Jan 2026 · Computer vision over Plinko math, inspired by Mark Rober’s CrunchLabs.
Jan 2026 · 10k lines migrated twice. 50 students built it, AI resurrected it.
Feb 2026 · Claude plans the shoot, Dad held the camera.
Jan 2026 · FrontPage 98 museum site of 60+ pages reborn and optimized.
Jan 2026 · WordPress automation, built on a plane at 10,000 ft.
Jan 2026 · Health integration I use daily and my first AWS Lambda.
Feb 2026 · L-systems, Lorenz attractors, and a G1 Ark (was how it started)
Feb 2026 · Sparking today’s meditation on ‘what will happen to the professions’.
Mar 2026 · Markdown is the new lingua franca of my life.
Jun 2026 · Ziggy does the lineup while I focus on the kids.
Apr 2026 · The hour I truly believed in the SAASpocalyse.
Jun 2026 · Teaching Tom my taste: 2,500 frames in, 24 bangers out.
Field notes. Click any tile to dive in, or follow the arc below in order.
The arc so far
These read fine in any order, but they happened in this order, and the escalation is the real story. One revelation at a time:
- Jan · Galton’s Goalie – feeling late to the party with my ‘omfg’ moment: me and Claude could ship in an afternoon a framework I once spent 3 months building in a research lab.
- Jan · Withings → Garmin Sync – my first AWS Lambda and I still use it every morning.
- Jan · Side Quest Helper – the tool that publishes these write-ups, built on a plane.
- Jan · Legend of the Greasepole: Resurrected – software archaeology as weekend hobby.
- Jan · LegendWeb: Resurrected – proof the archaeology generalizes: a 60-page FrontPage 98 museum, reborn.
- Feb · Minecraft Build Bot – math as art: L-systems and Lorenz attractors rendered in-game, to my teenager’s exacting standards.
- Feb · Swim Meet Photographer’s Assistant – it started planning work in the physical world. Claude called the shots; I held the camera.
- Feb · Tax Return Assistant – genuinely uncomfortable revelation.
- Mar · Obsidian All the Things – markdown became the lingua franca between me and my agents. Everything runs through it now.
- Apr · SAASpocalyse Now – the hour I truly believed the subscription economy has a reckoning coming.
- Jun · Full Ted Lasso (is the ROI) – the agents run the logistics so I can coach the kids. The ROI was my attention all along.
- Jun · Brand New Renaissance – an AI with a Group of Seven painter’s name learned a decade of my photographic taste. Bring it on.
..more to come..
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!
New ones show up in the feed (RSS) as they land. I’m old school like that.