DARK HEART LABS technical writing and documentation
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selected work

Selected work I shipped and still maintain. A short public list — more writing is on the site, more repos on GitHub. Running apps (ask, metalmenders, vector) live on live demos.

[PROJECT] [00] selected work

Selected work

Scan list for a hiring screen. Featured write-ups below go deeper.

  • mystic-bytes / darkheartlabs.technology

    Jekyll / GitHub Pages site: HTML/CSS, writing section, CV, search, CI link checks. Public writing at darkheartlabs.technology/writing.

  • Ask

    Interactive HTML/CSS/JavaScript microsites: multi-step wizard, reduced-motion path, mobile viewport, client build guide.

  • accessibility-rails-components

    WCAG 2.1 AA Rails ViewComponents with usage docs and keyboard-path how-tos. Live demo on Render.

  • NeuroShell

    User docs and README for an ADHD-friendly macOS tool. Human-Focused AI Award, Tetrate Buildathon (selected from 170+ applicants).

  • focus-guard

    Operator-facing README and policy notes for an Envoy focus-mode module.

[PROJECT] [01] featured documentation
Technical writer 2024 — Present

How-tos for an ADHD-friendly macOS tool

NeuroShell ↗

User docs and README for v2; v3 docs in progress. Human-Focused AI Award, Tetrate Buildathon.

Task-oriented feature docs, keyboard shortcuts, and a plain-English “why it exists” — written for a tired first-time user, not an architecture review. The product won an award; the writing is how someone actually uses it.

"NeuroShell puts AI to work while centering real human value."

— Birger Moëll, Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics, Uppsala University
How-to README Accessibility macOS Award winner
Technical writer 2026 — Present

Explain the proxy policy before anyone has to read Rust

focus-guard ↗

Operator-facing docs for focus policies at the edge — what it does, when it fires, how to turn it off.

README and run-of-show notes for an Envoy module that blocks distractions upstream of the browser. The reader is a tired operator, not the person who wrote the crate.

README Runbook Focus tooling Open source
Technical writer 2025 — Present

Component docs that name the keyboard path

accessibility-rails-components ↗

How-tos for WCAG 2.1 AA ViewComponents — what to drop in, what the user hears, what to test.

Usage docs and inclusive-default notes for Rails components. Written so a first-time implementer can ship the accessible path without an audit PDF.

How-to Accessibility Rails Open source
[PROJECT] [02] everything else

READMEs, samples, forks, and work-in-progress. The full index lives on GitHub, not here.

github.com/jv-darkheartlabs ↗