# Altumdream

> Altumdream is an independent Italian software label founded by Daniele Scaratti
> (online as "lupodevelop"). It designs and ships macOS and iOS apps, games and
> open source developer tools, slowly and with curiosity. Some apps are paid,
> some are free; what they earn keeps the open source alive. Sole proprietorship
> ("Altumdream di Scaratti Daniele"), based in Italy.

## Apps (released)

- [Bosun](https://apps.apple.com/it/app/bosun-app/id6777492485) (iOS): GitHub Actions CI for every repo at once: failing builds float to the top, logs open at the error, push alerts when one breaks.
- [Doorry](https://doorry.altumdream.com) (macOS): Every port, one glance away. Monitor and kill active ports from the macOS menu bar.
- [Hexy](https://hexy.altumdream.com) (macOS, iOS): Hex.pm package stats in your menu bar, with an iOS companion.
- [Maki](https://maki.altumdream.com) (macOS): A minimalist manga reader for macOS.
- [Poddy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/poddy-monitor/id6785408886) (macOS): Poddy Monitor: watches your RunPod GPU cloud from the menu bar, so you never wake up to a burned balance.
- [Tribune](https://tribune.altumdream.com) (macOS): Your RimWorld colony's MVP, on your desktop.

## Open source products

- [Skeg](https://github.com/skegdb/skeg): an open source vector database in Rust ("the vector database that fits, full recall, on disk"). Crates published under the skegdb org on crates.io (skeg-core, skeg-vector, skeg-simd, skeg-server, and more).
- [Amber](https://github.com/lupodevelop/amber): a small, fast microVM monitor for arm64.
- [étui](https://etui.altumdream.com): a TUI framework for Gleam.

## Libraries and tools

All Gleam libraries on Hex.pm (https://hex.pm/users/lupodevelop):

- [woof](https://hex.pm/packages/woof): logging that stays out of your way.
- [str](https://hex.pm/packages/str): unicode-aware string utilities.
- [cowl](https://hex.pm/packages/cowl): secret masking, type-safe.
- [envie](https://hex.pm/packages/envie): env config without the ceremony.
- [fio](https://hex.pm/packages/fio): file operations for every target.
- [etui](https://hex.pm/packages/etui): TUI framework for Gleam.
- [distribute](https://hex.pm/packages/distribute): typed distributed messaging for Gleam on the BEAM.
- [sparkling](https://hex.pm/packages/sparkling): fast, type-safe ClickHouse client with composable queries.
- [testcontainer](https://hex.pm/packages/testcontainer): Testcontainers for Gleam, typed container lifecycle with crash-safe cleanup.
- [testcontainer_compose](https://hex.pm/packages/testcontainer_compose): Docker Compose stacks as typed formulas.
- [testcontainer_dockerfile](https://hex.pm/packages/testcontainer_dockerfile): custom Docker images as typed formulas.
- [testcontainer_formulas](https://hex.pm/packages/testcontainer_formulas): ready-to-use Testcontainer formulas (Postgres and more).
- [radiant](https://hex.pm/packages/radiant): focused, type-safe HTTP router for Gleam on the BEAM.
- [thrifty](https://hex.pm/packages/thrifty): pure Gleam implementation of the Apache Thrift Compact Protocol.
- [humanize](https://hex.pm/packages/humanize): numbers, bytes, durations and lists made human-friendly.
- [cmp_gleam](https://hex.pm/packages/cmp_gleam): small, explicit comparator utilities.
- [hexplorer](https://github.com/lupodevelop/hexplorer): terminal UI for browsing Hex.pm, in Rust.
- npm: quick-logtime, remark-blackout.
- Hugging Face: ECHO-1 and ECHO-1-ultranano spaces (diffusion vs autoregressive experiments).

## Research (experimental)

- Echo-1.58: "Recovering the Ternary Penalty in Masked Diffusion Language Models: What Adds Capacity, What Only Reorganizes, and What Repetition Costs" (Daniele Scaratti, 2026). Paper, training and evaluation code on Zenodo, MIT license. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21455055
- Echo-1.58 model checkpoints on Hugging Face: four 341M masked-diffusion LMs (fp16, ternary, ternary-fromscratch, ternary-continued) plus a 27-model research ladder. Collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/lupodevelop/echo-158-ternary-masked-diffusion-lms

## Upstream contributions (merged pull requests)

- gleam-lang/gleam (the Gleam compiler): 4 merged PRs.
- rust-lang/stdarch: 1 merged PR.
- gleam-lang/vscode-gleam: 1 merged PR.
- Pending review: tamarin-prover/tamarin-prover, zt-iot/rabbit, arkemis/arke, lpil/gleeunit, datapizza-labs/datapizza-ai and others.
- Live list: https://github.com/search?q=author%3Alupodevelop+type%3Apr+is%3Amerged

## Languages

- Primary programming languages, by bytes of code across all repositories: Gleam, Rust, Swift, TypeScript, Elixir.
- The founder page shows a live contribution board where each day's color blends the languages used that day.

## Games

- Smart Working Wizard: https://lupodevelop.itch.io/smart-working-wizard (the only one still online).
- Other jam games were made at the Indie Speed Run and the Global Game Jam.

## Founder

- [Daniele Scaratti](https://altumdream.com/scaratti-daniele): indie developer from Italy, self-taught, founder of Altumdream.
- Origin story: it all started at the first Codemotion hosted at H-Farm; he once attempted a videogame startup in Estonia with friends.
- Loves research and development, privacy, punk music, art and literature. Also cooking, backpack travelling, RTS strategy games and board games.
- His teacher Maurizio Boscaini taught him "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch", always crediting Milton Friedman.
- GitHub: https://github.com/lupodevelop
- Blog: https://amanitaproject.com
- Articles: https://dev.to/lupodevelop
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/lupodevelop
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarattidaniele
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/lupodevelop (personal), https://x.com/altumdream (label)
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lupodevelop.bsky.social
- Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lupodevelop
- itch.io (games): https://lupodevelop.itch.io
- Support: https://ko-fi.com/lupodevelop

## Philosophy

- No tracking, no ads, no accounts: nothing on these sites or in the apps phones home.
- Paid apps exist to fund open source research; everything underneath stays free (Apache-2.0 / MIT).
- Read the full open letter: [Why some things at Altumdream will have a price](https://altumdream.com/why).
- amanitaproject.com is Daniele Scaratti's personal blog and research diary; Altumdream is his label. Same person, two surfaces.

## Company

- Legal name: Altumdream di Scaratti Daniele (sole proprietorship, Italy).
- VAT / P.IVA: IT02846770226.
- Contact: hello (at) altumdream (dot) com.

## Pages

- [Home](https://altumdream.com): the label, released apps, philosophy.
- [Founder](https://altumdream.com/scaratti-daniele): bio, downloads across registries, live activity log, contribution board.
- [Why some things have a price](https://altumdream.com/why): open letter on research, money and privacy.
- [Privacy](https://altumdream.com/privacy)