Side Quests

GenAI-enabled side quests: the “why bother” and lessons learned from my AI-Assisted side projects, following “Simon Willison rules”

LegendWeb: Resurrected

LegendWeb: Resurrected

FrontPage 98 museum site of 60 pages reborn and optimized.

Legend of the Greasepole

Legend of the Greasepole

10k lines migrated twice. 50 students built it, AI resurrected it.

Side Quest Helper

Side Quest Helper

WordPress automation, built on a plane at 10,000 ft.

Withings → Garmin Sync

Withings → Garmin Sync

Health integration I use daily. First AWS Lambda.

Galton's Goalie

Galton’s Goalie

Computer vision to prove Plinko math. Mark Rober inspired.

Minecraft Build Bot

Minecraft Build Bot

L-systems, Lorenz attractors, and a G1 Ark. Dad-powered AI builds.

Swim Meet Photographer's Assistant

Swim Meet Photographer

Claude planned the shoot. Dad ran the pool deck.

My field notes from (near) the frontier of building with AI. Click any tile to dive in.


Why document this?

A wise man said that if you get distracted by a side project, you should at least write about it:

README.md on GitHub explains what and how. These write-ups are the why, the journey, and cool stuff I think I learned along the way.

Apparently the limiting factor is ideas now, so.. let’s roll!