Owen Eldridge

Full-stack engineer. I build software meant to outlast the hype cycle, and I run my own.

Days go to healthcare claims infrastructure in Go, GraphQL, and React. Nights go to a homelab, an e-reader that plays audiobooks because I taught it to, and tools that keep my data mine.

Selected work

  1. Basalt

    An open-source, local-first Markdown knowledge base that stays compatible with Obsidian vaults.

    Tauri 2 · React · TypeScript · CodeMirror 6

  2. Audiobook player for KOReader

    A KOReader plugin that turns a Kobo e-reader into a self-sufficient .m4b audiobook player over Bluetooth.

    Lua · mpv · BlueZ · Embedded Linux

  3. Local audiobook pipeline

    Ebooks in, narrated audiobooks out. Neural TTS running on my own hardware, no cloud voices involved.

    Python · Kokoro TTS · FFmpeg · systemd · Docker

  4. Spectre, a self-hosted everything

    Twenty-nine containers on a repurposed laptop, replacing a household's worth of cloud subscriptions.

    Arch Linux · Docker · Tailscale · PostgreSQL · Bash

  5. Spearmint

    Core contributor to an accessibility-focused desktop GUI for generating JavaScript tests, with over a thousand GitHub stars.

    Electron · React · Redux · TypeScript

  6. Eleventh House

    A collage-styled community site for an arts collective, with self-serve membership and a curated gallery.

    Next.js · Payload CMS · PostgreSQL · Vercel