Projects

Build logs for things I've made. Each one lists when it was built and when I wrote it up. I started this site in July 2026, so the early write-ups are retrospective.

• Automating an eBay Business, End to End Built: Aug 2025 – 2026 (ongoing) · Written: July 2026 · a series The overview, plus a chapter-by-chapter build log: the manual grind, the photo pipeline and a metadata leak, teaching AI to see inventory, the eBay APIs, a P&L database, and Telegram-based buyer messaging.
• Turning 47,000 iMessages Into a Personal CRM Built: July 2026 · Written: July 2026 Mining the Messages database and Contacts into a private wiki of everyone I know, sorted by who I'm losing touch with.
• A Crochet Pattern Translator for My Wife Built: 2026 · Written: July 2026 Paste in an ambiguous pattern, get clean round-by-round shorthand, a glyph chart, and stitch-count validation. Self-hosted, auto-deployed, one very important user.
• NERV: The Home Server That Runs Our House Ongoing · Written: July 2026 An Ubuntu box in a closet running the household's software: dashboards, bookmarks, recipes, bots.

Up next

• A recipe pipeline that pushes meals to our grocery list automatically
• My favorite restaurants in Atlanta
• The reseller's guide to gear that's actually worth buying