# Jonathan Tipper

A personal site for projects, podcasts, infrastructure, current focus, and useful context.

Canonical: https://www.jonathantipper.com/
JSON: https://www.jonathantipper.com/home.json

## Primary actions

- [Open Launchpad](https://www.jonathantipper.com/launchpad)
- [Browse Projects](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects)

## Current focus

- [What I'm focused on now](https://www.jonathantipper.com/now) - Recent work on local AI, learning tools and a few interactive experiments.

## Spotlights

- [TechBackCTRL AI Playground](https://playground.techbackctrl.app/) (Running Apps; public; active) - A hands-on field guide to AI, with small experiments and an open studio.
- [Pendant for Mac](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects/pendant) (Projects; private; active) - A local Mac workspace for Pendant recordings, transcription and speaker labels.
- [Fieldwork (ML Studio)](https://ml-studio.jonathantipper.com/) (Running Apps; public; active) - Learn machine learning by preparing data, training models and testing predictions.
- [Personal Eval Studio](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects/personal-eval-studio) (Projects; private; building) - A local workspace for writing repeatable AI evaluations and reviewing evidence.

## Apps to open

- [Brainwave](https://brainwave.jonathantipper.com/) (Running Apps; public; active) - Play a family quiz night across phones and a shared screen. Launch: https://brainwave.jonathantipper.com/. Badges: Room-code game.
- [Tasteground](https://tasteground.jonathantipper.com/) (Running Apps; public; building) - Explore design studies, find a direction and build a practical design brief. Launch: https://tasteground.jonathantipper.com/. Badges: Local saves, Design library.
- [Tech Back Control App](https://www.techbackctrl.app/) (Running Apps; public; active) - Main app and product surface for practical technological agency. Launch: https://www.techbackctrl.app/.
- [TechBackCTRL AI Playground](https://playground.techbackctrl.app/) (Running Apps; public; active) - A hands-on field guide to AI, with small experiments and an open studio. Launch: https://playground.techbackctrl.app/. Badges: Five learning experiments, Open studio.

## Featured projects

- [CTRL for Android](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects/ctrl-android) (building) - A native Android alpha that prepares drafts, explanations and short exercises, with corrections, saved outputs, on-device Gemma and optional Venice cloud access. Tags: android, local-ai, tech-back-control.
- [Spinning Plates](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects/spinning-plates) (active) - A browser experiment that turns commitments into spinning plates, with local worlds, notes, history and reversible pause, hand-off and release controls. Launch: https://spinning-plates.jonathantipper.com/. Tags: personal-systems, planning, experiment.
- [The Construct: Awakening](https://www.jonathantipper.com/projects/matrix-awakening) (active) - An unofficial Matrix homage built with Three.js, combining an explorable corridor, Reality and Code vision, telekinesis and authored agent dialogue. Launch: https://matrix-awakening.jonathantipper.com/. Tags: threejs, game, experiment.

## Podcasts

- [Tech Back Control](https://www.jonathantipper.com/podcasts/tech-back-control) - A solo podcast about technology as a force for public good, personal agency, and more optimistic forms of digital autonomy.
- [Small Time Bets](https://www.jonathantipper.com/podcasts/small-time-bets) - A show with one of my best mates about technology, the wider world, and the strange discipline of saying what you think before hindsight gets involved.

## More routes

- [About](https://www.jonathantipper.com/about) - I like to think that at its core, I'm still learning how to create the world we live in, but just beyond building the buildings.
- [Now](https://www.jonathantipper.com/now) - Recent work on local AI, learning tools and a few interactive experiments.
- [Writing](https://www.jonathantipper.com/writing) - Published essays, presentation pages, and standalone thinking.
- [Building](https://www.jonathantipper.com/building) - Home lab, networking, automation, and validator infrastructure, described at the level of intent rather than exploitable detail.
- [Interests](https://www.jonathantipper.com/interests) - Family first, then basketball, photography, travel, and food. Present enough to make the picture whole, not expanded into separate fan sites.