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Independent developer, infrastructure operator, and Navy combat veteran. I build and self-host AI tooling, mostly on Cloudflare Workers, and I run the whole stack myself.

Everything I build is open source and not for sale. Free use forever, made with love, and developed entirely out in the open: public repos, public CI, public issue trackers, public failures next to the successes. No subscription, no account wall, no lock-in, no "open core" bait.

Open source does not mean lower standards. Every project ships with real CI gates, test suites, security review, signed-off contributions, honest documentation, and release processes that verify before they promote. I call the bar my punk ethos with an aviation-grade finish: do it yourself, answer to nobody, and build it like lives depend on the checklist. Most of it is AGPL-3.0: run a modified copy as a network service and you owe your users the source, which keeps free things free.

All of it lives at github.com/skyphusion-labs, with write-ups on skyphusion.net.

An AI film studio you own is also an AI film studio you can run cheaply, if you are deliberate about where each kind of work runs. Diffusion belongs on a GPU (your own card, RunPod serverless by the second, or a cloud i2v API). Assembly, mux, captions, portrait prep, beat analysis, and loudness work belong on CPU.

• vivijure: the Studio itself, a self-hosted AI film studio on Cloudflare Workers. Storyboard, cast, render orchestration, and a module registry that makes every engine below swappable. Runs on the Workers free tier. Meet it at vivijure.skyphusion.org/welcome.
• vivijure/containers: the always-on CPU media stack on your own container host. Five slim Docker services (video assembly, portrait prep, beat sync, audio mastering, and multi-track mix) reached over Workers VPC so concat, mux, and finishing work stay off the GPU bill.
• slate: the Discord front door. A collaborative screenwriter assistant that keeps a structured storyboard brief in channel and ships finished bundles to the Studio.
• vivijure-backend: the datacenter GPU engine on RunPod. LoRA training, SDXL keyframes, Wan image-to-video, and a release gate that renders a real film before it promotes an image.
• vivijure-local-12gb and vivijure-local-16gb: own-GPU doors. Image-to-video on a single consumer card in your homelab (LTX-Video at a proven 12GB floor; CogVideoX-5B-I2V at a proven 16GB floor), reached over a Cloudflare tunnel. No rent.
• vivijure-musetalk, vivijure-upscale, vivijure-audio-upscale: the finish engines. Lip-sync, Real-ESRGAN video upscale, and speech cleanup, each a single-purpose GPU satellite.

The full map: the constellation write-up.

• prism: a multimodal AI playground in a single Cloudflare Worker. 35 chat models across five providers, voice chat, RAG, image/video/music generation, durable jobs via Workflows.
• postern: email for humans and agents. A self-hostable mailbox on Cloudflare: send, receive, store, search, thread, with webmail, IMAP, LDAP-backed doors, and a Go SMTP relay for legacy callers.
• common-thread: a methodology paper plus reference implementation for sockpuppet attribution from public behavioral signals. For journalists, OSINT practitioners, and researchers.
• the-hollow-grid: a multiplayer MUD on Workers and Durable Objects. Federated worlds, one shared character, ~$0 at idle. Play it: hollow.skyphusion.org.
• mud-bots: AI inhabitants of The Hollow Grid. Open-source models on Workers AI that log in like players, face the game's real moral choices, and double as live QA.
• SidVicious_exe: a punk rock Discord roadie. Claude, web search, a knowledge base, and image generation, with zero corporate sycophancy.

Skyphusion Labs is not just me. The crew each keep their own README:

• Conrad Rockenhaus
• Mackaye
• Rollins
• Strummer
• Joan
• Ernst

• Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1, R2, Workflows, and Workers AI as the default platform: cheap at idle, no servers to babysit, and the ones I do babysit are mine.
• The fleet: five dedicated CPU servers and one dedicated GPU server, all running Linux, plus several cloud VMs, the whole thing wired into a clean infrastructure-as-code stack.
• Self-hosting over SaaS wherever it makes sense. I would rather understand a system than rent it.
• MacOS daily driver, Cloudflare Tunnels for inbound, nftables on the door.

I served in the Navy, with deployments to Kosovo and Afghanistan attached to fire-support and signals-intelligence units. It shaped how I work: direct, prepared, and allergic to hand-waving.

• Engineering blog: skyphusion.net
• Skyphusion Labs: skyphusion.org
• The code: github.com/skyphusion-labs
• Skyphusion Labs GitHub landing page: github.skyphusion.org
• My GitHub landing page: github.skyphusion.net
• Vivijure, the AI film studio: vivijure.com (welcome demo)
• GitHub profile: github.com/skyphusion
• X: x.com/skyphusion
• Reach me: conrad@skyphusion.org