Index

Projects

A glimpse of what is on the bench. Not the internals, but enough to show what gets built, how it is tested, and where the hard part actually was.

17projects live, built, or in progress
6disciplines software through fabrication
01

Software & tools

3 items

Software & tools

PC Doctor

Working

Checks an entire PC and writes a plain-English report on what is actually wrong.

Sweeps CPU, GPU, memory, disks, drivers, thermals, battery and attached equipment. The hard part is not running checks, it is not crying wolf: a diagnostic that reports twenty scary-sounding non-problems gets ignored, so the design goal is suppressing false alarms rather than maximising test count. It never applies a fix unattended.

Built with
PowerShell, WMI/CIM
Scope
31 modules
Rule
reports, never repairs
DiagnosticsWindowsReport-first
Software & tools

Best Product

Built

Answers what the best product is for a job, and shows which claims it could actually verify.

The interesting problem turned out to be provenance. Most large retailers block automated reading outright, so a tool that quietly fills the gap with a guess is indistinguishable from one that genuinely checked. This one separates what it read from what it could not reach, and says which is which.

Built with
Python
Constraint
retailers block automated reads
Design
sourcing shown per claim
ResearchProvenance
Software & tools

Video Maker

Built

Turns a script and a folder of clips into a finished, captioned video.

Narration is produced locally, one sentence at a time, so each caption's timing is measured from the audio that was actually rendered rather than estimated from word count. That is the difference between subtitles that drift and subtitles that land on the word. Desktop application, double-click to run, no subscription in the pipeline.

Built with
Python, ffmpeg
Runs
fully offline
Timing
measured from rendered audio
MediaLocal-firstDesktop app
02

Automation & operations

3 items

Automation & operations

Automatic quoting bot

Live · running unattended

Reads an incoming job request, prices it from a rate book, and sends the quote back.

Built for my own lead flow first, because the fastest way to prove an automation is worth selling is to run it on your own business before anyone else's. Job type and size arrive as structured answers, so pricing is a lookup rather than a judgement call, and the rate book is a single file a non-programmer can edit. Covered by 178 automated tests.

Built with
Python
Tests
178 automated
Status
live, unattended
AutomationLiveTested
Automation & operations

The diagnostic engine

In progress

The method behind the consulting: how I work out what a business should actually automate.

A structured intake, then a deliberate search for what already exists before anything gets built, then a written recommendation with costs attached. It is allowed to conclude that nothing is worth automating yet, and when it does, it still has to hand over something concrete to do this week.

Stages
intake, search, report
Allowed verdict
"nothing yet"
Output
written, client-owned
ConsultingMethod
Automation & operations

Field operations audit

Done

Audited my own field business and found the tools were already paid for and switched off.

Job management software was live and essentially unused: its lead-platform integration, calendar sync and booking hooks were all sitting disconnected. Nothing needed buying and nothing needed building. That result is the argument for the diagnostic — the most common finding is not a missing tool, it is a paid one nobody connected.

Method
audit before build
Finding
tools paid for, unconnected
Cost to fix
configuration only
OperationsAudit
03

Research & analysis

3 items

Research & analysis

Software opportunity research

Ongoing

Six software business ideas, generated under one filter and then attacked with real sources.

The filter: software itself is now a commodity, so anything defensible has to sit on accumulating data, a regulatory mandate, physical-world access, or absorbed liability. Every idea was then researched and graded by how independent its sources were. Two of the three strongest premises did not survive contact with the evidence and were demoted, which is the point of grading rather than collecting.

Ideas
6, one filter
Grading
A–D by source independence
Outcome
2 of 3 premises corrected
Market researchEvidence grading
Research & analysis

Where unmet need actually is

Done

Two dozen searches across twenty domains to find the needs nobody is serving.

Each candidate got a three-way incumbent check — the category's own name, the job the customer is hiring for, and the incumbent you would have to displace — because searching one phrasing reliably reports empty markets that are not empty. The clearest finding: technology-abuse support for domestic violence survivors, where a handful of specialist clinics exist in the entire country against millions affected. The gap is structural, because the work needs a local human and will never scale into a product.

Searches
24 across ~20 domains
Test
three-way incumbent check
Finding
labour gap, not information gap
ResearchMethod
Research & analysis

AI video tooling review

Done

Priced and compared the current AI video tools against platform policy, not against listicles.

Prices were taken from vendors' own pages, because effectively every "best AI video tool" ranking is published by a company selling one — and several were still recommending a product that had already been discontinued. The finding that reframed the project was a platform policy change that demonetises generic, templated output while explicitly still welcoming high-quality work that used the tools.

Sources
vendor pricing pages
Caught
a discontinued tool still ranked
Decides
policy before tooling
ResearchTooling
04

Design & fabrication

3 items

Design & fabrication

Brand rebuild

Done

The logo at the top of this page, rebuilt from a blurry 774×108-pixel image into true vector.

No sharp version of it existed anywhere, and enlarging the original only enlarged the blur. It was rebuilt by fitting real lines and circular arcs to the shapes underneath, then verified by laying the result back over the original and measuring the overlap: 95.6% of the ink lands in the same place. It now scales to any size, from a favicon to a truck door.

From
774×108 raster
To
resolution-independent vector
Verified
95.6% ink overlap
DesignVectorMeasured
Design & fabrication

Engineered build plans

Done

A full fabrication plan for a welded steel and hardwood bench, drawn step by step.

Angle-iron frame and a glue-up top, documented as a 30-page plan with a dimensioned diagram for every step and two complete routes — one welded, one entirely without welding — so it can be built with whatever tools are actually on hand. Materials specified down to where to source the steel for free.

Deliverable
30-page plan
Routes
welded and no-weld
Every step
dimensioned diagram
FabricationTechnical drawing
Design & fabrication

Furniture and woodwork

Made to order

Benches and solid-timber pieces, built to measure.

The same hands doing the repairs and installations. Made to size for the space rather than bought to fit it approximately.

Material
solid timber, steel
Built
to measure
WoodworkMade to order
05

Games & simulation

3 items

Games & simulation

Vehicle simulator extension

In progress

Extending an existing soft-body vehicle simulator instead of starting another one from scratch.

Scripted from the inside with no recompiling, which turns the simulator's own command line into a complete test harness. The real constraint is working within somebody else's engine rather than around it, which is most of what integration work actually is.

Language
AngelScript
No recompile
scripted at runtime
Harness
the game's own CLI
SimulationIntegration
Games & simulation

Multiplayer mod audit and patched build

Built

Found and patched faults in a large multiplayer modification, then rebuilt it from source.

Largely an exercise in proving a build actually contains the change you believe it does. A clean compile with no errors and no warnings can silently ship none of your code — a static library only contributes the parts something references — and the only way to know is to inspect the binary that came out and compare it against a known-good one.

Language
C++
Verified
binary inspected, not exit code
Skill
build forensics
C++DebuggingBuild verification
Games & simulation

Browser games

Playable

A 6v6 hero shooter and a physics sandbox, both written from scratch and playable in a browser.

No engine underneath and nothing to install — written directly against the browser. The shooter's balance was settled by building measurement harnesses and reading the numbers rather than by arguing about feel, which is the same habit behind everything else on this page.

Built with
JavaScript
Engine
none — from scratch
Balance
measured, not guessed
GamesBrowserPhysics
06

Personal systems

2 items

Personal systems

Training and supplement stack

Ongoing

Reduced a fourteen-item supplement stack to one glass, five capsules and a shot.

Worked out from primary research rather than the supplement industry's own writing, which matters more than it sounds: search how to train or dose almost anything and the first page is mostly the people selling it. The two halves of the brief also conflicted — fewest bottles and fewest steps are different optimums — and the all-in-one products lose on arithmetic, because a capsule cannot physically hold the studied dose of several ingredients at once.

Sources
primary literature
Result
14 items, 3 steps
Ruled out by
capsule volume arithmetic
ResearchPrimary sources
Personal systems

Five-year savings model

Ongoing

A six-figure savings target built as a model rather than a resolution.

The monthly figure is computed, not guessed, and it recomputes as the start date slips — which turns "I should start soon" into a number that visibly gets worse while you think about it. Live formulas throughout, so every assumption is on show and can be argued with.

Built with
live spreadsheet formulas
Recomputes
as the start date slips
Assumptions
visible, not buried
ModellingForecasting

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