Projects

Projects I work on to apply technology to something I hope is worthwhile and learn along the way.

Research & Development

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In development2026

The Irreducible Human

A book on the irreducibly human in the age of language models — access shock, the amplifier and the bucket at full length. Forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill, with Kristian Guttesen.

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In development2026–

Tækniseigla

An open AI-literacy curriculum for upper-secondary schools — three steps from human anchor to accountability. In development, funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (Rannís), with Kristian Guttesen.

Active2026–

Red Box

Agents gather the news, curate it and rewrite it — I run the hunt. A dense newsletter twice a week, and the system itself is open.

Active2026

The Glass That Knew Everything

A short illustrated fable in which knowledge turns out to be a bucket, not a well — my whole through-line compressed into one story, and read as the fine-press book it was made to be.

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Active2026

Scite — Webinar

Policy · Infrastructure · the irreducible human — held together. Pull one and the whole stops holding.

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In development2026

Iceland's Employment Policy 2035: A Systematic Blind Spot

Iceland's government published a ten-year employment strategy that never mentions unemployment. This open research project proves it — with data anyone can verify.

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Active2026

Beyond Fragmentation

Why AI governance fails by design — and why all harmful effects of technology are rooted in human governance.

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In development2025

Arctic Tracker

A data platform integrating 473,000+ CITES trade records, IUCN assessments, and illegal seizure data for 43 Arctic species. Co-authored preprint with Dr. Tom Barry now under review.

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Active2023

Gjöll

An open-access database documenting every confirmed fire fatality in Iceland since 1968. Triple-verified data and a finding that changed the conversation: no deaths in post-1998 buildings.

Open Source

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In development2026–

the·metafactory

Nordic open-source collaboration on how sovereign agentic systems cooperate across borders. I am one of the Nordic partners.

Active2026

DevDay

Git captures what changed. You forget why by Friday. DevDay closes that gap — two slash commands, append-only, signed in your own name.

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In development2026

Chronograph — Human History According to AI

The complete 5,226-year JSON corpus of recorded human history — every claim sourced, every gap declared — read through Chronograph: Notebook, Stratum, and Atlas views, with an EN→IS translation pipeline.

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Active2026

Born to Ruck

Open-source science book on rucking — 14 chapters, 86 DOI-verified citations, and the honest acknowledgment that the most complete exercise your body can do requires a backpack and a closed mouth.

Sites & Systems

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Active2025–

Smarason.is

A personal site moved home: Next.js 16 + Payload on its own Hetzner edge with Caddy, no cloud content service, zero tracking. The architecture is the philosophy — sovereignty over your own data.

Active2025–

Sumarhús

Owned infrastructure and an agent community: own machines, own data, own content. The agents do the work, the human hand decides.

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In development2026

Andar Volunteer Connect

From PIN to assignment in seconds — a purpose-built volunteer system for Iceland's oldest children's ski tournament. ~100 volunteers, 17 events, 96 tests, zero coordination emails.

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Active2024–

BORG

University of Akureyri's secure hybrid AI platform — combining commercial AI with on-premise GPU infrastructure for academic data sovereignty.

Active2024

Hus Dagsins

My first web application — an interactive Leaflet map of historical Akureyri houses from Arnor Bliki Hallmundsson's newspaper column. Data scraping, geocoding, and deployment learned from scratch.

Portfolio

Production sites built in the Sumarhús workshop — all live, all on their own foundation.

snjallraedi.is ↗

The Snjallræði site — an accelerator for social innovation, built from scratch and run on our own infrastructure.

giorgio.sumarhus.com ↗

The author site of philosopher Giorgio Baruchello — works, books and writing in three languages.

Case study →

borg.unak.is ↗

BORG — the data and knowledge stronghold of the University of Akureyri; a secure platform for language models in university work.

Retired

The Labyrinth

The first front door of smarason.is — an experiment in whether a website could be a labyrinth rather than a menu. Two worlds, the Human and the Shadow, and a three-body system on their seam where each body is a gate.