Welcome to SkyCMD Labs

This site has existed in one form or another for a long time, but SkyCMD Labs is my attempt to give it a clear shape and purpose.

SkyCMD Labs is a personal maker hub: a place to publish small tools, practical projects, and engineering notes from real work. It’s intentionally low-noise and low-hype. If something appears here, it’s because I built it, use it, or learned something worth writing down.

What you’ll find here

There are three main areas on the site:

Tools

Small, self-contained utilities that run locally in the browser. These are the kinds of tools I often end up rebuilding or bookmarking anyway, so they live here now.

Projects

Standalone projects and open-source tools. GitHub remains the source of truth for code and issues; this site provides context and explanation.

Blog

Short engineering notes: why something exists, a design decision, a problem I ran into, or a trade-off that mattered. This is not content marketing — it’s closer to a public notebook.

How I build things

A few guiding principles show up repeatedly across the site:

• Prefer simple, boring solutions over clever ones

• Be explicit about scope and limitations

• Favour local-first and privacy-respecting tools where possible

• Avoid unnecessary abstraction, configuration, or ceremony

Most of the work here is shaped by real constraints: security, maintainability, and not creating future problems for myself.

A first project

The first public project on the site is VirusTotal Uploader — a small Linux-focused utility for submitting files to VirusTotal from the command line or file manager, with clear result summaries and a direct link to the full analysis.

It’s a good example of the kind of thing that belongs here: small, focused, and built to solve a specific problem without pretending to be more than it is.

Going forward

Posts will appear when there’s something worth writing about. There’s no schedule, and no attempt to fill space for the sake of activity.

If you’re an engineer, you may find something useful. If not, that’s fine too — this site is primarily for builders, including future-me.

Thanks for reading.