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I.T. consultancy at terminal velocity.
Terminal Velocity is an independent Aotearoa/New Zealand I.T. consultancy covering Linux & Unix systems, data analysis, web performance and app development - grounded in an academic background of remote sensing/GIS and biological sciences.
capabilities - v1.0
>Linux & Unix
Administration, automation and performance tuning - servers, storage and shells kept sharp, observable and quietly reliable.
>Data analysis
From raw, messy telemetry to defensible conclusions: pipelines, statistics and visualisation with academic rigour attached.
>Web performance
Full-stack performance engineering for large organisations - from single-user traces to load testing at scale, instrumenting and analysing data from every layer of modern, complex web platforms.
>App development
Native iOS development, end to end: Swift and SwiftUI apps designed, built and shipped to the App Store in-house.
shipped
Southerly
The whole forecast, in one glance: our iPhone weather app draws temperature, rain, wind, day and night as a single radial dial - with offline tides, te reo Māori and the maramataka.
eSpeed
How fast, right now. A GPS speedometer for Apple Watch: one auto-scaling dial with a fixed colour for every speed, rolling 5/10/30-second averages, four units - and no accounts, no analytics, no network calls at all.
Apoluna
Work with your body, not against it. A cycle-wellness companion that reads the four phases like weather - a daily forecast for energy, focus, food and movement, a seed-cycling garden and lunar sync, with notes kept private on device.
in development
Hachure
Look at the whole raster, not a picture of it. A macOS workstation for quantitative remote sensing - composites and spectral indices, radiometric and topographic correction, change detection, terrain analysis and classification.
SpearSight
Finds fish underwater and measures them. Synchronised wide and ultra-wide frames give a stereo baseline, solved for refraction at the housing port - and every length is reported with the uncertainty attached, never as a bare number.
Inkspectr
Footprint identification for New Zealand tracking tunnel cards. Photograph a Black Trakka card and the app finds it, measures the prints in real millimetres and returns a ranked shortlist with the evidence for and against each candidate - and reports a set too obscure to identify as unidentified, rather than guessing at it.
Rose
A radial portrait of a song. On-device analysis reads a track's harmony, rhythm and dynamics and draws the whole of it as a single ring - and no two songs draw the same one.
FreSCo
The iOS app for FutureSelves, Paul Englert and Geoff Plimmer's possible-selves career instrument. It administers their item bank, redraws the printed report's four graphs as one map with the present self fixed warm at the centre, and adds a consultant - Apple's on-device Foundation Models, grounded in a bundled research corpus - that reads the graphs back to you.
MeToo
Makes a complete group photo from two captures. ARKit remembers where the first photographer stood and walks the second one back to that viewpoint; Vision registers the two frames, works out who is new, and composites them into the original picture. No face print ever leaves the device.
Mohua
On-device birdsong recognition for Aotearoa. DeepMind's Perch 2.0 converted to Core ML, its classifier narrowed to the 215 birds you can actually hear here - plus twelve non-bird classes, so the app can also say what is drowning them out.
stdin is open
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