Writer by trade. Developer by night. Chronic tinkerer by necessity.

I spend my days hacking away at manuscripts and my nights wrangling bits and bytes into temporarily stable states to help me do more while worrying less.

• The Day Job: Independent publisher & author at LearnOutLive.
• The Night Shift: Open source enjoyer, Linux desktop convert (CachyOS/Omarchy), and builder of niche tools.
• Workflow: If a task exists, it should be a script. If a script exists, it will free up precious time to write another script.

• helowrite – A minimalist, distraction-free sanctuary for prose. Built to eliminate the friction between thought and text.
• epub-moe – A web-based editor for surgical precision in EPUB media overlays. Because sometimes "auto-sync" just doesn't cut it for language learners.
• socialsox – A cross-platform desktop app for shouting into the void (Mastodon, X, Bluesky) without losing your mind.

• The Backtick That (Almost) Broke Me: Fixing German XKB Dead Keys on Linux
• A Minimalist Quickshell Dock For Hyprland
• Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
• Building My Own Markdown Publishing Suite, or: Dogfooding Until It Clicks

• Blog: andreklein.net
• Socials: Mastodon | Twitter
• Status: Probably fixing an EPUB or messing around with TUIs.

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” ― Joseph Conrad