Robert
McConnell
I build systems people can use, inspect, and trust.
I'm a Deaf technologist working across accessible communications, public infrastructure, and open-source security. I build things, contribute upstream, and show the evidence.
Make the machine path boring. Make the evidence undeniable.
Work you can inspect.
Evidence for software you depend on
Independent, policy-bound checks of source and release evidence. The result should be inspectable, not just reassuring.
Explore WindAnvil →Deaf in Government
As DIG president, I'm working with a national community to strengthen Deaf leadership and accessible public-service infrastructure.
Explore DIG →ACE accessibility infrastructure
Direct video, research tools, WebRTC, logging, and test infrastructure. Public repositories from a long-running accessibility portfolio.
Browse the public work →The Genie's Lamp BBS
The system I ran as a kid, recovered and documented. The same curiosity about networks and accessible interfaces is still here.
See the BBS museum →The claim should point to the artifact.
A native local transport for the browser's Chrome DevTools Protocol endpoint, merged October 18, 2026.
↗ Release assurance + verificationArtifact-bound CycloneDX SBOMs, immutable image digests, keyless attestations, and a consumer-side verifier.
↗ Native Conan SBOM pathCycloneDX generation around the dependency graph the project already resolves and ships.
↗ Assurance through inheritanceMove release-time CycloneDX behavior to a shared Apache inheritance point instead of repeating it project by project.
↗ Final-version build provenancePreserve the exact voted release-candidate bytes while giving the final release its correct build identity.
↗ Sharper schema diagnosticsSmall upstream work at the boundary where tooling needs to tell a human exactly what failed and why.
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