Making a Trading Card Game About Student Debt
I am tinkering with a trading-card-style project about debt, starting with university stats, shiny finishes, and one extremely loaded comparison.
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Side ProjectsData Viz
2026
Agents Are Making Top-Down Software Development Real
Agents make a new top-down companion workflow possible: start with a detailed plan, turn it into rough working software, then shape the result by judgment, pruning, and proof.
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AIClaude Code
Codex Remote Control Setup Not Working? Check Localhost Cookies
Having trouble setting up Codex remote control? If the localhost callback fails with HTTP 431, oversized cookies from unrelated local apps may be the cause.
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Local DevelopmentDebugging
Real Apple CI Needs a Mac Runner and an iPhone
Hosted macOS Actions, a self-hosted Mac runner, TestFlight rehearsal, and physical iPhone receipts for honest Apple CI.
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GitHub ActionsmacOS
Machine Learning From Scratch in Python
Machine Learning Refined resurfaced on social this week, a nice reminder that from scratch is not just a teaching style. It is how the book, code, and exercises were built.
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Machine Learning From ScratchPython
Wispr Flow Needs to Be Careful
Wispr Flow is a nice wrapper around speech-to-text models. That is a real product. But wrappers live or die on trust.
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AI ToolsVoice Dictation
Always Be Gaslighting
A meme about AI coding agent verification: treat “done” as a claim, not proof.
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AI Coding AgentsAI Agent Verification
Claude Code App Icon Design: 20 SVG Iterations for a macOS Dictation App
A real iteration log: designing a macOS app icon with Claude Code and the logo-designer-skill. 20 SVG iterations, 6 parallel subagents, and the surprisingly hard problem of curving a sound wave around a cylinder.
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Claude CodeApp Icon Design
The Mac Menu Bar Is My New Scratchpad for AI Developer Tools
A short tour of five macOS menu bar apps I built to scratch my own itch, and why AI agents, XcodeBuildMCP, XC testing, and remote Mac runners make this kind of tiny native tooling much easier to ship.
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Mac AppsMenu Bar Apps
YouTube to GIF Converter: Make GIFs with No Watermark
Convert a YouTube video to a GIF with no watermark using ytgify, a Chrome extension built for clipping GIFs directly from the YouTube player.
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Chrome ExtensionYouTube