John Ruf

Software engineer, 20 years.

I write tools that make things.

Novel Engine — A desktop app for building novels. Seven AI agents handle the editorial pipeline from pitch to manuscript. Electron, React, TypeScript, SQLite, Pandoc. Open source, runs locally.

New Foundry — A desktop app for building apps. Work in progress.

my-nft-gen — A generative art engine for seamless looping animations. 51 effects, plugin architecture, worker threads. Node.js.