About

I’m Maxwell Santoro. I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

For more than a decade, I ran a small furniture company. I now work independently on software and mathematics. I still make furniture and music.

One of my projects, ries-rs, searches for equations that explain a number. I liked Robert Munafo’s original solver enough to rewrite it in Rust.

Whole Machine Works brings together two projects around computers that keep improving while people stay in control. RamenOS is an everyday operating system in development, aiming for simpler tasks, recoverable failures, and AI help on your terms. Newcomputer explores how software can adapt to new methods and machines while keeping the behavior people rely on. Its research archive is private.

I built DotRepo and PageDigest as experiments in reusing repository and website findings. I wrote about why I shut them down.

I write about that work as it develops, including the optimizations that didn’t help. The Hall of Internet Greatness collects things on the internet I’d hate to lose: mathematical tools, personal websites, and a local-news report about a leprechaun.

If you want to work together or ask about a project, email max@maxwellsantoro.com.

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