0 · A POINT
It starts with a point of light.
One person who kept thinking, surely this can work better than it does.
Software with one more direction.
Baseract is the studio where I build the tools I could not buy. Twelve of them live here, real and running.
step inside0 · A POINT
One person who kept thinking, surely this can work better than it does.
1 · A BEAM
I ship something most weeks, even when nobody is watching. Especially then.
2 · A SHEET
Screens, mostly. The places where a tool meets an ordinary Tuesday morning.
3 · A CHAMBER
Real software with real weight. Databases, logins, backups, the unglamorous load bearing walls.
4 · BASERACT
A shape with more sides than sense. You are standing in it now.
Pass one light through a prism and the beams keep coming. Twelve so far, every one of them made here, most of them used daily.
THE VISIT
Baseract is what I make after hours. If one of these tools would make your week lighter, or you are busy building your own little machines, write to me. I answer.
BEAM 05 OF 12 · IN THE WORKSHOP
the voice, kept home
Sotto is Italian for a voice kept low. Hold a key and Sotto Console types what I dictate into whatever app I am in; select some text and it reads it aloud, in a voice I picked or in my own, cloned from about twenty five seconds of me talking. The microphone listens only while the key is held, and speech never touches the network. It is still on the workbench, and I like it there.
03 views of Sotto Console, as it runs.