Become a sponsor to Julius Brussee
Your sponsorship pays for the hours I sink into open-source AI tooling. Here's what I work on and where the money goes.
- Caveman hit the Hacker News front page in April 2026 and crossed 6,600 GitHub stars in a few days, sitting now at top 400 repositories of all time with 57000+ stars. It's a Claude Code and Codex skill that strips filler from AI agent output, cutting ~65% of tokens without touching technical accuracy. One-line install, works with 40+ agents. I maintain it, respond to community issues, run evals, and ship features like intensity levels, a compression tool for memory files, and 文言文 (Classical Chinese) mode.
- Cavekit (formerly Blueprint) turns natural language specifications into parallel build plans and working software. You write what you want. It builds, validates, and iterates across models.
- Revu is a native macOS study app with FSRS spaced repetition, decks, exams, and study guides. The open-source SwiftUI codebase lives at JuliusBrussee/revu-swift. The commercial product runs at revu.cards.
I'm 19, studying Data Science & AI at Leiden University, and sit on the Education Committee shaping curriculum for the program. I write about AI infrastructure and indie development at Neurabridge on Substack.
Sponsorship keeps these projects MIT-licensed and free. It covers API costs for benchmarks and evals, pays for infrastructure I can't get on student plans, and buys me time I'd otherwise spend freelancing. If Caveman saved you tokens, or Revu helped you study, or any of this work made your day shorter, consider sponsoring.
Featured work
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JuliusBrussee/caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
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JuliusBrussee/cavekit
A Claude Code plugin that turns natural language into blueprints, blueprints into parallel build plans, and build plans into working software with automated iteration, validation, and cross-model p…
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TypeScript 112
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JuliusBrussee/cavemem
Cross-agent persistent memory for coding assistants. Stored compressed. Retrieved fast. Local by default.
TypeScript 448 -
JuliusBrussee/revu-swift
Local-first macOS study app with FSRS review, decks, study guides, exams, import/export, and a polished SwiftUI desktop interface.
Swift 295 -
JuliusBrussee/cavegemma
LoRA fine-tune Gemma 4 31B to speak caveman-mode natively. Style: github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
Python 20
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