Abandoned Python projects

Tessera serves MBTiles files as vector tiles with custom Mapbox GL styles. Used it to build a hiking maps site for a national park. The interesting bit was the style compiler that takes a JSON style spec and emits optimized PMTiles. I'm leaving the maintainer role because the OSM ecosystem has moved on to PMTiles and the project would need a rewrite to stay current.

Saffron was my side project for 3 years. I built it because I wanted to send a weekly newsletter to my readers without anyone tracking opens. Pure SMTP, no analytics, no SaaS subscription. I was getting ready to shut it down when Marco from the community asked to take over. He's been shipping releases every two weeks since. The roadmap is now his.

Compass counts page views and unique visitors with zero cookies and zero fingerprinting. I built it because I was tired of Plausible's pricing for a hobby site. Compass was the lowest-effort tool I've ever maintained. A community member (an actual privacy researcher) took it over when I moved on. They've added geo-IP aggregation without compromising the privacy model.