Daniel Isaac Silbaugh
Dan Silbaugh does manual labor, defaults to systems-level thinking, always has a few entrepreneurial projects going and writes science fiction. He has strong feelings about built environments. He is always going down Wikipedia rabbit holes. Someday, he'd like to live in Hawaii. Much like a Vulcan, he thinks the only rational, logical way to live one's life is to try your best to be a good person. Typically, you'll find him dressed in black.
He is the creator of The Book Modernizer, a project that produces modern-language editions of classic literature and related reading tools.
This site collects his projects, notes, experiments, fiction writing, musings, and other public work.
Projects
- The Book Modernizer — An automated publishing pipeline - from raw files to retail-ready ebooks, audiobooks, and marketing assets.
- Kant for Kids — An end-to-end AI pipeline for transforming dense philosophical texts into illustrated, child-friendly books — with custom tooling at ever…
- Delivery Route Calculator — A python/LLM/google pipeline for turning months of handwritten delivery logs into accurate, auditable mileage totals — saving roughly te…
- Obsidian AI Chat Notes — An automated pipeline that turns years of raw LLM chat exports into searchable, indexed notes (this website is built on this tool).
Fiction
- Pops! — The Snowman — A boy, his father, and a negotiation over beer, carrots, and the proper way to build a New York snowman.
- The Zoo — Part 1 — Frank the chimpanzee has strong opinions about bats, disease, and the aerodynamic potential of primates.
- The Zoo — Part 2 — Frank spends a pandemic year in strict self-improvement, then learns that chimps have already been to space.
- Mornings, with Jesus and the Apostles — Matthew sees a commercial opportunity in the Sermon on the Mount. The crowd wants the lamps.
- Dr. Gronk — A caveman physician navigates Victorian London — consulting patients, inscribing records on stone tablets, and hunting his lunch in the p…
- Dr. Gronk Goes to the Beach — Dr. Gronk and Miss Lucas journey to the seaside village of Quardnay for a medical conference.