I build useful things. I build cool things. I fix things. I build interesting things.

Everything you need for a fun surf session at a glance. A tide graph, current weather, body battery, and sunrise/sunset times — all on your wrist. I built it because I wanted it on my own wrist: inspired by the surf edition of the Instinct 2, for surfers who'd rather watch the horizon than their phone.

Status: live on the Garmin Connect IQ Store — free for all Instinct 2 users, with worldwide location support actively in development.

Checking the surf meant reading five different charts and still guessing, so I built the page I actually wanted: waves, tide and wind for one break, on one timeline. It covers 79 spots from Imperial Beach to Point Conception, and the wave forecast is modelled at the break itself rather than at a regional buoy — which matters on a coast where Santa Barbara sits in the lee of the Channel Islands while Jalama, a few miles up, takes the swell full on.

Companion: GoodSurf now runs on Garmin watches too — a glance that answers “is it worth paddling out tomorrow, and where?” for the six breaks nearest you, off the same scoring code as the site. See the Garmin glance ↓

Status: live at goodsurf.info — free, no login, no ads. Pure static files served from Cloudflare Workers, pulling straight from Scripps, NOAA and the National Weather Service. Check the surf →

The site already answered whether tomorrow is worth it — but you read that at the kitchen table, not in the dark at six in the morning with a wetsuit in one hand. So GoodSurf got a Connect IQ glance: scroll past it on the watch and you get a shaka, a shrug or a thumbs down for the best of the six breaks nearest you, before you have opened anything.

Status: live on the Garmin Connect IQ Store — free, across 100 Garmin watches and Edge computers. It covers the same 79 Southern California breaks as goodsurf.info; more of the coast if enough people want it.

The Amazon Fire tablet store inexplicably has no YouTube or YouTube Kids app — just a pile of third-party players, most of them ad-riddled or locked behind an account. I wanted something for my own kids: no account to sign into, no ads baked into the app, and real control over what they can watch. So I built a curated player where children only ever see videos a grown-up has approved — no search, no "related videos," no comments, no rabbit holes. A native Fire tablet app (Fire OS is Android-based) written in Kotlin, with playback through the YouTube IFrame Player in a WebView — the approach that works on Fire tablets, which have no Google Play Services.

Status: live on the Amazon Appstore — free to try, with a $3.99 unlock for the full library and parental controls.

Sixer finds paid freelance tasks on Freelancer.com and Upwork and drafts proposals with an LLM — for your review, never auto-submission. It drafts; you decide. Drafting runs on a local LLM via Ollama by default, so your profile and proposals never leave your machine, and every bid is an explicit, one-at-a-time action you confirm.

Status: a working local-first tool — a small CLI plus a hardened local web UI for reviewing jobs and drafting bids. Interested in using it? Get in touch.

A tongue-in-cheek experiment in how far a hands-off content pipeline can go. A local LLM researches a Reddit topic and writes a grounded narration script, text-to-speech reads it over stock b-roll, and the finished short queues itself up for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok — you just approve it before it goes live. The name is a wink at the age of AI "slop."

Status: an ongoing experiment — actively auto-publishing short-form video across three platforms. Curious about running it for your own channels? Get in touch, or read the full details, privacy policy & terms →

A long-term mechanical restoration treated not as a traditional resto, but as a full-scale systems problem: mechanical, electrical, and thermal subsystems interacting under real-world load conditions.

Goal: return a complex vintage platform to dependable, road-usable condition — and build a deeper understanding of how legacy mechanical and electrical systems behave under modern usage expectations.

A 1968 Datsun roadster bought as a tired, flat-black project and rebuilt into a one-off custom. Custom front fenders were fabricated by hand and a pair of NRG fiberglass bucket seats reworked to sit low and fit the tight cockpit. It was finished first in matte black and driven hard, then later stripped back and repainted white. Restored in every way, then pushed well past stock.

Goal: a road-going, one-of-a-kind roadster — proof that with enough patience you can fabricate the parts you can't buy and finish a car to your own spec, end to end.

A red E30 built into a street-legal drift car. The interior was stripped out, Corbeau bucket seats and a hydraulic handbrake fitted, and the suspension modified for angle — then driven to and from events under its own power to go sideways.

Status: a street-legal E30 that ran three grassroots drift events — including Drift Day 43 in Shawano, Wisconsin — and spent a full night going sideways with the Risky Devils crew.

A black S13 240SX built around an SR20DET running a large single turbo — the classic rear-wheel-drive drift platform set up for boost and big power.

Status: a turbocharged, rear-wheel-drive S13 — the quintessential drift-scene build.