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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 quietly reliable.
>Data analysis
From raw, messy data to pipelines and visualisation.
>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.
Rinse & Repeat Offenders
Your dishwasher has opinions. A cheeky puzzle game about the one household argument nobody wins, refereed by a passive-aggressive dishwasher with a face and over 400 things to say. Every load ends in a verdict: spotless, paroled or repeat offender.
PhotoFS
Your Photos library, right in Finder. A read-only disk built on FSKit puts every photo and video on your Mac as an ordinary file, filed by date and by album, so any app, script or backup can use it - and anything kept in iCloud downloads the moment you open it.
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.
Emma Radio
Quiet company for the small hours. Each evening a local language model writes a gentle programme of good news, stories, birdsong and the day's weather. An AI voice reads it aloud. Listen on Apple Watch or follow it in any podcast app.
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.
Bushline
A piece of New Zealand, printed. Draw an area on the Topo50 map and Bushline builds a 3D model of the ground from LINZ elevation data, in a natural, low poly or blocks style. We print it at the size you choose and post it to you.
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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