribute it, sell it, reverse engineer it, or use it commercially. It's provided as-is with no warranty.