Benjamin Jordan thegoldenmule

Benjamin Jordan at your service (but you can just call me Ben).

I am a hands–on, full-stack technical leader with extensive experience in real-time interactive applications, AR, gaming, and SaaS.
I have built and led many teams over the years, providing coaching and mentoring to grow aptitude, capacity, and velocity.
I 💙 open source as a business strategy.

LLM Tooling

🔬 static-x - Compiler-grade code intelligence for LLMs: language-server tools over MCP, not grep
🪝 hooks - Claude Code hooks: daily standups, commit logs, tl;dr enforcement, context statusline
📚 hotseat-web - Event-sourced, LLM-first wiki: typed pages, FSM-gated mutations, agents edit over MCP
🪑 Hotseat - Kanban board where Claude Code does the cards. Drop a task, watch it ship
⚡ Powerhouse - Event-sourced document OS that agents build on, and the engine behind Vetra: chat your way to working software

📐 Numerical Integration Explainer - Why physics engines blow up: an interactive guide to numerical stability
🧩 godot-addons - Self-updating Godot 4 addons: UI router, editor toolkit, one-button TestFlight builds
🎛️ aibleton - An AI bandmate that drives Ableton Live and Splice over MCP
🎬 timeline - Native macOS video editor with an agent and MCP tools built in
🧸 music-box - Apple Music for kids: the whole catalog, inside walls parents set
🔁 spotify-apple-converter - Move playlists between Spotify and Apple Music with exact ISRC matching
⛪ Sermon Seek - Semantic + full-text search across every sermon on a church's YouTube channel
🧠 moveborne-godot - Cheat-proof competitive puzzle game: Godot client, hash-matched server validator
🧬 llm-quines - Evolutionary agent loop breeding ever-weirder JavaScript quines, judged by Claude
🃏 war - The card game War, plus Balatro-style special cards and a server-authoritative validator

⚙️ Reactor - Event-sourced document engine: job queue, read models, consistency tokens, multi-reactor sync
🍳 recipes - 30+ tiny runnable Reactor recipes: ACLs, sagas, semantic search, webhooks
🕵️ doc-harness - Claude agents play new developers to find where the docs lie
🔌 reactor-mcp - MCP server that lets AI coding assistants edit Powerhouse documents and drives
🛡️ reactor-privacy - GDPR erasure and disclosure for an append-only event store
🌐 reactor-hypercore - The Reactor's operation history on a P2P append-only log
📈 analytics-engine - Time-series analytics engine with Postgres, Knex, and in-browser backends

🕹️ SpyreIO - My indie studio making free browser games
🪢 Hangman Clash - Real-time PvP hangman with matchmaking, skill ratings, and on-chain leaderboards
🏰 The Fallen Court - Story-driven dungeon crawler: pick who to save, mint your allegiance, learn the truth later

🐚 terminal-wrapped - Spotify Wrapped for your shell history, including the secrets you leaked
🥁 midipad-daemon - Turn a MIDI drum pad into a programmable macro keyboard for macOS
🧵 verlet - Verlet-integration cloth simulation in three.js
🔐 nk - No-knowledge key/value store: the server can't read your data
📜 jint - JavaScript interpreter for Unity: iOS-safe, with a scene query language and live REPL
📖 story - Describe a world in plain English; the game AI figures out how to use it
☁️ RealtimeClouds - Procedural real-time clouds on the GPU
📦 boX - WebGL 2D engine with a scene query language, animation curves, and cloth sim