I build useful 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.

For a few strange years around 2012–2014, a loose crowd of writers, comedians, and merry pranksters all happened to land on the same underpowered website at the same time and started making jokes at each other. It didn't last, and most of it is gone now. This is a time capsule of that moment: pick a day and see the timeline exactly as it looked, styled like Twitter of the era. Every post links back to the original — and you can reply to any of them. Your reply gets stamped with today's date, so it reads as a message sent back in time.

Status: live on GitHub Pages — free, no login. Plain static files with an optional Supabase backend for shared replies. Take a trip →

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.