Introducing Astrohacker

For years I’ve been shipping projects under scattered banners — a blockchain here, a shell there, an encrypted messenger, a Nushell plugin for PyTorch, a social-network joke that got out of hand. Each one had its own domain, its own repo, its own half-written about page. None of them had a home.

Today they do. It’s called Astrohacker, and it lives at astrohacker.com.

Astrohacker is the umbrella company for everything I build. One brand, one portfolio, one premise: science and technology are how we explore and understand the universe, and the best way to explore is to build. The name is the thesis — to hack something is to understand it so thoroughly that you can do something new with it, the way a physicist hacks gravity with an airplane or a chemist hacks molecular bonds with medicine. Astrohacker is the company I want to be running while I try to do that with code.

The portfolio

Every project I’ve been writing about on this blog now lives under the Astrohacker roof:

• TermSurf — GPU-accelerated web browsers embedded directly in your terminal. Type web and you’re browsing in your shell.
• Shannon — A poly-shell built on nushell with seamless bash compatibility. Shift+Tab to switch modes; environment and working directory stay in sync.
• EarthBucks — A global electronic cash system. GPU-mined, instant finality, email-like addresses, 42 million EBX. Peer-to-peer electronic cash for an era where AIs are going to need to pay each other.
• KeyPears — Federated, end-to-end encrypted messaging, a secret manager, and an authentication provider in one project you control. Alpha went live yesterday.
• Nutorch — PyTorch tensor operations for Nushell. GPU-accelerated machine learning from the command line.
• Rickbait — An AI-powered clickbait generator, algorithmic feed, and advertising auction market. Exactly as serious as it sounds, and exactly as serious as the rest of the web.

Looking at the list, a few through-lines surface. The shell is the interface: TermSurf, Shannon, and Nutorch all start from the premise that the terminal is the most powerful UI we have and deserves better infrastructure. Cryptography is plumbing, not a product category: EarthBucks and KeyPears both treat it as a primitive for moving money and holding secrets, not as an end in itself. And play is allowed — Rickbait is a joke that ships.

What changes for this blog

Not much. This site is still my personal blog — first person, whatever I feel like writing about, no editorial calendar. The difference is that when I announce a release or dig into a design decision, there’s now a second place the post can live: the Astrohacker blog, which covers the portfolio as a whole. Expect cross-links in both directions.

The full introduction — portfolio details, company philosophy, what’s coming in 2026 — is over there: Introducing Astrohacker.

Hack the universe.