Tom Ryan / A5omic

Tom Ryan (A5omic). Security, software, music, research. A mainline Linux kernel patch, a V8 Maglev fix on Chrome's VRP panel, 13 iOS apps, 2 Android apps, 5 npm packages, 3 consciousness papers, and an AI-native music project at ~250K monthly Spotify listeners.

Brick by Brick paperback cover

Paperback now live

Brick by Brick

A short book about drift, proof, pressure, taste, tools, the body, and building a life one uneven brick at a time.

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Apps App StoreGoogle Play

Overboard iconOverboardEntertainment · Android
LocalAI iconLocalAIProductivity
CozyTime iconCozyTimeUtilities
Rekishi iconRekishiEntertainment
RideBoost iconRideBoostSports · Android
Weeb Widgets iconWeeb WidgetsUtilities
Crunch iconCrunchBook
Blip iconBlipSocial Networking

Music Spotify Apple Music SoundCloud YouTube

A5omic is an AI-native music project. Some tracks are AI-generated, some are AI-assisted slowed + reverb edits, some are originals I've produced. Hover a card to preview.

Bloom cover art
Bloom
Echo in Blue cover art
Echo in Blue
If You Make Yourself MORE cover art
If You Make Yourself MORE
I Am What The World Forged cover art
I Am What The World Forged
I'm Tired Alfred cover art
I'm Tired Alfred
Only Place To Go From Failure cover art
Only Place To Go From Failure

Software

  • api
    Veil API PII redaction middleware for LLM APIs.
  • web
    ClipThis Web tool. Live at clipthis.io.
  • discord
    HypeX Discord bot. Turns servers into a social stock market.
  • discord
    ServerSage Discord bot. AI moderation, ticketing, analytics.
  • web
    Burrow Distributed AI fuzzing platform for OSS maintainers.
  • package
    Logpack Columnar JSON log compression in Rust.
  • package
    @a5omic/flowdown O(1) streaming markdown renderer for AI outputs.
  • package
    @a5omic/streamjson Streaming JSON parser for incremental tool-call decoding.
  • web
    Privacy Browser Tauri v2 + Svelte browser with adblock-rust.