Ariel Horwitz

Ariel Horwitz

Software Nerd (Python 🐍, Rust 🦀, Linux 🐧, Agents 🤖)

I build agent workflows, games, developer tools, and the occasional computer from first principles.

framework ⋅ library

Bot Royale

A framework for writing and training bots that compete in a battle royale, with a deterministic engine, a Kivy GUI, and full documentation including bot API. Published to PyPI.

app ⋅ game

h21

A daily “21 questions” puzzle game fully powered by LLMs: custom topic-specific answer and hint generation, game master, and user profile images. Auth, quotas, community features, leaderboards, replays. Shipped and playable now.

app ⋅ agents

Casebook

An AI coding agent app with a focus on orchestrating multiple AI agents under organized units of work called “cases.” Shipped and under active development.

app ⋅ game

VZero

A solo-built real-time action game in Python/Kivy with deep game mechanics of abilities, items, units, and maps. Shipped.

proof of concept ⋅ algorithms

Media Compression

Audio and image compression using a hand-written recursive FFT and inverse FFT, validated against rustfft. Built in Rust.

proof of concept ⋅ simulator

Scuffed Turing

A logic-gate simulator, a Turing-complete von Neumann computer built inside that simulator, and hand-written microcode software running on that computer: a multiplication program.

app ⋅ personal finance

finalyze

A personal finance app that helps me tag my transactions and creates detailed visualizations from exported bank account data. Helping me stay financially responsible since 2024.

developer tools

dmd

A keyboard-first Arch Linux workstation: provisioning, Hyprland, KMonad, and utility scripts, continuously maintained for two years. My over-engineered “dotfiles”.

developer tools ⋅ agents

agent-skills

A collection of vendor-neutral coding-agent skills, helping me coordinate and orchestrate multiple agents across multiple vendors.

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