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i build random things.
avg coder, above avg manager. engineered managers and managed engineers.
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Your iPhone Left an Airbnb I got up and was switching between Airbnbs, already annoyed at the Airbnb app sending me back and forth to Safari and Google Maps. Safari even warned me: “You are leavi...
Ten Years of Doing Stuff: From $2 Apps to Algorithmic Trading
First published in February 2024. Expanded and updated for this blog. I picked engineering because my family wanted me to. I wanted to make films, play cricket professionally, compete in chess and...
Constraint Stack for AI Work: A Practical Template
If constraints are the moat, we need a repeatable way to define them. Here is the template I now use before handing work to an AI system. The Constraint Stack 1. Goal What exactly shou...
The Tool That Wins Is the One With the Best Constraints
"Constraints breed creativity" is design school gospel. Eames said it. Stravinsky said it. Every product blog has said it. I'm not here to repeat that. I'm here to point out something sharper: in th...
good code isn't dying
amit prasad wrote about the silent death of good code(https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code). his thesis: agents make you productive, but output is "acceptable, not excellent." craftsmanship is...
work
directory →pastport
liveon-device Safari history intelligence for macOS, with local answers grounded in your own browsing history.
takeout tax
archivea local CLI that turns a Google Takeout export into an invoice for the migration cost of products that disappeared.
Rifflet
liveturns a short music idea into a playable piano, guitar, or ukulele lesson.
Orbits: Find Common Ground
liveplan your own trips and meetups.
EchoHunt Music
livei play music at random hours and never knew why the algorithm picked it, so now i just ask.
Pastport
liveon-device Safari history intelligence for macOS: movements, bookings, threads, and grounded local answers.
Flickpot
livea small iOS flicking game, live on the app store.
vision credit scan
archivereal-time credit card scanning using rectangle detection and OCR on the selected region.
best face from live photos
archivea Vision experiment for scoring faces and finding the best expression inside Live Photos.
swipeless tinder
archivea tinder-style card stack controlled by vision hand pose and face gestures. thumbs up, swipe right.
emoji hunt
archivea SwiftUI and Core ML camera game where the app hunts for emoji-like objects in the real world.
the work directory is intentionally small: reviewed projects first, shipped apps next, and older experiments in the archive.
apps →photos
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