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Vibes
Projects built with AI tooling as a creative and technical collaborator. Each entry includes a meta-reflection on what worked, what broke, and the split between author and AI.
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Building on a subsidized future
Reflections on building 15 AI-assisted projects while the tokens are cheap — unit economics, vault-driven workflows, and what happens when the subsidy ends.
Myco
GPU-rendered AI-native workspace in Rust — terminal, canvas, and document panels sharing a project folder as the source of truth. The folder is the context surface, not the chat session.
Workslop
Native macOS app that plays structured learning workshops from a declarative XML format — designed for ADHD brains, content generated by any LLM, app just runs it with visual timers and calm UX.
Earworm
Go CLI for fault-tolerant Audible downloads and full-library hygiene — plan-based remediation with audit trails for a self-hosted audiobook collection.
OpenClaw Skills
MCP server plugins for the OpenClaw household AI — practice scaffolding, medication tracking, and garden operations, all designed as executive function prosthetics for a neurodivergent household.
Wallflower
Local-first jam and sample manager for musicians — records sessions with crash safety, auto-detects structure via on-device ML, separates stems, and lets you browse by musical similarity instead of chronology. Rust + Tauri + Python ML sidecar over gRPC.
TuringPi
Self-hosted Kubernetes homelab cluster on Turing Pi 2 hardware (4x Raspberry Pi CM4) — GitOps-managed with zero manual SSH, running 10+ services including a Wyoming voice pipeline for Home Assistant.
CNC (Command and Control)
Centralized monitoring, error aggregation, and improvement-capture system for a portfolio of self-hosted apps — an attention multiplier for a solo developer running multiple production services.
Roughneck
Plugin-based job execution platform that consolidates async background processing across multiple apps into a single system running on an M4 Mac Mini over WireGuard, with LLM observability via Prometheus and Grafana.
Takoyaki
Native macOS desktop app for safe backup, versioning, and file management of Elektron Octatrack hardware — clean-room Rust binary format parser with a three-layer safety model.
Evolver
ADHD-friendly structured learning system for deeply mastering electronic synthesizers and eurorack modules — micro-sessions, interactive SVG panels, MIDI integration, and a reusable pedagogical framework.
Haven
Documentation-first garden planning system designed as a developmental agency-building tool for a neurodivergent 7-year-old — structured data, session scripts, and Home Assistant integration for a backyard raised-bed garden in Denmark.
Edytor
Obsidian plugin providing real-time, non-disruptive writing coaching — detects six failure modes derived from editorial feedback on my own blog drafts.
GoVejle
English-language event discovery platform for expats in Denmark's Triangle Region — scrapes 20+ Danish sources, translates and enriches events with local AI, and delivers a weekly newsletter.
Shotput
Headless browser screenshot capture tool built as an MCP server for Claude Code — captures full-page or element-specific screenshots entirely locally.
Etyde
Music learning platform connecting private teachers and students through practice-centric workflows — lesson management, practice tracking, sheet music rendering, and AI-generated exercises in one place.
AbletonBuddy
Claude-powered AI songwriting companion embedded in Ableton Live via Max for Live devices and a Claude Code CLI skill — bridging the gap between musical ideas and finished arrangements.
2024.garden
This site — a personal digital garden on Next.js that transforms an Obsidian vault into a published website with native wikilinks, callouts, embeds, and a build-time link graph.
PM Toolkit
Personal product management intelligence system that transforms an Obsidian vault into a web-based strategic planning dashboard with strategy-to-execution traceability — no database, no SaaS, user owns the data.
Ordtegl
iOS app for learning Danish vocabulary using FSRS spaced repetition with WaniKani-style progression across 32 CEFR-aligned levels, designed to prepare for the PD3 exam.