I build real things.
I’m Nehemiah Newell — software engineer, ASU computer science grad, and a builder of tools. Some that I needed, like a harness designed to help a LLM act as a better editor, others that I just found interesting like a validator that catches hallucinated citations.
Everything is shipped and clickable — judge the work itself.
Exhibits
Featured project
RefChecker
Sole developer
Hallucinated references are the bane of academic paper review — a citation that reads perfectly and points at nothing. RefChecker automates the check: it extracts references with GROBID or an LLM, then verifies each one programmatically against authoritative sources — CrossRef, PubMed, Google Books — instead of trusting a model’s word for it. Verification returns […]
- CrossRef API
- Gemini
- GROBID
- Python
- Tkinter
msite-core
Sole developer
The engine behind the site you’re reading. msite-core is a hand-built WordPress plugin that turns a stock install into a serial-fiction press and portfolio: custom post types for books, chapters, and projects; a Markdown importer that takes a Google Docs export from draft to published chapter without touching code; and a PDF pipeline that typesets […]
- CommonMark
- mPDF
- PHP
- WordPress
TwinsMusic
iOS developer — three-person capstone team
My senior industry capstone: iOS client functionality for TwinsMusic’s delivery platform, letting people browse and purchase from a live music catalog by integrating with Ecwid’s commerce APIs. Three-person distributed team, daily remote standups for prioritization. I designed and delivered the client-side application in Swift on a backend-driven page architecture — the server dynamically controls rendering, […]
- Ecwid API
- iOS
- StoreKit
- Swift