Press releases
I'm Mado Kagerou, publishing as kageroumado: an independent researcher and expert Swift engineer with more than ten years of software development experience. As a founder and technical lead, I take projects from architecture through release. My research interests center on computational pharmacology, computational neuroscience and AI safety. My engineering specialties include Apple platform internals, reverse engineering, GPU rendering and local model training.
About Mado Kagerou: research, engineering and leadership. Product announcements are listed by recorded product chronology; article publication dates appear below.
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kageroumado Releases Sevoflurane Beta for Windows Steam Games on Apple Silicon Macs
Sevoflurane runs Windows Steam and compatible games on Apple silicon Macs. It combines native Mac windows with the Dormison Wine engine, resizable game windows and optional GPU upscaling. Free and open source.
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kageroumado Releases Piru, an Open-Source Dose Journal and Offline Pharmacology Library for iPhone, Android and Mac
Piru is a private dose journal, trip notebook and offline pharmacology library with pharmacokinetic timelines and interaction references. Available for Mac, as an iPhone beta on TestFlight and as an Android alpha. Free and open source under GPL-3.0.
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kageroumado Releases Rocuronium, Letting AI Agents Operate a Mac Without Taking the User's Cursor
Rocuronium is a macOS menu bar daemon, CLI and MCP server for AI computer use. It supports background input and returns an evidence verdict for each action: confirmed, noEffect or unverifiable. Free and open source.
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kageroumado Launches Ibutamoren, a Free Anime Image Upscaler That Runs Entirely in the Browser
Ibutamoren is a free web app that upscales anime illustrations and screenshots 2x with neural network models, running entirely on the visitor's own GPU through WebGPU. No image is uploaded.
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kageroumado Launches Spectra, Free and Private Validated Psychological Self-Tests That Run Entirely in the Browser
Spectra offers 19 validated psychological screening questionnaires, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, PTSD and OCD, scored on the user's device with no account, email or tracking.
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kageroumado Releases Coluracetam, a Native Markdown Reader and Quick Look Renderer for Mac
Coluracetam is a native macOS Markdown reader with a live side-by-side editor and rendered view, Finder Quick Look previews and PDF/HTML export. Free and open source, also available on the Mac App Store.
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kageroumado Releases Adrafinil, Keeping a Mac Awake With the Lid Closed Only While AI Coding Agents Are Working
Adrafinil keeps a Mac awake, even with the lid closed, only while AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor are working, then lets it sleep the moment the last session ends. Free and open source.
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kageroumado Releases Refrax, an Open-Source Mac Web Browser With Vertical Tabs, Spaces and Interchangeable Engines
Refrax is a free, open-source web browser for macOS built after Arc was discontinued: vertical tabs, spaces, a command palette and a CLI, with WebKit built in and Chromium installable beside it.
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kageroumado Releases Phosphene, Bringing Custom Video Wallpapers to the macOS Desktop and Lock Screen
Phosphene lets any video play as a macOS desktop and lock screen wallpaper, selected directly from System Settings alongside Apple's own Aerials. Free and open source under the MIT License.
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kageroumado Releases Dantrolene, Preventing Mac Screen Lock on the User's Home Wi-Fi Network
Dantrolene is a macOS menu bar utility that stops the screen from locking while the Mac is on the user's home Wi-Fi network, and leaves normal locking in place everywhere else. Free and open source, also available on the Mac App Store.
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kageroumado Releases Rilmazafone, a Visual Designer for Signed macOS DMG Installers
Rilmazafone is a Mac app for designing DMG disk image installers on a WYSIWYG canvas that mirrors the mounted Finder window, then building a signed disk image in one click. Free and open source, also available on the Mac App Store.