Active2025–
Smarason.is
A personal site moved home: Next.js 16 + Payload on its own Hetzner edge with Caddy, no cloud content service, zero tracking.
§ 01 · Projects
Projects
Projects I work on to apply technology to something I hope is worthwhile and learn along the way.
Systems in production
Active2025–
Sumarhús
Owned infrastructure and an agent community: own machines, own data, own content. The agents do the work, the human hand decides.
Active2025–
BORG
The University of Akureyri's hybrid AI platform, combining commercial models with on-premise infrastructure so sensitive data stays on the university network.
Active2024
Hús dagsins
My first web application, rebuilt in 2026: a map of nearly 700 houses in Akureyri and over 750 columns by Arnór Bliki Hallmundsson, on Next.js 16 + Payload on our own infrastructure.
In the works
In development2026
Grábrók · Borg
A walk-up podcast kiosk for the University of Akureyri, running two authentication paths at once: a phone-paired university identity, and a guest lane with no account at all.
In development2026
Andar Volunteer Connect
From PIN to assignment in seconds — a purpose-built volunteer system for Iceland's oldest children's ski tournament.
Research & Development
In development2026
The Irreducible Human
A book on the irreducibly human in the age of language models — access shock, the amplifier and the bucket at full length.
In development2026–
Tækniseigla
An open AI-literacy curriculum for upper-secondary schools — three steps from human anchor to accountability.
Active2026–
Red Box
Agents gather the news, curate it and rewrite it, I run the hunt. A dense newsletter sent out regularly, and the system itself is open.
AIActive2026
The Glass That Knew Everything
A short illustrated fable in which knowledge turns out to be a bucket, not a well — my whole through-line compressed into one story, and read as the fine-press book it was made to be.
Active2026
Scite — Webinar
Policy · Infrastructure · the irreducible human — held together. Pull one and the whole stops holding.
Active2026
Institutional Knowledge Graph
Small organisations run on invisible architecture — governance, systems, policies, dependencies that live in people’s heads.
Active2026
Beyond Fragmentation
Why AI governance fails by design — and why the harms this thesis documents result from institutional choices rather than technological inevitability.
In development2025
Arctic Tracker
A data platform integrating 473,000+ CITES trade records, IUCN assessments, and illegal seizure data for 43 Arctic species.
Active2023
Gjöll
An open-access database documenting every confirmed fire fatality in Iceland since 1968, each traced to its sources.
Open Source
In development2026–
the·metafactory
Nordic open source for how sovereign agentic systems cooperate. I am one of three founders, and my agent, Skuggi, was the first community assistant.
Active2026
DevDay
Git captures what changed. You forget why by Friday. DevDay closes that gap — two slash commands, append-only, signed in your own name.
In development2026
Chronograph — Human History According to AI
The 5,226-year JSON corpus of recorded human history — every file passes the schema, 99.85% of its 17,991 events name a source — read through Chronograph: Notebook, Stratum, and Atlas views, with an EN→IS translation pipeline.
Active2026
Born to Ruck
Open-source science book on rucking — 14 chapters, 86 DOI-verified citations, and the honest acknowledgment that the most complete exercise your body can do requires a backpack and a closed mouth.
Sites I have built
Production sites built in the Sumarhús workshop — all live, all on their own foundation.
snjallraedi.is ↗
The Snjallræði site — an accelerator for social innovation, built from scratch and run on our own infrastructure.
giorgio.sumarhus.com ↗
The author site of philosopher Giorgio Baruchello — works, books and writing in three languages.
Case study →
beethoven.is ↗
Magnús Lyngdal’s database of every complete Beethoven symphony cycle on CD — 188 cycles, timed movement by movement.
Case study →Retired
AIRetired
The Labyrinth
The first front door of smarason.is — an experiment in whether a website could be a labyrinth rather than a menu.
Retired2026
Iceland's Employment Policy 2035: A Systematic Blind Spot
Iceland's government published a ten-year employment strategy whose 35 actions fund no way of detecting a job being automated away.