Personal projects
None of this is client work. These are things I built for myself and my family, on my own time, because I wanted them to exist. Each one started from a job somebody at home needed done, and each one is finished and in use.
They are on a professional site because so much of this business is me, and building end to end keeps my advice honest. Most of the repositories hold family photos, a child's savings or a Christmas list, so they stay private. What follows is what each project does and how it is made.
A savings account parents run for their kids, on a server that can read nothing.
When my kids get their pocket money, I want them to watch savings earn generous interest, so they understand what a bank does years before they walk into one.
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A family video game for the Xbox, played in the browser with controllers.
When the four of us sit down in front of the TV, I want a game a small child and an adult can play together, so game night is one shared quest instead of four separate screens.
The family gift list, where everyone can reserve and nobody needs an account.
When the family asks what the kids would like for Saint-Nicolas, I want one page where each of them can reserve a gift, so nothing is bought twice and I stop being the switchboard.
A calm morning board on colour e-ink, redrawn once a day.
When the house wakes up, I want one glance to say what today holds and what to pack for tomorrow, so the morning runs on fewer questions.
A portfolio optimizer that buys whole shares, pays real fees and measures risk in drawdowns.
When I invest a fixed budget in single stocks, I want an order list I can actually place, with whole shares and every fee counted, so the plan on paper is the plan the broker executes.
What happens when a client changes their risk profile?
An answer in two sentences, each with its source:21
Ask a pile of documents a question, and get the answer with the passage it came from.
When the answer is buried somewhere in a few hundred pages of product documentation, I want to ask in plain language and see the source, so I can trust the answer and get on with the work.
Earlier, smaller, public
"I can't really code," I wrote in one of these READMEs in 2024. "I can now speak computer, probably with the fluency of a three-year-old." It was enough to get going.
Turns a folder of PDFs and scans into Markdown with Mistral OCR, and skips the files it has already done.
A canary for the small computer at home: every morning it messages me over XMTP to say it is still alive, with a news summary so the message is worth reading.
Takes custody of the files behind my NFTs, not only the tokens: reads my wallets, pins the IPFS content to my own node, and keeps it all in SQLite.
My CV as an NFT collection on Ethereum, one mint per update. Built to learn Solidity, IPFS and git in one go. I still cannot think of a practical reason to do it.