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Builds

The dev half builds useful systems.

AI apps, Discord tooling, transcribers, static websites, Minecraft mods, games, dashboards, and a few private machines that make life less annoying.

Dozens

repos and prototypes

Public, private, active, and archived projects across AI tools, websites, games, bots, dashboards, and Minecraft utilities.

6

published Modrinth mods

Fabric utility mods published under ThatMasonGuy, with source linked back to GitHub where public.

15+

websites built

Tempest Studios positions the web side around custom, fast, small-business sites with clear pricing and conversion paths.

Build map

Not one niche. A repeatable habit of making the missing tool.

The throughline is practical invention: take the thing people are already doing, give it a proper interface, make the state trustworthy, and ship it somewhere fast.

AI systems

AI where it actually does a job

The AI work is mostly practical: interfaces for long context, voice, transcription, memory, notes, Discord, and publishing assets.

  • Video Transcriber turns local media into transcripts, captions, summaries, chapters, descriptions, and title ideas with a Tauri, Rust, Python, faster-whisper, and ffmpeg pipeline.
  • A personal Discord journal agent routes models, handles memories, reminders, tasks, source logs, rollups, image generation, and operational health checks.
  • AI Frontend explores a whiteboard-first workbench with board-native chat, context trays, run traces, and server-side provider handling.

Community tools

Discord, translation, and weird little workflows

A lot of the useful software sits where communities already are: Discord channels, game servers, admin panels, and small utilities that make repeated work lighter.

  • MXNTranslate supports reaction translation, context-menu translation, auto-translate channel mirroring, reaction roles, event storage, and a separate dashboard backend.
  • mxn.au is the broader public build lab for tools, calculators, game helpers, admin pages, translation paths, and experiments.
  • Small bots and widgets cover leaderboards, game stats, rank displays, free game claiming, and other recurring personal/community needs.

Websites

Fast static sites that sell the thing

The web work is pragmatic and conversion-minded: strong copy, fast Nuxt/Vue builds, local SEO, structured data, analytics, and simple maintenance paths.

  • Tempest Studios is the public front for custom Australian small-business websites with no-template positioning, pricing, process, guides, work pages, and lead flows.
  • CleanBond pairs local-business SEO with a quote calculator, service-area content, schema, analytics, and direct call/email paths.
  • Done by Darren shows the same pattern in a different voice: trust signals, direct-contact conversion, service proof, schema, and plain-language positioning.

Minecraft

Client-side utilities and server history

The Minecraft lane is product-like: Fabric mods with version-profile build pipelines, Modrinth publishing, smoke tests, compatibility overlays, and user-facing docs.

  • Inventory utilities cover sorting, search, tracked storage, catalogue reports, rules, category filters, and known-current item locations.
  • Lifetime Stat Tracker keeps long-term stats across worlds, saves, Realms, servers, and resets using shared per-profile local storage.
  • HC Autopsy records Hardcore wipe context, player snapshots, run history, lifetime totals, leaderboards, and optional Discord notifications.

Games

Game systems with fairness in the bones

The games side keeps the fun parts expressive while making the state and mechanics deterministic enough to trust.

  • Delve Dungeon uses natural-language Discord play with a deterministic engine resolving combat, checks, loot, maps, and character state before AI narration.
  • Evermarch is a browser-first idle RPG concept built around three concurrent lanes: offline progress, passive skill training, and active dungeon play.
  • The Tempest play platform separates platform services from game modules, with shared auth, cloud saves, local fallback, and future desktop/mobile targets.

Selected systems

The stuff worth explaining.

Some of this is public source, some is private product work, and some is live service work. The point is the shape: useful interfaces, real workflows, and systems that remember what happened.

Public build labLive

mxn.au

A broad personal platform for tools, dashboards, calculators, game utilities, translation/admin paths, daily games, and experiments that need somewhere real to live.

  • Firebase Functions backend with Vue/Vite frontend
  • TopHeroes, Destiny, Minecraft/server admin, translation, Discord, daily games, and personal tools
  • Public repo describes it as a build lab rather than one narrow app
VueFirebaseTailwindOpenAIDiscord
Open project View source
Discord systemPublic source

MXNTranslate

A Discord translation system with reaction translation, message context-menu translation, auto-translate channel mirroring, reaction roles, logging, and a dashboard backend.

  • Reaction and context-menu translation flows
  • Webhook-backed auto-translate channel mirroring
  • Separate Express backend for dashboard configuration and scheduling
DiscordNodeSQLiteExpressOpenAI
Open project View source
Desktop AI toolPrivate build

Video Transcriber

A local-first desktop app for turning long-form video and audio into transcripts, captions, and publishing-ready outputs, with optional AI cleanup and analysis.

  • Detects audio tracks, extracts selections, transcribes, merges, cleans, chunks, analyzes, and emits SRT captions
  • Uses ffmpeg/ffprobe and faster-whisper locally
  • Tracks project stats and token budgeting for optional AI enrichment
TauriVueRustPythonfaster-whisper
Web studioLive

Tempest Studios

A custom website and hosting studio for Australian small businesses, with public pricing, SEO guides, process pages, case-study framing, and a strong no-template stance.

  • Custom websites, hosting, maintenance, and ongoing updates
  • Public pricing and care plans
  • Live CleanBond case study with quote calculator, structured pages, and performance claims
NuxtVercelTailwindSEOSmall business
Open project
Published modsModrinth

Minecraft inventory mods

A Fabric utility suite for sorting inventories, searching known storage, and cataloguing base resources with per-world profiles, reports, and multi-version publishing support.

  • InvSort, InvSearch, and InvCatalogue are published as separate public mods
  • Tracks known-current storage locations, category queries, reports, and shared app-data storage
  • Build pipeline targets Minecraft 1.20.x, 1.21.x, and 26.x compatibility lanes
MinecraftFabricJavaGradleModrinth
Open project View source
Server/game historyModrinth

HC Autopsy and Lifetime Stat Tracker

Minecraft history tools for the stuff vanilla forgets: lifetime stats across worlds and post-wipe Hardcore run autopsies with snapshots, leaderboards, and Discord notifications.

  • HC Autopsy captures death metadata, raw stat snapshots, run totals, and lifetime aggregates
  • Lifetime Stat Tracker stores long-term stats across worlds, servers, Realms, saves, and resets
  • Both use compatibility-profile release pipelines and guarded Modrinth publishing
MinecraftFabricJavaStatsDiscord
Open project View source
AI gamePublic source

Delve Dungeon

A Discord dungeon crawler where players use natural language, while a deterministic game engine resolves mechanics before AI narration wraps the result in prose.

  • D20 checks, stats, skills, combat, loot, procedural floors, and persistent characters
  • AI Dungeon Master cannot alter game state because mechanics resolve first
  • Database-driven enemies, items, dungeons, and loot rules
DiscordOpenAISQLiteGame designProcedural
Open project
Browser RPGIn development

Evermarch

A browser-first idle RPG concept with three independent activity lanes: offline/background progress, passive training, and active dungeon play that never pauses the other two.

  • Master tick architecture for online and offline progress
  • Bundled TypeScript game data with save snapshots kept separate
  • Planned browser, desktop, and mobile release targets
VuePiniaFirebaseGame systemsTauri

Modrinth

Published Minecraft utility mods.

The public mod lane is small but real: Fabric, Modrinth, multi-version Gradle profiles, compatibility testing, and source-linked releases where possible.

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InvSort

Practical inventory and container sorting with rules, protected slots, category ordering, restacking, and hotbar-aware behavior.

sortingclient-sidestorage

InvSearch

In-game search for inventory and known storage locations, including category searches, counts, and per-world/server profiles.

searchtrackingstorage

InvCatalogue

Storage catalogue sessions for counting a Minecraft base and writing clear item reports with saved in-game report browsing.

cataloguereportsaudits

Bigger Boats

Server-side-first Fabric mod that lets up to four players ride in one vanilla boat, with optional client-side visual polish.

boatsserver-sidetransport

Lifetime Stat Tracker

Long-term Minecraft stats across worlds, saves, Realms, servers, and resets, with profile-scoped local JSON storage.

statshistoryclient/server

HC Autopsy

Hardcore wipe postmortems with death context, player stat snapshots, run history, lifetime totals, leaderboards, and Discord webhooks.

hardcoreserver-sideleaderboards