Neil Bachelor

> HELLO, WORLD! I'm

Neil Bachelor|

Engineering, Innovation & Leadership

Photography

Favourite Tools

  • new pocketbase - single file sqlite-based firebase clone (go)
  • new fossil - single file (sqlite) based version control system (c)
  • yazi - file explorer for terminal (rust)
  • just - replacement for Make / Makefile (rust)
  • starship - prompt compatible with bash, zshrc & fish (rust)
  • helix - vim-compatible terminal text ide (rust)
  • xh - fast httpie compatible http client (rust)
  • zola - tera-based static site generator (rust)
  • cot - lightweight mac text editor (swift)
  • eza - drop-in replacement for ls (rust)
  • ghostty - modern terminal emulator (zig)
  • picocss - modern classless css framework (sass)
  • superfile - file manager for terminal (go) (replaced with yazi)

My Tools:

  • wko - terminal-based command for personal logging (go)

My Projects

BidBox.uk

prefect.io docker vps Django HTMX PostgreSQL

A Realtime AI-Driven Public Tender Contracts Website. Helping SMEs to find and win public sector tenders.

Prefect, Docker & Postgres for ETL & statically generated with Jinja2.

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RelaxBro.xyz

openai tts LLM Django HTMX alpinejs

(2025) LLM / TTS generative guided meditation app

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FFSdb.py

python database

A pure-python filesystem-based no-sql database, inspired by sqlitedict and tinydb.

from ffsdb import FFSdb
db = FFSdb(tablename="test2", directory="data")
# creates ./data/test2/
db["item"] = {"key":"value"}
# creates ./data/test2/item
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Django non-linear

Django HTMX tool open-source

(2024) Manage your Django Product inside your Django project (MIT Licenced)

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Micro Heat

Python FastAPI Matplotlib FFMpeg

Reduce your heating system energy consumption and carbon emissions.

FDTD heat transfer simulation wrapped in a Async API for testing heating strategies, agents, analytics and automation. Can be used with Graphana, HomeAssistant, OpenHAB, etc.

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Prefect AI pipeline

prefect.io Python FastAPI Matplotlib FFMpeg

I open-sourced part of Bidbox's AI enrichment pipeline.

Prefect, Docker, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, Ollama

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Static Photography Portfolio

Python FastAPI Matplotlib FFMpeg

An opensource static jinja2-based photography portfolio.

I use this for my current portfolio.

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