In development
Parental Control
A prototype exploring local, self-hosted parental control — supervision and filtering that stays on your own network instead of a remote service.
Independent software lab
Horville Labs
Research, experiments & software.
A small personal laboratory for building and testing software ideas — networks, local tools, privacy and security. No factory line: prototypes, notes and experiments, one step at a time.
2 projects currently in development
Projects
Prototypes in the workshop. They are experiments first — nothing here is considered finished.
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In development
Network Inspector
A prototype for observing and understanding local network traffic — seeing what talks to what, on machines you control.
Further experiments will appear here as they take shape.
Research & Experiments
The axes the lab keeps returning to. Each one is a direction, not a product catalogue.
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Network technologies
Protocols, traffic and local networks — how machines talk to each other.
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Local software
Tools that run on your own machine, with as little cloud as possible.
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Privacy
Data staying where it belongs, and what that really takes.
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Security
Safe defaults, hardening and honest threat awareness for small systems.
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Infrastructure
The quiet plumbing that keeps experiments and services running.
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Automation
Scripts and pipelines that remove the repetitive parts of the work.
Lab Notes
Short technical notes and write-ups from the lab. No public notes yet — lab notes will appear here as projects mature.
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Coming soon
Observing local traffic
A first note on watching what moves on a local network.
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Coming soon
Designing for local-first
Notes on keeping data on the machine it was created on.
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Coming soon
Small automations
A few small scripts worth writing up, when the time is right.
The lab & OnPremSoftware
Two spaces, two jobs — same interest in software that runs close to you.
From the lab onwards
Horville Labs is the workbench: experiments, prototypes, half-finished ideas and technical notes. Things here are allowed to be rough, early or wrong.
OnPremSoftware is the space intended for software projects focused on local-first and on-premise software — presented there once they are ready.
A project usually starts here, and may move over there when it is ready.
About
Horville Labs is the personal research and experimentation space of Bernard Horville — a place to try things, keep notes and build software with a small footprint.
The lab sits alongside OnPremSoftware — software projects focused on local-first and on-premise software — and bhorville-it.fr for the wider IT activity.
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