bgub - Overview

Ben Gubler

Looking for a project that isn't here? Check out @nebrelbug, my old account where I store archived/inactive projects.

Student at BYU w/ a dual major in ACME (Applied and Computational Mathematics) and Arabic
Currently interning at Vercel
Previously conducted research on AI alignment + mech. interp. at BYU's Perception, Control, and Cognition Lab

agentpane - Local web UI for AI coding agents. Multi-pane, multi-session, streaming — run Claude Code and Codex side by side from your browser. (Next.js, Hono, Effect.ts, ACP)
helm - Typed TypeScript framework for AI agents. Replace dozens of tools with search + execute, and sandbox LLM-generated code with granular permissions. (TypeScript, SES)
tokka - Toolkit for training BPE tokenizers on custom data splits (tokenizers, datasets, mosaicml-streaming)
tokka-bench - Benchmark and compare tokenizers across many languages (tokenizers, streamlit)
hf_to_mds - Convert HuggingFace datasets to MosaicML Streaming format (MDS) for efficient cloud-based training (datasets, mosaicml-streaming)
gom - CLI tool to monitor GPU usage across Docker processes (pynvml)
mokka (WIP) - Toolkit for creating SLMs easily, targeted towards researchers (PyTorch, OmegaConf, WandB)
shade (WIP) - PyTorch-like computation library for TS/JS using WebGPU (Deno, WGSL)

Eta - Fast embedded JS template engine. Widely used with 1.5K+ GitHub stars and ~1M weekly downloads. (TypeScript, microbundle, Jest, GitHub Actions)
TinyLingo - Language learning app for improving comprehension. Listen to authentic native podcasts with AI-generated transcriptions and translations. (Next.js 15, Convex, Clerk, shadcn/ui, OpenRouter)
bengubler.com - My personal website and blog where I write about AI, distributed training, and language learning. (Next.js 15, Tailwind, MDX)
nix-macos-starter - Starter Nix config for macOS (nix-darwin, home-manager, homebrew, mise)
Decline App - PWA for practicing Czech, Slovak, and Russian declension patterns. (Next.js, Tailwind, PWA)
npm-to-yarn - Converts between npm/Yarn/pnpm/bun CLI commands. (TypeScript, Jest)
cosmic-ext-applet-pomodoro - Pomodoro timer applet for the COSMIC desktop. Sits in the panel with configurable work/break intervals. (Rust, libcosmic)
Open source contributions - Various TypeScript and web development projects on GitHub.

You can find more of my work at bengubler.com, where I post projects and write about AI, distributed training, and language learning.

Languages - Fluent in English and Czech; conversational in Slovak; learning Russian and Arabic; have also studied Esperanto, toki pona, and Spanish
Machine Learning - Large language models, AI alignment, mechanistic interpretability, distributed training
Web Development - TypeScript, React ecosystem, performance optimization, developer tooling
Outdoor Activities - Spelunking, rock climbing, backpacking, pickleball
Literature - Classic literature, poetry, fantasy, sci-fi