Human agency before automation
Automation should serve people rather than quietly redefine their choices. Meaningful control should remain understandable and available.
Mission
Build useful systems. Keep people in control.
Code for Humanity means useful technology, honest communication, privacy-conscious design, and automation that remains accountable to the people it serves.
Why Altru.dev exists
Technology should expand human capability without quietly taking away agency.
The word altru comes from altruism: useful work with a human purpose. Altru.dev applies that standard to software products, independent research, developer tools, and experiments. The work can be technically ambitious, but the public mission stays simple: build things that are useful, respectful of people, and honest about what they can and cannot establish.
Evidence before confidence
A convincing result is not automatically a trustworthy one. Claims should remain no broader than the evidence supporting them.
Privacy by design
Minimal permissions, restrained collection, clear privacy information, and no data selling are design choices rather than after-the-fact promises.
Useful over theatrical
Apps, extensions, games, services, and research should solve real problems. Complexity belongs behind a clear interface, not between people and the result they need.
Expect change and failure
Responsible systems should make problems visible and support understanding and recovery rather than pretending that failure can always be ignored.
Protect what should remain private
Public explanation does not require publishing proprietary architecture, security-sensitive implementation details, or unpublished research methods.
Products and independent research.
Altru.dev began as a place to build practical software with clear privacy boundaries. That remains central to the work. Alongside those products, I conduct independent research into complex software and AI systems.
The public site communicates purpose, context, selected findings, and deliberately released work. Sensitive architecture, internal methods, security mechanisms, and unpublished technical material remain private.