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Enjoyed my week of Fable. Projects Claude and I've worked on, updates since 2026: 1. Prosodic (metrical scansion machine), 2009– 15x faster, can use GPU, finds foot boundaries, has Liberman&Prince stress trees & grids, MaxEnt constraint weighting, + more. prosodic.app github.com/quadrismegis...

Ryan Heuser

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12 July

2. LLTK (DH corpus management), 2016– Overhauled from the ground up: 60+ literary corpora, ClickHouse backend for 2.8M texts, web explorer, cross-corpus dedup/matching, human+LLM annotation layer. Feeds into my book project and other DH work. lltk.net github.com/quadrismegis...

Ryan Heuser

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3. Large Literary Models (LLM annotation tasks for DH), 2026– New project: structured data extraction from texts via LLMs. 23 tasks built in: genre tagging, character networks, emotion analysis, etc. Runs on frontier or local models. Enforces schema, caches via HashStash. github.com/quadrismegis...

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Ryan Heuser

@ryanheuser.com

12 July

4. Malign Logits (psychoanalysing LLMs), 2025– Scaled from 1 to 47 model families (360M–70B). Token-tree census, beam search, displacement taxonomy, logit lens, cloud generation (141k passages). Found displacement (e.g. kill->scream) is independent of model architecture. github.com/quadrismegis...

Ryan Heuser

@ryanheuser.com

12 July

## Utilities: 5. HashStash (disk-based file caching utility), 2024– New storage engines (DuckDB, LevelDB, fsspec for S3, simple JSONL); serializers (msgpack, cbor2, orjson); async support; TTL; exception caching; and a graph database layer. Custom serializer ~3x faster. github.com/quadrismegis...

Ryan Heuser

@ryanheuser.com

12 July

6. logmap (hierarchical context-manager logger), 2024– Pointless but helpful logger; procrastination project. Dropped loguru; added thread safety, structured logging, stdlib logging bridge, async support, function decorator, and progress bars, now minimal dependencies. github.com/quadrismegis...

Ryan Heuser

@ryanheuser.com

12 July

## Hobby projects 7. Botvinnik (chess practice trainer), 2026– Import your chess.com / lichess games, analyse with Stockfish, turn your mistakes into spaced-repetition puzzles, play bots. Opening explorer, engine analysis, motifs. Web + desktop. ryanheuser.com/botvinnik github.com/quadrismegis...