Catalog
Building apps, woodworking, planning scenic roadtrips, cooking. Each entry tells the journey of doing and experimenting honestly — including the parts that didn't go well — because the friction is usually where the work actually happened. Everything teaches, as long as you stay curious!
Building the desk I'll spend the next decade working at. Walnut, dovetailed drawers, a deliberately slow build with the joinery cut by hand.
“If it takes a year, it takes a year. The point isn't the desk.”
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“The grain you'd never have paid for is the grain you can't stop looking at.”
Read the caseA mobile-first checklist and owner dashboard for an Airbnb turnover, built in one afternoon with an AI coding assistant. A small operating system for making preparation consistent, visible, and less dependent on memory.
“Sometimes the highest-value software is just a narrow agreement made visible.”
Read the caseA local web app built with AI to track medical expenses for HSA reimbursement.
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