an umbrella for coding projects

god of the gaps

[ gotg.dev ]

the god of the gaps is a theological cop-out — a deity whose only job is to explain whatever science hasn't gotten to yet. here the joke runs the other direction. consciousness is the god, and the gaps are where there's work to do.

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premise

fill the gaps. that's the whole thing.

every tool stack has holes — the thing the vendor didn't ship, the workflow nobody scripted, the integration everyone assumed someone else would build. gotg.dev is where those holes get filled.

the projects here start with a real gap, not a product roadmap. efficiency first, scope ruthlessly trimmed, shipped when it does the job — not when it's enterprise-ready.

it's a sibling brand to occam8, which now lives on the physical side of the bench — 3d printing, CAD, things you can hold. gotg is the code.

"any sufficiently advanced gap
is indistinguishable from
an opportunity." — gotg.dev, working motto
// stack vendor_tool ████████████████ vendor_tool ████████████████ vendor_tool ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ← the gap vendor_tool ████████████████ // after gotg vendor_tool ████████████████ vendor_tool ████████████████ gotg_project ████████████████ ← fixed vendor_tool ████████████████
current projects

things currently filling gaps.

everything here is personal work by J (Occam8). some ships public, some stays internal until it's worth the polish.

void8.dev
lightweight windows file analysis toolkit for allowlist decisions. ai-assisted, single-zip install, runs on a disposable vm.
gotg — the umbrella
this site. the brand. the bucket for whatever gap gets filled next. currently shipping.
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more incoming
the gap pipeline is never empty. new projects land here as they get past the "does this actually need to exist" test.
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philosophy

three rules. no manifesto.

i.

occam's razor

the simpler solution is the better one. fewer dependencies, fewer moving parts, fewer places for the thing to go wrong at 2am. efficiency is the default, not an optimization pass.

ii.

fill real gaps

no solutions in search of problems. every project starts because something concrete was missing and blocking real work. if the gap isn't real, the project doesn't happen.

iii.

ship the useful part

v1 does the job. v2 does it better. nothing waits for the mythical "complete" version. the gap is closed the day the minimum thing works — everything after is refinement.