Building

Cooperative tools, built in the open, so libraries have somewhere to go that is not a rent-seeking machine.

BLD-002 Building L30 series 2026.05

Building a MARC Cataloger From Scratch

BTCat is gone. The alternatives cost too much or do too little. So I'm building one. Open source, modern stack, designed for how catalogers actually work.

Library systems

May 10, 2026·8 min read

BLD-001 Building L30 series 2026.05

Why I'm Building a Library System From Scratch

Twenty years of watching libraries depend on software they can't shape. l/30 is what happens when you stop waiting.

Library systems

May 10, 2026·5 min read