A plain-language walk through where one specific tool earns its keep. I built a small weather-relay program to find out whether I actually needed Redis, and what I discovered was that two boring features did most of the work.
I built a companion tool for Endel that pulls your Oura Ring biometrics, explains why a specific soundscape was chosen for your body's state, and plays it. The missing layer between data and sound.
I gave a computer 39 photos of my face and taught it to generate new versions of me. Then I turned the temperature dial and watched myself dissolve into chaos.
I built an SMS-powered service layer that lets you book Ubers, send Venmo payments, and check bus times from a flip phone. No app. No browser. No smartphone.
What 18 months of making an album taught me about designing interfaces.
I rebuilt my entire portfolio from scratch using AI pair programming. Here's what I learned about the process.
For week four of my accelerator, I built a personalized meditation generator, an AI mind movie pipeline, a procedurally generated Dante's Inferno game, and an Alice in Wonderland 3D platformer. Here's what happened.
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