Independent development
Donkey Forge
Building practical, privacy-conscious software, infrastructure, and tools.
An independent development effort focused on useful technology: self-hosted systems, infrastructure, networking, automation, and AI-assisted tools. Built carefully, documented plainly, and meant to keep working.
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§ 01
Areas of work
What gets built and explored here. These are fields of practice, not a product catalog.
Software & developer tools
Small, sharp utilities and libraries that do one job well and stay out of the way.
Infrastructure & networking
Routing, DNS, tunnels, and the plumbing underneath. Designed to be understood, not just to run.
Privacy & self-hosting
Services you can run on hardware you control, with data that stays where you put it.
Automation & AI
Scripts, pipelines, and AI-assisted tools that remove toil without hiding what they do.
Open systems & interoperability
Open formats, open protocols, and clean exits. Nothing should be harder to leave than to join.
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Principles
Useful over flashy.
Technology should solve real problems.
Own your infrastructure.
Prefer systems that can be understood, controlled, migrated, and maintained.
Privacy by design.
Collect less, expose less, and minimize unnecessary dependencies.
Build for durability.
Favor simple architectures, documented systems, open standards, and maintainability.
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Projects
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Contact
For collaboration, questions about the work, or a problem worth solving properly.
Plain email. No forms, no tracking.