Projects

Things I've built on my own time — compilers, databases, libraries, and a methodology. Most are open source; the links go to the code.

ForgeDB

Featured2026

An application-database generator: write one declarative .forge schema and, at compile time, get a tailored Rust database, a typed TypeScript SDK, and a REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. It's a code generator, not an ORM or query engine — the output is specialized per schema over columnar storage, so there's no generic runtime to pay for.

  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Code generation
  • Columnar storage
  • OpenAPI 3.1

typescript-to-rust (ttr)

2026

Language-level translator that compiles a strict TypeScript dialect into idiomatic Rust with true ownership semantics (borrows vs. owned values, &self / &mut self methods), with output verified by a real cargo toolchain rather than string matching.

  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • Compilers
  • Ownership semantics
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Optigon

2026

Packages several interchangeable implementations of an operation (sorting, dictionary lookup, more to come) behind one interface, then learns per workload which is fastest via regret-scored adaptive dispatch. One Rust core, shipped as native addons to TypeScript (Node + Bun) and Python.

  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Native addons
  • Adaptive dispatch
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AI Project-Management Playbook

2026

A portable GitHub project-management methodology organized by exactly two axes — milestone and labels — so a project's state stays derivable from the code instead of asserted by a board that drifts. Published as @hoodiecollin/pm-playbook: it vendors the rules into a repo for coding agents to read, and ships a linter that enforces them in CI, plus a Claude Code plugin that blocks violations before they land.

  • Methodology
  • GitHub Projects
  • npm package
  • Linter
  • Claude Code plugin
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checked-rs

2024

Rust library that encodes arbitrary validation logic into the type system, with a proc-macro that generates specialized, self-validating integer types.

  • Rust
  • Proc macros
  • Type-level validation
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use-quantum-state

2024

TypeScript / React library for fine-grained cross-component state: subscribers update without replacing the provider's value, so only components bound to a changed property rerender — cutting render cycles in high-frequency UI such as large tables.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Fine-grained reactivity
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