// the tools I built because the existing ones annoyed me enough to fix it myself.
// exhibit A — this very site compiling. more casts land on projects as I record them.
npm run build
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An internal ops platform that replaced four spreadsheets and a group chat.
WHY
A 3D-printing business needed order management, cost calculation, inventory tracking, and production workflows in one place instead of duct-taped spreadsheets — so I scoped, built, and shipped the whole thing.
IMPACT
centralizes order management, cost calculation, inventory tracking, and production workflows into a single internal tool
STACK
TypeScriptPostgreSQLevent-driven architecture
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Long-term memory for AI coding agents that keep forgetting everything.
WHY
Every new agent session started from zero — same context, re-explained, every single time. I got tired of being the agent's memory, so I built it one instead.
IMPACT
~40% smaller transcripts than raw JSON, via a custom compact format (TOON)
A Django billing app that predates my terminal obsession.
WHY
Built during the Texmith years, when "ship it" mattered more than "make it pretty." Still runs.
STACK
DjangoCeleryDockerHeroku
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A YouTube channel for the engineering layer nobody puts in the demo.
WHY
The interesting part of senior engineering rarely makes it into tutorials — the tradeoffs, the dead ends, the "why we didn't do it that way." So I started filming that part instead.