some call me a lemonaut.

i'm on a mission to transmute hellishly painful lived experiences into heavenly blissful ones, and to manufacture & distribute the "get-out-of-hell-free cards" those experiences taught me how to make. i open-source my healing, my thinking, and my software, because if something as simple as cells can coordinate to form a body, i have no doubt we can coordinate to form the kind of society humans actually need.

this profile is one of several attempts at making myself legible to the world.

• 🍋 zest-dealer: mission-directed aliveness, fervor, ikigai. the opposite of numbing out. the flavor i try to add to every room i walk into.
• 🌊 multiverse surfer: every small action forks the universe. i try to notice the forks, pick the good ones, and remember i have the agency to do it again tomorrow.
• ☯︎ incentive-aligner: cells cooperate because the incentives line up. most of what's broken in the world is broken incentives pretending to be broken people. i want to build the coordination technology that fixes the layer below the layer.
• 🧪 first-principles thinker: what is this, actually? what if we didn't assume the thing everyone assumes? the questions are free; the answers compound.
• 🔓 open-sourced human: my software, my principles, my healing journey. the ecosystem builds itself when the pieces are legible and free.
• 🔥 aliveness-maxxer: numbness is the true opposite of life. every day i'm asking, am i heading toward aliveness, or running from it?

turning my inner life (healing, worldview, thinking) into something other people can read, fork, and build on. the best version of a personal brand is a public wiki of what i've figured out.

small, sharp tools for thinking better, remembering better, paying attention better. built because nobody else was going to build them the way i needed.

• annotator-extension: highlight, draw, and annotate any webpage like it's a PDF. my favorite ADHD tool. it remembers why you opened the tab.
• playlist-search-extension: instant, typo-tolerant search for YouTube's "save to playlist" dialog. fixes a papercut that drove me up the wall.
• chrome-text-summarizer: attention is all you need (to save).
• create-chrome-extension: the scaffolding i wish i'd had. ship a Chrome extension in a weekend.

building the tools i use to build everything else. agentic scaffolding for thinking alongside LLMs.

• create-claude-plugin: end-to-end scaffold for building a Claude Code plugin, from first command to marketplace submission.
• experimental-engineer: a subagent that explores unconventional, first-principles solutions to hard technical problems.
• first-principles-review: a skill that reviews a codebase top-down. WHY (goal) → WHAT (architecture) → HOW (implementation) → improvements ranked by leverage.

worlds you can poke at. simulation as a way to feel ideas in your hands, about exponentials, about ecosystems, about the kind of universe this one might be.

• life-sim-go: life simulation, in Go.

• metamorphopolis: the vision of a village with my friends. a thriving society, starting at the scale where it's actually tractable.
• lemonaut lore: lemon + psychonaut + astronaut + le monad. tag yourself.
• coordination technology: if IFS is a technology for internal democracy, what's the external analogue? what does the human civilizational organism look like?
• anti-sitting furniture & walkable cities: spines compressed all day is a slow-motion civilizational injury. design your environment or it designs you.
• abundance engineering: games under extractive capitalism are negative-sum. games under post-scarcity are positive-sum. i believe the second one is a software problem.
• empathy tech: one day everyone will understand, first intellectually then experientially, what MDMA-assisted safety and 5-MeO dissolution have to teach us.

• aliveness > numbness, always
• you can just do things: it's not a meme, it's a protocol. visualize → pathfind → integrate.
• curation is art; the dialogue around the thing is half the thing
• hopeposting is a civic act, and so is sharing your healing
• imperfection is ok: you contribute incalculable value in your earnest and imperfect attempt to make sense of the world

• 🐦 twitter: @lemonautzest
• 🌐 site: codyh.xyz
• 📖 notion: open sourcing myself

_{"i create because i envision that there are people out there who need the lemon zest."}