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Established June 13, 2025
Simply & sustainably built
Hello! I'm Thomas Conway.
Thank you for visiting my website! I'm a Electromechanical Engineer, software developer, open source contributor, and a graduate from the Lancaster County Career And Technology Center. I'm a core developer for Voxelibre, a popular open source voxel game built on the Luanti game engine.
I am interested in many things including interactive system development, sustainable and self-hosted computing, machine Learning, automation engineering, and mathematics.
Projects
Game development
For over 3 years I have been a core developer for game with over 500,000 downloads. During my time I have learned REST programming practices, built APIs, and reviewed PRs by contributors as well as junior developers. I lead audio implementation, created textures, conceptualized and implemented gameplay features.
Luanti Game Engine Modules
I have also created module systems for the luanti game engine that expand on existing games or help game makers/modjam participants create their own. My mods range in scope from item additions to sound system overhauls to complex sysem APIs. They are released as open source projects.
Automation Engineering & Electronics Projects
I have professional work experience as an industrial engineer with microcontroller programming and robotics experience. As a hobby I have built out my own custom DC solar electrical system. I share my designs here:
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Mathematics Research
I created angleforge, A mathematical modeling visualization tool exploring how mathematical constants and irrational numbers differ in computational difficulty of rational approximation via continuous fractions as visual graphs. Thhe program generates animated GIFs showing progressive point placement using sequences like φ (golden ratio), π, and various continued fractions.
Source code is freely available, released under LGPL 3.0 or later
![Example from angleforge [Video/GIF - 5.7MB]](https://gemini.nicfab.eu/lxy/external/tomcon.net%2Fimages%2Fcircle_cf_pi.gif){kind=link}
Sustainable Infrastructure
Site Operation
The webserver, Gemini server, and encryption certificate handling components of this site are all hosted on a ThinkPad that I power with a 200w solar system I built myself. The experimental model engine runs on a desktop PC optimized for use with a power-efficient GPU (Nvidia 1070ti 8GB).
Open Website Development Process
This website is a learning exercise for me, and I want to turn it into a learning opportunity for anyone interested in this field. I'm taking extra time and effort to share my journey at every notable step: from detailed setup instructions to creating a custom toolchain for my own writing workflow.
UI & Web Development Projects
Machine Learning Contributions
The current LLM/Machine learning model bubble has lead to a lot of interest in this field by people who want to run models on their own hardware for various reasons including privacy and cost efficency. As someone with years of experience with deploying local models, I help share expertise and assist newcomers by running a hobbyist fourm with 4,000 members that allows local model enthusiast a community to share the latest news and discuss the current state of things run on open source federated software.
Local and Open Source Machine Learning Software
I have developed and released several open source programs showing clean implementation of tool calling for local llms to use for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).
Wolffy-Caller is a framework that demonstrates how to integrate a local model to integrates with Wolfram|Alpha's LLM API. It enables local language models to access computational intelligence for mathematical, scientific, and factual queries.
https://codeberg.org/TomCon/wolffy-caller
I provide a free, semi-public LLM service for fellow hobbyists through a kobold.cpp WebUI loaded with several on-demand model configurations. Perhaps you want to test kobold without installing it, or you trust a privacy-conscious hobbyist with your data more than big tech companies and want to see what consumer-grade hardware can accomplish. Feel free to message me through one of my contact methods for a password or API key. I'm happy to share my compute resources for your learning journey!